cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
geekdar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From geek + -dar.
Senses: examples: text: This gaydar/geekdar confusion got completely out of hand at the LISA/USENIX conference in Chicago a few weeks ago. While there is certainly a gay presence at all levels at this conference, it is not, in fact, a motss.con.
ref: 1996 October 28, Steven Levine, “Geekdar (Was: Re: "STR8 Acting" is just that....(NOT!))”, in soc.motss (Usenet):
text: quite the reverse, and if they want to argue socialization fine, but let's talk about that particular behemoth before we talk about other sexist undercurrents, because it's the rare woman who doesn't have a geekdar on alert 24/7 in her subconscious ready to blink red at the slightest hint of abnormality and urges them to say, "get a life" without any regard for the flipside benefits such as expertise, competence, excellence that they may posess^([sic]).
ref: 2005 March 6, googlegroups2sucks [username], “Re: A Question about Buddhism in the United States”, in talk.religion.buddhism (Usenet):
text: Plus my geekdar noticed the MacBook running Ableton Live that he uses for demo writing these days (earlier in the film he pulls out his old 4-track cassette recorder and plays old U2 demos).
ref: 2009 September 29, Daniel Dreibelbis, “It Might Get Loud - short film review”, in alt.guitar (Usenet):
glosses: The ability to detect whether or not a person is a geek.
jerkdar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From jerk + -dar.
Senses: examples: text: Yeah, he's blipped mine, too. But he's beating the hell out of my Dorkdar® and Jerkdar® so much that I can't get an accurate reading from the Gaydar® -- it's such a *sensitive* instrument, you know.
ref: 2001 December 7, Big J [username], “Re: David Spade dating 6ft. Caprice”, in alt.gossip.celebrities (Usenet):
text: I'm not a big fan of jerks, so it is good they are so easy to identify and to avoid. Your newfound “jerkdar” could be interpreted as a silver lining.
ref: 2005, Angela Thompson, Where the Heck Is That Place Called Hope?, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 68:
text: Knew it all too well from a couple of jerks she'd dated before her jerkdar had kicked in fully at age twenty.
ref: 2006, Debra Webb, Never Happened, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 90:
glosses: The ability to detect whether or not a person is a jerk.
blackdar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From black + -dar.
Senses: examples: text: I said I saw predominantly black people in those "most dangerous neighborhoods", and you went on and on about how race is an artificial construct, what if his grandfather was white, yada yada yada, yet now you have no problem identifying the person in the video as a "black woman". How is that? Is it a gift only you have? I have heard of gaydar...you must have blackdar.
ref: 2009 June 30, BillB [username], “Re: OT: RGP KKK”, in rec.gambling.poker (Usenet):
text: She is pegging my High-Maintenance-dar, and my High-Maintenance-dar is almost as good as my cradar and my blackdar.*
ref: 2010 February 19, Rev. Ivan Stang [username], “Re: Nerd gal, or sex goddess in disguise?”, in alt.slack (Usenet):
text: (I'd meet her during the party and she didn't set off my Blackdar at all, so that convinced me to stop listening to my Blackdar about the hostess.)
ref: 2012, Touré, “Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?: What It Means to Be Black Now”, in Free Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 112:
glosses: The ability to detect whether or not a person is of African ancestry by observing that person.
frunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹʌŋk/
rhymes: -ʌŋk
Forms: form: frunks
Etymology: Blend of front + trunk
Senses: examples: text: The Model S, showing off both its traditional trunk and its surprising "frunk."
ref: 2013 (summer), Standard, issue 17, page 50
text: I pop the trunk of the Porsche and find ...the engine. […] I walk around the front of the car, pop the other trunk—the frunk?—and discover a tire iron nestled next to the spare.
ref: 2014 March 11, T. T. Monday, The Setup Man: A Novel, Doubleday, →ISBN:
text: […] a rear cargo area that's more like that of a hatchback than the trunk of a sedan, and a "frunk" where the engine isn't. It's also theoretically safer than a dinosaur-burner, at least in a frontal collision, because the frunk provides a long crumple zone in the front […]
ref: 2014 August/September, Charged: Electric Vehicles Magazine, issue 15, page 65
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A trunk (boot, storage compartment) located at the front rather than the rear of a car.
Synonyms: word: froot
Related terms: bonnet
cray-dar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cray (“crazy”) + -dar.
Senses: examples: text: Someone who likes whips and bondage just as much as you will probably be at the party too; I’m sure your cray-dar will start beeping soon.
ref: 2012, Catherine Alvarez-McCurdy, "Halloween Costumes: Least To Most Fuckable", The Chicago Shady Dealer (humor magazine of The University of Chicago), Volume 9, Issue 2, 5 November 2012, page 3
text: Turn on your “cray-dar,” Aquarius. While you love an eccentric individual, this week you could magnetize people who are truly off their rockers.
ref: 2013 October 9, “Zodiac”, in The Valley Beat, number 160, page 26:
text: […] You put him right in the crosshairs of my mother's cray-dar, and I suspect he'll be keeping a very low profile for a while.”
ref: 2015, Sharon Saracino, Smitten with Death, The Wild Rose Press, →ISBN:
glosses: The ability to detect whether or not a person is crazy.
girlcation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: girlcations
Etymology: Blend of girl + vacation.
Senses: examples: text: Mancations and girlcations are all the rage. Getting away with your best buddies isn't new, but it's a hot niche market for the travel industry with lots of packages, hotels and resorts offering up bonding opportunities galore.
ref: 2008 September 18, Joanne Richard, “The great escapes”, in The Observer, Sarnia, Ontario:
text: So when Paula asked me during our July “girlcation” if she could take up my search, I was game.
ref: 2010 September, Lynette Majer, “The best gift of all”, in Northside, number 72, page 3:
text: When my friends and I were in Manhattan last year on a girlcation, we took public transportation everywhere, and it was both invigorating and slightly stinky.
ref: 2012, Jen Hatmaker, 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess, B & H Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 127:
glosses: A vacation taken by a group of women, sometimes catering specifically to female interests.
Coordinate terms: ladycation
mancation
shoegasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoegasms
Etymology: From shoe + -gasm.
Senses: examples: text: If the post had been about *plaid* doc martens, I would have said Schuh, right smack dab in Glasgow's downtown section. I had several shoegasms whilst there.
ref: 1996 June 21, Raeven, “Re: RED DOC MARTENS; RED FLANNEL JACKET”, in rec.music.industrial (Usenet):
text: Everyone knows that I can have a shoegasm just trying on a sexy pair of stilettos.
ref: 2007, Eli Davidson, Funky to Fabulous: Surefire Success Strategies for the Savvy, Sassy, and Swamped, Oak Grove Publishing, →ISBN, page 92:
text: Having a shoegasm over these Nicholas Kirkwood heels for summer!
ref: 2014, Landon Peoples, "Sexualization of Insta Fashion", Revival Magazine, Issue 7, Spring/Summer 2014, page 71
glosses: An intense excitement or pleasure caused by looking at, wearing, or buying shoes.
overnim
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overnims
form: overnimming
form: overnam
form: overnimmed
form: overnum
form: overnimmed
Etymology: From Middle English overnimen, from Old English oferniman (“to take violently, take away, carry off, confiscate”), equivalent to over- + nim (“to take”). Cognate with Dutch overnemen (“to take over”), German übernehmen (“to take over”).
Senses: glosses: To overtake; seize.
aspect-oriented language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aspect-oriented languages
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A programming language that aims to increase modularity by allowing the separation of cross-cutting concerns.
Synonyms: AOL
aspect-oriented programming language
Hypernyms: computer language
programming language
Hyponyms: english: a Java extension
translation: a Java extension
word: AspectJ
word: Common Lisp
english: through modules
translation: through modules
word: Perl
Related terms: aspect-oriented programming
aspect-oriented software development
aspect-oriented languages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aspect-oriented language
aspect-oriented programming language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aspect-oriented programming languages
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of aspect-oriented language.
synonyms: word: aspect-oriented language
aspect-oriented programming languages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aspect-oriented programming language
delegation language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delegation languages
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A programming language that supports prototype-based programming.
Hypernyms: prototype-based language
delegation languages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delegation language
prototype-based languages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prototype-based language
prototype-based language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prototype-based languages
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: class-based language
hypernyms: programming language
glosses: A programming language in which behaviour reuse (or inheritance) is performed via cloning existing objects that serve as prototypes.
Hyponyms: delegation language
role-oriented language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: role-oriented languages
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A programming language that uses a paradigm aiming at expressing things in terms analogous to human conceptual understanding of the World by using roles.
Hypernyms: programming language
Hyponyms: word: Chameleon
word: EpsilonJ
english: functions as roles
translation: functions as roles
word: JavaScript
word: Object Teams
english: Moose
translation: Moose
word: Perl 5
word: Perl 6
word: powerJava
role-oriented languages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of role-oriented language
E4X
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of ECMAScript for XML (“the ECMA-357 standard”).
caliphhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From caliph + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The office and role of caliph
caliphship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From caliph + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The dignity, rank or office of a caliph.
glosses: The territory or dominion of a caliph.
study group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: study groups
Senses: glosses: A small group of people who meet regularly to discuss a shared field of study.
study groups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of study group
Czechland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Czech + -land.
Senses: glosses: Czech Republic.
glosses: A lake located 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Prague, Saunders County, Nebraska, USA.
Czechlands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Czechlands
Etymology: From Czech + lands.
Senses: glosses: Czech Republic
tea break
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪk
Forms: form: tea breaks
Senses: glosses: A short break or rest period during the day when a cup of tea or coffee is drunk.
examples: text: An employee who works between 3 and 5 hours on a day should be entitled to a paid tea break for rest.
ref: 2015 October 9, “Tea breaks - What are you entitled to?”, in Communication Workers Union:
text: According to the SCHADS award, support workers are entitled to a paid 10 minute tea break for every four hours worked.
ref: 2022 December 31 (last accessed), “Meal time entitlements: can I take breaks?”, in Hireup, archived from the original on 30 Dec 2022:
glosses: A short rest break which an employee is entitled to take, shorter in duration than a lunchbreak
Related terms: coffee break
teacake
postjudge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: postjudges
form: postjudging
form: postjudged
form: postjudged
Etymology: From post- + judge.
Senses: examples: text: In making this personal statement of my views, to which you are entitled, nothing that I say is intended either to postjudge the past or to prejudge the future.
ref: 1943, United States. Congress. Joint Committee ..., Hearings, page 1476:
text: There is a prejudging of the Commission's report and a postjudging of Congress' attitude last year.
ref: 1967, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Territorial and Insular Affairs, Election of Virgin Islands Governor:
text: She had me thinking about Mama and all the shit she'd say about people she don't even know. Mama be pre and postjudging all the time.
ref: 2006, V. Anthony Rivers, My Life Is All I Have:
glosses: Used to contrast with "prejudge": To judge after the fact.
nearcation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nearcations
Etymology: Blend of near + vacation.
Senses: examples: text: Economic downturns and high gas prices may restrain the urge to travel, but they don't eliminate it. To fill this ever-present urge, people replace vacations to faraway places with “staycations” or “nearcations.”
ref: 2010, Paul Edwards, Sarah Edwards, & Peter Economy, Home-Based Business for Dummies, Wiley, →ISBN:
text: My 'nearcation' was in Brittany, France's very own Celtic fringe where you're most likely to feel at home if you're from Ireland.
ref: 2012 September 22, Edward McCann, “Great Brittany”, in Belfast Telegraph:
text: "But if petrol prices stay high and rail fares continue to rise, staycations may increasingly evolve into 'nearcations'."
ref: 2012 October 22, “Britons increasingly opting for 'nearcations'”, in The Telegraph:
glosses: A vacation to a destination relatively close to one's home.
Related terms: staycation
nearcations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nearcation
shoegasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoegasm
girlcations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of girlcation
fabulicious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fabulicious
form: most fabulicious
Etymology: Blend of fabulous + delicious.
Senses: examples: text: By the dinner rest stop, I broke down and spent some cash to order a piece of blackberry pie. Stabbed the fork in for a bite. Gush. Held its tartness on my tongue. Soft fabulicious mouthful.
ref: 2005, Katia Noyes, Crashing America, Alyson Books, →ISBN, page 32:
text: "But we need a really fabulicious plan for the opening—something to get everyone's attention!"
ref: 2006, Pamela Jane, Polly's Fabulous Pet Palace, Meredith Books, →ISBN:
text: And her hair was fabulicious
ref: 2009, Sheila Callaghan, Scab: A Comic Drama in Two Acts, Samuel French, →ISBN, page 33:
glosses: Exceptionally fabulous and appealing.
capsise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: capsises
form: capsising
form: capsised
form: capsised
Etymology: Hypercorrection by analysis of capsize as caps + -ize, which is then converted to the British English -ise.
Senses: examples: text: ... he observed at some distance an Esquimeaux paddling up and down, as if for amusement: having made a sign to him to come over, he told him he would give him a knife and a few needles, in case he would capsise himself in his canoe.
ref: 1819, Thomas MacKeevor, A Voyage to Hudson's Bay: During the Summer of 1812. Containing a Particular Account of the Icebergs and Other Phenomena which Present Themselves in Those Regions; Also, a Description of the Esquimeaux and North American Indians; Their Manners, Customs, Dress, Language, &c ..., page 32:
text: “Please, sir,” said Jem, who was barefooted, as well as bareheaded, touching the lock of hair on his forehead, “the cook has capsised the kettle—but he has put more on.”
ref: 1836, Frederick Marryat, Clarkson Stanfield, The Pirate, and the Three Cutters, page 251:
text: Q. How long is that ago ? A. Three weeks ago. They told us if we came alongside they would capsise us.
ref: 1863, Mersey Docks, Harbour Board, Evidence: taken before the Marine Committee, under an appointment of the board, of the 2nd April, 1863, to enquire into the necessity for the establishment of a river police, and to report thereon to the board, page 82:
text: No nautical man now is surprised at her capsising. Her great faults seemed to be topweight, from various causes, a very low freeboard (far too little), and hence the extraordinary height of her centre of gravity ; the consequences of all of which were her utter inability to recover herself on going over her angle of safety, and her ultimate capsising.
ref: 1870, The Nautical Magazine, page 611:
glosses: Nonstandard spelling of capsize.
transploitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From trans + -sploitation.
Senses: examples: text: Created by photographer Austin Young and Saskia Wilson-Brown, the series was first screened in 2007 as part of the Silver Lake Film Festival, and last week’s follow-up sought to probe the “transploitation” genre (as the creators have coined it) further, with short films and music videos by and about their favorite gender-blender superstars.
ref: 2009 December 9, Lina Lecaro, “Drag-Hagging With The Best Of 'Em”, in LA Weekly:
text: […] and finally climaxing in a buckets-of-gore showdown in a suburban kitchen where a sexy bad guy is killed 42 ways to Sunday, this cheesy, way beyond camp "transploitation" snuff film has a truckload of chills and giggles.
ref: 2010 July 8, David Lambe, “Queer eye for the gore fest”, in Bay Area Reporter, volume 40, number 27, page 22:
text: In the same way that the transploitation film Ticked Off Trannies with Knives was so named in order to take ownership of a term that can be used derisively, couldn’t we all agree that “she-mail” was meant in good fun and leave it at that?
ref: 2014 April 18, Anna Waugh, “'Drag Race' promises to drop 'transphobic' gags”, in Dallas Voice, volume 30, number 49, page 4:
glosses: The exploitation of transgender/transsexual people in the media (especially film and television).
torulus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toruli
Etymology: From Latin torulus.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The socket of an antenna.
deisticness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Deisticness
Etymology: From deistic + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being deistic.
Deisticness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of deisticness.
child molester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: child molesters
form: child-molester
Senses: examples: text: (all slang)
text: Is there available for distribution a copy of your essay on the subject of "The Menace of the Child Molester", which has been published in connection with a work of non-fiction […]
ref: 1967, Extent of Subversion in Campus Disorders, page 336:
topics: criminology
human-sciences
law
sciences
synonyms: Chester
child toucher
chimo
chomo
diaper sniper
goof
kiddy fiddler
pedocriminal
short eyes
hypernyms: child abuser
glosses: Someone who has committed an act of child molestation; someone who has sexually abused a minor.
space-saving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more space-saving
form: most space-saving
Etymology: From space + saving.
Senses: glosses: Taking up only a limited amount of space or room; compact.
stapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stap
stapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stap
trigender
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + gender.
Senses: glosses: Having or pertaining to three genders.
degree place
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: degree places
Senses: examples: text: The UGC-funded institutions and their continuing education units together with the private institutions totally provide around 20,000 first year degree places and 25,000 first year sub-degree places.
ref: 2013, Simon K.S. Cheung, Joseph Fong, Wilfred Fong, Hybrid Learning and Continuing Education:
text: The UGC-funded universities and the self-financing, degree-awarding institutions also provided around 4,600 Senior-year undergraduate places and 11,500 top-up degree places respectively for sub-degree graduates and students with other qualifications.
ref: 2016, Hong Kong, page 130:
text: At the beginning of the 1980s, university degree places in Hong Kong were available to only 2 percent of the relevant student population.
ref: 2017, Gerard A. Postiglione, Julian Leung Yat Ming, Education and Society in Hong Kong:
glosses: An available place or slot for earning a degree at an institution such as a university or college.
degree places
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of degree place
bubble boy disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Due to some sufferers who have become famous for living in a sterile environment, or a "bubble".
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: bubble boy syndrome
qualifier: medical genetics
glosses: Severe combined immunodeficiency.
bubble baby disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bubble boy disease.
synonyms: word: bubble boy disease
bubble boy syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bubble boy disease.
synonyms: word: bubble boy disease
uncrawlable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + crawlable.
Senses: glosses: Not crawlable.
broadcastability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From broadcast + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being broadcastable.
beelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beelike
form: most beelike
Etymology: From bee + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a bee.
Boisean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Boisean
form: most Boisean
Etymology: From Boise + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Boise, Idaho, United States.
Boisean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Boiseans
Etymology: From Boise + -an.
Senses: glosses: A person from Boise, Idaho, United States.
Boiseans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Boisean
ex-presidents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ex-president
blundersome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blundersome
form: most blundersome
Etymology: From blunder + -some.
Senses: examples: text: The disciples were proud, blundersome, quick tempered, forgetful, easily provoked to jealousy, sensitive, and often given to discouragement; but Jesus never condemned or scolded them.
ref: 2007, Edward John Carnell, A Philosophy of the Christian Religion - Page 436:
text: Laborious experiment to discover the facts about our environment is wearisome to all but a persistent few. Surely all this blundersome experimenting can be by-passed by some more direct route to the heart of nature?
ref: 2014, Eric Temple Bell, The Magic of Numbers - Page 76:
text: He had serious doubts that the person behind it, which he assumed was Varik, would be so crass and blundersome if he wanted to seriously threaten Marcus' existence.
ref: 2014, Al K. Line, Orientation: The Commorancy Book 1 - Page 215:
synonyms: blunderful
blunderous
blundery
glosses: Apt or prone to cause blunders; troublesome; difficult; problematic.
examples: text: She could not scold the Idiot whatever blundersome thing he did; her compassion for him was limitless to encompass his lack of intelligence.
ref: 1992, Byron Herbert Reece, Better a Dinner of Herbs - Page 181:
text: We open with the girl, born premature and blundersome (asthmatic, pigeon-toes, a crooked nose)—hardly the cynosure her genes could've produced.
ref: 2011, Caki Wilkinson, Circles where the Head Should be: Poems - Page 21:
synonyms: blundery
glosses: Characterised or marked by blunders or mistakes; messed-up.
overjudge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overjudges
form: overjudging
form: overjudged
form: overjudged
Etymology: From over- + judge.
Senses: examples: text: It seems incongruous for the plaintiff to claim that the defendant should overjudge him in a matter in which he assumed to judge and to do all that he required or supposed necessary to be done in the premises, and that the defendant should be responsible for the inadequacy of what the plaintiff adjudged and did.
ref: 1877, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Vermont
text: The most ordinary temptation of the cultivated mind is to desire to criticize too much, to overjudge, to criticize even that of which he knows nothing.
ref: 1914, David Josiah Brewer, Crowned Masterpieces of Eloquence Representing the Advance of Civilization:
text: People with BPD are sometimes too interpersonally sensitive, and they overjudge situations, such as feeling that no one loves them or that people are talking about them.
ref: 2014, Blaise A Aguirre, Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents, 2nd Edition:
glosses: To judge excessively or too harshly.
overjudge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overjudges
Etymology: From over- + judge.
Senses: examples: text: But without importing into the case any extravagant conclusions, no doubt need be entertained that the overjudge at Strassburg wielded an immense influence; although, looking at the whole spirit of the Ordinances before us, it is hardly conceivable that his judicial decisions were promulgated on his own sole and undivided authority.
ref: 1883, Robert Freke Gould, The history of freemasonry:
glosses: A supreme or superior judge.
ampelotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ampelo- + therapy.
Senses: examples: text: There is much evidence that ampelotherapy is used as a natural treatment because of its strong curative powers and its ability to produce good results in many cases especially for people with nervous tension, tiredness, a weakened immune system, involuntary weight loss, or heart and respiratory disorders, and patients in a stage of recovering after some serious surgeries.
ref: 2008, Svetlana Konnikova, Mama's Home Remedies:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The therapeutic use of grapes.
Synonyms: grape therapy
grape diet
ampelo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄμπελος (ámpelos, “vine”).
Senses: glosses: vine or grape
amplitron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæm.pləˌtɹɒn/
ipa: /ˈæm.pləˌtɹɑn/
Forms: form: amplitrons
Etymology: Blend of amplify + -tron
Senses: glosses: A form of microwave amplifier.
afterview
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: afterviews
Etymology: From after- + view.
Senses: examples: text: 1828, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, London: William Pickering, Volume 3, Translator’s Preface, The Death of Wallenstein by Friedrich Schiller, pp. 252-253,
A Translator stands connected with the original Author by a certain law of subordination, which makes it more decorous to point out excellencies than defects: indeed he is not likely to be a fair judge of either. The pleasure or disgust from his own labour will mingle with the feelings that arise from an afterview of the original.
text: A summary is a brief preview or afterview; it is many ideas, once over lightly. A summary of this book, for example, would present its three basic parts and list the major tools and techniques which are presented.
ref: 1987, Allison Rossett, Training Needs Assessment - Page 104:
text: The afterview considers the outcome of my "restudy" of the papers in more detail, but two matters can be signaled early on.
ref: 1993, Andrew Strathern, Landmarks: Reflections on Anthropology - Page viii:
synonyms: hindsight
reconsideration
retrospect
glosses: A looking back; a retrospective view or thought.
examples: text: England disappeared so quickly. Soon there was nothing but sea. […] I sat down to watch the spot where my country dissolved. It was there, etched on to my eyes like an afterview of the sun.
ref: 2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 43, in Small Island, London: Review, page 406:
synonyms: afterimage
hypernyms: after-impression
glosses: An image which persists or remains in negative after the original stimulation has ended.
POG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: POGs
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
oncology
sciences
glosses: Acronym of personalized oncogenomics.
topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: poge
pogue
glosses: Acronym of person other than grunt, a member of military staff other than infantry.
glosses: Alternative form of pog (“milk cap”).
topics: business
marketing
glosses: Acronym of planogram.
Derived terms: pogchamp
POGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of POG
broken plural
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broken plurals
Etymology: Calque of Arabic جَمْع مُكَسَّر (jamʕ mukassar).
Senses: antonyms: sound plural
glosses: An irregular plural formed by changing the pattern of consonants and vowels inside the singular form, found in the Semitic languages and other Afroasiatic languages such as Berber. An example in Arabic is مَكَاتِب (makātib, “desks”), the plural form of مَكْتَب (maktab, “desk”).
postdrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postdromes
Etymology: By analogy with syndrome and prodrome. See post-.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The set of symptoms that persist after a condition (typically a migraine) has passed.
Derived terms: postdromal
anchoretically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From anchoretic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an anchoretic manner
KORT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: KORTs
form: KORT
form: K.O.R.T.
form: KoRT
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Knight of the Round Table.
KoRT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: KoRTs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Knight of the Round Table.
KoRT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: KORT
form: K.O.R.T.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Knights of the Round Table.
lesdars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lesdar
exoring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exorings
Etymology: From exo- (“extrasolar”) + ring (“planetary rings”).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: a ring or ring system around an exoplanet (extrasolar planet)
Related terms: exocomet
exomoon
exoplanet
planetary ring
planet
exorings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exoring
clathrate compounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clathrate compound
aMCI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aMCIs
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of amnestic mild cognitive impairment.
amnestic mild cognitive impairment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amnestic mild cognitive impairments
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
related: word: aMCI
glosses: A clinically recognized condition where memory impairment is greater than the expected range of impairment due to old age at the patient’s age.
MOFs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MOF
Trabant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌtɹæˈbænt/
/ˈtɹæˌbænt/
Forms: form: Trabants
Etymology: Borrowed from German Trabant.
Senses: glosses: A make of East German car.
anemotropism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The orientation of plants in response to the direction of the wind.
Hypernyms: anemotaxis
anhepatia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From an- + hepato- + -ia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The total failure of liver function.
golden spike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golden spikes
Senses: examples: text: There was a further special problem when looking for a marker or definition of the Precambrian-Cambrian golden spike.
ref: 2009, Susan Turner, David Oldroyd, chapter 13, in The Paleobiological Revolution: Essays on the Growth of Modern Paleontology, page 261:
text: The AWG is working backwards, Finney says: normally, geologists identify strata that should enter the geological timescale before considering a golden spike; in this case, they’re seeking out the lower boundary of an undefined set of geological layers.
ref: 2022 December 13, McKenzie Prillaman, “Are we in the Anthropocene? Geologists could define new epoch for Earth”, in Nature, →DOI:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A geologic marker created by a global event that leads to long lasting global changes recorded in the geologic record that can be used to indicate a change in a geologic time division such as an epoch, age, era.
golden spikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of golden spike
type conversion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: type conversions
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
hypernyms: conversion
glosses: changing an entity from one datatype to another according to explicit or implicit rules.
Related terms: typecasting
type coercion
amphetaminic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Etymology: From amphetamine + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or containing an amphetamine
examples: text: One way to "triumph" is via the rigors of self-improvement (diet, exercise, cosmetic surgery, Franklin Quest time-management seminars), to which the crew's amphetaminic upkeep of the Nadir is an unsubtle analogue.
ref: 1996, David Foster Wallace, “Shipping Out: On the (nearly lethal) comforts of a luxury cruise”, in Harpers Magazine:
glosses: As if fueled by amphetamines; frenetic, feverish, juiced up
amphetaminic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Forms: form: amphetaminics
Etymology: From amphetamine + -ic.
Senses: glosses: An amphetamine or chemically related substance
type coercion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: type coercions
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
synonyms: type casting
type conversion
glosses: changing an entity from one data type to another according to explicit or implicit rules.
Hyponyms: coercion
Related terms: typecasting
type coercions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of type coercion
type conversions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of type conversion
posadero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: posaderos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish posadero.
Senses: glosses: An innkeeper in a Spanish-speaking place.
in fairness
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: in all fairness
form: infairness
Senses: examples: text: Chelsea were given a debatable penalty for Eden Hazard to make it 2-1 in the first period of extra-time and it was another night of repeat offending from Costa. Mourinho, in fairness, focused on his team’s shortcomings rather than any misplaced sense of injustice and even called for Uefa to let Ibrahimovic off.
ref: 2015 March 12, Daniel Taylor, “Chelsea out of Champions League after Thiago Silva sends 10-man PSG through on away goals”, in The Guardian (London):
text: The chap opposite seems to be trying to pull a fast one, and having seen the guard is trying to buy a ticket online... but doesn't succeed. The guard helpfully sells him one, but not quite at the price of one purchased in advance. In fairness he doesn't kick off, nor does the guard treat him like some common criminal. It's a fair cop - or should that be a fare cop?
ref: 2024 April 17, “Rural railways: do they deliver?”, in RAIL, number 1007, page 57:
info_templates: extra_data: words: to
expansion: [with to]
synonyms: to be fair
glosses: As a counterpoint; for the sake of balance; to lessen the harm.
double first cousin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double first cousins
Senses: glosses: A first cousin with whom one shares four grandparents (and hence is also a double cousin).
half-first cousin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-first cousins
form: half first cousin
Senses: glosses: The offspring of a parent's half-sibling.
halfsibling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halfsiblings
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of half sibling.
halfsiblings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halfsibling
half-first cousins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half-first cousin
double first cousins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double first cousin
half aunts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half aunt
paternal half-uncle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paternal half-uncles
Senses: glosses: A half-brother of one's father.
glosses: A half brother-in-law of one's father.
maternal half-uncle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maternal half-uncles
Senses: glosses: A half-brother of one's mother.
glosses: A half brother-in-law of one's mother.
paternal half aunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paternal half aunts
Senses: glosses: A half-sister of one's father.
glosses: A half sister-in-law of one's father.
maternal half aunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maternal half aunts
Senses: glosses: A half-sister of one's mother.
glosses: A half sister-in-law of one's mother.
maternal half aunts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maternal half aunt
paternal half aunts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paternal half aunt
paternal half-uncles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paternal half-uncle
maternal half-uncles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maternal half-uncle
siblingship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪblɪŋˌʃɪp/
Forms: form: siblingships
Etymology: From sibling + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: It emerges that siblingships inevitably involve frictions in various forms.
ref: 2014 July 11, Eva Gulløv, Charlotte Palludan, and Ida Wentzel Winther, “Engaging siblingships”, in Childhood, volume 22, number 4, →DOI:
text: Both in the US and worldwide, siblingship is a common human experience, with there being 1.94 children per household in the US and 2.3 children per household worldwide.
ref: 2024 May 27, Arya Choudhury, “The Science of Siblingship”, in The Cardinal Chronicle:
glosses: The role or position of sibling.
Synonyms: siblinghood
siblingships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of siblingship
amnestic mild cognitive impairments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amnestic mild cognitive impairment
ampers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amper
aMCIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aMCI
Kasack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kasacks
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Cossack.
Kasacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kasack
knismogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Causing a tickling sensation.
Kearns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kearnses
form: Carnes
form: Karns
Etymology: Anglicized form of Irish Ó Céirín, a personal name derived from a diminutive of ciar (“dark”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
kinetocardiogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kinetocardiograms
Senses: glosses: A diagnostic image produced by kinetocardiography.
kinetocardiograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kinetocardiogram
kinetocardiographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From kinetocardiography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to kinetocardiography.
apexcardiographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to apexcardiography.
apexcardiogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apexcardiograms
Etymology: From apex + cardiogram.
Senses: glosses: A diagnostic image produced by apexcardiography.
apexcardiograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apexcardiogram
euphoretic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more euphoretic
form: most euphoretic
Senses: glosses: Producing a feeling of euphoria.
euphoretic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: euphoretics
Senses: glosses: Any drug that produces a feeling of euphoria.
euphoretics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of euphoretic
Euphie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Euphemia + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Euphemia.
overeruption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌpʃən
Forms: form: overeruptions
Etymology: From over- + eruption.
Senses: examples: text: Overeruption can cause interferences in the occlusion and difficulty when constructing dentures.
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: The physiological movement of a tooth lacking an opposing partner in the dental occlusion.
Related terms: overerupt
undererupt
undereruption
Dahl effect
overeruptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overeruption
MJDF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Membership of the Joint Dental Faculties: an examination taken by dentists.
hypersensitization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + sensitization.
Senses: glosses: The process of making something hypersensitive.
biogeotechnological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + geotechnological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to biogeotechnology.
biogeotechnology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biogeotechnologies
Etymology: From bio- + geotechnology.
Senses: glosses: biotechnology applied to solve geological problems
battery boosters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of battery booster
antiprejudicial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiprejudicial
form: most antiprejudicial
Etymology: From anti- + prejudicial.
Senses: glosses: Opposing prejudice.
polyglycerol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyglycerols
Etymology: From poly- + glycerol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several polymeric condensation products of glycerol
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several polymeric esters of glycerol
Derived terms: polyglycerol polyricinoleate
botch-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: botch-ups
Senses: glosses: A botched job.
Synonyms: botch job
warm body
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warm bodies
Senses: examples: text: So when leaders keep around C players (or the warm bodies), the result is almost always worse than having nobody for a short period of time.
ref: 2014 September 12, Jim Alampi, “How a Warm Body Sometimes Can Be Worse Than Nobody at All”, in Entrepreneur:
text: Why just hire a warm body, when you can hire for loyalty?.
ref: 2013 May 30, “Five Tips to Hire for Loyalty, Not Just a Warm Body”, in HR News Daily:
glosses: Any person who is present.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see warm, body.
Synonyms: word: bums in seats
Related terms: room meat
warm bodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I need some warm bodies to volunteer to help with this event.
glosses: plural of warm body.
passive solar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Passive solar energy utilizes building constituents such as walls, floors, roofs, windows, exterior building elements and landscaping to control heat generated by sun.
ref: 2014 September 20, “Passive Solar Energy”, in AENews:
glosses: Making direct use of solar energy without first converting it to another form such as electricity.
active solar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: By contrast, an active solar collector is an ancillary system; instead of incorporating heat collection, storage, and release into the structure of the building, active systems are made up of devices attached to the structure.
ref: 1997, James Kachadorian, The Passive Solar House:
glosses: Making indirect use of solar energy by first converting it to another form (e.g. by using solar panels).
coaster brake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coaster brakes
Senses: examples: text: Billy slammed on his coaster brakes and said "anybody wanna go on up to Greasy Lake?"
ref: 1973, Bruce Springsteen, “Spirit in the Night”:
text: The coaster brake is one of the three types of braking mechanism developed to slow down and stop a bike safely and efficiently. This mechanism quickly gained in popularity in the USA, Germany and the Netherlands in the 1890s and is still used for upright and children's bicycles.
ref: 2017, Suze Clemitson, A History of Cycling in 100 Objects, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 54:
synonyms: back pedal brake
foot brake
hypernyms: drum brake
glosses: A special rear hub for a bicycle that functions as a brake when the user pedals backwards, and which allows the bicycle to roll without forcing the pedals to turn.
coaster brakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coaster brake
thriftster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thriftsters
Etymology: From thrift + -ster.
Senses: examples: text: Happy shopping, fellow thriftsters.
ref: 2005, Rebecca Temmer, "'Diamond in the must' thrift-store hunt", Imprint (University of Waterloo), Volume 28, Number 18, 25 November 2005, page 14
text: Buffalo Exchange is one of Williamsburg's hidden gems. Packed full of vintage and brand name clothing at a savvy price, it's a thriftster's haven.
ref: 2010, Tabitha Akins, "Brooklyn", in "Outside Of Your Borough: Thrift Stores", W27 (State University of New York), Volume 42, Issue 79, March 2010, page 18
text: Looks like another big-box store is bound for Williston — and this one actually has some thriftster appeal.
ref: 2011, Cathy Resmer & Tyler Machado, "Last Seven Days", Seven Days, 5 October 2011 - 12 October 2011, Volume 17, Number 5, page 5
glosses: A person who buys clothing at thrift shops or otherwise tries to be fashionable on a budget.
thriftsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thriftster
Niort
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /niˈɔː(ɹ)/
ipa: /niˈɔː(ɹ)t/
Etymology: From French Niort.
Senses: glosses: A commune, the capital of Deux-Sèvres department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, in western France.
drizzler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drizzlers
Etymology: From drizzle + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I used a honey drizzler to add honey to the mixture.
glosses: A kitchen utensil with a handle and a head appropriate for drizzling a viscous liquid, such as honey.
glosses: Any pouring device intended to allow liquids to be drizzled.
Derived terms: honey drizzler