cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
PIN pad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PIN pads
Senses: glosses: A secure electronic keypad most often used in card-based transactions to accept and encrypt the cardholder's personal identification number (PIN).
wikipedia: Encrypting PIN Pad
PIN pad
Related terms: card reader
payment terminal
PIN pads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PIN pad
hemihomonym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemihomonyms
Etymology: From hemi- + homonym.
Senses: examples: text: Chaetopsis in Fungi is a hemihomonym of Chaetopsis in Insecta.
text: Hemihomonyms (same nomina which are used for taxa from different nomenclature jurisdictions) are an overlooked but genuine nuisance in biological nomenclature.
ref: 2013, Alexey Shipunov, “The problem of hemihomonyms and the on-line hemihomonyms database (HHDB)”, in Bionomina:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A scientific name of an organism that is also used for a different taxon in a different kingdom subject to a different code of nomenclature.
hemihomonyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemihomonym
magnetic card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnetic cards
Senses: glosses: A card provided with a magnetic stripe; a swipecard.
swipe card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swipe cards
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of swipecard.
blue ash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue ashes
Etymology: Derived from the black dye extracted from the tree's inner bark through immersion in water.
Senses: glosses: Any of species Fraxinus quadrangulata of ash trees native primarily to the Midwestern United States, as well as the Bluegrass region of Kentucky and the Nashville Basin region of Tennessee.
Synonyms: blue ash tree
Derived terms: Blue Ash
blue ashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue ash
blue ash tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue ash trees
Senses: glosses: Synonym of blue ash.
synonyms: word: blue ash
blue ash trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue ash tree
Bluegrass region
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bluegrass Region
Etymology: Named for the amount of bluegrass (grass of the Poa genus) that grows in the region.
Senses: glosses: A geographic region in the U.S. state of Kentucky, making up the northern part of the state, roughly bounded by the cities of Frankfort, Paris, Richmond and Stanford.
Bluegrass Region
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Bluegrass region.
Kentucky bluegrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kentucky bluegrasses
Etymology: The grass is commonly found in Kentucky, particularly in its Bluegrass region.
Senses: glosses: Poa pratensis; a perennial species of grass native to practically all of Europe, North Asia and the mountains of Algeria and Morocco, and, while not native to North America, found across humid regions of the United States.
Synonyms: bluegrass
Kentucky bluegrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kentucky bluegrass
Blue Ash
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named for the blue ash trees in the area, the logs of which were used to build many of the community's earliest buildings.
Senses: glosses: A city in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States, and an inner suburb of Cincinnati, which is located to the south.
colibacilluria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coli-bacilluria
Etymology: From coli + bacilluria.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The presence of Escherichia coli in the urine.
meets one's maker
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of meet one's maker
meeting one's maker
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of meet one's maker
met one's maker
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of meet one's maker
Garbellini
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Garbellinis
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Garbellini.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Garbellinis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Garbellini
mealpreps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mealprep
short-sea shipping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: At the time, international deep-sea shipping remained a loose cargo operation, although BR did seek to influence conversion to unit loads by providing a containerised short sea shipping service between Harwich and Rotterdam in 1968.
ref: 2020 May 20, Industry Insider, “An online boost for freight”, in Rail, page 68:
glosses: Shipping that takes place in coastal waters or on short sea crossings.
Related terms: shortsea
mischunk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mischunks
form: mischunking
form: mischunked
form: mischunked
Etymology: From mis- + chunk.
Senses: examples: text: We will present a number of examples suggesting this type of 'mischunking' below.
ref: 1993, Robert Schreuder, Bert Weltens, The Bilingual Lexicon, page 204:
text: There is no longer any temptation to mischunk the text.
ref: 1997, Rebecca E. Burnett, Technical Communication, page 216:
text: On the other hand, some PP-attachments are multiply ambiguous (they have more than two possible attachment sites) or occur fronted in a sentence-initial position, or a participant in the PP-relation is mistagged or mischunked.
ref: 2003, G Schneider, “Learning to disambiguate syntactic relations”, in Computational Linguistics, volume 17, number 5:
glosses: To chunk incorrectly.
mischunks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mischunk
mischunking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mischunk
mischunked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mischunk
Penkridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Pennocrucium, from Proto-Brythonic. Ultimately from Proto-Celtic *kʷennom (“head”) + *krouk- (“heap, mound”).
Senses: glosses: A large village, a civil parish and market town in South Staffordshire district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ9214).
Related terms: sense: River
word: Penk
yu choy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Cantonese 油菜 (jau4 coi3).
Senses: examples: text: Seventeen brassica vegetables, that is, mustard greens, baby mustard greens, gai choy, baby gai choy, yu choy, yu choy tip, bok choy, baby bok choy, bok choy sum, Taiwan bok choy, Shanghai bok choy, baby Shanghai bok choy, napa and baby napa, rapini broccoli, and turnip greens, were bought in local food stores in Maryland.
ref: 2010 May 14, Long-Ze Lin, James M Harnly, “Phenolic Component Profiles of Mustard Greens, Yu Choy, and 15 Other Brassica Vegetables”, in J Agric Food Chem, volume 58, number 11, →DOI:
text: Chinese yu choy is one of the sweetest-tasting Chinese leafy green vegetables available, especially when they are picked when young and tender.
ref: 2016 January 19, “Easy Chinese yu choy sum”, in The Woks of Life:
glosses: A variety of Brassica known as B. rapa var. oleifera or B. campestris, related to choy sum and bok choy.
Rossington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK6298).
Related terms: New Rossington
MCKD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MCKDs
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of medullary cystic kidney disease.
MCKDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MCKD
substantiability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The property of being substantiable or substantial.
unit load
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unit loads
Senses: examples: text: At the time, international deep-sea shipping remained a loose cargo operation, although BR did seek to influence conversion to unit loads by providing a containerised short sea shipping service between Harwich and Rotterdam in 1968.
ref: 2020 May 20, Industry Insider, “An online boost for freight”, in Rail, page 68:
glosses: A number of items packaged together, typically placed on a pallet for ease of handling and transport.
insubstantiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more insubstantiable
form: most insubstantiable
Etymology: From in- + substantiable.
Senses: glosses: Unable to be substantiated.
phantonym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fǎnt′ənĭm
ipa: /ˈfæntənɪm/
rhymes: -ɪm
Forms: form: phantonyms
Etymology: From phant(om) + -onym, with self-aware influence from antonym; Macmillan Dictionary reports that corpus searches have found that the word seems to have been coined several times [probably independently], with several meanings all related to wordplay, accidental gaps, or catachresis, as long ago as 1993 (by Irwin M. Berent, referring to comical neologisms such as bebig, analogous to embiggen) and most recently in 2009, by Jack Rosenthal, as an -onym term for words whose sound or appearance makes them liable to be used catachrestically.
Senses: examples: text: High-school juniors across the country, facing their first Preliminary SAT exams, are engrossed in improving their vocabulary. Here's a thought that might help: A word that means the opposite of another is an antonym; a word that looks as if it means one thing but means quite another could be called a phantonym, and warrants wariness. ¶ Phantonyms pop up in the usage of even so careful a speaker as President Obama. As William Safire noted in March, when the president said that he wanted the American people to have "a fulsome accounting" for his stimulus program, he meant full, whereas to punctilious authorities the word means disgusting, excessive, insincere. […] Likewise, noisome does not mean noisy but smelly, unhealthful. […] Enormity does not mean enormous but great wickedness, a monstrous act.
ref: 2009 September 25, Jack Rosenthal, “Phantonym. On Language column”, in New York Times Magazine, archived from the original on 13 Jun 2021, retrieved 07 Feb 2023:
glosses: A word that appears to mean one thing but actually means something else. Such terms are predisposed toward catachrestic use (including malapropisms) by speakers and writers.
wikipedia: Jack Rosenthal (journalist)
Related terms: english: entailing a similar phenomenon interlingually, when translation is occurring
translation: entailing a similar phenomenon interlingually, when translation is occurring
word: false friend
unit loads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unit load
eastern equine encephalitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A rare mosquito-borne disease caused by a togavirus, affecting horses and humans in the Americas.
Synonyms: EEE
triple E
wedana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wedanas
Senses: glosses: A district chieftain in Indonesia.
Talien
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: In old China industry was concentrated in the eastern part of the country. Nearly all the iron and steel enterprises were set up in the cities of Anshan, Penki, Talien, Tientsin and Shanghai, within 100 kilometres of the sea.
ref: 1964, 任育地 [Jen Yu-ti], 中国地理概述 [A Concise Geography of China], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, page 52:
english: A Concise Geography of China
translation: A Concise Geography of China
text: To help the Talien Harbor Administration carry out its three-year improvement plan, students and teachers from the metallurgical equipment specialty went to work on the docks.
ref: 1976 May, Hsin Hsueh-wen, “University Students of a New Type”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXV, number 5, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10:
text: In influx of the new inexperienced senior management in the North East and part of North China liberated before the spring of 1949 had three important consequences. Firstly their inexperience resulted in an enormous influence exercised by the joint Sino-Soviet enterprises in Lushun and Talien which were under Soviet occupation and where, in fact senior management was largely Soviet; this will de discussed in Chapter 4 adn 5.
ref: 1976, William Brugger, Democracy & organisation in the Chinese industrial enterprise (1948-1953), Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 70:
text: She had come to Talien by boat, and before then she had probably lived in Vladivostok.
ref: 2015, Xiao Bai, translated by Chenxin Jiang, French Concession, Harper Collins Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 26:
glosses: Alternative form of Dalian.
presbyophrenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presbyophrenias
Etymology: From presbyo- + -phrenia.
Senses: glosses: A form of senile dementia characterised by memory disturbances.
Mindel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A right tributary of the Danube, Swabia region, Bavaria, southern Germany.
glosses: A surname
Derived terms: Mindelian
Mindel glaciation
Mindel-Riss
pearl-clutchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pearl-clutchy
form: most pearl-clutchy
Etymology: From pearl-clutch(ing) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Elsewhere, news organizations were even more pearl-clutchy.
ref: 2013 August 11, Jason Linkins, “Warts And All: News Organizations Struggle With The Word 'Slutbag'”, in Huffington, page 11:
text: […] I doubt he's going to get all pearl-clutchy about people sleeping together.”
ref: 2015, Gretchen Galway, This Time Next Door, unnumbered page:
text: I'm not a fan of that theory, mainly because Potter is a British franchise, and Brits tend to be a bit less pearl-clutchy about drinks with trace amounts of alcohol in them.
ref: 2019, Jeff Cioletti, Drink Like a Geek: Cocktails, Brews, and Spirits for the Nerd in All of Us, unnumbered page:
glosses: Prim, prudish, or easily offended.
Synonyms: pearl-clutching
scape-animal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scape-animals
Etymology: From scape + animal; modelled on scapegoat.
Senses: examples: text: A very common one was to take an animal and, after various ceremonies, to sprinkle it with blood and let it loose as a scape-animal, carrying the disease away.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 32:
glosses: An animal that has symbolically had human diseases and sins transferred to it and then is sent out alive into the wilderness to carry away the afflictions.
scape-animals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scape-animal
scape-bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scape-birds
Etymology: From scape + bird; modelled on scapegoat.
Senses: glosses: A bird that has symbolically had human diseases and sins transferred to it and then is released into the wild to carry away the afflictions.
scape-birds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scape-bird
devil dancing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: devil-dancing
Senses: glosses: Risky, reckless or potentially immoral behavior.
examples: text: By that sect the devils were thought cruel, revengeful, capricious, and only able to be appeased by blood sacrifices and devil-dancing.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 33:
glosses: The performance of a devil dance.
Related terms: dance with the devil
black magical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Human sacrifices of a definitely black magical order too place at the tomb of Osiris, while similar orgies with human victims were performed at Heliopolis.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 39:
glosses: Of or relating to black magic.
Blue River
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A tributary of the Colorado River, Colorado, United States.
glosses: The four townships in Indiana, United States, listed under the Blue River Township.
examples: text: The rebels put the imperial garrisons to the sword—fifty thousand headless bodies were floating in the Blue River when Nanking fell.
ref: 1977 [1973], Lucien Bodard, translated by Barbara Bray, The French Consul, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 51:
glosses: The Yangtze river in China.
Kuang-shui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 廣水 /广水 (Guǎngshuǐ), Wade–Giles romanization: Kuang³-shui³.
Senses: examples: text: The train journey was cold, I was quite thankful for wraps. I had good opportunity for conversation with one and another en route. Owing to a strong wind the train went slowly a good part of the way, and it was fairly late when we arrived at Kuang-shui.
ref: 1902 January, Dr. G. W. Guinness, “En Route for Shae-k'i-tien, Ho-nan”, in China's Millions, China Inland Mission, →OCLC, page 86:
text: Kouang-choui or Kuang-shui (1,061 km.-659.3 m.) is another solitary place, 10 m. from Ying-shan-hsien.
ref: 1924, Guide to China, 2nd (Revised) edition, volume D, Japanese Government Railways, →OCLC, page 106:
text: The purposes of the Hukuang Railways loan were (i) redemption of as yet unredeemed Gold Bonds with a par value of $Gold 2,222,000 issued by the American China Development Company (ACDC) and (ii) construction of a Government main line (a) of 900 kms from Wuchang, the capital of Hupei, through Yo-chou and Changsha, the capital of Hunan, to a point in the District of Yi-chang-hsien in the Prefecture of Ch’en-chou on the southern boundary of Hunan, where it would connect with the Kwangtung section being built north from Canton, (b) of 600 kms from Kuang-shui, Hupei, connecting there with the Peking—-Hankow line, to Ichang, and (c) of 900 kms from Ichang to Kuei-chou-fu in Szechuan, the Hupei section of the Szechuan—Hankow Railway.
ref: 1988, Frank H. H. King, “Railways — Rights Recovery, Finance, and the Consortium, 1905-1911”, in The Hongkong Bank in the Period of Imperialism and War, 1895-1918: Wayfoong, the Focus of Wealth (The History of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation), volume II, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 439–440:
glosses: Alternative form of Guangshui.
wikipedia: Defense Mapping Agency
An-lu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 安陸／安陆 (Ānlù) Wade–Giles romanization: An¹-lu⁴.
Senses: examples: text: In 303 the harvest had been abundant in the region of Chiang-hsia 江夏 (the modern An-lu 安陸 in Hupei), and, as a result, thousands of vagebonds^([sic – meaning vagabonds]) had flocked there together.
ref: 1959, E. Zürcher, The Buddhist Conquest of China: The Spread and Adaptation of Buddhism in Early Medieval China, Leiden: E. J. Brill, →OCLC, →OL, page 347:
text: He had visited Tung Ting Lake, Hsiang Yang, Nanking, Yangchow and other places, and came to An-lu ostensibly to visit Yun Meng which Szema Hsiang-ju wrote about in Tse Hsu Fu. In An-lu, he found himself married.[...]After a few years in An-lu, Li Po was apparently bored with the life he was leading and set out once again to visit Lo-yang.
ref: 1964, Lai Ming, A History of Chinese Literature, London: Cassell, →OCLC, page 150:
text: About 726 he married the grand-daughter of Hsü Yü-shih, who had been Chief Minister in 657, and lived for some years at the family residence of the Hsüs in An-lu, north of Hankow.
ref: 1969, Arthur Waley, The Poetry and Career of Li Po, 701-762 A.D., London: George Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 9:
text: Some idea of the activities of an urban landlord may be had from the following two passages, both written by natives of An-lu in Hupeh.
ref: 1970 [1968], Shiba Yoshinobu, translated by Mark Elvin, Commerce and Society in Sung China, published 1992, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 131:
text: In the fourth year of the reign of the Emperor Hsiao Wu [r. 372-396] of the Chin Dynasty [265-420], Hsüeh Tao-hsün of An-lu County in the Chiang-hsia Commandery [in Hupeh Province] was twenty-two.
ref: 1985, Classical Chinese Tales of the Supernatural and the Fantastic: Selections from the Third to the Tenth Century, Hong Kong: Joint Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 135:
glosses: Alternative form of Anlu.
wikipedia: Defense Mapping Agency
Yün-meng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 雲夢 /云梦 (Yúnmèng), Wade–Giles romanization: Yün²-mêng⁴.
Senses: examples: text: There are two principal lacustrine areas in South China, one among the hills in the middle Yangtze consisting of the remnants of the ancient Lake Yün-meng, and including such major lakes as Tung-tʻing (Hupei) and Po-yang (Kiangsi); and another situated on the lower Yangtze-Huai plain, which includes such major lakes as Hung-tze and Tʻai.
ref: 1968, Kwang-chih Chang, The Archaeology of Ancient China, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 21:
text: Another major discovery of Ch'in bamboo strips occurred in December 1975 at Yün-meng, Hupei. This burial site was the tomb of a Ch'in local administrator who died in 217 B.C., only four years after unification.
ref: 1979, The Journal of Asian Studies, volume 38, numbers 3-4, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 472:
text: A ting with a bronze body and iron legs was found m the important Ch’in dynasty tomb 11 at Shui-hu-tui, Yün-meng Hsien, Hupei Province, in 1975.
ref: 1982, Thomas Lawton, “Bronze Vessels, Fittings, and Weapons”, in Chinese Art of the Warring States Period, Smithsonian Institution, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 25, column 2:
glosses: Alternative form of Yunmeng.
wikipedia: Defense Mapping Agency
T'ien-men
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 天門 /天门 (Tiānmén), Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻien¹-mên².
Senses: examples: text: In 1760-61 he was master of the local academy in Ying-ch’eng; in 1764 he had a similar position in nearby T’ien-men.
ref: 1966, David S. Nivison, The Life and Thought of Chang Hsüeh-ch'eng (1738-1801), Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 25–26:
text: Yesterday a barbarian soldier reported General Hsiao T'ien-tso was at Nine Dragons Flying Tiger Valley and had fought a battle at T'ien-men.
ref: 1967, Adolphe Clarence Scott, transl., Traditional Chinese Plays, 1970 printing, volume 1, University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 35:
text: His literary corpus reflects a rural setting, perhaps a modest compound near Ching-ling (modern Tʻien-men County), located in Hupei just north of the watersmeet of the Han and Yangtze rivers.
ref: 1979, William H. Nienhauser, Jr., Pʻi Jih-hsiu (Twayne's World Authors Series), →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 21:
glosses: Alternative form of Tianmen.
wikipedia: Defense Mapping Agency
vampiroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈvæm.paɪ.əˌɹɔɪd/
Forms: form: vampiroids
Etymology: From vampire + -oid, coined by paranormal investigator Stephen Kaplan.
Senses: examples: text: His estimate of the number of vampiroids — people who think they are vampires, or have similar characteristics — is less precise, but he reckons there are between 10,000 and 20,000 resident in North America […]
ref: 1989, Brian J. Frost, The Monster with a Thousand Faces:
text: A vampiroid is a human who embraces and identifies with what he or she assumes is a vampiristic lifestyle based largely on what is depicted in films and literature. Vampiroids become totally seduced by the vampire mythology […]
ref: 2002, Antonio Mendoza, Teenage Rampage: The Worldwide Youth Crime Explosion, page 167:
text: Despite the high proportion of relatively harmless vampiroids that exist, there are those that portray psychotic behaviour and will go to great extremes to carry out their beliefs.
ref: 2007, Anne Williams, Vivian Head, Sebastian C. Prooth, Amy Williams, Fiendish Killers, page 485:
glosses: A person who emulates the imagined lifestyle of a vampire, generally as part of a subculture or alternative lifestyle.
wikipedia: Stephen Kaplan (paranormal investigator)
presystole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presystoles
Etymology: From pre- + systole.
Senses: glosses: cardiac contraction that follows the diastole and precedes the systole
Related terms: presystolic
vampiroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vampiroid
he-bear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: he-bears
Etymology: From he- + bear.
Senses: glosses: A male bear (as opposed to a she-bear, female bear).
he-bears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of he-bear
tunnel boring machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tunnel boring machines
Senses: examples: text: Images of the first two Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) under construction for HS2 were released on May 26.
Each TBM is 170 metres long and weighs around 2,000 tonnes. Once in use, they will run non-stop for three and a half years, stopping only for Christmas and Bank Holidays.
ref: 2020 June 3, “Network News: Vote now to choose names of HS2 Tunnel Boring Machines”, in Rail, page 11:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A large machine used to excavate tunnels with a circular cross section.
Synonyms: TBM
tunneling machine
Related terms: alt: tunnelling
word: shield
tunnel boring machines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tunnel boring machine
Amona
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hebrew עמונה.
Senses: examples: text: His government had just carried out a court order to evacuate about 40 settler families at the Amona outpost, declared illegal a decade earlier.
ref: 2020 June 9, David M. Halbfinger, Adam Rasgon, “Israel Court Rejects Law Legalizing Thousands of Settlement Homes”, in New York Times:
glosses: A former Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, abandoned in 2017.
philosopher's stones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: philospher's stones
Senses: glosses: plural of philosopher's stone
aerotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Etymology: From aero- + -tropic, see also aerotropism.
Senses: examples: text: According to him, roots are positively aerotropic, a root executing a curvature tending to bring the apex in the direction of the highest oxygen concentration, while pollen tubes growing in water are in this sense negatively aerotropic.
ref: 1950, Walter Stiles, An Introduction to the Principles of Plant Physiology:
text: The branches of the main root tend to be aerotropic, whether they are in shallow water or mud or deeply submerged.
ref: 1894, American Microscopical Society, Proceedings of the American Microscopical Society:
text: The horizontal growth of the roots upon the water is an aerotropic movement determined by the high oxygen-content of the uppermost water-layer.
ref: 1921, Frederic Edward Clements, Aeration and Air-content: The Rôle of Oxygen in Root Activity:
text: The lower portion of this aerotropic root-branch bears numerous laterals which grow downward, in a positively geotropic direction.
ref: 1972, Excerpta botanica: Taxonomica et chorologica. Sectio A:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: growing towards higher concentrations of oxygen
Related terms: geotropic
aerotropy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aero- + -tropy.
Senses: examples: text: According to the original four-beam correlation method, it is expected that p dependence at each R#95;f represents aerotropy of the correlation function at each R#95;f.
ref: 2003, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics: Regular papers & short notes:
text: The first one consists of isotropic Gaussian-basis functions; the other consists of aerotropy Gaussian-basis functions.
ref: 2004, Indian Statistical Institute Nikil R. Pal, Nikil R. Pal, Nikola Kasabov, Rajani K. Mudi, Srimanta Pal, Swapan K. Parui, Indian Statistical Institute Staff, Jadavpur University Staff, Neural information processing [electronic resource]: 11th international conference, ICONIP 2004, Calcutta, India, November 22-25, 2004 : proceedings, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 490:
text: The growth of these polypi is almost always towards the current of air, and thus they represent what might be called a certain “aerotropy."
ref: 1891, Archives of Otology:
text: Ewing's suggestion of the existence of longitudinal and transverse waves in earthquake motion had still to meet objections arising from the question of aerotropy of the material in the earth ' s interior .
ref: 1935, International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior, Publications du Bureau central séismologique international: Travaux scientifiques:
glosses: movement (typically of plants) towards the air or oxygen
Related terms: aerotropic
Clapham Common
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɒmən
Senses: glosses: A large park (open space) in the borough of Lambeth and borough of Wandsworth, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2874).
turn of words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turns of words
Senses: glosses: Synonym of turn of phrase.
synonyms: word: turn of phrase
open space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: open spaces
Senses: glosses: An open-air area, such as a park or public garden with no (or very few) buildings, often in an urban area and designated by a local authority or government as such.
open spaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of open space
hoverhand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoverhands
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hover hand.
Burngullow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in St Mewan parish and St Stephen-in-Brannel parish, near St Austell, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW9852).
bishopry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bishopries
Senses: glosses: The office of bishop.
colberteen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Inſtead of Home-ſpun quoifs were ſeen / Good Pinners, edg'd with Colberteen: [...]
ref: 1708, [Jonathan Swift], “The Metamorphosis of Baucis and Philemon, Burlesqu’d; from the 8th Book of Ovid”, in Baucis and Philemon; a Poem. […], London: […] H. Hills, […], published 1709, →OCLC, page 7:
text: Difference rose between Mechlin, the queen of lace, and Colberteen.
ref: 1725–1728, [Edward Young], “(please specify the page)”, in Love of Fame, the Universal Passion. In Seven Characteristical Satires, 4th edition, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson […], published 1741, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative spelling of colbertine.
Bolton Percy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the de Percy family.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish (served by Bolton Percy, Colton and Steeton parish council) in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Selby district (OS grid ref SE5341).
problematicism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A branch of philosophy that considers existence to be a constant evaluation of problems
wizardhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wizard + -hood.
Senses: glosses: the state of being a wizard
Caistor St Edmund
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Caistor St Edmund and Bixley parish, South Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG2303).
Turves
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Whittlesey parish, Fenland district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL3396).
Belstead
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Babergh district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM1341).
Canary Wharf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the old wharf in the West India Docks, named for the fruit trade from the Canary Islands.
Senses: examples: text: Canary Wharf – the words were grey to her, perhaps because of the colour of the glass or the river there or because it was on the Jubilee line.
ref: 2022, Yara Rodrigues Fowler, there are more things, Abacus (2023), page 147:
glosses: A business district on the Isle of Dogs, borough of Tower Hamlets, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3780).
Alinskian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Alinskian
form: most Alinskian
form: Alinskyan
Etymology: From Alinsky + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Saul Alinsky (1909–1972), American community activist and political theorist.
metacomedy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metacomedies
Etymology: From meta- + comedy.
Senses: glosses: A form of comedy that deals with comedy as its subject.
metacomedies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metacomedy
metacomedic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more metacomedic
form: most metacomedic
Etymology: From meta- + comedic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to metacomedy.
medikit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medikits
Etymology: From medi(cal) + kit.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of medkit.
medikits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of medikit
black cankers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black canker
miscirculate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: miscirculates
form: miscirculating
form: miscirculated
form: miscirculated
Etymology: From mis- + circulate.
Senses: examples: text: Masters wants his money back so he can burn it, because, as he says, "it's no good to me after they've handled it." It has circulated in the wrong space, miscirculated in that other space, a space of labor, industry, and poverty which must be held off.
ref: 1989, Sharon Willis, “Seductive Spaces”, in Dianne Hunter, editor, Seduction and Theory: Readings of Gender, Representation, and Rhetoric, page 65:
text: On Christmas Day in 1773, Franklin identified himself as the source of the miscirculated letters in order to prevent suspicion from falling on others. Franklin's confession came only nine days after the Boston Tea Party—bad timing.
ref: 2007, Joyce Chaplin, The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius:
text: A healthy economy produces and circulates its goods in the markets in which it operates. A sick money economy under-serves demand and miscirculates its products.
ref: 2019 June, John Woods, “Four grades of ignorance-involvement and how they nourish the cognitive economy”, in Synthese:
glosses: To circulate badly, such as among the wrong people or not widely enough.
miscirculates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of miscirculate
miscirculating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of miscirculate
miscirculated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of miscirculate
miscirculation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mis- + circulation.
Senses: glosses: Bad or wrong circulation.
vampirisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vampirisation
cross-generational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cross- + generational.
Senses: examples: text: [...] both are newly published children's activity books for train and railway fans but with cross-generational appeal, [...]
ref: 2020 June 3, “Stop & Examine”, in Rail, page 71:
glosses: Between different generations.
Ravensthorpe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TF1700).
glosses: A village and civil parish (served by Ravensthorpe and Coton parish council) in Daventry district, Northamptonshire, England (OS grid ref SP6670).
glosses: An outer suburb of Dewsbury, Kirklees borough, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE2220).
glosses: A town and local government area (the Shire of Ravensthorpe) in Goldfields-Esperance region, Western Australia.
Derived terms: Ravensthorpe radish
seal-man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seal-men
Etymology: From seal + man.
Senses: examples: text: I have heard of seal-men in Iceland and the Esquimo lands of the far north.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 117:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A person who can transform into a seal (the animal) and back again.
seal-man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seal-men
Etymology: From seal + -man.
Senses: glosses: A person who hunts seals; a sealer.
seal-men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seal-man
haematomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hæmatomania
form: hematomania
Etymology: From haemato- + -mania.
Senses: examples: text: Kurten was, moreover, possessed by the rage for blood (hæmatomania); being called the vampire of Dusseldorf[.]
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 118:
glosses: An overwhelming desire for blood.
glosses: A craze for blood-letting.
hematomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of haematomania.
hæmatomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of haematomania.
exculpateth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: exculpate + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of exculpate
Bubbline
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of bubblegum + Marceline.
Senses: examples: text: "The fanfiction actually began to seep into the show. The 'Bubbline' relationship between Marceline and Princess Bubblegum was never intended, but because it was a fan favourite, they're focusing on it a little bit. […]
ref: 2015, Jessica DiCicco, quoted in Kyle Butcher, "Supa DiCicco", Blank Gold Coast, April 2015, page 46
text: I don't think there was a singular emotion to describe the moment Bubbline became canon.
ref: 2018, Stephanie Chang, "When 'Bubbline' Became Canon", Her Culture, October/November 2018, page 69
text: Still, intrigued by Bubbline, I'd occasionally check in on the fandom to see what was up with their relationship.
ref: 2018, Jordan Currie, "Canon, at last!", New Wave Magazine (Ryerson University), Fall 2018, page 10
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The ship of characters Princess Bubblegum and Marceline of the animated television series Adventure Time.
CCT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CCTs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of compulsory competitive tendering.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of company combat team.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of corps combat team.
glosses: Initialism of crime control theater / theatre.
glosses: Initialism of cha chaan teng.
Related terms: topics: military
war
government
politics
word: BCT
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: CT
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: DCT
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: PCT
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: RCT
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: SCT
chefless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chef + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a chef.
mischiefless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mischief + -less.
Senses: glosses: Devoid of mischief.
hossie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “Innocent girl on nite out wiv pals in hossie having stiched up after being glassed. Why some folk like that. Scar for life probs.”
ref: 2012, Cary Smith, Or Not To Be, page 197:
glosses: hospital
misclean
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈkliːn/
ipa: /ˈmɪskliːn/
Forms: form: miscleans
form: miscleaning
form: miscleaned
form: miscleaned
Etymology: From mis- + clean.
Senses: examples: text: No amount of pre-evaluation that we can carry out will completely avoid or prevent customer complaints because for every kind of consumer use we can forecase the actual consumer can find many more ways of straining, misusing, miscleaning, and otherwise mistreating merchandise.
ref: 1953, American Society for Quality Control, Annual Technical Conference Transactions:
text: In an indoor environment, areas that are more out of site, such as those below or above certain home furniture, are often miscleaned for a long period.
ref: 2013 November, Youcef Shahali, Andrea Brazdova, Michel Calleja, Denis Charpin, Hélène Sénéchal, Pascal Poncet, “Indoor, long-term persistence of cypress pollen allergenic potency: a 10-month study”, in Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, volume 111, number 5:
text: Was it the sealant supplier who sold a product that hardened too much with age, or was it the applicator who miscleaned or poorly primed the joint that led to the adhesive failure?
ref: 2017, Jerome Klosowski, Sealants in Construction, page 1-52:
glosses: To clean improperly.
misclean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈkliːn/
ipa: /ˈmɪskliːn/
Forms: form: miscleans
Etymology: From mis- + clean.
Senses: examples: text: Defects are commonly of great variety and are described as holes, missing color, oil, white scrimp, misclean, out of fit (where the pattern is out of line), grey black scrimp, snap, stick in, hair line, color streak, color spot, roller scratches, torn selvage, and chatter (where thelines come horizontal in the printing).
ref: 1948, J. S. G. Richardson, Robert Wallace Shand, Reports of Cases Heard and Determined by the Supreme Court of South Carolina, page 498:
text: On the next day, another misclean of approximately 750 yards was discovered on Gregory's machine while no one was in attendance at his post.
ref: 1955, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 278:
glosses: A defect in printing fabric that arises from improperly cleaning the rollers that apply the ink, leaving unintended marks on the fabric.
miscleans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misclean
miscleans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misclean
miscleaning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misclean
miscleaned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misclean
Supercorp
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Supergirl + L-Corp.
Senses: examples: text: Jordan's heterosexuality is juxtaposed with the recurring generalization of all Supercorp fans as LGBTQ+, allowing the debates around queerbaiting to shift their focus from the evidence of queerness in the primary narrative to the homophobia of the ostensibly heterosexual creators and the purported harm inflicted on LGBTQ+ fans.
ref: 2019, Michael McDermott, “From Canon to Politics: Queerbaiting and The CW's Supergirl”, in Joseph Brennan, editor, Queerbaiting and Fandom: Teasing Fans Through Homoerotic Possibilities, page 119:
text: However, unless the show writers decide to turn the show in a more queer direction, SuperCorp is doomed to remain hidden as reading between the lines during all Lena Luthor and Kara Danvers/Supergirl interactions.
ref: 2018, Anna DeGalan, "Supergay: A Queer Analysis of the CW’s 'Supergirl'", paper submitted to Bowling Green State University, page 19
text: Many fans have been frustrated by cast members' dismissiveness of Supercorp, […]
ref: 2020, Chelsea M. Gibbs, “'It's real, you're real, and you deserve a full, happy life': Supergirl's 'Sanvers' as an Affirmation to Queer Tumblr Fangirls Everywhere”, in Melissa Wehler, Tim Rayborn, editors, Girl of Steel: Essays on Television's Supergirl and Fourth-Wave Feminism, page 153:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The ship of characters Kara Danvers (Supergirl) and Lena Luthor from the television series Supergirl.
misclassifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misclassifiers
Etymology: From misclassify + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who or that which misclassifies.
misclassifiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misclassifier
Cornell box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Developed at Cornell University.
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A physical box with variously coloured walls and an inner light source, photographed and used to gauge the accuracy of a computer rendering of the same scene.
wikipedia: Cornell University
Hypernyms: box
Related terms: Utah teapot
Natty Boh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Natty Bohs
form: Natty Bo
Senses: glosses: National Bohemian beer.
Natty Bohs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Natty Boh
LDPEs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LDPE
Asiatick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Asiatick
form: most Asiatick
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Asiatic.
Asiatick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Asiaticks
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Asiatic.
Asiaticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Asiatick
gemsona
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gemsonas
Etymology: From gem + -sona.
Senses: examples: text: The fanbase has been prolific in the propagation of theories and speculation as well as the creation of original gem warrior characters or "gemsonas."
ref: 2015, "Believe in Steven and the Crystal Gems", Ka Mana'o (Leeward Community College), Summer 2015, page 7
text: She also provides links to her “gemsona” (herself as a Gem) and a Steven Universe fan comic that she drew.
ref: 2020, Jake Pitre, “Queer Transformation, Contested Authorship, and Fluid Fandom”, in John R. Ziegler, Leah Richards, editors, Representation in Steven Universe, page 40:
text: The aesthetic of most of the gemsonas follows popular, mostly American animation character forms, although some anime styles are also found.
ref: 2022, Frenchy Lunning, Cosplay: The Fictional Mode of Existence, unnumbered page:
qualifier: Steven Universe fandom slang
glosses: A Crystal Gem or regular Gem alter ego or self-insert character created by a fan.
ponysona
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ponysonas
form: Ponysona
Etymology: From pony + -sona.
Senses: examples: text: My ponysona is Heartbeat Bubbles, and she is red and green and follows Fluttershy around and is kind to all animals.
ref: 2013, "Naked As A Jaybird", "Brony Porn 4 Lyfe", The Muffington Post (satirical newspaper of the University of Alberta), 17 April 2013, page 13
text: Forty-six per cent of Bronies have an OC, 39 per cent have a Ponysona, which is typically the first OC they create.
ref: 2016, Pavol Kosnáč, “The development of spirituality in the Brony community”, in Carole M. Cusack, Pavol Kosnáč, editors, Fiction, Invention and Hyper-reality: From Popular Culture to Religion, unnumbered page:
text: An interactive session into learning how to create your own ponysona with LilyScribbles; […]
ref: 2019, Phoenix Fan Fusion 2019, page 41:
qualifier: My Little Pony fandom slang
glosses: A pony alter ego or self-insert character created by a fan.