cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
eye fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eye flies
form: eye-fly
Senses: examples: text: Electricity had paid no attention, and a colony of eye-flies had come instead and blackened the coils with their bodies.
ref: 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 93:
glosses: Any of various kinds of tiny black flies (especially of the family Chloropidae) which swarm around the eyes of people and animals.
Synonyms: eye gnat
eye flies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eye fly
come short
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: comes short
form: coming short
form: came short
form: come short
Senses: qualifier: + of
glosses: to miss
qualifier: + of
glosses: to be inferior to
Synonyms: word: come short
word: fall short
word: play second fiddle
word: suck
word: sux0r
word: take a back seat
word: undermatch
word: want
Hypernyms: word: be unequal
zenitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Zen + -itude.
Senses: glosses: A form of calm tranquility experienced by followers of Zen Buddhism.
honeycup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honeycups
Senses: glosses: A North American shrub of the genus Zenobia.
waste sorting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waste sortings
Senses: glosses: Process by which waste is separated into different elements
a contented mind is a perpetual feast
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Pronunciation: -iːst
Forms: form: a contented mind is a continual feast
Etymology: From a quiet heart is a continual feast, the translation of Proverbs 15, 15 in the Miles Coverdale Bible from 1535:
:All the dayes of the poore are miserable, but a quyete herte is as a cotynuall feast.
Senses: examples: text: It has been observed that "a contented mind is a perpetual feast", and has been remarked, that persons of destitute of ambition and avarice, are peculiarly likely to enjoy long life.
ref: 1826, The House Book, or Family Chronicle of Useful Knowledge, and Cottage Physician: Combining Medicine, Cookery, Diet, General Economy, Health, Sea-bathing, Gardening, Manufactures, Arts, etc., ... Including Upwards of a Thousand Select Recipes and Prescriptions:
text: If they are content with this sort of locomotion, happy are they — "a contented mind is a perpetual feast."
ref: 1846, Harry Hieover, Stable Talk and Table Talk: Or, Spectacles for Young Sportsmen, page 131:
text: True enjoyment is entirely independent of outward circumstances. It depends upon the proper and harmonious development and action of the mind, and upon a conscious harmony with the will of God ; and those who perhaps seek enjoyment least have it most abundantly. "A contented mind is a perpetual feast."
ref: 1866, E.O. Haven, THE PILLARS OF TRUTH: A Series of SERMONS ON THE DECALOGUE, pages 233–234:
text: Of course, a contented mind is a perpetual feast, and many argue that it is better to live with a bad situation than move to an even worse one.
ref: 2012, Giovanni Boniolo, The Art of Deliberating, →ISBN:
text: In addition, it includes ecological-friendly concept of consumption which values thrift and moderate development such as “a contented mind is a perpetual feast” and “restraint of desire”.
ref: 2016, Qingzhou Xu, Materials Engineering and Environmental Science, →ISBN:
glosses: Contentment in life makes one happy.
archeparchate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archeparchates
Etymology: From arch- + eparchate.
Senses: qualifier: Eastern Orthodoxy
glosses: An archeparchy, or archdiocese of an archbishop.
archeparchates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archeparchate
Mielec
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Mielec.
Senses: glosses: A city in Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland.
Golas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Golases
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Golas, Gołas, or Gołaś.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
social stigmata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of social stigma
kippages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kippage
polygastrians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polygastrian
aetherometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aetherometry + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to aetherometry.
RTR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of retracted tongue root.
ATR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of advanced tongue root.
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of adaptive tile refresh.
examples: text: Using Diffusion Tensor Imaging Fiber Tracking (DTI FT) the authors describe potential converging ascending and descending MFB and anterior thalamic radiation (ATR) that may mediate major brain reward-seeking and punishment functions. Authors highlight novel connectivity, such as supero-lateral-branch MFB and ATR convergence, caudally as well as rostrally, in the anterior limb of the internal capsule and medial prefrontal cortex.
ref: 2012, Volker A Coenen, Jaak Panksepp, Trevor A Hurwitz, Horst Urbach, Burkhard Mädler, “Human medial forebrain bundle (MFB) and anterior thalamic radiation (ATR): imaging of two major subcortical pathways and the dynamic balance of opposite affects in understanding depression”, in The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, →DOI, →PMID:
glosses: Initialism of anterior thalamic radiation.
Related terms: ATR-16 syndrome
ATR-X syndrome
Joe Averages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Joe Average
zéphire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zéphires
Etymology: From French zéphire. So named because the dish was considered light like a zephyr breeze or cloth. Compare Russian зефи́р (zefír, “marshmallow”), another light food named for the breeze. Doublet of zefir, Zephyr, zephyr, and Zephyrus.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:zéphires.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
coordinate_terms: quenelle
glosses: A small dish of forcemeat, typically cooked in a mold and served with a rich sauce.
manistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more manistic
form: most manistic
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to manism.
xylogalactan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xylogalactans
Etymology: From xylo- + galactan.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A polysaccharide composed of xylose and galactose residues.
ribodeoxyvirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ribodeoxyviruses
Etymology: From ribo- + deoxy- + virus or ribo(virus) + deoxyvirus.
Senses: glosses: A virus whose virion contains both RNA and DNA
birdsfoot violets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birdsfoot violet
schizotext
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schizotexts
Etymology: From schizo- + text.
Senses: examples: text: Since the African language is latent and the European language manifest, the palimpsest is also by the same token a schizotext which further splits textual cohesion.
ref: 2010, Sarah Lawall, Reading World Literature: Theory, History, Practice, page 274:
glosses: A poem, or similar text, that seeks to show a division of consciousness between itself and the outside world
semialgebra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semialgebras
Etymology: From semi- + algebra.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A class that is closed under intersection and semiclosed under set difference
semimuffle furnace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semimuffle furnaces
Etymology: From semi- + muffle furnace.
Senses: glosses: A furnace in which the flame does not come into contact with the material being heated but products of the combustion gases do
semisuffix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semisuffixes
Etymology: From semi- + suffix.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of suffixoid.
synonyms: word: suffixoid
mortcloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mortcloths
Senses: examples: text: A solemn National funeral-service […] the vast Champ-de-Mars wholly hung round with black mortcloth,—which mortcloth and expenditure Marat thinks had better have been laid out in bread, in these dear days, and given to the hungry living Patriot.
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter VI, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book II (Nanci), page 98:
glosses: Alternative form of mort cloth.
mortcloths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mortcloth
Wach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wachs
Etymology: From Polish Wach.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
degree sequence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: degree sequences
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A monotonic nonincreasing sequence of the vertex degrees of the vertices of a graph
degree sequences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of degree sequence
Golec
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Golecs
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Golec.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Advice Animal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Advice Animals
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of advice animal.
agionym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agionyms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hagionym.
anabaptist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anabaptists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Anabaptist.
anabelioid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anabelioids
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An anabelian category or similar structure
antiblocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiblockers
Etymology: From anti- + blocker.
Senses: glosses: A mineral (such as talc) used to prevent blocking during the extrusion of plastic films.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A kind of software that disrupts the activity of viruses, etc. that attempt to block the activity of a computer.
Guz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Huz
Etymology: From Polish Guz, Russian Гузь (Guzʹ), Ukrainian Гузь (Huzʹ), and Belarusian [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Koc
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kocs
Etymology: Two main origins:
* Borrowed from Turkish Koç, a nickname from koç (“ram”).
* Borrowed from Polish Koc, a nickname from koc (“blanket”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
mesovortexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesovortex
the tongue wounds more than a lance
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: coordinate_terms: actions speak louder than words
sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me
glosses: Insults and offensive speech hurt more than physical injuries.
little strokes fell great oaks
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: “Little strokes fell great oaks,” says the steady worker. “One stroke fells not an oak,” makes a piece of advice to the impetuous. In danger the insignificant may console themselves with the reflection that “Oaks may fall and reeds brave the storm.
ref: 1873, The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, page 685:
glosses: Small but persistent efforts can lead to big results.
Related terms: mighty oaks from little acorns grow
swallow a bitter pill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: swallows a bitter pill
form: swallowing a bitter pill
form: swallowed a bitter pill
form: swallowed a bitter pill
Senses: glosses: To accept or endure an unpleasant situation.
Related terms: bitter pill to swallow
hard to swallow
pill to swallow
grin and bear it
sugarcoat the pill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sugarcoats the pill
form: sugarcoating the pill
form: sugarcoated the pill
form: sugarcoated the pill
form: sugarcoat a bitter pill
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: polish a turd, put lipstick on a pig, sweeten the pot
text: To sugarcoat the pill of payment the receiver of the tax was wont to refer to it disparagingly in the diminutive, calling it “la huchette,” “the little tax on a fish stall.”
ref: 1930, Watson White, The Paris that is Paris, page 186:
text: Philosophy supposes that the argument is merely flavored with such imported images to sugarcoat the pill of difficult thinking for those unused to the bitter remedy of rigorous thought.
ref: 2008, Robert Solomon, David Sherman, editors, The Blackwell Guide to Continental Philosophy, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 326:
text: One middle-aged woman does not sugar-coat the pill, rating the experience “one out of 10” because “shops keep shutting”.
ref: 2018 October 20, Zoe Wood, “Shopping malls' desperate decline comes to prime minister’s doorstep”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: gild the pill
sweeten the pill
glosses: To make an unpleasant event less displeasing.
Related terms: bitter pill to swallow
difficult pill to swallow
hard pill to swallow
pill to swallow
swallow a bitter pill
tough pill to swallow
hard to swallow
nut butters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nut butter
Samaritanism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Samaritan + -ism.
(charity, benevolence): Alluding to the Good Samaritan.
Senses: glosses: The religion of the Samaritan people, tracing its origin to the Hebrew people of the ancient Middle East following their avoidance of the Babylonian captivity in the 6th century BCE.
Samaritanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Samaritan + -ism.
(charity, benevolence): Alluding to the Good Samaritan.
Senses: glosses: charity; benevolence
last-time
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: last time as a modifier.
Senses: examples: text: It was the possibly-last-time visit, and we really didn't have anything to say to each other beyond the amenities of my asking if she was comfortable and her expressing concern that I looked tired.
ref: 1976, Pat Watters, The angry middle-aged man, page 7:
text: With the expectation of a few months of life, I'm aware that everything — from the turning of the seasons, to holidays, birthdays, and special occasions, is probably for me, a last-time experience.
ref: 1996, Pat McNees, Dying: A Book of Comfort, →ISBN, page 105:
text: “We have seen that one before so I don't want to sit with you tonight again.” I had intended it as a friendly last-time get-together, but he said, "I saw Charlie Chaplin and 'The Immigrant' before."
ref: 2008, Satsvarūpa Dāsa Gosvāmī, Under Dark Stars, →ISBN, page 125:
text: "Ironically, HIV/AIDS can also pull at each of us with the same choke-chain force, reminding us of how precious life is; calling us to experience every moment to its fullest," Cyndie wrote. "It can be scary. It can sometimes feel that some of our life experiences may indeed be last-time experiences...
ref: 2014, Michael Saag, Positive: One Doctor's Personal Encounters with Death, Life, and the US Healthcare System, →ISBN:
glosses: Happening for the last time; doing something for the last time.
Pach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pachs
Etymology: From Polish Pach, Czech Pach, or German Pach.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
soundful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more soundful
form: most soundful
Etymology: From Middle English soundeful, sownde full, equivalent to sound + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Full of sound; melodious
Synonyms: sonorous
no gain without pain
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: And on a programme of works of this magnitude, passengers will need to be mindful of the age-old maxim of 'no gain without pain'.
ref: 2020 September 23, Paul Stephen, “East Coast upgrade: changes to schedule... but on schedule”, in Rail, page 31:
glosses: Alternative form of no pain, no gain.
Mech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Meche
Senses: glosses: An ethnic group belonging to the Bodo-Kachari group of peoples; one of the scheduled tribes of India.
Boch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Boches
Etymology: Both from German Boch and Polish Boch. The surname is also very common in Guatemala.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Moch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mochs
Etymology: Two main origins:
* Borrowed from German Moch or Möch, variants of Mock.
* Borrowed from Polish Moch, an unflattering nickname from moch (“insect; wheedler”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
witchkind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From witch + -kind.
Senses: glosses: All witches, collectively.
furkind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fur + -kind.
Senses: glosses: Members of the furry subculture, collectively.
GURPS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: games
gaming
glosses: Initialism of Generic Universal RolePlaying System.
polyhistidines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyhistidine
Pajonk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pajonks
form: Pajak
form: Payonk
Etymology: From Polish Pająk/Pajonk, from Polish pająk (“spider”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
diarylethylamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diarylethylamines
Senses: glosses: Any of a particular class of dissociative anesthetic drugs. They typically contain two phenyl rings, an ethyl carbon chain, and a nitrogen atom.
fructotransferase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fructotransferases
Etymology: From fructo- + transferase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of enzymes that produce difructose anhydrides from fructans.
bitrange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bitranges
Etymology: From bit + range.
Senses: examples: text: Finally, we show that our descriptors are able to compare favourably to other state-of-the-art compact descriptors in similar bitranges, exceeding the highest retrieval results reported in the literature on some datasets.
ref: 2016, Olivier Morère, Antoine Veillard, Jie Lin, Julie Petta, Vijay Chandrasekhar, Tomaso Poggio, “Group Invariant Deep Representations for Image Instance Retrieval”, in arXiv:
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A range defined in terms of bits (binary digits).
sportses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sports
sportsing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sports
sportsed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sports
braingraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: braingraphs
form: brain graph
Etymology: From brain + graph.
Senses: examples: text: Previously, we have constructed the consensus braingraphs on 1015 vertices first in five, then in 96 subjects in the Budapest Reference Connectome Server v1.0 and v2.0, respectively.
ref: 2016, Balázs Szalkai, Csaba Kerepesi, Bálint Varga, Vince Grolmusz, “Parameterizable Consensus Connectomes from the Human Connectome Project: The Budapest Reference Connectome Server v3.0”, in arXiv:
glosses: A connectome.
brain graph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brain graphs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of braingraph.
brain graphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brain graph
deuseaville
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deasyville
form: deausaville
form: deuceaville
form: deuse a vile
form: deuseavile
form: dewsavell
form: dewse-a-vile
form: dewse-a-vyle
form: deyseaville
form: duceavil
form: deusavil
Etymology: Possibly from daisy + -ville.
Senses: examples: text: Duds and cheats thou oft hast won, / Yet the cuffin quire couldst shun; / And the deuseaville didst run, / Else the chates had thee undone.
ref: 1707, “The Rum-Mort's Praise of Her Faithless Maunder”, in Farmer, John Stephen, editor, Musa Pedestris, published 1896, page 36:
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: The countryside.
Derived terms: deuseaville stampers
deadload
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deadloads
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dead load.
glucotransferase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glucotransferases
Etymology: From gluco- + transferase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme that liberates glucose from amylose.
deuse a vile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A gage of ben Rom-bouse, / In a bousing-ken of Rom-vile, / Is benar than a Caster, / Pecke, pennam, lay, or popler, / Which we mill in deuse a vile.
ref: 1611, Thomas Middleton, The Roaring Girle:
glosses: Alternative spelling of deuseaville.
deuseavile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This Doxy Dell can cut been whids, / And wap well for a win, / And prig and cloy so benshiply / All the Deuseavile within.
ref: 1673, Richard Head, The Canting Academy:
glosses: Alternative spelling of deuseaville.
subshot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subshots
Etymology: From sub- + shot.
Senses: examples: text: We propose a novel supervised learning technique for summarizing videos by automatically selecting keyframes or key subshots.
ref: 2016, Ke Zhang, Wei-Lun Chao, Fei Sha, Kristen Grauman, “Video Summarization with Long Short-term Memory”, in arXiv:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
signal-processing
glosses: A portion of a shot, in video material.
Sierran
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Sierra + -an.
Senses: examples: the Sierran fauna
glosses: Of or relating to Sierra Nevada.
Sierran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sierrans
Etymology: From Sierra + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Sierra Nevada.
glosses: A member of the Sierra Club, a US environmental organization founded in 1892.
sequentialization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sequentializations
Etymology: From sequential + -ization.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The conversion of a parallel algorithm into sequential form.
semilanguage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semilanguages
Etymology: From semi- + language.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A set of semiwords.
semilanguages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semilanguage
secundaxils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secundaxil
pentapod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentapods
Etymology: From penta- + -pod.
Senses: examples: text: I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and brutal, and turpid, and everything, mais je t'aimais, je t'aimais!
ref: 1956 December 12, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC, part 2, page 286:
text: Moreover we discuss the reality of self-motions and give a sufficient condition for the design of linear pentapods of Type 1 and Type 2, which have a self-motion free workspace.
ref: 2015, Georg Nawratil, “On the line-symmetry of self-motions of linear pentapods”, in arXiv:
glosses: An organism or machine with five legs.
plastidome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plastidomes
Etymology: From plastid + -ome.
Senses: glosses: The entirety of the plastids of a cell.
Legazpi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛˈɡas.pɪ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Legazpi, from Basque Legazpi.
Named after Spanish conquistador Miguel López de Legazpi, the first Governor-General of the Philippines.
Senses: glosses: A city, the provincial capital of Albay, Bicol Region, Luzon, Philippines.
wikipedia: Miguel López de Legazpi
purr word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purr words
Senses: glosses: A term that has a positive connotation.
Related terms: snarl word
bug-word
noncriterion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noncriteria
Etymology: From non- + criterion.
Senses: glosses: That which is not a (relevant) criterion.
rhinophoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Families grouped within this suborder all have an anterior velum across the head, and high columnar rhinophoral sheaths, each with a smallish distal section (termed a rhinophoral clavus) cupped in the top.
ref: 2015, Robert Burn, Nudibranchs and Related Molluscs, page 182:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the rhinophore.
dabbaba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dabbabas
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic دَبَّابَة (dabbāba, “a kind of siege engine”).
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A fairy chess piece that jumps two squares orthogonally (i.e. not diagonally), leaping over any intermediate piece.
dabbabas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dabbaba
nightrider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nightriders
Etymology: From night + rider.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Ku Klux Klan, especially during the Reconstruction Era.
Synonyms: sense: member of the Ku Klux Klan
word: whitecapper
Related terms: Klansman
Rum-ville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rom-vile
form: Rome-vile
form: Rome-ville
form: Romeville
form: Rome-vyle
form: Rome vyle
form: Rum File
form: Rum-vile
form: Rum ville
form: Rum-vill
form: Rumville
Etymology: From rum (“good, fine, excellent”) + -ville (“town, city”).
Senses: examples: text: "And said if we'd meet him at the boozing-ken with the dell and kinchin co, he'd carry them off to Rum-ville," continued the first speaker.
ref: 1861, Lady Esther Hope, The Blue Dwarf, page 21:
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: London, England.
Rom-vile
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: A gage of ben Rom-bouse, / In a bousing-ken of Rom-vile, / Is benar than a Caster, / Pecke, pennam, lay, or popler, / Which we mill in deuse a vile.
ref: 1611, Thomas Middleton, The Roaring Girle:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Rum-ville.
megamarathon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megamarathons
Etymology: From mega- + marathon.
Senses: glosses: A major marathon with a large number of participants.
Romeville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: I trow I have seen you somewhere, somewhere other than the Jerusalem Tree. In Romeville, as like as not. Mayhap we have been in the same bousing ken or stalling ken at some time. Mayhap we have couched a hogshead at the same house in Southwark.
ref: 1992, Cynthia Morgan, Court of Shadows:
text: And didn't he teach you what it was? We're in Romeville now, you simpkin. But you can't call it that in respectable company. You must say, London.
ref: 2013, Maria McCann, Ace, King, Knave:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Rum-ville.
narreme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: narremes
Etymology: From narrative + -eme.
Senses: glosses: A basic unit of narrative structure.
Derived terms: narremic
Related terms: motifeme
mytheme
narremes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of narreme
narremic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːmɪk
Etymology: From narreme + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to narremes.
motifeme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motifemes
Etymology: From motif + -eme.
Senses: glosses: A basic unit of story, such as a character or a situation, used in the comparative analysis of folktales.
Derived terms: motifemic
Related terms: mytheme
narreme
Mierzwa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mierzwas
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Mierzwa.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Rumville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: You have a banker, Ma'am, I suppose in town—perhaps in the country; but I don't like country bankers; besides I want a little ready cash in Rumville—beg pardon, Ma'am, London I mean; but my ears have been so stunned with those Romany patterers, I almost think in flash.
ref: 1834, William Harrison Ainsworth, Rookwood, volume 3, page 27:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Rum-ville.
underusage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From under- + usage.
Senses: glosses: inadequate usage
Rome vyle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: What stowe you bene cofe and cut benar whyddes and byng we to Rome vyle to nyp a bounge, so shall we haue lower for the bowsing ken, and when we byng back to the deuseuyle, we will fylche some duddes of the Ruffmans or myll the ken for a lage of duddes.
ref: 1566, Thomas Harman, A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors, reprint edition, London: R. Triphook, published 1814, page 68:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Rum-ville.
pyranocoumarin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyranocoumarins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of organic compound in which a pyran ring is fused to that of a coumarin
zincocalcite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral with chemical formula (Ca,Zn)CO₃.
moron in a hurry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morons in a hurry
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Any hypothetical person used in a legal test related to trade marks; the "moron in a hurry" is the only person who could reasonably be imagined to confuse two marks.
Related terms: man on the Bondi tram
man on the Clapham omnibus
person having ordinary skill in the art
doggy paddled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of doggy paddle
doggy paddling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of doggy paddle
boh liao
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more boh liao
form: most boh liao
Senses: examples: text: Some would say I’m boh liao for writing this post.
ref: 2014 June, Dan Kerson, “Singlish Will Soon Become Extinct”, in angmohdan.com, archived from the original on 13 Sep 2017:
glosses: Alternative form of bo liao.
paleoburrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleoburrows
form: palaeoburrow
Etymology: From paleo- + burrow.
Senses: examples: text: Large paleoburrows and crotovines (see Chapter 6) have recently received renewed interest in the literature.
ref: 2013, Richard A. Fariña, Megafauna: Giant Beasts of Pleistocene South America, page 249:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A burrow formed by an animal of the ancient past, usually referring to the large tunnels excavated by giant armadillos and ground sloths now preserved as ichnofossils.
paleoburrows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paleoburrow
PFOSA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: coordinate_terms: PFOS
glosses: Abbreviation of perfluorooctanesulfonamide.
alta-males
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alta-male
pretotyped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pretotype
underuser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underusers
Etymology: From under- + user.
Senses: glosses: One who underuses.
underusers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underuser
romancey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more romancey
form: most romancey
Etymology: From romance + -y.
Senses: glosses: romantic; full of romance
gulfward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gulf + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: In general, the depositional history of the Gulf Coast has been one of overall gulfward migration of the shoreline and Continental Shelf edge.
ref: 1976, Seadock Deepwater Port License: Environmental Impact Statement:
glosses: Facing or pointing towards a gulf.
gulfward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From gulf + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Towards a gulf.
cardioskeletal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cardio- + skeletal.
Senses: examples: text: Bone and heart health are linked through a variety of cellular, endocrine, and metabolic mechanisms, including the bidirectional effects of mineral-regulating hormones parathyroid hormone and fibroblast growth factor 23. Nutrition plays an important role in the development of both cardiovascular and bone disease.
ref: 2016, Kathleen M Hill Gallant et al., “Nutrition in cardioskeletal health”, in Adv Nutr, volume 7, number 3, →DOI, →PMID, pages 544–555:
topics: anatomy
medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Relating to the heart and the skeleton.
examples: text: Desmin (DES) mutations have been recognized as a cause of desmin-related myopathy (OMIM 601419), or desminopathy, a disease characterized by progressive limb muscle weakness and accumulation of desmin-reactive granular aggregates in the myofibers. We have studied three families with skeletal or cardioskeletal myopathy caused by small in-frame deletions in the desmin gene.
ref: 2004, A Kaminska et al., “Small deletions disturb desmin architecture leading to breakdown of muscle cells and development of skeletal or cardioskeletal myopathy”, in Hum Genet, volume 114, number 3, →DOI, →PMID, pages 306–313:
topics: anatomy
medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Relating to both cardiac muscle and skeletal muscle, two types of striated muscle (in various animals including humans) that can both be affected by, for example, desminopathies or dystrophinopathies, causing myopathies of cardiac and skeletal muscle tissue.
zygomasseteric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛɹɪk
Etymology: From zygo- + masseteric.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the zygomatic bone and the masseter.
reineckeid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reineckeids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the Reineckeidae.
reineckeids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reineckeid
suavo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suavos
Etymology: From Spanish suavo.
Senses: examples: text: He does a hang-jawed-cretin routine, and, in the best sequence, he imitates Caine's suavo act, caressing a flower, pouring a glass of champagne and holding it up to the moon.
ref: 1989 January 16, David Denby, “Washed Up”, in New York Magazine, volume 22, number 3, page 60:
text: He was chatting to some suavo-deluxe guy in sunnies and a baggy suit.
ref: 1995, Helen Barnes, The Crypt Orchid, page 152:
text: "I do!" the suavo said eagerly, extending his hand. “I'm Mel. It wasn't. . .”
ref: 2005 -, Sharon Rose Anderson, Jangala: A Wild Place in the Heart, →ISBN, page 51:
text: ... rock musicians, colorful literary failures, pale headbangers, suavo archetypes with bandannas tied around their biceps, and starting way back in high school long dreamt of having affairs with long-haired guys named Scorch or Trevor or Rick who, even if they smelled unappealingly of cigarettes and booze, were part of the rebellious, 'zine-reading Dial B for Bum-in-Hand youth of today.
ref: 2007, Alexander Theroux, Laura Warholic, Or, The Sexual Intellectual: A Novel, page 721:
text: Seemingly out of nowhere comes Carla Vesari (Gina Lollobrigida), kept in splendor by older Eurotrash suavo Nikko Regas (Paul Henreid), wealthy, sophisticated, wise, and ultimately unable to keep her from the lecherous advances of Reynolds.
ref: 2011, Marc Eliot, Steve McQueen: A Biography, →ISBN:
text: Some will go along with him for the ride but most girls are jaded and world weary enough to know that a good looking, suavo kind of guy is generally not monogamous enough to love them for them and regularly put meat on the table if they were to get involved and have kids.
ref: 2013, Tony Kelbrat, The “People Power” Women’s Guide, →ISBN:
glosses: A smooth or cool male.
roomkeeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roomkeepers
Etymology: From room + keeper.
Senses: examples: text: While the vast majority of guests are polite, pleasant, and appreciative of the importance of the roomkeeper's work, there are others, on occasion, who are silly, rude, overbearing, intoxicated, menacing, or annoying.
ref: 1974, Bruce H. Axler, Room Care for Hotels and Motels, page 55:
text: However, if a one-half hour meeting means one less room accomplished per roomkeeper, the housekeeper is challenged to cover this time somehow.
ref: 1997, The Rooms Chronicle, volumes 5-9, page 70:
glosses: A person employed by a hotel or similar establishment to clean, maintain and restock the rooms.
roomkeepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roomkeeper
steam coals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steam coal
Bulverist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bulverists
Senses: glosses: One who commits the fallacy of Bulverism.
Bulverists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bulverist
tittupy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tittupy
form: most tittupy
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tittuppy.
kilawin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of kinilaw.
synonyms: word: kinilaw
closed interval
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: closed intervals
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
antonyms: open interval
glosses: an interval in the real number line which contains its supremum and infimum.
Hypernyms: interval
Kubica
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kubicas
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Kubica, Slovak Kubica and Czech Kubica.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
tooth enamel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: The hard, mineralized substance that makes up the visible part of teeth.
Synonyms: enamel
ugniberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ugniberry
Chilean guava
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chilean guavas
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ugniberry (Ugni molinae)
synonyms: word: ugniberry
extra: Ugni molinae
New Zealand cranberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: New Zealand cranberries
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ugniberry (Ugni molinae)
synonyms: word: ugniberry
extra: Ugni molinae
Chilean cranberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chilean cranberries
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ugniberry (Ugni molinae)
synonyms: word: ugniberry
extra: Ugni molinae
tazziberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tazziberry
Chilean guavas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chilean guava
New Zealand cranberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of New Zealand cranberry
Chilean cranberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chilean cranberry
strawberry myrtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strawberry myrtles
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ugniberry (Ugni molinae)
synonyms: word: ugniberry
extra: Ugni molinae
cybermall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cybermalls
Etymology: From cyber- + mall.
Senses: glosses: A virtual online shopping center; a collection of cyberstores.
cybermalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cybermall
methyluridines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of methyluridine
unfamilied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + family + -ed.
Senses: antonyms: familied
glosses: Lacking a family.
HRBP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HRBPs
Senses: topics: business
glosses: Initialism of human resources business partner.
HRBPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of HRBP
on a mission
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒn‿ə ˈmɪʃn̩/
ipa: /ɑn‿ə ˈmɪʃən/
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Etymology: From on + a + mission (“set of tasks that fulfils a duty or purpose; deeply felt ambition in life”).
Senses: examples: text: So she walked and as the night begun^([sic]) to engulf the countryside Emily still did not tire, she was on a mission; a mission to save her friend, her sister.
ref: 2014 March 5, Keira Donegan, “We’re Not Alone”, in The Truth and Other Lies, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 39:
text: Gareth Southgate's side were on a mission to travel one step further than any England side has done since the 1966 World Cup final win against West Germany and they finally achieved the long-cherished goal as they came from behind to beat Denmark after extra time.
ref: 2021 July 7, Phil McNulty, “European Championship – Semi-final: England 2 – 1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 12 Apr 2023:
glosses: Actively and determinedly engaged on a task.
examples: text: I'm slipping on my khaki suit (Which one?) / The blue one, gun by my side as I mob to the beach / On a mission and I'm fishing for my DJ Warren G
ref: 1993 November 23, Calvin Broadus Jr., Andre Young, Delmar Arnaud, “Gz Up, Hoes Down” (track 18), in Doggystyle, performed by Snoop Doggy Dogg, Los Angeles, Calif.: Death Row Records, →OCLC:
text: Unfortunately for that relationship, I was a train wreck from day one. All I could think was, Where can I get some drugs? I was on a mission, as I called it. I knew that if I could find Jeremy, I would be able to get high. I had heard he had advanced to harder drugs. Plus, I trusted him. Either way, I had to find something.
ref: 2015, Tracey Helton Mitchell, “Let’s Get This Out of the Way”, in The Big Fix: Hope after Heroin, Berkeley, Calif.: Seal Press, Perseus Books Group, →ISBN, pages 42–43:
text: I was with a patient, Loretta. “That guy is on a mission,” she told me. ¶ “What does that mean?” I asked. ¶ “A mission. You know, a mission. He needs some crack. He’s on a mission.” […] “I know. That guy is on a mission. I recognize it. Any crackhead would. I seen it many times.” Loretta had been there. She’d first come to me after spending a year in a halfway house getting off drugs.
ref: 2015, Susan C. Ball, “1999: Coping with a Different Paradigm”, in Suzanne Gordon, Siobhan Nelson, editors, Voices in the Band: A Doctor, Her Patients, and How the Outlook on AIDS Care Changed from Doomed to Hopeful (The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work), Ithaca, N.Y.; London: ILR Press, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, pages 225–226:
glosses: Looking for drugs; on a drug run.
glocalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glocalization
sentimo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sentimos
Senses: glosses: centavo (subdivision of Philippine peso)
appeares
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of appeare
intrazooidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + zooidal.
Senses: glosses: Within a single zooid.
alveolo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: alveol-
Senses: glosses: alveolar
redenunciation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redenunciations
Etymology: From re- + denunciation.
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent denunciation.
Related terms: redenounce
redenunciations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redenunciation
strike the iron while it's hot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: strikes the iron while it's hot
form: striking the iron while it's hot
form: struck the iron while it's hot
form: struck the iron while it's hot
Senses: examples: text: With the thought, the deed begin it,
Act at once, — upon the spot;
What you'd gain, the way to win it,
Strike the iron while it's hot!
ref: 1858, Joseph Edwards Carpenter, “Strike The Iron While It's Hot”, in The Book of Modern Songs, page 37:
text: 'Ere the thieves will out with their booty/And to all give a happier lot,/Each at the forge must do his duty/And strike the iron while it's hot!
ref: 1875, Eugène Pottier, “The Internationale”, Pierre De Geyter (music):
glosses: Alternative form of strike while the iron is hot.
partmaximum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian партмаксимум (partmaksimum).
Senses: hypernyms: maximum wage
glosses: A maximum limit on the salary of a member of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union between 1920 and 1932.
religates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of religate
religating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of religate
Philonian conditional
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Philonian conditionals
Senses: glosses: Synonym of material conditional.
synonyms: word: material conditional
Philonian conditionals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Philonian conditional
zygozoospore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zygozoospores
Etymology: From zygo- + zoospore.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A spore formed by the union of several zoospores.
Synonyms: zygospore
zygozoospores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zygozoospore
ontotheologian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ontotheologians
Etymology: From onto- + theologian.
Senses: glosses: One who studies ontotheology.
ontotheologians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ontotheologian
druidcraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From druid + -craft.
Senses: glosses: The practice, art, or skill of Druidry, casting spells; sorcery; witchcraft
redemptress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redemptresses
Etymology: From redemptor + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female redeemer.
Synonyms: redeemeress
redemptrix
refoundress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refoundresses
Etymology: From re- + foundress.
Senses: glosses: A female refounder.
Canaanitess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Canaanitesses
Etymology: From Canaanite + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A woman of Canaan; a female Canaanite.
hazard pay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Danger pay.
aulacopod
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek αὖλαξ (aûlax, “furrow”) + -pod.
Senses: examples: text: It is only in the aulacopod land snails that there is a great diversity of shelled snails, slugs, and a wild variety of intermediates
ref: 1974, Alan Solem, The Shell Makers: Introducing Mollusks, page 212:
text: Webb (J 96l a) thought the aulacopod condition better adapted to burrowing in soil and the holopod condition, with less pronounced grooves, more dry-adapted.
ref: 1999, Fauna of New Zealand - Issue 38, page 21:
text: In an analysis of pallial and foot character evolution in Stylomatophora, Baker (1955) concluded that the ancestors of the Sigmurethra probably had, among other features, an aulacopod foot.
ref: 2001, G. M. Barker, The Biology of Terrestrial Molluscs, →ISBN, page 90:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a pair of parapodial grooves so that the ciliated sole extends above the foot margin.
parapodial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From parapodium + -al.
Senses: examples: text: These setae are attached to intrinsic parapodial muscles which act to protrude setae, or retract them, or spread them.
ref: 2012, Mandal, Invertebrate Zoology, →ISBN:
text: The most accomplished opisthobranch swimming is by enlarged parapodial lobes of the foot.
ref: 2013, Karl M. Wilbur, C. M. Yonge, Physiology of Mollusca - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 402:
text: The ventral nerve mass, the trunk innervations and parapodial nerves are visible.
ref: 2014, J. Wolfgang Wägele, Thomas Bartolomaeus, Deep Metazoan Phylogeny, →ISBN:
glosses: Pertaining to the parapodium.