cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
koenigine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: koenigii + -ine
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular organic compound found in the leaves of the curry tree (Murraya koenigii).
koenine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: koenigii + -ine
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular organic compound found in the leaves of the curry tree (Murraya koenigii).
koenidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular organic compound found in the leaves of the curry tree (Murraya koenigii).
koenimbidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular organic compound found in the leaves of the curry tree (Murraya koenigii).
murrayacine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular organic compound found in the leaves of the curry tree (Murraya koenigii).
murrayanine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Murraya + -anine
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular organic compound found in the leaves of the curry tree (Murraya koenigii).
murrayazoline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular organic compound found in the leaves of the curry tree (Murraya koenigii).
murrayazolidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular organic compound found in the leaves of the curry tree (Murraya koenigii).
centre console
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centre consoles
Senses: glosses: UK spelling of center console.
mazodynia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of mastodynia.
synonyms: word: mastodynia
meatoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meatoscopies
Etymology: From meato- + -scopy.
Senses: glosses: The medical inspection of any meatus, especially the urinary meatus or the vesical orifice of a ureter.
Derived terms: meatoscopic
Related terms: meatoscope
meatoscopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meatoscopy
meatoscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meatoscopy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to meatoscopy.
mecometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mecometers
Etymology: From meco- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An instrument, like calipers with a scale attachment, for measuring a newborn infant.
Related terms: mecometry
mekometer
mecometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mecometer
medicerebral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the central part of the cerebrum.
medicerebellar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛlə(ɹ)
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the central part of the cerebellum.
mecon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μήκων (mḗkōn, “poppy”).
Senses: glosses: The opium poppy.
glosses: Opium.
Derived terms: meconic
meconophagist
medioccipital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪpɪtəl
Etymology: From medio- + occipital.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of midoccipital.
synonyms: word: midoccipital
midoccipital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + occipital.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the central portion of the occiput.
Synonyms: medioccipital
medullispinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪnəl
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the spinal cord.
Related terms: medulla
medullization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medullizations
Etymology: From medulla + -ization.
Senses: glosses: Conversion into marrow, as the softening of bone tissue in the course of osteitis.
medullizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of medullization
EQs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of EQ
unbaitable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbaitable
form: most unbaitable
Etymology: From un- + baitable.
Senses: glosses: Not capable of being baited.
megagamete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megagametes
Etymology: From mega- + gamete.
Senses: glosses: A macrogamete.
megagametes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megagamete
melangeur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melangeurs
form: melanger
form: mélangeur
Etymology: From French mélangeur.
Senses: examples: text: The nib, coarse or finely ground, is mixed with the sugar in a kind of edgerunner or grinding-mixer, called a melangeur. This consists of two heavy millstones supported on a granite floor.
ref: 1921, The Tea & Coffee Trade Journal, page 750:
text: The melangeur Mabel and I had set up two days ago to grind the beans and sugar together was still churning away. I peeked into the grinder. Surprisingly, the mixture had turned into a silky smooth liquid. “That's the chocolate liquor,”[…]
ref: 2017, Dorothy St. James, Asking for Truffle: A Southern Chocolate Shop Mystery, Crooked Lane Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A machine for grinding ingredients and mixing them when making chocolate (or rarely nut butter, etc), consisting of roller stones inside a drum.
glosses: An instrument, essentially a capillary tube with a bulb at one end, for drawing and diluting specimens of blood for examination.
melangeurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melangeur
unswitchable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + switchable.
Senses: glosses: Not switchable.
chicksploitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chick + -sploitation (from exploitation film).
Senses: examples: text: The chicksploitation image of Nobu Kitamura's Hysteric Glamour seems to have evolved from hazy stoner dreams of rock 'n' roll groupies.
ref: 2007, Tiffany Godoy, Style Deficit Disorder: Harajuku Street Fashion - Tokyo:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A genre of exploitation films starring attractive young women.
melanodermic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From melanoderma + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to melanoderma.
melanodermata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melanoderma
melanodermas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melanoderma
melanosarcoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melanosarcomas
form: melanosarcomata
Etymology: From melano- + sarcoma.
Senses: glosses: A malignant form of deeply pigmented sarcoma containing melanin.
melanosarcomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melanosarcoma
melanosarcomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melanosarcoma
melanuric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From melanuria + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to melanuria.
Derived terms: melanuric acid
membranate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From membrane + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Having the character of a membrane.
mentoposterior
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪəɹiə(ɹ)
Etymology: From mento- + posterior.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having the chin facing posteriorly or posterolaterally.
merispore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merispores
Senses: glosses: A secondary spore resulting from division of another spore.
merispores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of merispore
mesenteritis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mesentery + -itis.
Senses: examples: text: Histopathologic examination revealed fibrosis of both of these tissues with retractile mesenteritis.
ref: 1990, Benedict Isaac, Unexplained Fever:
glosses: Inflammation of the mesentery.
mesoarial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the mesoarium.
mesoarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesoaria
Etymology: From meso- + oo- + -arium.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A peritoneal fold supporting the ovary and its blood vessels and nerves as the mesentery does the intestine; the mesovarium.
Related terms: mesoarial
mesoaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesoarium
mesocyst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesocysts
Etymology: From meso- + cyst.
Senses: glosses: A double fold of peritoneum attaching the gall bladder to the liver.
mesocysts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesocyst
mesometritis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meso- + metritis.
Senses: glosses: inflammation of the parenchyma of the womb
metargon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meta- + argon.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A supposed noble gas, once thought to exist in minute amounts in the atmosphere as a result of a flawed study of density spectra.
undergrip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undergrips
Etymology: From under- + grip.
Senses: topics: gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
glosses: supinated grip
Related terms: overgrip
neutral grip
metencephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From metencephalon + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the metencephalon.
metroperitonitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From metro- + peritonitis.
Senses: glosses: Combined inflammation of the uterus and the peritoneum.
microbiophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + bio- + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: A morbid fear of microbes.
microcephalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of microcephaly.
synonyms: word: microcephaly
microphobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: A morbid fear of microbes.
mochras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An astringent gum-resin obtained from Bombax ceiba.
undergrips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undergrip
neutral grip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neutral grips
Senses: topics: gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
glosses: A grip that is neither supinated nor pronated, but with palms facing each other.
Related terms: overgrip
undergrip
mixed grip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mixed grips
Senses: topics: gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
glosses: grip with one hand pronated and the other supinated
Related terms: overgrip
undergrip
false grip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: false grips
Senses: topics: gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
glosses: type of grip using flexion of the wrist rather than the fingers to hold on
Related terms: overgrip
undergrip
pelvic tilt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pelvic tilts
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: orientation of the pelvis in respect to the thighs and the rest of the body
frolf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /fɹɒlf/
Etymology: Blend of Frisbee + golf.
Senses: examples: text: If it's not the height of summer, wintry frozen cowpats are a good alternative. This is also a great way to play Frolf if you don't have a frisbee to hand […]
ref: 2015, Josie Curran, Organised Fun:
text: Nobody wanted to leave the Wonderland. Nobody was looking for something better to do. They wanted to play Frolf with the world's cutest and furriest caddie.
ref: 2019, Chris Grabenstein, Welcome to Wonderland #4: Beach Battle Blowout, page 178:
glosses: Synonym of disc golf.
synonyms: word: disc golf
ballhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballheads
Etymology: From ball + head.
Senses: glosses: A device used in camera stands, prosthetic joints, etc. to allow rotation of the attached part.
ballheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ballhead
galacturonosyltransferases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galacturonosyltransferase
acetylchitooligosaccharides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acetylchitooligosaccharide
acylglycerophosphoglycerols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acylglycerophosphoglycerol
acylglycerophosphoinositols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acylglycerophosphoinositol
thunderbug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thunderbugs
Etymology: From thunder + bug.
Senses: synonyms: thunderfly
glosses: A thrips.
hollow body position
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hollow body positions
Senses: topics: gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A position with a posterior pelvic tilt, i.e. with the lower back held flat
hollow body
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hollow body position.
hollow position
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hollow positions
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hollow body position.
hydroxycinnamoyltransferases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydroxycinnamoyltransferase
monogalactosyldiacylglycerols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monogalactosyldiacylglycerol
acetylgalactosaminyltransferases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acetylgalactosaminyltransferase
do the dirty on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does the dirty on
form: doing the dirty on
form: did the dirty on
form: done the dirty on
Senses: glosses: To treat (someone) in an unfair manner; to cheat or betray.
Synonyms: do someone dirty
gentlier
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: comparative form of gently: more gently
gentliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: superlative form of gently: most gently
thunderbugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thunderbug
monobromated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + bromated.
Senses: examples: text: A form of camphor known as monobromated camphor is said to have an anaphrodisiac effect.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 54:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing one atom of bromine in the molecule.
monochorea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mono- + chorea.
Senses: glosses: chorea confined to a single member or part of the body
monoballism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: monoballismus
monoballismus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mono- + ballismus.
Senses: glosses: ballismus confined to a single limb
Synonyms: monoballism
monochroic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + -chroic.
Senses: glosses: Having only one colour.
monoideism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mono- + idea + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The domination of a single idea, as in certain mental disorders
Related terms: monoideistic
idée fixe
mononeuritis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mono- + neuritis.
Senses: glosses: neuritis affecting a single nerve
Derived terms: mononeuritis multiplex
mononeuritis multiplex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: neuritis that simultaneously affects single nerves remote from each other
monopsychosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mono- + psychosis.
Senses: glosses: monomania
morphiomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of morphinomania.
morphoea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of morphea.
Derived terms: morphoeic
muciferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Senses: glosses: Producing or secreting mucus.
muawine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From muawi + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A poisonous alkaloid obtained from the bark of the muawi, a tree of Mozambique.
muscicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muscicides
Etymology: From Latin musca (“fly”) + -icide.
Senses: glosses: Any substance that kills flies.
muscicides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muscicide
mycelian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːliən
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the mycelium.
mycetogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: This classification divides the various forms of stomatitis into four main divisions which are differentiated according to their pathological characters as catarrhal, herpetic, ulcerative, and mycetogenetic.
ref: 1902, The Lancet, volume 1, page 1188:
glosses: Produced or caused by fungal growth.
lancet arches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lancet arch
myelinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Etymology: From myelin + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to myelin.
Derived terms: amyelinic
axomyelinic
intramyelinic
submyelinic
myoctonine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A highly poisonous alkaloid from the plant Aconitum lycoctonum, resembling curare in its action.
myogenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From myo- + -genous.
Senses: glosses: Originating in muscle.
myogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From myo- + genetic.
Senses: glosses: Originating in muscle.
myringotome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myringotomes
Etymology: From myringo- + -tome.
Senses: glosses: A surgical knife used for paracentesis of the eardrum.
myringotomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myringotome
myristicol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From myristic + -ol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An oily substance extracted from oil of nutmeg.
myronate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myronates
Etymology: From myronic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: glosses: A salt or ester of myronic acid.
myronates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myronate
lycaconitine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkaloid obtained from the roots of Aconitum lycoctonum.
Derived terms: methyllycaconitine
ajacine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkaloid found in various Delphinium species.
precommissure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + commissure.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of anterior commissure.
synonyms: word: anterior commissure
anterior commissure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anterior commissures
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A bundle of nerve fibers connecting the two temporal lobes of the cerebral hemispheres across the midline, and placed in front of the columns of the fornix.
Synonyms: precommissure
anterior commissures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anterior commissure
anthocodial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anthocodium + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the anthocodia.
anthroposophically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From anthroposophic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In terms of anthroposophy.
anthologization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthologizations
Etymology: From anthology + -ization.
Senses: glosses: compilation as (part of) an anthology
anthologizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anthologization
puppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pupper
chordae tendineae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɔːdi tɛnˈdɪniˌi/
ipa: /ˌkɔɹdi tɛnˈdɪniˌi/
Forms: form: chorda tendinea
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin chordae tendineae (literally “tendinous (tendon-like) cords”), from Latin chordae (plural of chorda (“cord, rope”)) + New Latin tendineae (plural of tendinea (“tendinous”), from Medieval Latin tendō (“tendon”)).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: heartstrings
glosses: The cord-like tendons that connect the papillary muscles to the tricuspid valve and the mitral valve in the heart.
volunteeristic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more volunteeristic
form: most volunteeristic
Etymology: * volunteer + -istic
Senses: examples: text: The dominant mode of functioning was volunteeristic and supportive of current practice, but activists could carve out space for their agendas within the limits of the forum.
ref: 2016, Ellen Stewart, Publics and Their Health Systems: Rethinking Participation:
glosses: Of or related to volunteerism; done on a volunteer basis.
Czechnology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒlədʒi
Etymology: Blend of Czech + technology
Senses: examples: text: They towed us to their depot, wheeled out a fantastic piece of Czechnology and attached a pair of crackling electrodes to our battery.
ref: 1992, Dave Rimmer, Once upon a time in the East, page 236:
text: Our highly-trained consite experts have dug up a very nice place in the greater proximity of the Ruhr valley and Rhine in a very rural setting similar to last year's convention (sans Czechnology, of course.).
ref: 2004, Juergen Rosskamp, “[FUR] Eurofurence X - The Movie : Registration now open”, in alt.lifestyle.furry (Usenet):
text: Down towards the river on Kostelni is the National Technical Museum, a constructivist building dating from 1938-41, whose dull name belies a fascinating collection of Czechnology that instantly wows children.
ref: 2006, Time Out Prague, page 127:
glosses: Czech technology
Ilford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪlfəd/
Etymology: The name is first recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Ilefort, meaning "ford over the Hyle" (an old name for the River Roding that means "trickling stream"). Equivalent to Hyle + ford.
Senses: glosses: A large town in north-eastern Greater London, England, and the administrative headquarters of the London borough of Redbridge.
Derived terms: Little Ilford
have a jag on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has a jag on
form: having a jag on
form: had a jag on
form: had a jag on
Senses: examples: text: "The old man must have an awful jag on today," was casually remarked when an extra fluffiness and imbecility was noticeable in the passing Bones.
ref: 1896, Bret Harte, “A Yellow Dog,”, in Selected Stories:
text: […] Wilfred John Funk, who whiles away his time writing jingles […] sometimes pretends to be a drinking man. A Funk jingle published last week: Myra, if I have a jag on / I am apt to hitch my wagon / To a street light on occasion.
ref: 1930 April 14, Time:
glosses: To be drunk.
get a jag on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets a jag on
form: getting a jag on
form: got a jag on
form: got a jag on
form: gotten a jag on
Senses: examples: 1899, Roswell Martin Field and Eugene Field (translators), "The Preference Declared" from Horace, Ode I.38, in Echoes from the Sabine Farm
Myrtle is good enough for us,— / For you, as bearer of my flagon; / For me, supine beneath this vine, / Doing my best to get a jag on!
glosses: To get drunk.
gunwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gun + work.
Senses: examples: text: They go to elementary schools — performing, showing how to apply make-up and demonstrating fast draws and other gunwork.
ref: 1971, Scouting, volume 59, number 5, page 66:
text: However it was, he must have seen it just in time and shot to kill — there could have been no time to indulge in any fancier gunwork.
ref: 1982, Alistair Maclean, Athabasca, page 144:
glosses: The art or skill of firing a gun.
Related terms: gunplay
gunworks
gunworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gunworks
Etymology: From gun + works.
Senses: examples: text: Federal troops were used to break sporadic strikes, as in Cold Springs, New York, where workers at a gunworks asked for a wage increase.
ref: 2001, Seymour Melman, After Capitalism: From Managerialism to Workplace Democracy:
text: Then, as news of the slaughter spread through the city, the streets filled with rolling-mill hands and other workers who broke into a gunworks and captured two hundred rifles and additional small arms.
ref: 2009, Barry Werth, Banquet at Delmonico's:
glosses: A facility where guns are manufactured.
Related terms: gunwork
neontologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to neontology.
meta-argon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meta- + argon.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of metargon.
neuromechanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuromechanisms
Etymology: From neuro- + mechanism.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A neural mechanism
Related terms: neuromechanistic
neuromechanisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuromechanism
nearliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nearlyness
Etymology: From nearly + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The beauty of the horizon's distant interstitial line in turn inaccurately replicates the beholding implied by Winnicottian nearliness.
ref: 2014, Mikko Tuhkanen, Leo Bersani: Queer Theory and Beyond:
glosses: The quality of nearly being something, or nearly reaching a point; incomplete state.
Related terms: almostness
nearlyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nearly + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: “I was never that good at maths....that final crossword puzzle answer on the very tip of your tongue....tantalising you in its nearlyness,” Trandon replies.
ref: 2016, Dan Finn, Likely Story:
glosses: Alternative spelling of nearliness.
Related terms: almostness
fit to wake the dead
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: They were screaming fit to wake the dead.
text: "Maybe they're asleep." The ensign switched on the locator sonar. The high-frequency waves resonated through both vessels. It was a sound fit to wake the dead, but there was no response. The air supply in the Politovskiy had run out a day before.
ref: 1984, Tom Clancy, “The Thirteenth Day: Wednesday, 15 December”, in The Hunt for Red October, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, →ISBN, page 304:
glosses: At a very high volume; extremely loudly.
VCPI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Virtual Control Program Interface.
doggos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doggo
pseudomeningitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + meningitis.
Senses: examples: text: […] who recognized the condition at a time when meningitis was considered almost synonymous with hydrocephalus. The term is now disappearing from medical literature and these cases are more often called pseudomeningitis. As we have already said, the symptom complex of pseudomeningitis develops sometimes with acute fevers such as rheumatism, typhoid fever, etc.
ref: 1897, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Twentieth Century Practice: Diseases of the nervous system, page 410:
glosses: A condition that resembles, but is not in fact, meningitis.
Synonyms: meningism
meningismus
geneticization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process of geneticizing.
boy-cut
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of boyleg.
synonyms: word: boyleg
bad quarto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bad quartos
Senses: examples: text: The implication is that theatrical practitioners have access to the “bad quarto” that is unmediated by the history of its scholarly reception; these practitioners can therefore be depended upon to discover in their performance of the text the true nature of its origin.
ref: 1998, Laurie E. Maguire, Thomas L. Berger, editors, Textual Formations and Reformations, University of Delaware Press, →ISBN, page 59:
glosses: A quarto-sized publication of a play, especially a Shakespearean play, that is considered spurious by virtue of having been copied down during a performance or later reconstructed from memory.
bad quartos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bad quarto
culturalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: culturalizes
form: culturalizing
form: culturalized
form: culturalized
form: culturalise
Etymology: From cultural + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Knowing is the only human activity that does not culturalize the object to which it refers. It is inherent to pure knowing not to alter its object but rather inquire into it faithfully […]
ref: 1964, Francisco Romero, Theory of Man, page 100:
glosses: To adapt to the norms of a particular culture.
Related terms: culturalization
deculturalize
reculturalize
culturalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of culturalize
culturalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of culturalize
culturalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of culturalize
culturalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: culturalizations
form: culturalisation
Etymology: From cultural + -ization or culturalize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The process of culturalizing.
Derived terms: reculturalization
culturalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of culturalization
reculturalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reculturalizes
form: reculturalizing
form: reculturalized
form: reculturalized
Etymology: From re- + culturalize.
Senses: glosses: To adapt to the norms of a different culture.
Related terms: reculturalization
reculturalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reculturalize
reculturalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reculturalize
reculturalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reculturalize
reculturalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reculturalizations
Etymology: From re- + culturalization.
Senses: glosses: The process of reculturalizing.
reculturalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reculturalization
deculturalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Etymology: From de- + cultural + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of deculturalizing.
deculturalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deculturalizes
form: deculturalizing
form: deculturalized
form: deculturalized
Etymology: From de- + culturalize.
Senses: glosses: To divest of a culture; to remove cultural elements from.
Related terms: deculturalization
deculturalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deculturalize
deculturalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deculturalize
deculturalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deculturalize
whelplings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whelpling
Produnova
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Produnovas
Etymology: From Russian Продунова f (Produnova).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Russian surname Продунова (Produnova).
Produnova
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Produnovas
Etymology: From Yelena Produnova (Елена Серге́евна Продунова) who in 1999 was the first to successfully perform this maneuver in competition.
Senses: topics: gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: a vault on the vaulting horse or vaulting table that starts with a front handspring off the gymnastics horse leading to two-and-a-half somersaults in the air, and then landing on their feet. (a three-point landing with the butt and feet is considered a fall)
Synonyms: english: so called due to the dangerousness of the vault, and likelihood of ending up landing on one's neck
translation: so called due to the dangerousness of the vault, and likelihood of ending up landing on one's neck
word: vault of death
word: Produnova vault
category reference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: category references
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
information-science
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A reference that specifies within some taxonomy or text typology one or more defined categories into which the referenced article, computer file etc. belongs.
backflop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backflops
form: back flop
form: back-flop
Etymology: From back + flop.
Senses: glosses: A diving error that results in the diver's back making an impact on the surface of the water.
Coordinate terms: bellyflop
cannonball
rip entry
bon-vivant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bon-vivants
form: bons-vivants
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bon vivant.
bons-vivants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bon-vivant
Oldman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Oldmans
form: Holdman
Senses: glosses: An English surname.
Coordinate terms: Newman
Oldmans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Oldman
Geller
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɛlɚ/
Forms: form: Gellers
Senses: glosses: A German or Yiddish surname.
Gellers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Geller
teetotalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From teetotal + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: Under the circumstances of this teetotalistic solution, any broad perspective on alcohol problems seemed irrelevant.
ref: 1975, Journal of Studies on Alcohol, Incorporated, Journal of studies on alcohol, Volume 36, Issues 1-4
glosses: Of or related to teetotalism.
Shewfelt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Shewfelts
Etymology: Named after Kyle Shewfelt, who in 2000 first successfully performed the maneuver in men's competition.
Senses: topics: gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A back handspring off the vaulting horse or vaulting table with a layout and two-and-a-half twists.
wikipedia: en:Kyle Shewfelt
Synonyms: Shewfelt vault
Hypernyms: english: a class of vaults
translation: a class of vaults
word: Yurchenko
Coordinate terms: english: the equivalent vault for female gymnasts
translation: the equivalent vault for female gymnasts
word: Amanar
english: a similar vault with two twists
translation: a similar vault with two twists
word: Yurchenko
Amanar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Amanars
Etymology: Named after Simona Amânar, who in 2000 first successfully performed the maneuver in women's competition.
Senses: topics: gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A back handspring off the vaulting horse or vaulting table with a layout and two-and-a-half twists.
wikipedia: en:Simona Amânar
Synonyms: Amanar vault
Hypernyms: english: a class of vaults
translation: a class of vaults
word: Yurchenko
Coordinate terms: english: the equivalent vault for male gymnasts
translation: the equivalent vault for male gymnasts
word: Shewfelt
english: a similar vault with two twists
translation: a similar vault with two twists
word: Yurchenko
Amanars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Amanar
Biellmann
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Biellmanns
Etymology: Named after Denise Biellmann, who popularized this maneuver, making it her signature move.
Senses: qualifier: figure skating
glosses: a spin on one skate while upright, with one leg in the air, and both hands gripping the figure skate above the figure skater's head
wikipedia: en:Denise Biellmann
Synonyms: Biellmann spin
Chengfei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɛŋ.feɪ/
/t͡ʃʌŋ-/
Forms: form: Chengfeis
Senses: examples: text: thought to himself, "If he didn't know the truth before, he might have treated Xu Chengfei as a shameless heartless man." He glanced at Xu Chengfei with sympathy. To meet such a shameless woman and fall in love with such a shameless[…]
ref: 2019 November 9, Ye Yiluo, My Sassy 'Crown Princess': Volume 4, Funstory, →ISBN:
text: This old man was the Sect Leader of the Heavenly Dipper Sect, the Li family's Patriarch, Li Chengfei. Earlier, he was moved out of the cave by Lu Yang's sacred art, but he quickly rushed over here.
ref: 2019 November 24, Ban MuFangTang, Asura Continent: Volume 6, Funstory, →ISBN:
text: She could only feel warmth when she was next to Luo Chengfei. She began to entrust her feelings for her father and mother to Luo Chengfei, her feelings for him slowly developing and liking. Twelve years old. She started to put her love[…]
ref: 2019 December 13, Er Sheng, Debutantes, Funstory, →ISBN:
text: Han Chengfei spoke a few more words with Su Yuche, but he couldn't seem to beat the other person's venom, so he scolded angrily, "..." "Hit me, even the woman is hit. If I don't get this kind of resentment from Noble Heir of Japan today[…]
ref: 2020 September 1, Mingmen Shuixiang, Medical Princess is Hard to Pursue: Volume 1, Funstory, →ISBN:
text: arm, and in the next second, he uttered a sentence that shocked the heavens, "Ge Chengfei, tell me, why did Jing Liyuan divorce me? What did I do wrong? "You can tell me, but I'm the one that's easy to change. He won't tell me .
ref: 2020 September 20, Liang Chen, Marry To a Billionaire CEO: Volume 2, Funstory, →ISBN:
glosses: A Chinese name.
Fletcherism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Fletcher + -ism, after Horace Fletcher (1849–1919), American health-food enthusiast of the Victorian era.
Senses: examples: text: Once upon a time, there was a man named Thomas Edison, and he invented the dictating machine and the fluoroscope...and the repeating telegraph. And he was a firm believer in Fletcherism...and he played the organ and his favorite flower was the heliotrope.
ref: 1998 September 20, John Swartzwelder, “The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace”, in The Simpsons, season 10, episode 2, spoken by Homer Simpson (Dan Castellaneta), production code 5F21:
glosses: A dietary system prescribing the repeated chewing of food until all taste is lost, and in abstention from food until very hungry.
wikipedia: Horace Fletcher
Related terms: Fletcherian
Fletcherite
Fletcherian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Fletcherian
form: most Fletcherian
Etymology: From Fletcher + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the dietary system called Fletcherism.
Fletcherian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fletcherians
Etymology: From Fletcher + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A practitioner of this dietary system.
fletcherized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fletcherize
fletcherizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fletcherize
fletcherizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fletcherize
Wharton's jelly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after the English physician Thomas Wharton (1614–1673), who first described it in his 1656 publication Adenographia.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: jelly of Wharton
glosses: The soft, pulpy connective tissue that constitutes the matrix of the umbilical cord.
Shewfelts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Shewfelt
moomiyo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mumijo.
gruiforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gruiform
subrack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subracks
Etymology: From sub- + rack.
Senses: glosses: A narrow rack for computer equipment, designed to fit into a larger rack.
subracks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subrack
Eurocard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eurocards
Etymology: From Euro- + card.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A printed circuit board card in a standard European format, designed to plug into a standardized subrack.
Eurocards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eurocard
sporophorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sporophore + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Relating to sporophores
sporophorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having spores.
conductor rail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conductor rails
Senses: examples: text: As on Nos. 20001-3, the motor and generator armature shafts of the new locomotive each carry a heavy flywheel to provide kinetic energy and help maintain the speed of the motor-generator set during interruptions of supply, as at breaks in the continuity of the conductor rail.
ref: 1959 March, “The 2,500 h.p. electric locomotives for the Kent Coast electrification”, in Trains Illustrated, page 123:
text: On the morning of Thursday, November 3, flood water rose over the conductor rails in platforms 1 to 3 of Lewes station and the electric service to London had to be shut down.
ref: 1961 January, “Talking of Trains: Flooding at Lewes”, in Trains Illustrated, page 5:
glosses: Synonym of live rail.
synonyms: word: live rail
examples: text: "Keep off Conductor Rails" said red-painted notices at the platform ends, for third-rails were laid in many places even where electric trains never normally ran, and there had been many rumours of impending electrification of the Wirral, as a natural extension of the Mersey system, a quarter of a century before the change was actually made.
ref: 1954 March, W. A. Tuplin, “Recollections of the Wirral Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 167:
glosses: Synonym of third rail.
synonyms: word: third rail
snubbery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snubberies
Etymology: From snub + -ery.
Senses: glosses: Snubs, the act or result of snubbing.
Aghlabite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aghlabites
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Aghlabid.
Aghlabites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aghlabite
Aghlabids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aghlabid
-pol
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Clipping of politics.
Senses: examples: translingual US + -pol → uspol (“US politics”)
translingual DE + -pol → depol (“German politics”)
glosses: Used with a country code or abbreviation to form a noun denoting the politics of that country.
keep cave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kēp kāʹvē
ipa: /kiːp ˈkeɪvi/
Forms: form: keeps cave
form: keeping cave
form: kept cave
form: kept cave
Etymology: Used at Eton College, Berkshire, England. See cave (“look out, beware”).
Senses: examples: text: I vote we go down and explore. No one will come up this time o' day. We needn't keep cavé.
ref: 1899 January, Rudyard Kipling, “An Unsavoury Interlude”, in Stalky & Co., London: Macmillan & Co., published 1899, →OCLC, page 73:
text: I'll keep cave for ten minutes.
ref: 1911, Cosmo Hamilton, “Why Cupid Came to Earl’s Court”, in Short Plays for Small Stages, page 9:
text: Pip was mounting guard at the shed, and had undertaken to get Judy safely away, and Bunty had been stationed on the back verandah to keep cave and whistle three times if there was any danger.
ref: 1912, Ethel Turner, Seven Little Australians, page 154:
synonyms: keep a lookout
keep watch
qualifier: school slang
glosses: To maintain vigilance.
wikipedia: Eton College
keeps cave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of keep cave
keeping cave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of keep cave
kept cave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of keep cave
Khowar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: In those languages are, (1) Boorishki or Khajuna, the language of the Boorish or Yeshkuns, which is spoken in Hunza, Nager, and Yassin, (2) Shina, the language of the Shins which is spoken in the Gilgit Valley, (3) Khowar, the language of Chitral.
ref: 1885, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland, volume 17, page 89:
text: Few people in Rowshan regularly read Khowar works, however, and their attitudes towards the value of written Khowar are ambivalent.
ref: 2005, Magnus Marsden, Living Islam: Muslim Religious Experience in Pakistan's North-West Frontier:
text: Morgenstierne 1936 is a foundational article for Khowar etymological studies. It discusses four layers of historical accretion of Iranian lexical elements in Khowar: words from (a) unidentified Ir sources, (b) Pamir languages, mainly Wakhi, (c) Middle Ir. languages, and (4) numerous words from New Persia.
ref: 2016, Hans Henrich Hock, The Languages and Linguistics of South Asia: A Comprehensive Guide:
glosses: An Indo-Aryan language of the Dardic branch, spoken by the Kho people.
Synonyms: Chitrali
Arniya
tram rail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tram rails
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tramrail.
off-street
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From off- + street.
Senses: examples: text: off-street parking
glosses: not situated on a street; e.g. off-street parking, in contrast to parking on a street.
Synonyms: off-road
category references
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of category reference
heretoch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heretochs
Senses: examples: text: This large share of power, thus conferred by the people, though intended to preserve the liberty of the subject, was perhaps unreasonably detrimental to the prerogative of the crown: and accordingly we find a very ill use made of it by Edric duke of Mercia, in the reign of king Edmond Ironside; who, by his office of duke or heretoch, was entitled to a large command in the king's army, and by his repeated treacheries at last transferred the crown to Canute the Dane.
ref: 1771, William, Sir Blackstone, “Of the Military and Maritime States”, in Commentaries on the Laws of England, volume 1, pages 408–409:
glosses: Alternative form of heretog.
heretochs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heretoch
trithing-reeve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trithing-reeves
Senses: examples: text: Where a county is divided into three of these intermediate jurisdictions, they are called trithings, which were antiently governed by a trithing-reeve. These trithings still subsist in the large county of York, where by an easy corruption they are denominated ridings; the north, the east, and the west-riding.
ref: 1771, William, Sir Blackstone, “Of the Countries Subject to the Laws of England”, in Commentaries on the Laws of England, volume 1, page 116:
glosses: The official governing a trithing.
trithing-reeves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trithing-reeve