cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
on the beat
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: bobby on the beat
text: From midsize departments like the one in Indianapolis to big-city forces like New York City's, from top commanders to officers on the beat, police officers nationwide were unprepared to calm the summer's unrest, and their approaches consistently did the opposite.
ref: 2021 March 20, Kim Barker, Mike Baker, Ali Watkins, “In City After City, Police Completely Mishandled Black Lives Matter Protests”, in The New York Times:
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: Of a police officer: patrolling his or her assigned area; on duty.
examples: text: Well if she did blend in, she easily looked like the oldest prostitute on the beat.
ref: 2020, Mark Hughes, A Greater Passion: Lessons on Living Large in Life and Love:
glosses: Synonym of on the game (“working as a prostitute”).
synonyms: word: on the game
extra: working as a prostitute
glosses: In the correct rhythm or tempo
backporch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backporches
Etymology: Compound of back + porch
Senses: examples: text: The backporch light turned on and she crossed the lawn and hurried through the gate and out onto the sidewalk.
ref: 2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 40, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 204:
glosses: Alternative spelling of back porch.
misfill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈfɪl/
ipa: /ˈmɪsfɪl/
Forms: form: misfills
form: misfilling
form: misfilled
form: misfilled
Etymology: From mis- + fill.
Senses: examples: text: A chorus girl who dabbles in smuggling falls in with a pharmacist who is fleeing a charge of murder after he misfills a prescription.
ref: 1992, Gerald Martin Bordman, American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle, page 256256:
text: Mr. Miller, a man who once fixed dents in the fuselages of jets and felt pride in his craft whenever a plane soared overhead, darts between the counter and the food pickup shelf, back and forth, a hundred times a day, careful not to misfill an order.
ref: 1996, Kenneth J. Neubeck, Davita Silfen Glasberg, Sociology: a critical approach, page 28:
text: Neither the Plaintiff nor Margarita's mother was aware that the prescription had been misfilled or that the misfill was failing to inhibit the blockage of her airway.
ref: 1998, New Mexico. Supreme Court, Report of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals of the State of New Mexico, page 265:
glosses: To supply the wrong thing in response to an order, prescription, or requirement.
examples: text: As indeed it was, since Newell herself corrected all of the envelopes which Rushford had misfilled.
ref: 1953, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 1217:
text: Vaporizers not equipped with keyed fillers have been occasionally misfilled with the wrong anesthetic liquid.
ref: 2013, Paul Barash, Bruce F. Cullen, Robert K. Stoelting, Clinical Anesthesia:
text: It depletes or demoralizes so many prayer-meetings, chills or misfills so many pulpits, and makes so many unworshipping choirs.
ref: 2009, Milton Wright, edited by Timothy S. G. Binkley, A Higher Moral and Spiritual Stand: Selected Writings of Milton Wright, page 56:
glosses: To fill a receptacle incorrectly; to fill with the wrong contents, the wrong amount, or at the wrong time.
examples: text: The filling up of forms is not regarded as an especially amusing occupation, but the people who have to read the forms that you misfill when you insure your life get some fun to know the cause of death of your father and mother or if they are living.
ref: 1922, Listen to These, page 230:
text: The other point was on this question of accommodation of the Serjeant at Arms, which you rather suggested he gave up out of charity after it had been misfilled by the lobby correspondents?
ref: 1953, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Papers - Volume 6, page 27:
text: In turn, the behavior feeds back a sensory signal array that "fills out" the schema if properly executed, and "misfills it out" if misexecuted, hence allowing for error detection and correction.
ref: 1980, Michel Georges Bougon, Schemata, Leadership, and Organizational Behavior, page 75:
text: Or, perhaps, in a way, he wanted to stay with his old man and he therefore deliberately misfilled the forms.
ref: 2000, Femi Ojo-Ade, The Almond Tree: A Novel, page 103:
glosses: To enter the wrong information into.
misfill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈfɪl/
ipa: /ˈmɪsfɪl/
Forms: form: misfills
Etymology: From mis- + fill.
Senses: examples: text: Do not pass the misfill off as some minor incident, but demonstrate to the customer that this does not frequently occur in your store and express your sincere apologies and try to make amends to the satisfaction of the customer.
ref: 1980, Helen Wetherbee, Bruce David White, Cases and Materials on Pharmacy Law, page 290:
text: Neither the Plaintiff nor Margarita's mother was aware that the prescription had been misfilled or that the misfill was failing to inhibit the blockage of her airway.
ref: 1998, New Mexico. Supreme Court, Report of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals of the State of New Mexico, page 265:
text: The pharmacist is careful not to comment on the misfill.
ref: 2015, Ruth E. Nemire, Karen L. Kier, Michelle T. Assa-Eley, Pharmacy Student Survival Guide, page 110:
glosses: The act of misfilling a prescription, order, or requirement.
examples: text: Misfills became more prevalent with lower casting temperatures , and this problem was not completely eliminated.
ref: 1964, NASA Contractor Report - Issues 48-59:
text: The machine will also remove valves with no damage to the can in case of error or misfill.
ref: 1973, Soap, Cosmetics, Chemical Specialties - Volume 49, page 86:
text: The test showed that an excessive number of underfills resulted in too few runs to assume misfills were random. The machine was apparently set too low and was adjusted.
ref: 1995, Allen Webster, Applied Statistics for Business and Economics, page 804:
glosses: The act or result of misfilling a receptacle.
misfills
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misfill
misfills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misfill
misfilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misfill
misfilled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misfill
step climb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: step climbs
form: step climbing
form: step climbed
form: step climbed
form: step-climb
Senses: examples: text: The flight plan called for step climbing from an initial cruising altitude of FL330 to the final altitude of FL350 halfway through the flight.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To periodically climb to higher and higher altitudes during cruise flight, as the aircraft becomes lighter from fuel burnoff, to take advantage of the reduced drag at higher altitudes; like cruise-climbing, but with the aircraft climbing in discrete steps instead of continuously.
raw_tags: of an aircraft
Coordinate terms: cruise-climb
step climb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: step climbs
form: step-climb
Senses: examples: text: The step climb from FL340 through FL360 and FL380 to FL400 will reduce our fuel burn compared to if we cruised at FL340 for the whole flight.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An instance of step climbing.
LOM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LOMs
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of locator outer marker.
examples: text: Two LOMs were presented at HQ U.S. Army Automatic Data Field Systems Command, Fort Belvoir, Va.
ref: 1967, Army Research and Development, page 26:
glosses: Initialism of Legion of Merit.
Hypernyms: NDB
OM
misfingers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misfinger
misfingering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misfinger
misfingered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misfinger
misfingered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more misfingered
form: most misfingered
Senses: examples: text: A brittle piece of whimsy; and the author's snickering preoccupation with Scooter's condition (described ad nauseam as "mistoed,” “misfingered," and "malformed") leaves a nasty aftertaste.
ref: 1989, Jim Kobak's Kirkus Reviews - Volume 57, Issue 7, page 494:
text: Rather, Biji's ambitions were much more exact, exactness being a characteristic she shared with her misfingered kinsman.
ref: 1989, Arthur Rosenfeld, Harpoons, page 58:
glosses: Having deformed or missing fingers.
locator outer marker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: locator outer markers
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A ground-based radio navigation aid consisting of a pair of colocated radio beacons at the final approach fix of an ILS or IGS approach course: an NDB to guide aircraft to the approach fix, and an outer marker to alert aircraft as they pass over the station.
Synonyms: LOM
outer marker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outer markers
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A type of marker beacon placed to indicate the final approach fix of an ILS or IGS approach, triggering a continuous sequence of visual and aural Morse code dashes from the marker beacon receiver in the cockpit of an aircraft flying over the marker.
Synonyms: OM
Hypernyms: marker beacon
Hyponyms: locator outer marker
Coordinate terms: fan marker
inner marker
middle marker
areosynchronous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From areo- + synchronous; compare geosynchronous.
Senses: examples: text: […] the ships dropped a string of comm-relay satellites in areosynchronous orbit.
ref: 1986, Thomas Wren, chapter 14, in The Doomsday Effect,, New York: Baen Books, page 195:
text: I can’t think of her [the spaceship] as an object. Not when I’m living inside her, sailing serenely along in areosynchronous orbit.
ref: 2004, Elizabeth Bear, Hammered, New York: Bantam, Book 2, p. 180:
glosses: Having a rate of revolution that matches the rotation period of Mars, and thus remaining over the same point on that planet's surface. (of the orbit of a satellite)
hexagonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: 6-gonous
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: hexagonal in section
wedgelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wedgelets
Etymology: * wedge + -let.
* (image processing): Introduced in David L. Donoho's 1999 paper "Wedgelets: nearly minimax estimation of edges".
Senses: glosses: A small wedge.
qualifier: image processing
glosses: A kind of geometrical wavelet used in image processing.
examples: text: If so, each wedgelet in the magnetotail should contain an asymmetric pair of FACs, as illustrated in Figure 19.9b (adapted from Liu et al. [2015]).
ref: 2018, Andreas Keiling, Octav Marghitu, Michael Wheatland ·, Electric Currents in Geospace and Beyond, page 332:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: One of a set of wedge-like structures (barometric ridges) that compose a substorm current wedge.
hexametral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: hexametric
hexamitiasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexamitiases
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: infection with protozoa of the family Hexamitidae
hexangle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexangles
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: hexagon
hexangles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hexangle
hexaped
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexapeds
Etymology: From hexa- + -ped.
Senses: glosses: A hexapod.
hexatone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexatones
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A derivative of an octave in which two notes are missing
Kiamusze
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: jyäʹmo͞oʹsûʹ
kyäʹmo͞oʹso͝oʹ
jē-äʹmo͞oʹso͝oʹ
Etymology: From the Postal Romanization of the Nanking court dialect Mandarin 佳木斯 (Jiāmùsī), from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ].
Senses: examples: text: A dispatch from Kiamusze on the lower Sungari river revealed that hero of the Soviet Union Lt. Znamensky has been appointed City Kommandant. He is appointing new administrators replace those of the Japanese.
ref: 1945 August 23, “Red Commanders in Manchuria”, in The Bombay Chronicle, page 5:
text: China's first two collective farms were reported in the Communist press in the summer of 1952. One is said to be near Kiamusze in Sungkiang province in northeastern Manchuria; the other, near Tihwa in Sinkiang province.
ref: 1953, Frank Moraes, “"The Land Is Ours"”, in Report on Mao's China, New York: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 56:
text: Fighting also occurred at Kunming in Yunnan at the end of May and the beginning of June, at Changsha in Hunan, where several dozen people were reported killed on June 8, in the provinces of the Northeast and particularly at Changchun and Kiamusze.
ref: 1976, Jacques Guillermaz, translated by Anne Destenay, The Chinese Communist Party in Power, 1949-1976, New York: Westview Press, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 431:
glosses: Dated form of Jiamusi.
wikipedia: Army Map Service
Mandarin (late imperial lingua franca)
hexite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: hexitol
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An explosive nitro derivative of diphenylamine
hexpartite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: hexapartite
heyrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heyrats
Senses: glosses: kinkajou
heemraden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heemraad
overimprovement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overimprovements
Etymology: From over- + improvement.
Senses: glosses: Excessive improvement
subroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subrooms
Etymology: From sub- + room.
Senses: glosses: A room within a larger room.
subrooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subroom
antifoggant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antifoggants
Etymology: From antifog + -ant.
Senses: examples: text: Antifoggants have become justifiably popular. […] Used with papers that favor warm tones, they will definitely cool those tones, thereby giving the photographer a wide range of control of print color.
ref: 1971, Ansel Adams, The Print: Contact Printing and Etching, 5th edition, Morgan & Morgan Inc., page 47:
glosses: An antifogging agent.
antifoggants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antifoggant
lovebirding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lovebird
lovebirded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lovebird
sexagenal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: sexagenary
sexationalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sexsationalism.
sexsationalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The exploitation of sexually sensational material
sexdecimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sexadecimal.
sexennary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: sexennial
sexfoiled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sexfoil.
sexillion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sexillions
Etymology: From sex- + -illion.
Senses: glosses: sextillion
sextal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having a base of six
raw_tags: of a number
Related terms: binary
decimal
sextine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sextines
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: Alternative form of sextain.
topics: biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
palynology
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of sexine.
sextines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sextine
sextoncy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sextoncies
Etymology: From sexton + -cy.
Senses: glosses: sextonship
Quadradisc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Quadradiscs
Etymology: Brand name of the 1970s. See quadri-, disc.
Senses: glosses: A kind of phonograph record using a discrete four-channel quadraphonic system.
Quadradiscs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Quadradisc
sextuplication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sextuplications
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: multiplication by six
SHARP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SHARPs
Senses: glosses: Acronym of skinhead against racial prejudice.
SHARPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SHARP
sextuplications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sextuplication
sextoncies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sextoncy
BIRG
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: BIRGs
form: BIRGing
form: BIRGed
form: BIRGed
Senses: glosses: Acronym of bask in reflected glory.
BIRGed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of BIRG
BIRGs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of BIRG
BIRGing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of BIRG
sexualogy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sexual + -logy. The term and the discipline were proposed in 1901 by British eugenicist Karl Pearson.
Senses: glosses: The study of the differences between the sexes
Related terms: sexualogical
sexualogical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Related to sexualogy
sexuate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having distinct male and female forms
sexuparous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing a generation of aphids that produces sexual offspring
Related terms: sexupara
patacake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of patty cake (“game”).
sexupara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sexuparas
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A sexuparous individual
Marthas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Martha
Sturton by Stow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SK8980).
quaddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: quaddles
form: quaddling
form: quaddled
form: quaddled
Senses: glosses: To waddle
quader
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: quaders
form: quadering
form: quadered
form: quadered
Etymology: From Middle English quadre, from Latin quadrāre (“to make four-cornered, make square”). Attested in Middle English from the 15th century.
Senses: glosses: To quadrate.
quadmire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadmires
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quagmire.
quadragesimalia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadragesimalia
Senses: glosses: quadragesimal sermons or offerings
quadran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadrans
Etymology: Alteration of quadrant.
Senses: examples: text: This temple is square, & doth containe euery way as much ground as a crossebow can reach leuell... In the middest of this Quadern standeth a mount of earth and stone.
ref: 1578, Thomas Nicholas, Lopez de Gómara, The pleasant historie of the conquest of the Weast India, now called new Spayne:
text: And hee (the Magician) seeing the great disloyalty of him (Lusindo), determined before hee did die to bee reuenged of that injury, and likewise of me, in such sort, that in time ther might be some remedy, & so by his great knowledge he brought the prince hether vnto his habitation, andd put him into a quadran full of fire, whereas he is continually burning, and without ceasing he crieth out & giueth terrible shrikes, & cannot come foorth of that quadran.
ref: 1620, Story of the Unfaithful Lover:
text: on the side next the markett stands the head or effigie of Mr. Rawdon the donor, with an inscription showing the same, in the centre of which roofe rises a turret ocata-angular, finished on each angle with pillasters which revolves into scrowles, on which is 4 quadrans or sun dyalls, lanskipt with several inscriptions; (i.e.) on the east quadran EHEU FUGACES, on the south quadran DUM SPECTUS FUGIO, on the west quadran FUGIT HORA ORA, on the north quadran TEMPUS EDAX RERUM.
ref: 1863, Robert Davies, The Life of Marmaduke Rawdon of York, page xxxviii:
glosses: A square, a quadrangle.
quadran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadrans
Etymology: Back-formation from quadrans.
Senses: examples: text: Truly I say to you, You shall by no means come out from there until you pay the last quadrans.
ref: 1997, Watchman Nee, Confession and Recompense, page 11:
text: He tells us that the widow gave “two small copper coins,” or a quadran, adding up to one penny. A quadran was about 1/64 of a denarius, which was a worker's daily wage.
ref: 2006, Richard Leonard, Preaching to the Converted, page 227:
text: A quadran's not enough, she was saying, I need two thousand sesterces.
ref: 2014, Marilyn Todd, I, Claudia:
glosses: Alternative form of quadrans (“Roman coin”).
quadran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadrans
Senses: examples: text: Where the four first Verses are only a Quadran, and consist of 10 Syllables each in Alternate Rhyme
ref: 1718, Edward Bysshe, The Art Of English Poetry, page 29:
text: The quadran, the rondeau, the triolet, lays, virelays, the chant royal, masquerades, amphigouries, quolibets, romances, concordants, as they are in use amongst the French and Germins, are altogether uninteresting to an English reader.
ref: 1770, The critical review, or annals of literature - Volume 30, page 58:
text: Where the four first verses are only a quadran, and consist of ten syllables, each in alternate rhyme.
ref: 1877, Tom Hood, Practical Guide to English Versification, page 230:
glosses: Obsolete form of quatrain.
quadrantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From quadrant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: That is, we assemble two of its quadrantly folded great circles to form one hemisphere and four of the quadrantly folded great circles to form the other hemisphere.
ref: 1982, R. Buckminster Fuller, Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, page 465:
text: Vegetatively it is the nearest to H. translucens with its oblong-lanceolate leaves, with the margins and keel beset with pellucid teeth, but it differs and is characterised by the greyish-black quadrantly positioned globose flowers; […]
ref: 1985, Charles L. Scott, The Genus Haworthia (Liliaceae): A Taxonomic Revision, page 80:
glosses: squarely
quadrichord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadrichords
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: tetrachord
quadrihydrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadrihydrates
Etymology: From quadri- + hydrate.
Senses: glosses: tetrahydrate
quadrisyllabical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quadri- + syllabical.
Senses: glosses: quadrisyllabic
quadrupedant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: quadrupedal
quadrupedant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadrupedants
Senses: glosses: quadruped
Related terms: quadrupedate
quadrupedation
quadrupedian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: quadrupedal
quadruplation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadruplations
Senses: glosses: quadruplication
Barnoldswick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑːˈnɒldzwɪk/
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in Pendle borough, Lancashire, England, historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire (OS grid ref SD8746).
heptadecad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heptadecads
Etymology: From hepta- + decad.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A group of seven decads arranged to produce twenty-four tones
ocreaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to, or having the form of an ocrea
sundressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sundress + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: […] the Army's lookouts had missed them because they had turned their telescopes inland and down toward the adjacent mustard fields so they could ogle the sundressed farm girls.
ref: 2020, Michel Paradis, Last Mission to Tokyo, page 191:
glosses: Wearing a sundress.
octactinian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octactinians
Senses: glosses: Any anthozoan coral of the former subclass Octactinia
octactinians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of octactinian
crazy-paved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Paved with crazy paving.
octadrachm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octadrachms
form: oktadrachm
Senses: glosses: An Ancient Greek coin having a value of eight drachmas.
golden passport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golden passports
Senses: coordinate_terms: golden visa
glosses: Citizenship that is granted in exchange for substantial donations or investments on the part of the immigrant.
octagonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒk.təˈɡəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌɑk.təˈɡoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Etymology: From octagon + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Relating to an octagon
golden passports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of golden passport
I am rubber, you are glue
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of I'm rubber, you're glue.
octahedric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of octahedral.
Derived terms: octahedrical
octamerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being octamerous
octarticulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From octa- + articulate.
Senses: glosses: Having eight joints or articulations
octavalency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From octa- + valency.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The condition of being octavalent
Stewardsons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Stewardson
Smalldons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Smalldon
Lackmans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lackman
McNews
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McNew
Willemstad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈwɪləmstɑːt/
/ˈvɪləmstɑːt/
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Willemstad (literally "Williamtown").
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Curaçao.
glosses: A city and town in North Brabant, the Netherlands.
Khromykh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Russian surname Хромых (Xromyx).
Worobey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Worobeys
form: Vorobei
form: Vorobej
form: Vorobey
Etymology: From Russian воробей (vorobej, “sparrow”) or Belarusian верабей (vjerabjej). Doublet of Wrobel.
Senses: glosses: A surname from East Slavic.
nonconformitan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonconformitans
Senses: glosses: nonconformist
Derived terms: nonconformitancy
nonconformitant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonconformitants
Senses: glosses: nonconformist
debursement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: debursements
Senses: glosses: disbursement
St Lawrence
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Bodmin parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX0466).
glosses: A civil parish and small settlement in Maldon district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL9604).
glosses: A coastal village in Ventnor parish, Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ5376).
glosses: A suburban village in Ramsgate, Thanet district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR3765).
glosses: A small rural town in Isaac Region, Queensland, Australia.
decanary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decanaries
form: decanery
Senses: glosses: deanery
decanery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decaneries
Senses: glosses: deanery
criminal prosecution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: criminal prosecutions
Senses: glosses: Instituted activity under the legal regime of criminal procedure directed at someone suspect of an offence under criminal law, in order to assess his culpability.
Coordinate terms: criminal prosecutor
decapulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: decapulates
form: decapulating
form: decapulated
form: decapulated
Senses: glosses: To decant
criminal prosecutor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: criminal prosecutors
Senses: glosses: Someone who is occupied with pursuing criminal prosecution.
Coordinate terms: criminal prosecution
decarch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɛkɑː(ɹ)k/
Forms: form: decarchs
form: dekarch
Etymology: From deca- + -arch.
Senses: glosses: A member of a decarchy.
Related terms: decarchy
Bligh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Blighs
form: Blee
Etymology: * As an Irish and Manx surname, from Ó Blighe (“descendant of Blighe”), probably Gaelicized from Old Norse Blígr, from blígja (“to gaze, stare”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyg-, from *bʰel- (“to shine”).
* As a Cornish surname, from bleydh (“wolf”). Compare Blethen.
* As an English surname of Norman origin, variant of Blythe.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Austads
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Austad
Blighs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bligh
decartelization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decartelizations
Senses: glosses: The abolition or breaking-up of cartels (colluding groups).
Related terms: decartelize
Ollerenshaw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
decastellate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: decastellates
form: decastellating
form: decastellated
form: decastellated
Etymology: From de- + castellate.
Senses: glosses: To remove castellation or battlements (from)
cyberagency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberagencies
Etymology: From cyber- + agency.
Senses: glosses: An agency that operates on the Internet or in cyberspace.
cyberagencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberagency
Schriber
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Schribers
Etymology: Variant of German Schreiber.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
decatholicize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: decatholicizes
form: decatholicizing
form: decatholicized
form: decatholicized
Etymology: From de- + Catholicize.
Senses: glosses: To remove Catholic character or influence (from).
criminal prosecutions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of criminal prosecution
decatise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: decatises
form: decatising
form: decatised
form: decatised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of decatize.
Yep
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yeps
Etymology: From Cantonese 葉 /叶 (jip⁶).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Cantonese.
Yeps
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Yep
Schribers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Schriber
deceiteous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From deceit + -eous.
Senses: glosses: deceitful
Rosene
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rosenes
Etymology: Variant of Swedish Roseen. See Rosen.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Swedish.
undebilitated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + debilitated.
Senses: glosses: Not debilitated
Rosenes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Rosene
Sermonses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sermons
undecayable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + decayable.
Senses: glosses: Not decayable
undeciduous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + deciduous.
Senses: glosses: Not deciduous
undecipher
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undeciphers
form: undeciphering
form: undeciphered
form: undeciphered
Etymology: From un- (intensifier) + decipher.
Senses: examples: text: I am sure your Lordship is concerned in the former, and I think also in the latter; a good part whereof was written in characters, and cyphers set for the names. He that did undecypher it is a most honest man, and is very confident he hath hit it right.
ref: 1644 March 3, Robert King, “[Letter to the Marquess of Ormonde]”, in Thomas Carte, editor, Collection of Letters, Written by the Kings Charles I and II […] and Other Great Men during the Troubles of Great Britain and Ireland […], volume 3, published 1735, page 389:
text: It were very good policy in times of warre, suites, or jealousie, to learne to undecipher mouths, lookes, and gates; there is more to be got out of them, then out of this extaticall speech […]
ref: 1654, Edmund Gayton, Pleasant Notes upon Don Quixot, page 6:
text: The extraordinary beauty of the delinquent made several painters of those times draw her portrait, many copies of which are still to be found in Rome, exhibiting the softest features, and a Lavater would have had much ado to undecypher from them the blackness of the soul.
ref: 1791, Johann Wilhelm von Archenholz, translated by Joseph Trapp, A Picture of Italy, page 227:
text: Many attempts have been made to undecipher the script, but at present there is a lot of controversy on this matter. The only remaining clue as to unravel the meaning of the images is offered by comparison with similar subjects.
ref: 2008, Alexandra Anna Enrica van der Geer, Animals in Stone: Indian Mammals Sculptured Through Time, page 384:
glosses: To decipher.
Related terms: undeciphered
undeciphering
Touhey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Touheys
Etymology: Variant of Toohey.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Snuffer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Snuffers
Etymology: Americanized spelling of German Schnaufer.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
undeclarable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + declarable.
Senses: glosses: Not declarable
Snuffers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Snuffer
Touheys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Touhey
A for effort
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ fə ˈɛfət/
ipa: /ˈeɪ fəɹ ˈɛfɚt/
Etymology: A reference to how school teachers may unofficially grade a student's effort as a consolation prize, where A is the highest grade of the traditional A-F grading.
Senses: glosses: The effort of the attempt was admirable, even though the attempted action failed.
hencote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hencotes
Senses: glosses: henhouse
Stecklein
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Steckleins
Etymology: Borrowed from German Stecklein.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
hendecoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: undecanoic
Osmun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Osmuns
Etymology: Variant of Osmund.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Osmuns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Osmun
Stubbington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈstʌbɪŋtən/
Forms: form: Stubbingtons
Etymology: From Old English stybb (“tree stump”) + -ing + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Senses: glosses: A large village in Fareham borough, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU5503).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Steckleins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Stecklein
hendecyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: undecyl
Racey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Raceys
Etymology: Unexplained. Compare Racy, Rasey and Razey.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Reckner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Reckners
Etymology: Borrowed from German Reckner, probably a variant of Rechner.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Reckners
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Reckner
Raceys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Racey
henism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The theory that mind and matter are all the one type of substance.
Related terms: monism
McNelis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McNelises
form: McCrillis
form: McNellis
Etymology: Anglicized form of Irish Mac Niallghuis (“son of Niallghus”), a personal name composed of Níall (“a personal name”) + gus (“choice or vigor”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
doddie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doddies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of doddy.
dodecadrachm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dodecadrachms
Senses: glosses: An Ancient Greek gold coin that had a value of twelve drachmas
dodecarch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dodecarchs
form: dodekarch
Senses: glosses: A member of a group of twelve rulers
Related terms: dodecarchy
legal assistant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: legal assistants
Senses: glosses: Someone occupied with legal services in place of a lawyer.
Related terms: paralegal
legal researcher
legal secretary
legal assistants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of legal assistant
Pagliaros
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Pagliaro
McNelises
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McNelis
dodecuplet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dodecuplets
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A group of twelve notes, typically to be played in place of eight.
Yeargins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Yeargin
copanelist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copanelists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of copanellist.
copanellist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copanellists
form: copanelist
Etymology: From co- + panellist.
Senses: glosses: A person who appears on a panel with another.
copanelists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copanelist
copanellists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copanellist
Brora
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old Norse brú (genitive brúar) + á (“river with a bridge”).
Senses: glosses: A coastal village in Sutherland, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NC9004).
glosses: A river in Sutherland, Highland council area, which flows into the North Sea at Brora.
higher-order
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From higher + order.
Senses: examples: text: higher-order thinking
glosses: Involving more sophisticated thinking or reasoning.
examples: text: It is at least plausible that expert-level crime policy rulemaking (in the interest of reform) may be necessary in a system... [which] will thus remain susceptible to the prospect of punitive populism arising within any one of an array of higher-order bounded publics.
ref: 2021, Trevor George Gardner, “By Any Means: A Philosophical Frame for Rulemaking Reform in Criminal Law”, in Yale Law Journal Forum, page 819:
glosses: Of or relating to a class higher up in a hierarchy.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of order 2 or greater.
Related terms: higher-order function
magnesium nitride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A binary compound of magnesium and nitrogen (Mg₃N₂).
calcium nitride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A binary compound of calcium and nitrogen, Ca₃N₂.
spiriters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spiriter
OoA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
history
human-sciences
medicine
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Out of Africa (hypothesis).
Newton Tony
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Newton Toney
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in east Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU2140).
backed blade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backed blades
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A prehistoric flint knife with one edge blunted (backed) and the other sharpened.
backed blades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backed blade
HGDP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Human Genome Diversity Project.
command and control
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "American police simply were not prepared for the challenge that they faced in terms of planning, logistics, training and police command-and-control supervision," said Chuck Wexler, the executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, a nonprofit that advises departments on management and tactics.
ref: 2021 March 20, Kim Barker, Mike Baker, Ali Watkins, “In City After City, Police Completely Mishandled Black Lives Matter Protests”, in The New York Times:
topics: government
law-enforcement
military
politics
war
glosses: The management and logistics of a military or paramilitary force.
examples: text: command-and-control economy
topics: economics
government
politics
sciences
glosses: The management of a polity's economic and political resources by state officials themselves, rather than by more democratic or spontaneous means.
overorganization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overorganisation
Senses: examples: text: But it seems clear that the bath/suntan was also a kind of compulsory “vacation” subject to overdetermination and overorganization by the regime to the point that, as one cultural historian has suggested, diversion was made to equal consensus, and “being in agreement” was synonymous with “enjoying oneself.”
ref: 1995, Karen Pinkus, chapter 4, in Bodily Regimes: Italian Advertising under Fascism, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 176:
glosses: Too much organizing.
overorganisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of overorganization.
etymonically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more etymonically
form: most etymonically
Etymology: From etymonic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Xu Shen's Explanation of Words and Characters divides the ways of making Chinese characters into six kinds: indicator graphs, pictographs, form and voice compounds, etymonic compounds, graphically and etymonically related pairs, and phonetic loan characters.
ref: 2018, Li Su, “Chapter 2: Ancient China's cultural constitution”, in Edmund Ryden, transl., edited by Yongle Zhang, The Constitution of Ancient China: Volume 9 of The Princeton-China Series, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, retrieved 21 Mar 2021, page 83; republished as Daniel A. Bell, editor, (Please provide a date or year):
text: Giving weight to 'remnants' emphasises the fragmentation of the British; the suggestion is that they have been removed from a larger whole; they remain (reading etymonically through the translation), and they remain at least potentially negative.
ref: 2013, Aled Llion Jones, Darogan: Prophecy, Lament and Absent Heroes in Medieval Welsh Literature, University of Wales Press, →ISBN, retrieved 21 Mar 2021:
glosses: In an etymonic way; in a way based on etymons; as analyzed via etymons.
wikipedia: femoral head fracture
femoral neck fracture
hip fracture
pelvic fracture
Coordinate terms: idiomatically
Related terms: figuratively
literally
etymologizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: etymologizers
Etymology: From etymologize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who etymologizes.
etymologizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of etymologizer
geomelophagia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of pica involving the eating of raw potatoes.
Out of Africa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A model of the geographic origin and early migration of hominins (Out of Africa I) and modern humans (Homo sapiens) (Out of Africa II) that posits ancient dispersal across the globe from an origin in southern Africa.
shamagh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shamaghs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shemagh.
shmagh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shmaghs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shemagh.
shamaghs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shamagh
shmaghs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shmagh
protiodide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protiodides
Etymology: From proto- + iodide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
antonyms: periodide
glosses: An iodide containing a lower proportion of iodine than any other iodide of the same substance or series.
Derived terms: protiodide of mercury
protiodides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protiodide
modern human
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: modern humans
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Any hominin of the species Homo sapiens.
modern humans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of modern human
protocneme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protocnemes
Etymology: From proto- + cneme.
Senses: glosses: A primary mesentery of a zoantharian coelenterate
protocnemes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protocneme
protococcoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to or characteristic of algae of the genus Protococcus.
protocoelomate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protocoelomates
Etymology: From proto- + coelomate.
Senses: glosses: Any primitive animal that evolved into the coelomates
protocoelomates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protocoelomate
protocolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to protocol
protogastric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From proto- + gastric.
Senses: glosses: That covers the gastric area of brachyuran crabs
teachable moment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teachable moments
Senses: topics: education
glosses: The time at which learning a topic becomes easiest.
qualifier: transferred sense
glosses: A difficult situation from which one can draw conclusions about unsuccessful techniques, approaches, etc. taken, and handle similar situations differently in the future.