cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Wuchiapingian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wujiapingian
Etymology: From the Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 吳家坪 /吴家坪 (Wújiāpíng, literally “Wu Family Flatland”) in Shaanxi Province in China: Wu²-chia¹-pʻing².
Senses: examples: text: Anoxic/euxinic benthic marine conditions prevailed throughout the middle Wuchiapingian to the early Changhsingian at Shangsi, which persisted for 3.9 Myr (256.974–253.073 Ma). This long-term middle Wuchiapingian-early Changhsingian anoxia event could be correlated both regionally and globally, and was caused by paleogeographic restrictions, relative high sea levels, high marine productivities, and possible global climate changes.
ref: 2022 January 11, Li Yuan, “Investigating benthic marine redox conditions from late Permian to earliest Triassic”, in Phys.org, archived from the original on 11 Jan 2022, Earth Sciences:
topics: biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A subdivision of the Permian period.
Capitanian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A subdivision of the Permian period.
Wordian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A subdivision of the Permian period.
Roadian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A subdivision of the Permian period.
Kungurian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A subdivision of the Permian period.
Artinskian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A subdivision of the Permian period.
Sakmarian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A subdivision of the Permian period.
Asselian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A subdivision of the Permian period.
Gzhelian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈʒɛli.ən/
Etymology: Named after the Russian village Gzhel, + -ian.
Senses: topics: biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A subdivision of the Carboniferous period.
Kasimovian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A subdivision of the Carboniferous period.
Serpukhovian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A subdivision of the Carboniferous period.
Visean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named in 1832 by Belgian geologist André Dumont, after the city of Visé in the Belgian province of Liège.
Senses: topics: biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A subdivision of the Carboniferous period.
Famennian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Famenne + -ian.
Senses: topics: biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A subdivision of the Devonian period.
Frasnian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A subdivision of the Devonian period.
Eifelian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Eifel + -ian.
Senses: topics: biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A subdivision of the Devonian period.
Emsian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ems + -ian.
Senses: topics: biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A subdivision of the Devonian period.
Pragian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A subdivision of the Devonian period.
Lochkovian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A subdivision of the Devonian period.
Ludfordian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A subdivision of the Silurian period.
Gorstian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A subdivision of the Silurian period.
Sheinwoodian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A subdivision of the Silurian period.
Telychian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A subdivision of the Silurian period.
Aeronian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛəˈɹəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ɛˈɹoʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /əˈ-/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Senses: topics: biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A subdivision of the Silurian period.
Rhuddanian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A subdivision of the Silurian period.
Hirnantian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A subdivision of the Ordovician period.
Katian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A subdivision of the Ordovician period.
Sandbian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A subdivision of the Ordovician period.
Darriwilian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A subdivision of the Ordovician period.
Dapingian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A subdivision of the Ordovician period.
Floian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A subdivision of the Ordovician period.
Tremadocian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
synonyms: Tremadoc
glosses: A subdivision of the Ordovician period.
Jiangshanian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A subdivision of the Cambrian period.
Paibian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A subdivision of the Cambrian period.
Guzhangian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 古丈 (Gǔzhàng, “Guzhang County”) + -ian.
Senses: topics: biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A subdivision of the Cambrian period.
wikipedia: Guzhang County
Drumian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A subdivision of the Cambrian period.
Fortunian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Fortune (town in Newfoundland) + -ian.
Senses: topics: biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A subdivision of the Cambrian period.
mental retardation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A developmental disability in which the person has a very low intelligence quotient, usually below 70, plus difficulty in multiple areas of daily life. Evidence of this disability must have appeared before the person reached adulthood for diagnosis.
substantivisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of substantivisation
foldstool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foldstools
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin faldistōlium, from Proto-West Germanic *faldistōl. By surface analysis, fold + stool. Doublet of faldistory, faldstool, and fauteuil.
Senses: examples: text: Handibasket with foldstool
ref: 1978, Hardware Retailing - Volume 134, page 105:
text: I dropped a small wicker foldstool that I always carried as part of my camp-kit on the side of the road to mark the spot and told the driver to back down the road, guiding him with my torch – till we found a convenient place to turn the vehicle around.
ref: 2004, Maj Gen D. K. Palit, Musings & Memories, page 196:
text: Yulia had pushed forward a large foldstool, and Zoë motioned to her and her companion to sit down in a corner.
ref: 2020, Francis Marion Crawford, Arethusa:
glosses: A folding stool or collapsible seat.
examples: text: From the vast multitude who crowded the venerable aisles of St. Giles church, there rose a deafening shout of rage; and Jenny Geddes, the keeper of a greenstall, at the Tronbeam — one whose name has been embalmed, like another St. Helen, in the annals of Presbytery — hurled her foldstool at the Dean's head, exclaiming — “False thief! darest thou say the mass at my lug?"
ref: 1853, James Grant, Memoirs of James, Marquis of Montrose, K.G. Captain General of Scotland, page 29:
text: He kicked a leather foldstool out of his way and threw himself down in his barrel chair, breathing hard.
ref: 2009, Elizabeth Chadwick ·, A Place Beyond Courage:
glosses: Alternative form of faldstool.
certificating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of certificate
recertificate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recertificates
form: recertificating
form: recertificated
form: recertificated
Etymology: From re- + certificate.
Senses: glosses: To certificate again.
Related terms: recertification
recertificating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recertificate
recertificates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recertificate
recertificated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recertificate
conceptual physics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: a study and description of properties and interactions of space, time, matter and energy in conceptual non-mathematical form with emphasis on logical reasoning in order to derive fundamental laws of nature and to derive conclusions from these laws.
tram line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tram lines
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tramline.
tram lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tram line
hrrmph
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: ‘Hrrmph!’ said the machine-gun through all its five noses as the subaltern drew the lever home.
ref: 1891 January, Rudyard Kipling, chapter XV, in The Light that Failed, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published March 1891, →OCLC, page 327:
text: I mustered up courage to shake the box, but not to enter the office. “bring it in” said Robin with a hrrmph!
ref: 2009, Aaron Chynn, Memoirs of an Ordinary Man: A Yorkshireman's Tale, page 49:
text: She lets out what starts as a sigh but finishes off as a hrrmph.
ref: 2011, Lee Stringer, Sleepaway School: Stories from a Boy's Life; A Memoir, page 151:
text: She rolled through the house, pushed by Baz or wheeling herself, with nothing but a scowl and a hrrmph for Willa, who had no idea what she'd done to incur the old lady's wrath.
ref: 2012, Kim Thompson, Eldritch Manor, page 55:
glosses: Alternative spelling of hrmph.
faceprint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faceprints
Etymology: From face + print.
Senses: glosses: The impression left by a face pressed against a surface, such as sand, snow, or a pillow.
glosses: A digital representation of characteristics of a face, able to be used for identification of that face.
Related terms: headprint
faceprints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faceprint
headprint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headprints
Etymology: From head + print.
Senses: glosses: The impression left by a head having been pressed against a soft surface, such as sand, snow, or a pillow.
Related terms: faceprint
headprints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of headprint
pegging out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of peg out
pegged out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of peg out
pegs out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of peg out
crowd psychology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A branch of social psychology which is concerned with the behaviour and thought processes of individual crowd members and the crowd as a whole; a study of the dynamics within large groups of people and the nature of the relationship between the individual and society.
Related terms: collective unconscious
state schools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of state school
back vowels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of back vowel
front vowels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of front vowel
ludicrousy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Apparently from confusion with -cy ending, as in lunacy.
Senses: glosses: Ludicrousness.
redie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈdaɪ/
homophone: redye
Forms: form: redies
form: redying
form: redied
form: redied
Etymology: From re- + die.
Senses: examples: text: […] until Athene had scalped, rebodied, and revived her — whereupon her first request was to redie at once if she was Gorgon still. An odd thing was that, once brought back, she could recall all her dead head's doings […]
ref: 1972, John Barth, Chimera Pa, →ISBN, page 105:
text: […] with such company as Gilgamesh, who though mortal was part human and part divine; the Japanese deity Ninigi, who though originally divine became mortal; Sumerian Dumuzi, who though divine was required repeatedly to redie; […]
ref: 2009, Peter Metevelis, Japanese Mythology and the Primeval World, →ISBN, page 146:
glosses: To die again.
redies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of redie
redied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of redie
redying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of redye
redying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of redie
white rust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of corrosion found on the surface of zinc
topics: biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
phytopathology
sciences
glosses: A disease of some plants caused by the pathogen Albugo candida
Zinke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zinkes
Etymology: Borrowed from German Zinke.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
zinc group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Group 12 of the periodic table, comprising zinc, cadmium, mercury and copernicium
kype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kypes
form: kipe
Etymology: From Scots kip, kipp (“something beaked or hooked”); perhaps related to Middle Low German kippe (“point, tip”), German Kippe (“stub”), both from Latin cippus (“stake, post, boundary marker”).
Senses: glosses: The hook that develops in the lower jaw of an adult male of most salmonid species when it is ready to spawn.
kype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kypes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kipe (“osier for catching fish”).
kype
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kypes
form: kyping
form: kyped
form: kyped
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kipe (“to steal”).
carborundum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌkɑɹ.bəˈɹʌn.dəm/
Etymology: Blend of carbon + corundum; originally a trade name.
Senses: examples: text: There is no doubt that such a button — properly prepared under great pressure — of carborundum, especially of powder of the best quality, will withstand the effect of the bombardment fully as well as anything we know.
ref: 1892, Nikola Tesla, Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency, Wildside Press LLC, →ISBN, page 73:
text: This can most readily be done by use of carborundum marking. The procedure involves successive marking of the same mat with layers of carborundum at least twice.
ref: 1976, M.R. Walter, Stromatolites, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 28:
text: At the same times, samples were taken to determine that the carborundum treatment did increase the amount of wear of the mandibles compared with insects on the diet without carborundum powder.
ref: 1995, Reg F. Chapman, Gerrit de Boer, Regulatory Mechanisms in Insect Feeding, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 22:
text: Print made by combining carborundum—a carbon and silicon compound customarily used for polishing by abrasion—with synthetic resin or varnish (see also Prints, §III, 5).
ref: 2008, Gerald W. R. Ward, The Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques in Art, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 83:
glosses: Crystals of silicon carbide used as an abrasive.
Related terms: illegitimi non carborundum
noli illegitimi carborundum
cyclo-octasulfur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclooctasulfur
Etymology: From cyclo- + octasulfur.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Octasulfur.
fluoroapatite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluoroapatites
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fluorapatite.
fluorosilicic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fluoro- + silicic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to fluorosilicic acid and its derivatives
fluorosilicic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The acid H₂SiF₆ that is used in water fluoridation
Synonyms: hexafluorosilicic acid
Kingdom of Thailand
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Kingdom of Thailand
Senses: glosses: Official name of Thailand: a country in Southeast Asia.
metasilicic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meta- + silicic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to metasilicic acid or its derivatives
Related terms: metasilicate
neutrinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neutrino + -ic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Relating to neutrinos.
Klaatu barada nikto
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From the 1951 film The Day the Earth Stood Still, in which an alien named Klaatu tells an Earthwoman a code phrase for his robot Gort. See first citation.
Senses: examples: text: If anything should happen to me you must go to Gort, you must say these words, 'Klaatu barada nikto', please repeat that.
ref: 1951, The Day the Earth Stood Still:
text: When I tried to make out the lingo I felt like a missionary among the heathen chinee. ¶ 'Interavesting per sliptimper transgratisfy allayvoo —' ¶ 'Not the old klaatu barada again,' I said ....
ref: 2002, Jack Womack, Going, Going, Gone, Grove Press, page 160:
text: He glared down at me and said, "On your way, fella. This is a legitimate club." ¶ "Klaatu barada nikto," I said, but it went straight past him.
ref: 2003, Paul McAuley, Whole Wide World, Macmillan, page 215:
text: The Systems Analysis department featured a clock with only one hand and the motto Klaatu barada nikto, which, roughly translated, means: "IF IT AIN'T BROKE, JUST GIVE ME TIME."
ref: 2004, James Hold, Out of Texas, iUniverse, page 56:
text: It looked like something from Arthur C. Clarke, a space station that had ... fallen to earth .... ¶ "Klaatu barada nikto," he muttered.
ref: 2012, Terry Bisson, Any Day Now, Penguin, page ??:
glosses: A stock science-fiction phrase, typically used as a code or shibboleth.
wikipedia: The Day the Earth Stood Still
punctiliar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpʌŋkˈtɪlɪə/
ipa: /ˌpəŋkˈtɪliɚ/
Forms: form: more punctiliar
form: most punctiliar
Etymology: Formed as punctili(o) + -ar, initially as an alternative translation (instead of punctual) for the German punktuell.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to an unextended point of time:
Occurring at a definite and particular point in time.
raw_tags: of an action
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to an unextended point of time:
Relating to a punctiliar action or event.
raw_tags: of verbal aspect or tense
Synonyms: topics: grammar
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: punctual
punctiliar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpʌŋkˈtɪlɪə/
ipa: /ˌpəŋkˈtɪliɚ/
Forms: form: punctiliars
Etymology: Formed as punctili(o) + -ar, initially as an alternative translation (instead of punctual) for the German punktuell.
Senses: examples: text: First two duratives to express our practice of judging and measuring, then two punctiliars (aorists) to state God’s reciprocations.
ref: 1943, Richard C. H. Lenski, The Interpretation of St. Matthew’s Gospel 1–14, Augsburg Fortress, published 2008, →ISBN, page 289:
text: Many researchers observe similar generalizations: that children seem unwilling to mark activity verbs like walk or unbounded punctiliars like jump with an -ed ending, even though this is a tense marker in the adult language that applies to all types of events.
ref: 1996, University of Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics: UMD WPL, IV-VI, page 122:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A verb denoting a punctiliar action or activity.
Synonyms: sense: grammar: verb denoting a punctiliar action
word: punctual
punctiliars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of punctiliar
fabness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a shortening of fabulousness, equivalent to fab + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: As Derek Taylor recalled, 'The press pictures were not pretty; the angry head of Malik and the shorn, scrubby, impudent scalps of John and Yoko, a long way from fabness by now.
ref: 2007, Peter Doggett, There's a Riot Going On:
glosses: Fabulousness.
benocclusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /bɛnəˈkluːʒən/
Etymology: Probably coined by Simeon Hayden Guilford ante 1905: Latin ben(e) (“well, properly”) + occlusion (“alignment of the teeth in closed jaws”), after malocclusion (“misalignment of the upper and lower sets of teeth”).
Senses: examples: text: Benocclusion…is well illustrated by Fig. 11 which represents the teeth of a Caucasian in a state of contact or rest.
ref: 1905, Simeon Hayden Guilford, Orthodontia; or, Malposition of the Human Teeth, 4th edition, page 33:
glosses: Normal occlusion (alignment) of the teeth when the jaws are closed.
downrigger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downriggers
Senses: topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A large reel of heavily weighted steel wire fishing line used to fish with trolled bait at great depths.
downriggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of downrigger
downrigging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: Fishing with a downrigger.
LEP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LEPs
Senses: topics: government
glosses: Initialism of local enterprise partnership.
topics: government
coordinate_terms: NEP
glosses: Initialism of limited English proficient.
LEP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of Large Electron-Positron Collider.
SALT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Acronym of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks.
SALT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SALTs
Senses: examples: text: Both the SALT limitations and the doubled standard deduction expire after 2025, putting SALT on the 2025 menu for lawmakers.
ref: 2024 August 9, Andrew Lautz, “How SALT May Shake Up the 2025 Tax Debate”, in Bipartisan Policy Center:
text: In general, income taxes paid or accrued in carrying on a trade or business or an income-producing activity are subject to the SALT cap. The SALT cap is set to expire for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2025.
ref: 2025 May 24, “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill”, in United States House Committee on Ways & Means, page 37:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Acronym of state and local tax(es) [deduction], a tax deduction whereby some portion of the money paid as taxes to state and local governments is not taxed at the federal level; the tax-deductible portion is nominally capped, but the cap is circumventable via special-interest loopholes.
topics: government
healthcare
glosses: Acronym of speech and language therapist.
topics: government
healthcare
glosses: Acronym of speech and language therapy.
crinkum-crankum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crinkum-crankums
form: crinkum crankum
form: crincum-crancum
form: crincum crancum
Etymology: From crinkle and crankle, or a Low Latin crincum. See 1750 reference and explanation in 1810 citation.
Senses: examples: text: (glossary entry) Crincum-crancum,—Lines of irregularity and involution.
ref: 1787, George Colman, Prose on several occasions, T. Cadel, page 95:
text: I had no notion of being lost in so much light; but I had wander'd out of the main streets, and was got to the crinkum-crankum parts of London, where there are turnings and windings on every side.
ref: 1802 February, Peter Thrifty, “A Farmer's Description of the Illuminations in London”, in Sporting Magazine, volume 19, page 286:
text: ‘... yet if she will come into the court riding backward upon a black ram, with his tail in her hand, and say the words following, the steward is bound, by the custom, to re-admit her to her free-bench: —
 Here I am
 Riding upon a black ram,
 Like a ***** as I am;
 Who, for my Crinkum Crankum,
 Have lost my Binkum Bankum;
 * * * * * *
 * * * * * *
 Therefore, I pray you, Mr. Steward, let me have my land again.’
[...] That Crinkum Crankum is not less descriptive of tortuosity of opinion as it is of irregularity of conduct.
ref: 1810 November, review of Sir John Sinclair, Observations on the Report of the Bullion Committee (1810, London), The Quarterly Review, volume IV, number viii, page 535:
text: And the artists vainly endeavoured to preserve them by means of vases, pyramids, busts, scrolls, coats-of-arms, projecting cornices, broken pediments, and by what has not inappropriately been called the ‘crinkum-crankum’ style of Elizabeth and James; in which angles and curves are, as before, studiously intermixed, but intermixed without due proportion; and entangle the eye in a labyrinth of fractured lines, without unity, or harmony, or grace.
ref: 1842 September, review of J. H. Markland, Remarks on English Churches, and on the Expediency of rendering Sepulchral Monuments [Memorials] subservient to Pious and Christian Uses (Second Edition, 1842, Oxford), The Quarterly Review, volume LXX, number cxl, page 437:
text: “... I tell you men, them's Crinkum-crankum whales.” ¶ “And what is them?” said a sailor. ¶ “Why, them is whales that can't be cotched.”
ref: 1849, Herman Melville, Redburn:
text: Forty years ago one who had known it well described it to me as a crincum-crancum kind of house, full of ins and outs.
ref: 1893, Foster Barham Zincke, Wherstead: Some Materials for Its History, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company, page 14:
text: Before the Congressional observer team went home, Lugar read a thin-soup statement, crinkum-crankum so packed with "Pash Commit of Flips to Dem" that a Hong Kong TV correspondent was moved to ask, "For those of us who are not native English speakers, could you please tell us what you are saying?"
ref: 1995, P. J. O'Rourke, Republican Party Reptile:
glosses: Something elaborately convoluted or tricky.
organopathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more organopathic
form: most organopathic
Etymology: From organopathy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to organopathy.
organopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organopathies
Etymology: From organ + -o- + -pathy.
Senses: glosses: The homeopathic theory that certain remedies act locally in specific organs.
Related terms: organopathic
organopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of organopathy
Bucknellian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bucknellians
Etymology: From Bucknell + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A student or alumnus of Bucknell University, Pennsylvania, United States.
Bucknellian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bucknellian
form: most Bucknellian
Etymology: From Bucknell + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Bucknell University.
Bucknellians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bucknellian
untranslatables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of untranslatable
coarchitect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coarchitects
Etymology: From co- + architect.
Senses: glosses: A joint architect; one who designs something with others.
coarchitects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coarchitect
passported
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From passport + -ed, since one benefit is a metaphorical "passport" to the other.
Senses: examples: text: Free school meals are a passported benefit: children are eligible for these meals if their parents are receiving Income Support or certain other benefits.
glosses: For which one is automatically eligible if receiving certain other benefits.
raw_tags: of a benefit
Manchester tart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Manchester tarts
Senses: glosses: A traditional English baked tart, consisting of a shortcrust pastry shell spread with raspberry jam, covered with a custard filling, and topped with flakes of coconut and a maraschino cherry.
gypsy tarts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gypsy tart
gypsy tart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gypsy tarts
Senses: glosses: A sweet tart made with evaporated milk and muscovado sugar.
Manchester tarts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Manchester tart
thesaurosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek θησαυρός (thēsaurós, “storehouse”) + -osis.
Senses: glosses: A lung storage disease thought to be caused by inhalation of hair spray.
Related terms: thesaurismosis
antisniffing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + sniffing.
Senses: examples: text: In the summer of 1972, Dr. Charles Edwards, commissioner of the FDA, made it known that his agency was considering making it a requirement that spray cans carry a specific antisniffing warning.
ref: 1973 February, Popular Mechanics, volume 139, number 2, page 84:
glosses: Opposing or preventing sniffing.
examples: text: Antisniffing software can be used on a switched network to sense packet sniffers.
ref: 2010, Ec-Council, Fundamentals and Protocols [With Access Code]:
qualifier: computer security
glosses: Preventing sniffing (interception of network packets)
precompensate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: precompensates
form: precompensating
form: precompensated
form: precompensated
Etymology: From pre- + compensate.
Senses: glosses: To compensate in advance.
Related terms: precompensation
precompensating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of precompensate
precompensates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of precompensate
precompensated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of precompensate
fecalomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fecaloma
fecalith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fecaliths
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fecolith.
fecaliths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fecalith
stercoroma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stercoromas
form: stercoromata
Etymology: From Latin stercus (“dung”) + -oma, from Ancient Greek -ωμα (-ōma, “tumor, mass”). See fecaloma.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fecaloma.
synonyms: word: fecaloma
coprolith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coproliths
Etymology: From copro- + -lith.
Senses: glosses: fecaloma
glosses: coprolite
coproliths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coprolith
wrongdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English wrongdom, wrangdome (“harm”), equivalent to wrong + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: "I be'n a-heahin' about shu, an' I be'n skeehed dat some wrongdom was a-hatchin', […]"
ref: 1903, Blackwood Ketcham Benson, Old Squire: the romance of a black Virginian - Page 341:
text: The column had broken the first rule of Communist publications everywhere, virtually the first commandment of contemporary Marxist faith: Thou shalt not admit wrongdom within the Soviet Union.
ref: 1971, Frank Campenni, Citizen Howard Fast: A critical biography - Volume 2:
text: […]—all this on a day Congressional arguments begin as to the windom or losedom, the rightdom or wrongdom of war on who-knows-whose block?
ref: 2004, Robert Shaw, Robert Blocker, The Robert Shaw Reader:
glosses: An act or instance of wrong or wrongdoing; wrongness; error.
uroflowmetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to uroflowmetry.
uroflowmetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌjʊəɹəˈfləʊmətɹi/
Etymology: From uro- + flowmetry.
Senses: glosses: measurement of the flow of urine
Related terms: uroflowmeter
uroflowmetric
uroflowmeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uroflowmeters
Etymology: From uro- + flowmeter.
Senses: glosses: A device that measures the flow of urine.
Related terms: uroflowmetric
uroflowmetry
uroflowmeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uroflowmeter
righthood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English *righthod, righthed, equivalent to right + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: And our children's children's children will thank us for this day, For rising up in the righthood and showing them the way.
ref: 1913, Michigan Public Health - Page 79
text: We are, in short, visiting some actual or potential disutility on violators or potential violators of the right. This is the cost of rights. In order for society to be justified in erecting them, therefore, the various actions which qualify for righthood must have at least enough utility . . . to offset the cost.
ref: 1979, Wesley E. Cooper, Kai Nielsen, Steven C. Patten, New essays on John Stuart Mill and utilitarianism:
glosses: The condition, state, or quality of being right; rightness.
examples: text: 'Righthood' is achieved only when sufficient duties or powers are conferred on others that the claim can realistically be realized.
ref: 1992, Philip Alston, Stephen Parker (LL.B.), John A. Seymour, Children, Rights, and the Law - Page 227
topics: law
glosses: The state of being a right, or being recognised as a right.
sondry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Sondry & reaſonable be the cauſes vvhy learned men haue vſed to offer and dedicate ſuch vvorkes as they put abrode, to ſome ſuch perſonage as they thinke fitteſt, either in reſpect of abilitie of defenſe, or ſkill for iugement, or priuate regard of kindeneſſe and dutie.
ref: 1570, Margaret Ascham, “To the Honorable Sir William Cecill Knight, Principall Secretarie to the Quenes Most Excellent Maiestie”, in Roger Ascham, edited by Margaret Ascham, The Scholemaster: Or Plaine and Perfite Way of Teaching Children, to Vnderstand, Write, and Speake, the Latin Tong, […], London: […] John Daye, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of sundry.
denotatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more denotatively
form: most denotatively
Etymology: From denotative + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: We use words either denotatively or connotatively; denotatively when a word is used as a mere mark or sign to point out which thing of all possible things we mean to speak of, and connotatively when it is used to point out a supposed characteristic of the thing denoted.
ref: 1878, Shadworth Hollway Hodgson, The philosophy of reflection, volume 1, page 9:
text: "Risks," in other words, may appear ominous and act as a barrier to thought about the message. In sum, to invoke more conscious thought about a verbal message, message designers should select more denotatively specific language.
ref: 1995, Designing Health Messages: Approaches from Communication Theory, →ISBN, page 18:
antonyms: connotatively
glosses: In a way that denotes.
Rugian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Rugia + -an.
Senses: head_nr: 1
synonyms: Rugenian
glosses: From or pertaining to Rügen (Rugia).
head_nr: 1
glosses: From a certain Germanic tribe the territory of which comprised at some time also the territory of Rügen (Rugia).
Rugian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rugians
Etymology: From Rugia + -an.
Senses: glosses: A member of a certain Germanic tribe the territory of which comprised at some time also the territory of Rügen (Rugia).
Rugian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Rugia + -an.
Senses: glosses: The hypothetical East Germanic language once spoken by the Rugians.
Rugenian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Rugian (from or pertaining to Rügen (Rugia))
Rugia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Rügen (an island of Germany).
crimson tide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crimson tides
Senses: glosses: red tide (type of algal bloom)
glosses: menstruation
auslesen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of auslese
Beothuk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /biːˈɒtək/
/ˈbeɪ.əθʊk/
Forms: form: Beothuks
form: Beothuk
form: Beothic
form: Beothick
form: Beothuck
Etymology: From Beothuk beathook (“the people”).
Senses: topics: anthropology
ethnology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A member of one of the historical aboriginal peoples of Canada.
Beothuk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /biːˈɒtək/
/ˈbeɪ.əθʊk/
Forms: form: Beothic
form: Beothick
form: Beothuck
Etymology: From Beothuk beathook (“the people”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The extinct language of these people.
aluminium family
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The metallic elements of the boron group, namely aluminium, gallium, indium and thallium
keep the baby
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps the baby
form: keeping the baby
form: kept the baby
form: kept the baby
Senses: glosses: To choose not to have an abortion.
Carlee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Carlees
Etymology: A spelling variant of Carly.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Carli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A spelling variant of Carly.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Karly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A spelling variant of Carly.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Karlie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A spelling variant of Carly.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Karli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A spelling variant of Carly.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Karley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Modern spelling variant of Carly.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Karlee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A spelling variant of Carly.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Carleigh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A rare spelling variant of Carly.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Karleigh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A rare spelling variant of Carly.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Holley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: * As an English surname, spelling variant of Holly.
* Also as an English surname, from Old English hol (“hollow”) leah (“wood, clearing, meadow”) or Old English hol ēage (“eye”), perhaps a nickname for someone with a missing eye.
* Also as an English surname, singular variant of Hollis.
Senses: glosses: A topographic surname from Middle English.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Santa Rosa County, Florida.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Murray County, Georgia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Murray, Orleans County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place and unincorporated community in Linn County, Oregon.
Hollee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A rare spelling variant of Holly.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from English.
Holli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A rare spelling variant of Holly.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from English.
Hollye
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A rare spelling variant of Holly.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from English.
Sukey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A spelling variant of Suky.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew.
Sukie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A spelling variant of Suky.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew.
pedelec
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedelecs
Etymology: From German Pedelec, a shortening of pedal electric.
Senses: examples: text: The need of using the pedelec as a multipurpose vehicle was also discussed: As far as the infrastructure was concerned, the central issues were battery change and battery loading stations as well as a possible leasing model for batteries because they were considered to be the most expensive spare spart of the bike.
ref: 2013, Michael Hülsmann, Dirk Fornahl, Evolutionary Paths Towards the Mobility Patterns of the Future, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 126:
text: In this report cyclists are defined as users of a conventional bicycle or a pedelec/e-bike, i.e., an electric powered bicycle offering pedal assistance up to approximately 25 km/h
ref: 2024, Marjolein Boele-Vos & Ingrid van Schagen (SWOV), European Commission (2024). Road safety thematic report – Cyclists. European Road Safety Observatory. Brussels, European Commission, Directorate General for Transport., European Union,:
text: In this report, cyclists are defined as users of a conventional bicycle or an e-bike, formally called pedelec. A conventional bike is solely human-powered while an e-bike is a bicycle that delivers power when the cyclist pushes the pedals up to a speed of 25 km/h. This report does not deal with users of speed pedelecs. Speed pedelecs offer pedal assistance up to 45 km/h, and are therefore legally categorised as a moped.
ref: 2024, Marjolein Boele-Vos & Ingrid van Schagen (SWOV), European Commission (2024). Road safety thematic report – Cyclists. European Road Safety Observatory. Brussels, European Commission, Directorate General for Transport., European Union,:
text: At intersections, the crash involvement of pedelecs was twice as high compared to the conventional bicycle; car drivers did not give priority to the pedelec
ref: 2024, Marjolein Boele-Vos & Ingrid van Schagen (SWOV), European Commission (2024). Road safety thematic report – Cyclists. European Road Safety Observatory. Brussels, European Commission, Directorate General for Transport., European Union,:
glosses: A bicycle with an electric motor which assists the rider but only while they are pedalling.
Derived terms: speed pedelec
Related terms: EAPC
e-bike
ebike
tajs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taj
Galinstan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Trade name, from gallium, indium, and Latin stannum (“tin”).
Senses: glosses: An alloy of gallium, indium and tin which is liquid at room temperature.
trundle cart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trundle carts
Senses: glosses: A form of wheelbarrow that is pulled rather than pushed.
glosses: A fourteenth-century wheelchair of similar form.
centisome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centisomes
Etymology: From centi- (“hundredth”) + -some (“(noun combining form) chromosome”).
Senses: glosses: One hundredth part of the length of a chromosome
pseudopsychological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pseudopsychological
form: most pseudopsychological
Etymology: From pseudo- + psychological.
Senses: glosses: Apparently, but not actually, psychological; employing false psychology.
playreading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playreadings
Etymology: From play + reading.
Senses: examples: text: Through the portrayal of various characters, the playreading becomes a theatre of the group's own making and imagination. Successful outcomes depend on the right choice of material and appropriate allocation of characters.
ref: 2003, Rosalie Hudson, Dementia Nursing: A Guide to Practice, page 257:
glosses: The reading aloud of a play, without acting.
playreadings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of playreading
pyrotechnically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pyrotechnic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of pyrotechnics.