cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Darlington pair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Darlington pairs
Etymology: Invented in 1953 by Sidney Darlington.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A pair of transistors with the emitter of one connected to the base of the other and the collectors connected together, acting as a transistor with greater amplification.
wikipedia: Sidney Darlington
Related terms: Darlington configuration
Sziklai pair
Darlington pairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Darlington pair
talerschwingen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: talerschwingens
Etymology: Borrowed from Switzerland German Talerschwingen.
Senses: synonyms: talerrollen
glosses: A folk musical instrument from Appenzell consisting of an earthenware bowl and a coin; the coin is spun around in the bowl to produce a metallic tone.
talerschwingens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of talerschwingen
NZST
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of New Zealand Standard Time.
Ongan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a linguistic phylum comprising two attested Southern-Andamanese languages spoken in the southern Andaman Islands.
Neo-Europe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Neo-Europes
Etymology: From neo- + Europe. Coined by Alfred W. Crosby.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: A place colonized and conquered by Europeans.
wikipedia: Alfred W. Crosby
Neo-Europes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Neo-Europe
is supposed to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of be supposed to
being supposed to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of be supposed to
was supposed to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of be supposed to
been supposed to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of be supposed to
baby trap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baby traps
Senses: examples: text: The cynic surfaced, reminding him that she'd been accused of trying to spring the baby trap on Brad Comfort.
ref: 2010, Kathy Lynn Emerson, Family Lies:
glosses: A situation where a person deliberately gets themselves or their partner pregnant, so that the partner is less likely to leave the relationship.
baby trap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: baby traps
form: baby trapping
form: baby trapped
form: baby trapped
Senses: examples: text: While he had allowed me to blow him with that condom on, he removed it and applied his own before he dug into my guts. Now, my plan was much more practical than baby trapping.
ref: 2019, Sheena Perry, My Brother's Lady, My Baby 1: Please Be Mine!, page 56:
text: Because it sounds like you're insinuating that I'm trying to baby trap you, which is just gross.
ref: 2022, Iris Morland, Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Plus-One:
glosses: To deliberately get oneself or one's partner pregnant, so that the partner is less likely to leave the relationship.
baby traps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baby trap
baby traps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of baby trap
baby trapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of baby trap
baby trapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of baby trap
van der Grinten projection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: van der Grinten projections
Etymology: Devised by Alphons J. van der Grinten in 1898.
Senses: topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: A compromise map projection that is neither equal-area nor conformal, but projects the entire world onto a circle.
van der Grinten projections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of van der Grinten projection
letterset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lettersets
Etymology: From letter + set.
Senses: examples: text: The early version of the test used the letters F, A, S and the test was often known as the "FAS test". However, use of the lettersets C, F, L and P, R, W is preferable, because the two sets are matched for letter frequency.
ref: 2018, Veronica A. Bradley, John L. Welch, Clive E. Skilbeck, Cognitive Retraining Using Microcomputers:
glosses: A set of letters of the alphabet.
examples: text: Skill to prepare polyester form overlays by transferring letters and/or numerals from a letterset to a clear polyester sheet.
ref: 1990, United States. Office of Personnel Management. Office of Classification, Position Classification Standards: For Positions Under the General Schedule Classification System (page 7, page 30)
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: A sheet of letters or other characters to be applied by dry transfer.
Related terms: Letraset
lettersets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of letterset
sahwa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Korean 사화 (sahwa).
Senses: examples: text: Executed during the sahwa of 1722.
ref: 1999, Keith L. Pratt, Richard Rutt, James Hoare, Korea: A Historical and Cultural Dictionary, page 217:
text: The origins of factionalism in Yi Korea can probably be traced back to the sahwa (literati purges).
ref: 2020, Ching Young Choe, The Rule of the Taewŏnʾgun, 1864-1873, page 205:
glosses: A series of political purges in the late 15th and 16th centuries, during which sarim scholars were persecuted by political rivals.
sarim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Korean 사림 (sarim).
Senses: examples: text: Rejecting the lure of vestments, wealth, and status, the sarim waged a relentless attack on what they viewed as a compromised form of Confucianism.
ref: 2019, K. Kale Yu, Understanding Korean Christianity (page 65)
glosses: A powerful faction of literati that dominated Middle and Late Joseon politics in Korea.
Related terms: sahwa
barbthroats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barbthroat
Amdavad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ahmedabad (“Indian city”).
Ahmadabad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ahmedabad (“Indian city”).
Aibonito
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A mountain town and municipality in Puerto Rico, located in the Sierra de Cayey mountain range.
dub-plate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dub-plates
Senses: examples: text: Their dub-plate (unreleased tracks on private pressings) battles are usually limited to JA [Jamaica] and the UK, but they have begun to invade the States with this unique form of entertainment.
ref: 1986 April, Roger Steffens, “World Beat”, in Bob Guccione, Jr., editor, Spin, volume 2, number 1, New York, N.Y.: Camouflage Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19, column 1:
text: [A]t Duke Reid's Treasure isle studio the engineer Byron Smith had cut the dub-plate with the vocals accidentally turned down. After rocking the crowd with the original vocal pressing of the song, [Ruddy] Redwood played them this new voiceless version. The crowd went crazy, singing along, and he played the song so many times that night that by morning the acetate was worn out.
ref: 2006, Bill Brewster, Frank Broughton, “Reggae: Wreck Up a Version”, in Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey, updated edition, New York, N.Y.: Headline Book Publishing, Grove Press, →ISBN, page 127:
glosses: Alternative form of dubplate.
dub-plates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dub-plate (alternative form of dubplates)
rock gym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rock gyms
Senses: glosses: A climbing gym.
boatswoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boatswomen
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of boatwoman.
boatswomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boatswoman
Baeza-Yates–Gonnet algorithm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Baeza-Yates–Gonnet algorithm
Etymology: Named after Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Gaston Gonnet.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of Bitap algorithm.
synonyms: word: Bitap algorithm
Slovakophone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Slovak + -o- + -phone.
Senses: glosses: Slovak-speaking.
Slovakophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Slovakophones
Etymology: From Slovak + -o- + -phone.
Senses: examples: text: Like Polish-speakers, Lithuanianphones, Slovakophones and Russophones actively constitute three distinct language communities in Ireland.
ref: 2016, Tomasz Kamusella, “Migration or Immigration? Ireland's New and Unexpected Polish-Language Community”, in Tomasz Kamusella, Motoki Nomachi, Catherine Gibson, editors, The Palgrave Handbook of Slavic Languages, Identities and Borders (Palgrave Handbooks), Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 538:
glosses: A speaker of Slovak.
Bitap algorithm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Bitap algorithm
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: Baeza-Yates-Gonnet algorithm
glosses: An algorithm that determines whether a given text contains a substring that is "approximately equal" to a given pattern, defined in terms of Levenshtein distance, and working by means of bitmasks.
Slovakophones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Slovakophone
Pascal's mugging
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Coined by Eliezer Yudkowsky, based on Pascal's wager.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A thought experiment demonstrating a problem in expected utility maximization. A rational agent should choose actions whose outcomes, when weighed by their probability, have higher utility; but some very unlikely outcomes may have very great utilities, and these utilities can grow faster than the probability diminishes. Hence the agent should focus more on vastly improbable cases with implausibly high rewards; this leads first to counterintuitive choices, and then to incoherence as the utility of every choice becomes unbounded.
wikipedia: Eliezer Yudkowsky
who hurt you
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: “Are you desperate for magic? Or are you desperate for company? How sad.”
The witch-hunter looked at her with his stricken, sorrowful eyes. “Wow. Who hurt you?”
ref: 2020, Sarah Rees Brennan, Daughter of Chaos:
glosses: A retort to a person who sounds unexpectedly bitter and defensive.
diiodohydroxyquin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of diiodohydroxyquinoline.
synonyms: word: diiodohydroxyquinoline
Ramanujan theta function
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Ramanujan theta function
Etymology: Named after mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A theta function that generalizes the form of the Jacobi theta functions while capturing their general properties. It is defined as: f(a,b)=∑_(n=-∞) ᪲a^( frac )n(n+1)2;b^( frac )n(n-1)2 for |ab| < 1.
wikipedia: Srinivasa Ramanujan
poppyshow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poppyshows
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pappyshow.
active camouflage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Camouflage that adapts, often rapidly, to the surroundings of an object such as an animal or military vehicle.
poppyshows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poppyshow
Dunkl operator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dunkl operators
Etymology: Introduced by Charles F. Dunkl (1989).
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A kind of mathematical operator involving differential operators but also reflections in an underlying space.
wikipedia: Charles F. Dunkl
Dunkl operators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dunkl operator
St Anthony-in-Meneage
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish on the Lizard peninsula, south-west Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW7825).
Related terms: St Martin-in-Meneage
Rényi entropy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rényi entropies
Etymology: Named after Alfréd Rényi (1921–1970), Hungarian mathematician.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
information-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A quantity that generalizes various notions of entropy, including Hartley entropy, Shannon entropy, collision entropy, and min-entropy.
wikipedia: Alfréd Rényi
Rényi entropies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rényi entropy
Gorée
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Gorée, from Dutch Goeree, a contracted form of Goedereede.
Senses: glosses: An island of Dakar, Senegal; one of the 19 communes d'arrondissement of Dakar.
inajás
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inajá
inajas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inaja
IDRs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of IDR
Polonophone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French polonophone; equivalent to Polono- + -phone.
Senses: glosses: Polish-speaking.
Polonophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Polonophones
Etymology: From French polonophone; equivalent to Polono- + -phone.
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, with the rising popularity of PayPal in the second half of the 2000s, Polonophones living in the British Isles started using the Polish online auction website Allegro.pl (founded in 1999) to the same end.
ref: 2016, Tomasz Kamusella, “Migration or Immigration? Ireland's New and Unexpected Polish-Language Community”, in Tomasz Kamusella, Motoki Nomachi, Catherine Gibson, editors, The Palgrave Handbook of Slavic Languages, Identities and Borders (Palgrave Handbooks), Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 538:
glosses: A speaker of Polish.
implicators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of implicator
Halyikwamai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Native American tribe who lived along the Colorado River in the Lower Colorado River Valley between the 16th and 19th centuries, and spoke an extinct variant of the Cocopah language.
Hankul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hangul.
pantyline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pantylines
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of panty line.
pantylines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pantyline
Cocopahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cocopah
Cocopa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cocopas
form: Cocopa
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Cocopah.
Cocopa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Cocopah.
Cocopas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cocopa
Hearstian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hearstian
form: most Hearstian
Etymology: From Hearst + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to William Randolph Hearst (1863–1951), American businessman, politician, and newspaper magnate who popularized yellow journalism.
HCL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of hairy cell leukemia.
glosses: Initialism of hue-chroma-luminance.
Heligoland trap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Heligoland traps
Etymology: The first such trap was located at a bird observatory on the island of Heligoland, Germany.
Senses: glosses: A large, building-sized, funnel-shaped, rigid structure of wire mesh or netting used to catch birds for ornithological study.
Heligoland traps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Heligoland trap
Rybachy trap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rybachy traps
Etymology: Developed at the Rybachy Biological Station in Kaliningrad Oblast in Russia.
Senses: glosses: A variation of the Heligoland trap, consisting of linked funnels terminating in a small chamber.
Rybachy traps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rybachy trap
Hepplewhite
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A style of light, elegant furniture, often with shield-shaped chair backs, that was fashionable between about 1775 and 1800, associated with the cabinet-maker George Hepplewhite (1727?–1786).
Canny edge detector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Canny edge detectors
Etymology: Developed by John F. Canny in 1986.
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An operator that uses a multistage algorithm, involving the calculus of variations, to detect the edges in an image.
Related terms: Canny edge detection
Canny edge detectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Canny edge detector
Canny edge detection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The use of the Canny edge detector algorithm.
variational calculus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of calculus of variations.
synonyms: word: calculus of variations
HFM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of hemifacial microsomia.
glosses: Initialism of hand, foot and mouth disease.
glosses: Initialism of hereditary folate malabsorption.
glosses: Initialism of hollow fiber membrane.
glosses: Initialism of His/Her Most Faithful Majesty.
Higher Thought
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of New Thought.
synonyms: word: New Thought
Hindu numeral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hindu numerals
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Arabic numeral.
synonyms: word: Arabic numeral
Hindu numerals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hindu numeral
Hoosierism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hoosierisms
Etymology: From Hoosier + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The attitudes, behaviors, or speech style of a Hoosier.
Hoosierisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hoosierism
temple ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: temple rings
Senses: glosses: A ring-shaped ornament that hangs from a headdress or in braids of hair near a person's temple (front area at the side of the head), forming part of medieval women's dress in some cultures.
temple rings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of temple ring
Baganuur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Mongolian Багануур (Baganuur), from бага (baga, “small”) + нуур (nuur, “lake”).
Senses: examples: text: The major coal mine now serving Ulaanbaatar—at Baganuur—is a two hour drive west of the capital. Baganuur has a couple of surprisingly nice hotels, which cater to the foreign technical advisors who periodically inspect the mine. The town is just off the eastbound highway to Khentii Aimag.
ref: 2002, Claire Sermier, “Central Aimags”, in Helen Loveday, transl., Mongolia: Empire of the Steppes, Airphoto International Ltd., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 158:
text: Depending on road conditions, travel is up the Herlen River Valley by 4WD to the base of the mountain and then a 653-metre (2,144-foot) climb on foot, but it is preferable to make the entire journey by horse from the town. (The area can also be reached via the coal-mining town of Baganuur farther down the main road.)
ref: 2010, Carl Robinson, “The Henth: Chinggis Khaan's Homeland”, in Mongolia: Nomad Empire of Eternal Blue Sky, Odyssey Books & Guides, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 224:
glosses: A city and district of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
Coordinate terms: sense: districts of Ulaanbaatar
word: Bagakhangai
sense: districts of Ulaanbaatar
word: Bayangol
sense: districts of Ulaanbaatar
word: Bayanzürkh
sense: districts of Ulaanbaatar
word: Chingeltei
sense: districts of Ulaanbaatar
word: Khan Uul
sense: districts of Ulaanbaatar
word: Nalaikh
sense: districts of Ulaanbaatar
word: Songino Khairkhan
sense: districts of Ulaanbaatar
word: Sükhbaatar
HRIP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HRIPs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of high-refractive-index polymer.
HRIPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of HRIP
Hsiung-nu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Mandarin 匈奴 (Xiōngnú), Wade–Giles romanization: Hsiung¹-nu².
Senses: examples: text: During this period the Hsiung-nu were weak and failed to assert their power in the region. The more powerful states, Shan-shan (75) in the Lop region, So-ch'e (76) (Yarqand) and Yü-t'ien (77) (Khotan) had begun to absorb their lesser neighbors.
ref: 1964, William Samolin, East Turkistan to the Twelfth Century, The Hague: Mouton & Co, page 27:
text: The founder of the Han dynasty, the emperor Kao-ti, hastened to the scene, drove back the Hsiung-nu, but was then blockaded by them on the Paiteng plateau near Pingcheng, in the present-day district of Tatung, on the frontiers of Shansi.
ref: 1970, René Grousset, translated by Naomi Walford, The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 127:
text: In the 3rd century B.C. the "first emperor of Ch’in" — Ch’in Shih Huang Ti — after uniting China, linked up some already existing walls and built new sections to create the Great Wall, defending China from the Hsiung-nu or Huns on the north.
ref: 1972, Owen Lattimore, “GREAT WALL OF CHINA”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 10, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 779, column 2:
text: The men of Lou-Ian thought that they would not again see the Hsiung-nu. They had heard that the Han had routed the nomads and they were not beyond believing the rumors. They had been told by travelers that there were Han stations at Chiu-ch'üan and Tun-huang, once Hsiung-nu strongholds, that the Great Wall had been extended to Chiu-ch'üan, that to the west of Tun-huang there were numerous beacon towers and strong points, among them the Jade Gate and the Yang Barrier, and that communication routes between Han China and the Western Marches had been secured.
ref: 1979, Yasushi Inoue, “Lou-lan”, in Edward Seidensticker, transl., Lou-lan and Other Stories, Kodansha International, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 14:
text: There are instances in which a state accepted a princess both from Han and from the Hsiung-nu, and "once Lou-lan had surrendered and presented tributary gifts [to the Han emperor], the Hsiung-nu heard of those events and sent out troups to attack [Lou-lan]. Whereupon [the king of] Lou-lan sent one son as a hostage to the Hsiung-nu and and one as hostage to Han."
ref: 1979, Anthony François Paulus Hulsewé, China in Central Asia: The Early Stage: 125 BC - AD 23, page 61:
text: The remaining major kingdoms (Han, Ch'u, Chao, Yen and Ch'i) searched for a means to stop the aggressive Ch'in, who appeared to have more in common with the Hsiung-nu than with the Chinese.
ref: 2001, George Fetherling, “CHING K'o”, in The Book of Assassins, Edison, NJ: Castle Books, published 2006, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 98:
glosses: Alternative form of Xiongnu.
wikipedia: Encyclopædia Britannica
Hsiung-Nu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Xiongnu.
Hiong-nu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Xiongnu.
Hiong-Nu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Xiongnu.
HTLV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HTLVs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of human T-lymphotropic virus.
PTLV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PTLVs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of primate T-lymphotropic virus.
STLV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: STLVs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of simian T-lymphotropic virus.
HTLVs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of HTLV
PTLVs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PTLV
STLVs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of STLV
HWM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HWMs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of high-water mark.
glosses: Initialism of hazardous waste management.
HWMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of HWM
goulasch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goulasches
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of goulash.
goulasches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goulasch
Hungarian lilac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hungarian lilacs
Senses: glosses: A lilac of species Syringa josikaea.
Synonyms: Lady Josika's lilac
Hungarian lilacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hungarian lilac
IAZ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Inner Artillery Zone.
Nercwys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh, renamed from Nerquis on 1 June 1956.
Senses: glosses: A village and community in Flintshire, Wales, south of Mold (OS grid ref SJ2360).
e-school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-schools
Etymology: From e- + school.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cyberschool.
synonyms: word: cyberschool
e-schools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-school
e-venture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-ventures
Etymology: From e- + venture.
Senses: glosses: A business venture involving the Internet.
e-ventures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-venture
Nerquis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Former name of Nercwys, Flintshire, Wales, renamed in 1956.
Kiriwina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The largest of the Trobriand Islands, part of the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea.
eonistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to eonism; transvestic
Kitanemuk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An indigenous people of California, traditionally inhabiting the Tehachapi Mountains and the Antelope Valley area of the western Mojave Desert of southern California.
Kitanemuk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Their Uto-Aztecan language.
French cleat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: French cleats
Senses: topics: arts
business
carpentry
construction
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
woodworking
glosses: A type of simple wall-hanging hardware.
French cleats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of French cleat
transvesticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From transvestic + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: They conclude that trans-sexualism is really fetishistic transvesticism that exists for the defensive purposes of becoming a perfect self and staving off depression, anger and helplessness.
ref: 2011, Dieter Lohmar, Jagna Brudzinska, Founding Psychoanalysis Phenomenologically, page 204:
glosses: Synonym of transvestism.
synonyms: word: transvestism
Paunee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Pawnee.
Paunee
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Paunee
form: most Paunee
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Pawnee.
Paunee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Paunees
form: Paunee
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Pawnee.
Paunees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Paunee
Kitkehahki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kitkehahkis
form: Kitkehahki
Senses: glosses: A member of a certain band of the Pawnee people.
Kitkehahkis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kitkehahki
Kingwana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A dialect of the Swahili language.
Kmer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Khmer.
Kmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kmers
form: Kmer
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Khmer.
Kmer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Kmer
form: most Kmer
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Khmer.
Kmers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kmer
Knight of the Maccabees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Knight of the Maccabeeses
Senses: glosses: A member of the Knights of the Maccabees, a fraternal organization formed in 1878 in London, Ontario, Canada, and most active in the U.S. state of Michigan.
Knight of the Maccabeeses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Knights of the Maccabees
Senses: glosses: plural of Knight of the Maccabees
overpierced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overpierced
form: most overpierced
Senses: glosses: Having too many piercings.
Kommandatura
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Kommandatura
Senses: glosses: The Allied governing body for the city of Berlin following Germany's defeat in World War II.
Ffrith
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Via Welsh from Middle English frith
Senses: glosses: A village in Llanfynydd community, Flintshire, Wales (OS grid ref SJ2855).
trimensional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + (di)mensional.
Senses: examples: text: It is owing to this fundamental fact that the two retinal images of the same trimensional object are slightly different from each other, and this difference is technically called lateral disparity.
ref: 1920, Hubert Gruender, An Introductory Course in Experimental Psychology: […], volume I, Chicago, I.L.: Loyola University Press, page 175:
text: Sutt indicated the trimensional star-map on the table. He adjusted the controls and a cluster of some half-dozen stellar systems blazed red.
ref: 1944 August, Isaac Asimov, “The Big and the Little”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume XXXIII, number 6, page 8:
text: Photographic aggregates, as stated previously, can be made which produce single images with all the attributes of stereoscopic vision and which the writer termed "trimensional images." […] Trimensional pictures, the writer is certain, will replace the present geometric pictures as a matter of course. The trimensional perspective will lend a touch of amazing reality to photographs and reproductions of any and all kinds whatsoever.
ref: 1949 August, Theodore Nakken, “The Great Enigma: The Stereoscopic Perspective”, in International Projectionist, volume 24, number 8, New York, N.Y.: International Projectionist Publishing Co., Inc., →OCLC, page 25:
text: Haskell turned to the captain's desk, studied the trimensional photograph of an Ermesian native. A big creature—over seven feet tall—and heavy, with thick, short legs, hairy torso, long muscular arms terminating in broad, flat hands with multi-jointed fingers tipped with retractile, vermilion-dyed claws.
ref: 1950 August, Bernard I. Kahn, “A Pinch of Culture”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume XLV, page 90, column 1:
text: Since Sam had another son who was about three years old, he was interested in the quality of children's fare on television. He could see that my trimensional animation process would be perfect for children's films.
ref: 1986, Art Clokey, “Foreward”, in Gumby: The Authorized Biography of the World's Favorite Clayboy, New York, N.Y.: Harmony Books, →ISBN, page 2, column 1:
text: A trimensional scan showed only cuts, bruises and a small fracture in her kneecap. All of the injuries were easily treated.
ref: 1996, W[illiam] R[och] Thompson, Infiltrator, New York, N.Y. […]: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 223:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Three-dimensional.
Knoevenagel reaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Knoevenagel reactions
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of Knoevenagel condensation.
synonyms: word: Knoevenagel condensation
Knoevenagel reactions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Knoevenagel reaction
Korintje
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Cinnamomum burmanni, a variety of cinnamon.
K-particle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: K-particles
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Synonym of kaon.
synonyms: word: kaon
K-particles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of K-particle
Prince Kuhio Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Kuhio Day
glosses: An annual public holiday on March 26 in the U.S. state of Hawaii, marking the birth of Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole.
Kuhio Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Prince Kuhio Day.
synonyms: word: Prince Kuhio Day
KRAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of KRA
KSF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: KSFs
Senses: topics: management
glosses: Initialism of key success factor.
KSF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Kosovo Security Force.
KSFs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of KSF
superantenna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superantennas
form: superantennae
Etymology: From super- + antenna.
Senses: examples: text: The idea is to build one superantenna in the town and then pipe its reception by wire into the subscriber's living-room set.
ref: 1961, Stan Opotowsky, TV: The Big Picture, E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., page 248:
text: The firms employed strategically located superantennas to pick up distant signals, which were then amplified and sent directly into the homes of subscribers by means of a wire called a coaxial cable.
ref: 1985, Thomas L. Tedford, Freedom of Speech in the United States, Carbondale, I.L.; Edwardsville, I.L.: Southern Illinois University Press, →ISBN, page 404, column 1:
text: Experiment—who knows, you may discover a revolutionary new shape for the superantenna of the future.
ref: 1987, Peter Utz, Today's Video: Equipment, Setup, and Production, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., →ISBN, page 32:
text: Beyond military applications, cloaking devices are drawing interest from telecommunications companies, who see them as a way to send information by light more efficiently. One idea is to use the new materials to build "superantennas" that can concentrate light and other electromagnetic waves to make laser-like beams.
ref: 2010 March 18, Ian Sample, “Cloaking device makes objects invisible – to infrared light anyway”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2023:
text: Known as "Project Echo," the experiment used this superantenna to bounce a signal off a giant mylar balloon in orbit above the Earth. The call went from a site in Holmdel, N.J., near the laboratory headquarters, out to Goldstone in California.
ref: 2014 May 20, Geoff Brumfiel, “Big Bang's Ripples: Two Scientists Recall Their Big Discovery”, in NPR, archived from the original on 24 Jan 2023:
text: The problem with solar outages was not resolved, but another exciting possibility presented itself: Humans could use the sun as a superantenna, and, through it, broadcast radio waves to the universe.
ref: 2015, Liu Cixin, translated by Ken Liu, The Three-Body Problem, London: Head of Zeus, →ISBN, page 285:
glosses: An extremely powerful antenna.
superantennas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superantenna
Kuki-Chin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A branch of approximately fifty Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in northeastern India, western Myanmar, and southeastern Bangladesh.
superantennae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superantenna
gradoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gradu
form: gradeau
form: gradoux
Etymology: Uncertain.
Senses: examples: text: I sped out the back door, and bumped into MEME FRENKEL, who was collecting the garbage, or as she put it, "gathering the gradoo."
ref: 1951 May 24, Jinx Paterson, “LIFE Discovers”, in Tammy Howl, volume 25, number 5, Gulf Park College for Women, page 16:
text: Everything was wet, dirty, and full of gradoo.
ref: 1957 September 25, “Western Society Recounts Adventures 'Midst Fog, Sleeping Bags, Mosquitoes”, in THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, volume 43, number 1, Agnes Scott College, page 3:
text: Were I to tell you that things have been in a mess since early July, I don’t think it would be an over statement. ... What with all the gradoo of late, I’ve not had time to give serious thought to my usual happy copy.
ref: 1960 August 11, P. D., “East Side”, in The Petal paper, Petal, Miss., page 1:
text: And the individual nest areas pull out for each cleaning — I just scrape the "gradoo" into a waste barrel and that's it!
ref: 1987, American Pigeon Journal, volume 76, page 42:
glosses: garbage; crud, gunk; mess; filth, dirt
examples: text: gradoux is the foundation of most of my dishes -- giving a rich, deep, and complex flavor to them.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), “making gradoux”, in CAJUN CAROLINA:
text: Redfish Florentine ... Redfish fillet stuffed with our own green gradoo, baked golden brown and topped with Hollandaise sauce.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), “Entrees”, in Kathryn's Steaks, Ridgeland, MS:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: caramelized matter which sticks to a pan or pot after most of the cooked matter has been removed; a sauce made from this
Kundt's tube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kundt's tubes
form: Kundt tube
Etymology: Invented in 1866 by German physicist August Kundt.
Senses: glosses: An experimental acoustical apparatus for the measurement of the speed of sound in a gas or a solid rod.
Kundt tube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kundt tubes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kundt's tube.
Kundt tubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kundt tube
Kuoyu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Guoyu.
Llanfynydd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A village and community in Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN5527).
glosses: A village and community in Flintshire, Wales (OS grid ref SJ2756).
Lacryma Christi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lacrima Christi
Senses: glosses: A kind of Neapolitan wine produced on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius in Campania, Italy, and made (if white) mainly from Verdeca and Coda di Volpe grapes, or (if red) from Piedirosso and Sciascinoso grapes.
Lacrima Christi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Lacryma Christi (“kind of wine”).
belle dame sans merci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: belles dames sans merci
Etymology: From French [Term?] (literally “beautiful woman without mercy”). La Belle Dame sans Merci is the title of a ballad produced by the English poet John Keats in 1819; this was derived from the title of a 15th-century poem by Alain Chartier, La Belle Dame sans Mercy.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: A beautiful woman who seduces a man and then consigns him to an unpleasant fate.
Related terms: ice queen
belles dames sans merci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of belle dame sans merci
Syder
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Latin Americanist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Latin Americanists
Senses: glosses: One who studies Latin American studies.
Latin Americanists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Latin Americanist
ports.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of portraits.
LCDR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of London, Chatham and Dover Railway.
LCJ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LCJs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Lord Chief Justice.
LCJs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LCJ
Life Master
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Life Masters
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A player holding a master's rating of over 2200 for at least 300 tournament games rated by the United States Chess Federation.
topics: bridge
games
glosses: A player who has been awarded 300 or more masterpoints in certain types of tournament by the American Contract Bridge League.
Life Masters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Life Master
Lhoke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A dialect of the Tibetan language.
reknow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reknows
form: reknowing
form: reknew
form: reknown
Etymology: From re- + know.
Senses: examples: text: The teacher’s special function is to lead the pupil to reknow these elements, and by thought to attain the desired knowledge.
ref: 1885 November, E. E. White, “The Philosophy of Teaching”, in The Illinois School Journal, volume 5, number 7, page 160:
text: In recognizing one another in our aesthetic constructs, in coming to reknow one another, we come to reknow ourselves as well.
ref: 1988, Nancy R. Harrison, Jean Rhys and the Novel as Women’s Text, →ISBN, page 45:
text: It is a story of human beings constantly reknowing themselves as the reciprocal of the self-reknowing of others.
ref: 1993, Philip Allott, “Self-Determination - Absolute Right or Social Poetry?”, in Christian Tomuschat, editor, Modern Law of Self-Determination, →ISBN, page 179:
text: And only then, when he has recovered his true self, does he uncover, or reknow, the true distinctions, identifying erōs as a divine gift, and distinguishing between “good” and “bad” madness—a distinction that is essential if human beings are to have a true understanding of themselves and what they experience in love.
ref: 1998, Catherine Pickstock, After Writing: On the Liturgical Consummation of Philosophy, →ISBN, page 17:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: To know again; to relearn or understand anew.
reknowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reknow
reknew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of reknow
reknows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reknow
brazy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹeɪzi/
Forms: form: more brazy
form: most brazy
Etymology: From crazy with c replaced by b, a characteristic habit of the Bloods street gang. Compare cro.
Senses: examples: text: Man said 1 out of a benners lool bro sack your dealer & pick up off man cah that is brazyyy 🤣🤣
ref: 2020 October 14, @SHBK4L, Twitter:
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:brazy.
glosses: Crazy.
wikipedia: Bloods
voyeuress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voyeuresses
Etymology: From voyeur + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female voyeur; a voyeuse.
eCall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Short for emergency call.
Senses: examples: In rural areas, an incapacitated driver or rider who cannot call for help, could have their life saved by an eCall system which can send location information directly to emergency services. ETSC, 10,000 killed on rural roads in the EU in 2022, etsc.eu, March 28, 2024
glosses: An initiative by the European Union to fit all new cars with a system that can contact the emergency services with location and sensor data, allowing motorists to request rapid assistance.
Lincrusta-Walton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Frederick Walton was the inventor.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Lincrusta.
synonyms: word: Lincrusta
wikipedia: Frederick Walton
Lisaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lisaws
form: Lisaw
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Lisu.
Lisaw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Lisu.
Lisaw
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Lisu.
Lisaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lisaw
LMTD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LMTDs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of logarithmic mean temperature difference.
LMTDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LMTD
Longton Hall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A kind of mid-18th-century softpaste porcelain from Staffordshire, England.
Longobard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Longobards
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Langobard.
Longobards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Longobard
Lyle gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lyle guns
Etymology: Invented by Captain David A. Lyle of the U.S. Army.
Senses: glosses: A line thrower powered by a short-barrelled cannon, used from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century.
Lyle guns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lyle gun
line thrower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: line throwers
Senses: hyponyms: Lyle gun
glosses: A device that casts a rope or cable to a remote position, used in marine operations, rescues, etc.
line throwers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of line thrower
LWV
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of League of Women Voters.
glosses: Initialism of Lehr und Wehr Verein (“Chicago-based socialist military organization founded in 1875”).
yazidiat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yazidiyat
Etymology: Borrowed from Urdu یزیدیت (yazīdiyat), Named after Yazid ibn Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan, the second ruler of the Umayyad Caliphate who is considered the killer of Imam al-Husayn at Karbala'.
Senses: examples: text: Soon after his tweet, Pakistan Peoples Party General Secretary Farhatullah Babar replied: “Religion is best kept out of politics.” Babar urged him to join hands against different manifestations of Yazidiat^([sic]).
ref: 2022 August 7, “PTI to reveal next plan of action on 13th”, in The Express Tribune:
qualifier: Pakistani politics
glosses: tyranny, oppression
yazidiyat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yazidiat.
SD-WANs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SD-WAN
Luena
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: word: Luso
english: former name
translation: former name
glosses: A city and municipality in eastern Angola, administrative capital of Moxico Province.
bloatier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of bloaty: more bloaty
reperesentative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reperesentatives
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of representative.
reperesentative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reperesentative
form: most reperesentative
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of representative.
reperesentatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reperesentative
quap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: quaps
form: quapping
form: quapped
form: quapped
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of quop.
M1s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of M1
Macedonian pine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Macedonian pines
Senses: synonyms: Balkan pine
glosses: The tree Pinus peuce.
Macedonian pines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Macedonian pine
Malpighian body
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Malpighian bodies
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: renal corpuscle
Malpighian bodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Malpighian body