cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
disoperation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dis- + operation, by analogy to cooperation.
Senses: examples: text: Disoperation includes the entire range of unfavorable coactions from complete destruction at one extreme to competitions of minor intensity and slight disadvantage at the other.
ref: 1935, Carl Murchison, Warder Clyde Allee, A Handbook of Social Psychology - Part 3, page 41:
text: When we discuss relations between fungi and other plants in the first place we should establish whether cooperation, disoperation or competition occur here [ 81 ].
ref: 1975, Henryk Orloś, Forest Fungi against the Background of Environment:
text: Along the continuum of behavior from total disoperation to total cooperation, we must make another quantum leap since our established modes and mad emphasis on competition has become disoperative.
ref: 1980, Adam Apple, A Megasynthesis, page 332:
text: The 125-year-long discourse around an institution's experience of organising fiction has a weight and a traction of its own: it makes a history—or, rather, a perpetual prehistory—of the disoperation of classification for the arrangement of fiction, a disoperation which isolates fiction classification from modern precepts of rationality, preventing its escape from its own prehistorical conditions.
ref: 2013, Sas Mays, Libraries, Literatures, and Archives, page 134:
glosses: A lack of engagement or interaction, and/or antagonism toward cohesion.
gewles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Argent, a fesse ingrailed betweene foure mains Sinister Gewles.
ref: 1586, Sir John Ferne, The blazon of gentrie, page 234:
text: Arms, a chevron gewles betwene ijj leopartes heades sables, the ijd quarter of the same, three cinquefoiles of the first, differenced by a martlet gewles. Crest, a wyvern argent hanged with a crowne about the necke geules[…]
ref: 1863, John Gough Nichols, The Herald and Genealogist, page 81:
text: ... [...] bearyng armes whych be Syluer a Lyon rampaunt gewles armed and langed asure […]
ref: 1880, Thomas Benolt, The Visitation of Lancashire and a Part of Cheshire: Made in the Twenty-fourth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth, 1533 A. D., by Special Commission of Thomas Benalt, Clarencieux, page 213:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of gules.
scarpes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scarpe
eagering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of eager
eagered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of eager
per bend
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: per bend argent and gules; tierced per bend
text: Per bend and per pale or and arg. JOHNSON, 1730.
Per bend or and az. CRANE.
Per bend dancetty or and az. […]
ref: 1874, John Woody Papworth, An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, page 182:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: (Partitioned) diagonally by a line going from the dexter chief (viewer's top left) along a 45 degree angle towards the sinister base, (especially) into two halves (formally party per bend).
DFSP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DFSPs
Senses: topics: medicine
oncology
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans.
wikipedia: DFSP
post-Covid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: post-COVID
Etymology: From post- + Covid.
Senses: examples: text: The UK economy is suffering a nasty bout of stagflation and the prospects appear poor. That is the conclusion financial markets drew this week from yet more disappointing data, highlighting the weakness of the post-Covid economy and the persistence of high inflation.
ref: 2023 June 17, Chris Giles, Delphine Strauss, “Britain's economic malaise”, in FT Weekend, page 6:
glosses: After the COVID-19 pandemic.
nakkaalaaqite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An orthorhombic mineral found in Mount Nakkaalaaq, Greenland.
oxhaverite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of apophyllite.
synonyms: word: apophyllite
ajkaite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ajkite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A fossil resin containing sulfur, found in brown coal.
majzlanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Majzlan + -ite, after Prof. Dr. Juraj Majzlan, a specialist in the field of thermodynamics of secondary (mainly sulfate) minerals.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A grey monoclinic mineral, found in Russia.
nomesane
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nome sane.
Rockbourne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in New Forest district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU1118).
sagwire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: gomuti palm (Arenga pinnata).
compressability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of compressibility.
salempoory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of salempore.
strawberrier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of strawberry: more strawberry
strawberriest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of strawberry: most strawberry
Savandurga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Severndroog
Senses: glosses: A large monolith hill west of Bengaluru (Karnataka, India).
shoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shokes
form: shouq
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi शौक़ (śauq), ultimately from Arabic شَوْق (šawq). Doublet of shiok.
Senses: glosses: A hobby, a favourite pursuit or whim.
shouq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shouqs
Senses: examples: text: Horses and dogs were his shouq at one time, but there's no thikauna in him; he has given up all his old shouqs, and his only shouq now is for politics.
ref: 1837, The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India, page 72:
glosses: Alternative form of shoke.
shouqs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shouq
shokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoke
Supara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sopara.
Sopara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Supara
Senses: glosses: Former name of Nallasopara.
Nallasopara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nala Sopara
Senses: synonyms: word: Sopara
english: former name
translation: former name
glosses: A town in the Palghar district of Maharashtra, India, once a busy trading centre and important seat of Buddhism.
Nala Sopara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Nallasopara.
talismanned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of talisman
talismaning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of talisman
talismanning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of talisman
talismaned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of talisman
Bedas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Beda
hocuses-pocuses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hocus-pocus
hocusses-pocusses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hocus-pocus
hocusing-pocusing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hocus-pocus
hocussing-pocussing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hocus-pocus
hocused-pocused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hocus-pocus
hocussed-pocussed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hocus-pocus
hocuses and pocuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hocus and pocus
hocuses and pocuses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hocus and pocus
hocusses and pocusses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hocus and pocus
hocusing and pocusing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hocus and pocus
hocussing and pocussing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hocus and pocus
hocused and pocused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hocus and pocus
hocussed and pocussed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hocus and pocus
Gowen cypress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gowen cypresses
Senses: glosses: The tree Cupressus goveniana, of California and Argentina.
Gowen cypresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gowen cypress
slavkovite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A green triclinic mineral, found in the Czech Republic.
Green Thursday
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Said to stem from the theme that this day's feast could include some fresh greenery because the first greenery of springtime is making its appearance during Holy Week, after a long winter of stored food only. The term has calques in various European languages.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Maundy Thursday.
synonyms: word: Maundy Thursday
Related terms: Green Monday
GAS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Acronym of group A Streptococcus.
topics: education
glosses: Acronym of general academic strand, a strand under the academic track in senior high school.
Coordinate terms: word: STEM
word: HUMSS
word: ABM
Derived terms: iGAS
IGAS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Acronym of invasive group A Streptococcus.
glosses: acronym of ‘I Give A Shit’
Related terms: GAS
Grimaldian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Grimaldian
form: most Grimaldian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Joseph Grimaldi (1778–1837), English actor, comedian and dancer, the most popular English entertainer of the Regency era.
Demmys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Demmy
Green Mountain boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Green Mountain boys
Senses: glosses: A member of the Vermont National Guard.
examples: text: H. G. was here lately, preaching political truths to the Green Mountain boys.
ref: 1849 December, C. D. Stuart, Esq., “Rambledom: in Four Chapters. Chapter First”, in The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, volume 34, number 6, New York: Samuel Hueston, page 490:
glosses: A member of a militia organization established in 1770 in the territory between the British provinces of New York and New Hampshire, instrumental in resisting New York's attempts to control the territory.
Green Mountain boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Green Mountain boy
curvelinear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more curvelinear
form: most curvelinear
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of curvilinear.
Argenté
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Argentés
Etymology: From French argenté (“silvered”).
Senses: hyponyms: Argenté Bleu
Argenté Brun
Argenté Clair
Argenté Crème
Argenté de Champagne
Argenté Noir
Argenté St Hubert
Champagne d'Argent
Crème d'Argent
glosses: A rabbit of an old French show breed having silvery top fur.
Argentés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Argenté
ICAS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of isolated congenital asplenia.
Irish mosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Irish moss
Ishkashmi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ishkashimi.
Ishkashimi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ishkashmi
Senses: glosses: An Iranian language spoken predominantly in the Badakhshan Province in Afghanistan and in Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region in Tajikistan.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Ishkashimi terms
Italian bee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Italian bees
Senses: glosses: Apis mellifera ligustica, a subspecies of the western honey bee, endemic to the continental part of Italy.
Italian bees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Italian bee
Xanambre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Janambre.
Janambre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Xanambre
Senses: glosses: An indigenous people of Tamaulipas in northeast Mexico.
Japanese climbing fern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Japanese climbing ferns
Senses: glosses: A fern of species Lygodium japonicum.
Japanese climbing ferns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Japanese climbing fern
Japanese beech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Japanese beeches
Senses: synonyms: Siebold's beech
glosses: Fagus crenata, a beech tree native to Japan.
synonyms: Japanese blue beech
glosses: Fagus japonica, a beech tree native to Japan.
Japanese beeches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Japanese beech
Siebold's beech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Siebold's beeches
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Japanese beech (“the tree Fagus crenata”).
synonyms: word: Japanese beech
extra: the tree Fagus crenata
jakobssonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Jakobsson + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rare monoclinic white mineral with chemical formula CaAlF₅, found in Iceland.
vassaling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vassal
vassaled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vassal
elfpunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From elf + -punk.
Senses: examples: text: Or, on a more personal level, imagine a world without Heinlein’s literary children, and grandchildren. A world in which fewer writers and artists turned to science fiction and fantasy because Heinlein had not blazed the trail; and therefore a world in which the rich array of fantastic literature — from “hard” sf and “new wave” to “high fantasy” and “dark fantasy,” to “cyberpunk” and “splatterpunk” and “elfpunk” and all the rest — never came to be.
ref: 1988 October, Tappan [Wright] King, “Editor’s Notes: Methuselah’s Grandchildren”, in The Twilight Zone Magazine, page 8:
text: The scenes of high-school intrigue and shoplifting in magical malls seem flip rather than ingenious (“Pete was wearing acid-washed jeans and a denim jacket with the Wild Hunt’s ‘Horns of Elfland Tour’ logo painted on the back”), and the book’s later stretches, as Jane goes to college and then tries to make her way in the dangerous urban underworld, seem to protract Swanwick’s conceit — an amalgam of the “steampunk” and “elfpunk” motifs that various fantasy writers have been playing with in recent years — past its natural length.
ref: 1994 January 2, Gregory Feeley, “Wayfarers of Yore”, in Fanfare (Newsday), pages 34 and 36:
text: Elfpunk is actually a sub-genre of urban fantasy. These are fantasy stories set in the gritty streets of a modern city environment and are peopled with faeries, elves, dragons and other beings from folklore. Authors writing elfpunk include Holly Black, Terry Brooks, and Laurell K. Hamilton with her Meredith Gentry series.
ref: 2009, Kelly Ethan, “Two worlds: Weaving romance with fantasy”, in Valerie Parv, editor, Heart & Craft: Bestselling Romance Writers Share Their Secrets with You, Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, page 134:
text: Dr. Alexander has written a number of steampunk short stories, children’s science-learning books, and a full-length elfpunk novel.
ref: 2015, “About The Author”, in Claudia Alexander, Which of the Mountains Is Greatest of All? (Windows to Adventure; 1), Red Phoenix Books, →ISBN:
text: JESIKAH SUNDIN is a multi-award winning Dystopian Punk Lit, Fairy Tale, and Historical Fantasy writer, a mom of three nerdlets, a faeriecore and elfpunk geek, tree hugger, nature photographer, and a helpless romantic who married her high school sweetheart.
ref: 2020, Jesikah Sundin, Æroreh (The Ealdspell Cycle; 1), Forest Tales Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: A subgenre of urban fantasy in which fairies, elves, and other creatures from traditional European folklore exist in a contemporary urban setting.
LaRouchite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LaRouchites
Etymology: From LaRouche + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A political supporter of Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche Jr. (1922–2019), American political activist who founded the National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC).
LaRouchites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LaRouchite
LaRouchian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more LaRouchian
form: most LaRouchian
Etymology: From LaRouche + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche Jr. (1922–2019), American political activist.
LaRouchian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LaRouchians
Etymology: From LaRouche + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The LaRouchians were anxious to stop the Briefingate probe, and put out a pamphlet calling it a Communist-liberal plot to undermine Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative.
ref: 1989, Dennis King, Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism, New York, N.Y. […]: Doubleday, →ISBN, page 126:
glosses: A supporter or follower of Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche Jr.
LaRouchean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more LaRouchean
form: most LaRouchean
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of LaRouchian.
trace scheduling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: An optimization technique for compilers that rearranges traces (instruction sequences) according to their frequency of execution, and inserts additional code to compensate for any effects of the rearrangement.
multiflow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multiflows
Etymology: From multi- + flow.
Senses: examples: text: For vertex-capacitated multiflows the unary case has to be distinguished from vertex-disjoint paths if G is restricted for instance to planar graphs.
ref: 2008, Guyslain Naves, András Sebő, “Multiflow Feasibility: An Annotated Tableau”, in William J. Cook, László Lovász, Jens Vygen, editors, Research Trends in Combinatorial Optimization, Berlin: Springer, →ISBN, page 266:
text: Given that several dependency types flow through the networks, multicommodity flows or multiflows is a natural theoretical framework to map the presented model for further investigations.
ref: 2010, Bernhard Hämmerli, Critical Information Infrastructures Security, page 32:
text: Despite these restricted multiflows, the gap between integer and half-integer flow is at least 1/2 for these graphs […]
ref: 2020, Naveen Garg, Nikhil Kumar, András Sebő, “Integer Plane Multiflow Maximisation: Flow-Cut Gap and One-Quarter-Approximation”, in Daniel Bienstock, Giacomo Zambelli, editors, Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization: 21st International Conference, IPCO 2020, London, UK, June 8–10, 2020, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 12125), Cham: Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 148:
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A flow function that operates on the set of edges (ordered pairs of vertices) on the intersection of two related directed graphs.
multiflows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multiflow
loose-knit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪt
Forms: form: looser-knit
form: more loose-knit
form: loosest-knit
form: most loose-knit
Senses: examples: text: a loose-knit network
antonyms: tight-knit
close-knit
glosses: Not closely linked or connected.
raw_tags: of a group
looser-knit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of loose-knit: more loose-knit
loosest-knit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of loose-knit: most loose-knit
Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dantzig-Wolfe decompositions
Etymology: Originally developed by George Dantzig and Philip Wolfe, who published in 1960.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An algorithm for solving linear programming problems with special structure, relying on delayed column generation for improving the tractability of large-scale linear programs.
Dantzig-Wolfe decompositions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition
HES
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Initialism of house exchange system.
HES
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Historic Environment Scotland.
Granby roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Granby rolls
Etymology: Named for Granby High School in Norfolk, Virginia, where it was popularized by coach Billy Martin, Sr.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: A reversal performed from an inferior position, usually when the top wrestler has a hold upon the lower wrestler's waist from the side or when moving to "take the back". The bottom wrestler rises slightly and cross-steps under his own body, using it to post as they kick high with the other leg and perform a shoulder roll to the inside shoulder, achieving either an escape or a reversal with possible back points on the other wrestler.
Granby rolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Granby roll
sodicpedrizite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of pedrizite.
synonyms: word: pedrizite
uprore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uprores
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of uproar.
watch receiver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watch receivers
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: A small telephone receiver resembling a pocket watch.
pore water pressure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pore water pressures
Senses: examples: text: Mair goes on to argue that soil pore water pressure is key to the problem: "Pore water pressure regimes have been modified by changing weather patterns and will continue to change. Rates and magnitudes of pore water pressure changes depend on the availability and ability of water to flow into the soil profile, while strong surface flows can also cause soil erosion and flooding in their own right. […]" Pore water pressure is the pressure exerted on its surroundings by water held in the space between particles in soil.
ref: 2023 June 14, Philip Haigh, “Landslips: NR strives to turn back the tide”, in RAIL, number 985, page 33:
qualifier: soil mechanics
glosses: The pressure of groundwater held within a soil or rock in gaps between particles (pores).
Related terms: porewater
watch receivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of watch receiver
makes the grade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of make the grade
making the grade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of make the grade
cloakroom attendants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cloakroom attendant
clock signals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clock signal
clocktimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clocktime
cloggages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cloggage
cloisteresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cloisteress
clonkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clonker
closed campuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of closed campus
closed orders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of closed order
closed questions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of closed question
closet-chapels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of closet-chapel
closet-keepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of closet-keeper
closetkeeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: closetkeepers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of closet-keeper.
closetkeepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of closetkeeper
closet-pictures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of closet-picture
clothes poles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clothes pole
clothespoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clothespole
clothes stands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clothes stand
cloud kitchens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cloud kitchen
cloudcovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cloudcover
cloveroots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cloveroot
clown noses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clown nose
clownesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clowness
clownheals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clownheal
wilforlides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wilforlide
wildlife refuges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wildlife refuge
willowflies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of willowfly
smile a thousand smiles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: smiles a thousand smiles
form: smiling a thousand smiles
form: smiled a thousand smiles
form: smiled a thousand smiles
Senses: glosses: To smile a very beaming smile
czochralskiite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A colourless phosphate mineral with the chemical formula Na4Ca3Mg(PO4)4.
Hukou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ho͞oʹkōʹ
Etymology: From the Mandarin 湖口 (Húkǒu).
Senses: examples: text: Taxis arrive to pick up passengers cleared to leave the centralized quarantine facility in Hukou township in Hsinchu county in Northern Taiwan on Monday, Aug. 31, 2020.
ref: 2020 September 8, Huizhong Wu, “VIRUS DIARY: One midnight moment in Taiwan’s virus battle”, in The Washington Post, sourced from Associated Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 May 2024:
text: Police tracked down a 32-year-old wanted man, surnamed Dang (鄧), to a dormitory in Hsinchu County's Hukou Township, reported TVBS.
ref: 2023 July 17, Keoni Everington, “Migrant worker stabs cop, compatriot in north Taiwan”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 17 Jul 2023, Society:
text: According to the MNA, the Taipei-based 202nd Military Police Command's Quick Response Company will showcase its new Indian Challenger motorcycles at the Sept. 24 opening of the army base in Hukou Township, Hsinchu County.
ref: 2023 September 6, Matt Yu, Joseph Yeh, “DEFENSE/Taiwan military to showcase new Indian Challenger motorcycles at base opening”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 07 Sep 2023, Politics:
glosses: A rural township in Hsinchu County, Taiwan.
Emei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ǔʹmāʹ
Etymology: From the Mandarin 峨眉 (Éméi).
Senses: examples: text: Temperatures in several parts of Taiwan dipped to single digits early yesterday morning, with Emei Township (峨眉) of Hsinchu County in the north recording the lowest temperature of 8.4°C for low-lying areas, the agency said.
ref: 2024 January 15, “Seasonal winds expected to emerge today: CWA”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Jan 2024, Taiwan News, page 2:
glosses: A rural township in Hsinchu County, Taiwan.
Related terms: Mount Emei
NCLC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of National Churchill Library and Center.
glosses: Initialism of National Child Labor Committee.
glosses: Initialism of National Council of Labour Colleges.
glosses: Initialism of National Caucus of Labor Committees.
glosses: Initialism of National Consumer Law Center.
Guanxi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: gwänʹshēʹ
Forms: form: Kuanhsi
form: Guansi
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 關西 (Guānxī).
Senses: examples: text: Visitors who do reach the town, in the hills of Hsinchu County southwest of the island’s capital city, Taipei, will find quiet, rural scenery, unique local food, unusual types of tea and a museum tour they’d be hard pressed to get anywhere else. Guanxi Township is also notable for its predominantly Hakka population; the Hakka were a nomadic people who settled widely around southern China and Taiwan, and are known for their courtyard homes. The first Hakka reached Taiwan in the 1600s.
ref: 2019 July 31, Ralph Jennings, “A bridge to the past in Taiwan: Guanxi, quiet retreat of century-old town houses, tea, and Hakka food”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2019, Travel & Leisure:
text: Education and training sessions were implemented after a baboon was shot by a member of the public after escaping from the Leofoo Village theme park in Hsinchu County’s Guanxi Township (關西), he said.
There has been a focus on training to coordinate local authorities, set up communication channels, dispatch animal control personnel, and protect and transport injured animals, he said.
ref: 2023 November 15, Yang Yuan-ting, Jason Pan, “Official defends efforts to control stray dogs”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 May 2024, Taiwan News, page 3:
glosses: An urban township in Hsinchu County, Taiwan.
Japanese rose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Japanese roses
Senses: glosses: The plant Kerria japonica, native to China, Japan, and Korea.
glosses: The plant Rosa multiflora.
glosses: The plant Rosa rugosa.
Japanese roses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Japanese rose
November Revolution
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the November Revolution
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The series of changes in particle physics triggered by the discovery of the charm quark in November 1974.
examples: text: This book is a slice of intensified history—history as I saw it. It does not pretend to be anything but a detailed account of the November Revolution, when the Bolsheviki, at the head of the workers and soldiers, seized the state power of Russia and placed it in the hands of the Soviets.
ref: 1987 [1919 January 1], John Reed, “Preface”, in Ten Days That Shook the World, Moscow: Progress Publishers, page 11:
glosses: Any of various political revolutions that took place in the month of November.
charmed quark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charmed quarks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of charm quark.
charmed quarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of charmed quark
orthocharmonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ortho- + charmonium.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
coordinate_terms: paracharmonium
glosses: The form of charmonium in which the spins of the two quarks are parallel.
paracharmonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From para- + charmonium.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
coordinate_terms: orthocharmonium
glosses: The form of charmonium in which the spins of the two quarks align oppositely.
balićžunićite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baliczunicite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A colourless mineral found in high-temperature fumaroles with the chemical formula Bi2O(SO4)2.
yellow pea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellow peas
Senses: glosses: A yellow-flowered leguminous herb, Lathyrus aphaca, native to the Middle East.
GIM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Initialism of the surnames of Sheldon Glashow, John Iliopoulos, and Luciano Maiani, who published on the topic in 1970.
Senses: examples: text: GIM mechanism
text: GIM suppression
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The mechanism through which flavour-changing neutral currents (FCNCs) are suppressed in loop diagrams.
commot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commots
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of commote (“division of land in mediaeval Wales”).
commots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of commot
FCNC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FCNCs
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of flavor-changing neutral current.
FCNCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of FCNC
great willowherb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great willowherbs
Senses: glosses: A wildflower of species Epilobium hirsutum
hoedeopbap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Korean dish resembling bibimbap, but made with sliced or cubed raw fish.
great willowherbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of great willowherb
MBP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MBPs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of MacBook Pro.
marsh willowherb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marsh willowherbs
Senses: glosses: A wildflower of species Epilobium palustre, found in various parts of the northern hemisphere.
kimbaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kimbap
gimbaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gimbap
kimbabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kimbab
yuenyeung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Cantonese 鴛鴦 /鸳鸯 (jyun¹ joeng¹).
Senses: glosses: A beverage made from mixing coffee with Hong Kong-style milk tea.
Synonyms: word: yinyong
word: yinyeung
sense: from Mandarin
word: yuanyang
thecated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thecate.
zetacist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Exhibiting or relating to zetacism.
decausativisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decausativisations
form: decausativization
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A process through which causative transitive verbs become noncausative and intransitive.
Related terms: anticausativisation
decausativization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decausativizations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of decausativisation.
Brussels effect
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Brussels effect
Etymology: Coined by Finnish-American legal scholar Anu Bradford in 2012, named after the California effect.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The process of unilateral regulatory globalisation caused by the European Union de facto (but not necessarily de jure) externalizing its laws outside its borders through market mechanisms.
decausativizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decausativization
decausativisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decausativisation
California effect
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the California effect
Etymology: Derived from the spread of some advanced environmental regulatory standards that were originally adopted by the U.S. state of California and eventually adopted in other states.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The supposed shift of consumer, environmental and other regulations in the direction of political jurisdictions with stricter regulatory standards.
Derived terms: Brussels effect
ecodriving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eco- + driving.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hypermiling.
synonyms: word: hypermiling
un-ironic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unironic.
co-trustee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-trustees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cotrustee.
doss house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doss houses
Senses: examples: text: Somewhere nearby is a Victorian doss house, a vast red brick pile of a hostel for the homeless, purpose-built and hideous, […]
ref: 2003, William Gibson, Pattern Recognition (Bigend cycle; book 1), New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 88:
glosses: Alternative form of doss-house.
doss houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doss house
vladkrivovichevite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rare yellow orthorhombic mineral.
mid-battle
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of midbattle.
aleph-beth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aleph-beths
form: alef-bais
form: alef-baiz
form: alef beis
form: alef bet
form: alef-beis
form: alef-beys
form: alef-beyz
form: alef-bet
form: aleph bet
form: aleph-bet
form: alephbet
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew אָלֶפְבֵּית (alefbet).
Senses: glosses: The Hebrew alphabet.
davidlloydite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named by F. C. Hawthorne, M. A. Cooper, Y. A. Abdu, N. A. Ball, M. E. Back, and K. T. Tait in 2011 in honor of David Lloyd (born 1943), a prominent mineral collector, with the suffix -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydrated zinc arsenate mineral with the chemical formula Zn3(AsO4)2 · 4H2O.
qiddush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qiddushes
form: qiddushim
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kiddush.
animal-industrial complex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: animal–industrial complex
form: animal-industrial complexes
Senses: glosses: The systematic and institutionalized exploitation of animals.
free-loader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: free-loaders
Senses: examples: text: Software lost a healthy dose of utility to me when I was asked to pay for technical support (the hey-day of WordPerfect tech support is a fond and distant memory). I'm not a free-loader; I just can't afford the service.
ref: 2010 May 24, James Fallows, “What "Monetization" Means to People Without Money”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Alternative spelling of freeloader.
free-loaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of free-loader
be-headphoned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: beheadphoned
Etymology: From be- + headphone + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: She was, in fact, constitutionally impervious to statistics and preferred to study the be-headphoned group of fifteen or so lethargic wanderers who were taking even less notice of the remorseless squawkings than she was. […] There must be some perfectly simple explanation of the fact that twenty-eight be-headphoned zombies at Exeter University, plied as they were with computerized information on tape, knew the findings of the air crash hearing even before the press did.
ref: 1968, Christopher Hodder-Williams, “Hands”, in Fistful of Digits, London: Coronet Books, published 1972, →ISBN, pages 125 and 173:
text: There were two pilots inside, strapped in and be-headphoned at their stations.
ref: 1985, Julian Jay Savarin, Gunship, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, published 1988, →ISBN, page 162:
text: A colourful roustabout aimed mainly at kids, players control two be[-]headphoned little creatures as they tour the Sonic city, looking for opportunities to dance to disco and kick the baddies.
ref: 1995 April, Mean Machines Sega, number 30, page 12:
text: The card school, the reader, the be-headphoned groover – I don’t think much has changed in the habits of passing the time on board the team bus.
ref: 1998 August 21, Neil Webb, “Perhaps mobiles are the answer”, in Reading Weekend Post, page 95:
text: Standing there in the car park with Prasanth’s camera trained on me and Dan, be-headphoned and with a microphone pointing at Chris, I was just having a minor media whore moment – of the kind you’d expect to see if you teleported a film crew of Channel 4 gits to the centre of somewhere that really couldn’t give a toss – when in cycled a man at great speed on a bicycle that appeared slightly too small for him.
ref: 2008, Dan Kieran, Ian Vince, Three Men in a Float: Across England at 15 mph, John Murray, published 2009, →ISBN, page 145:
text: Gary Crowton was basically be-head-phoned in 2008. The crafty LSU offensive coordinator rarely was able to unleash his playbook and keep his headphones tuned to the state of the art in play calling as he did during LSU’s national championship season in 2007.
ref: 2009 August 19, Glenn Guilbeau, “Growton imagining his options”, in The Daily Advertiser, Lafayette, La., page 1D:
text: The be-headphoned Matt Le Tissier, Paul Merson, Phil Thompson and Charlie Nicholas are an excellent quartet, working perfectly in tandem with Stelling, a genuine broadcasting genius.
ref: 2011, Rob Smyth, Georgina Turner, Jumpers for Goalposts: How Football Sold Its Soul, Elliott and Thompson Limited, →ISBN, page 206:
text: Straight out of the Gaithers’ mobile makeup/hair salon, the freshly coiffed gospel music mogul talked to me as we walked through a flashing gauntlet of video equipment and be[-]headphoned, fast-talking stage technicians, wires flailing behind them like jellyfish tentacles.
ref: 2017, Ryan P. Harper, “Introduction”, in The Gaithers and Southern Gospel: Homecoming in the Twenty-First Century, University Press of Mississippi, →ISBN:
synonyms: headphoned
glosses: Wearing headphones.
beheadphoned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Revox demonstrated several A77 recorders to beheadphoned visitors […]
ref: 1971, Hi-Fi News & Record Review, volume 16, page 1075, column 3:
text: In the corner sits a small bald, bearded man beheadphoned—Degas’s Absinthe Drinker in a Walkman.
ref: 1990, J. B. Miller, My Life in Action Painting, New York, N.Y.: Grove Weidenfeld, →ISBN, page 173:
text: A walk in Beverly Hills is an unusual prospect, the only non[-]motorized human sightings so far are restricted to Mexican gardeners and the odd lone jogger, usually betowelled, betogged and beheadphoned to within an inch of his/her life.
ref: 1996, Richard E. Grant, With Nails: The Film Diaries of Richard E. Grant, Picador, published 1997, →ISBN, page 108:
text: The beheadphoned soundman looked up sharply in my direction and I suddenly remembered the tiny microphone hidden in the folds of my robes.
ref: 2004, Will Randall, Indian Summer, Leicester: Ulverscroft, published 2005, →ISBN, page 230:
text: Instead, we must find an unworthy substitute for the defeat of a foe in that small grin we quickly suppress when we learn that a beheadphoned texter got hit by a car—no, not seriously injured, just bruised up enough to give him a wake-up call.
ref: 2021, William Ian Miller, “The Law of Conservation of Good Things”, in Outrageous Fortune: Gloomy Reflections on Luck and Life, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 34:
glosses: Alternative form of be-headphoned.
pore water pressures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pore water pressure.
Simchas Torah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Simchat Torah.
tranime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹæn.ɪ.meɪ/
ipa: /tɹˈæn.ɪ.mə/
ipa: /ˈtɹæn.ɪ.meɪ/
Etymology: Blend of tran(ny) + (an)ime.
Senses: examples: text: Why do trannies post anime everywhere? Their github avatar is ALWAYS degenerate tranime shit.
ref: 2019 December 12, anonymous author, 4chan, /g/:
text: Learn basic programming, degenerate tranime weeb
ref: 2019 December 25, anonymous author, 4chan, /g/:
text: None of you will ever be a real woman no matter how much tranime you watch.
ref: 2020 December 2, anonymous author, 4chan, /r9k/:
text: daily reminder that tranime depicts men in excessively feminine manner and thereby normalizes and promotes such behavior, convincing mentally ill men that they can be cute anime boy/girl s too
ref: 2021 August 26, anonymous author, 4chan, /qa/:
text: Sorry I don't get your references because I don't watch tranime
ref: 2022 February 20, anonymous author, 4chan, /his/:
coordinate_terms: manime
qualifier: 4chan slang
glosses: Anime, especially when viewed as being disproportionately liked by transgender people.
CGDCT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: anime
broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Initialism of cute girls doing cute things.
spules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spule
captive bolt pistol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: captive bolt pistols
Senses: glosses: a device that renders animals unconscious prior to slaughter by impelling a metal bolt into its head
captive bolt pistols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of captive bolt pistol
yortzite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yortzites
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yahrzeit.
Shmini Atzeret
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Shemini Atzeret.
Simhat Torah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Simchat Torah.
unable to can
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From can't even (“to be unable to express one's feelings about an overwhelming situation”), with the implication that one has lost the capacity of English due to shock.
Senses: examples: text: I literally cannot with William. I will continue to be unable to can with this fool.
ref: 2016 April 25, Phoebe Robinson, “The Catch Recap: A Bug's Life”, in Vulture, archived from the original on 21 Jun 2023:
text: She said: 'This is the peak of the whatsapp mother's cult. I am unable to can lmao.'
ref: 2020 March 25, Harriet Johnston, “Woman reveals her mother has placed a raw ONION in the corner of every room in the house in a bizarre attempt to ward off coronavirus”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Oct 2022:
glosses: Rendered utterly speechless or overwhelmed with a situation.
as best as one can
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of as best one can.