cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
character density
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The mean character density for the survey was 4060 characters per page. No recommendations on character density were found in the literature.
ref: 1982, R. A. Mccullough, A review and evaluation of the Langley Research Center's Scientific and Technical Information Program, page 81:
text: Assuming an inch as the given unit length of space and a character density of 5 cpi; a numeric coding structure of 10 characters has an information density of 10 to the 5th power, i.e., 100,000 units and an alphanumeric coding structure of 36 characters has an information density of 36 to the 5th power, i.e. 60,466,176 units.
ref: 1989, Craig K. Harmon, Russ Adams, Reading between the lines: an introduction to bar code technology, page 229:
text: The printed destination line must have a minimum character height of 0.135 inch and a maximum character density of approximately 17 characters per inch.
ref: 1996, Postal Bulletin, page 89:
text: In RTU (Remote Terminal Unit) mode, each 8-bit byte in a message contains two 4-bit hexadecimal characters. The main advantage of this mode is that its greater character density allows better data throughput than ASCII for the same baud rate.
ref: 2008, D.A.Godse A.P.Godse, Microprocessor, Microcontroller & Applications, page 30:
glosses: A measure of the number of characters that are represented in a specified unit of text stream.
examples: text: Based on the findings and research designs of relevant studies done in the past (cf. Jin, 2006; Ke, 1996; Ping, 2006; Xiao, 2002), the threshold of the character density in this study was set at 11 strokes.
ref: 2014, ZhaoHong Han, Studies in Second Language Acquisition of Chinese, page 131:
text: With regards to this strand of research, Hayes (1987) finds that character recognition is independent of character density, whereas Chin (1973), whose data were collected from a different level of learning Chinese, reports the opposite.
ref: 2017, Istvan Kecskes, Chaofen Sun, Key Issues in Chinese as a Second Language Research:
text: Three studies investigating the effects of character density on L2 Chinese character production found that the more strokes a character has, the more difficult it is to reproduce by hand (Ke, 1996a; L. Liu, 2008; Y. Xiao, 2002).
ref: 2018, Chuanren Ke, The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Second Language Acquisition:
glosses: The number of strokes required to form a Chinese character.
show one's claws
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shows one's claws
form: showing one's claws
form: showed one's claws
form: shown one's claws
Etymology: From the way a feline will extend its claws when attacking, as opposed to leaving them retracted so that they do not show.
Senses: examples: text: In this event he really showed his claws by winning ten games, drawing four while losing four.
ref: 1949, Chess Review - Volume 17, page 7:
text: Perhaps if I'd been dressed in conventional clothes and carried a suitcase they would have been more sure of themselves, but right up until the time that I reached my final destination, a transit camp outside Liverpool, I was handled with kid gloves, as if they suspected my present tractability were transient and that if they made a false move I would show my claws.
ref: 2013, Gwen Moffat, Space Below My Feet:
text: But when Louis showed his claws, Lothar knew he meant business.
ref: 2014, Janet L. Nelson, Charles The Bald, page xiv:
glosses: To demonstrate one's ability to hurt another.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see show, claw.
shows one's claws
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of show one's claws
showing one's claws
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of show one's claws
showed one's claws
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of show one's claws
shown one's claws
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of show one's claws
Ugarit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ugaritic 𐎜𐎂𐎗𐎚 (ủgrt /⁠ʾugarītu⁠/).
Senses: glosses: An ancient port city in northern Syria, discovered by accident in 1928 together with the Ugaritic texts.
Derived terms: Ugaritan
Ugaritian
Ugaritic
Ugaritism
Iesvs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Iesvses
Senses: glosses: Jesus Christ
book-ending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bookending.
book-ended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bookended.
Psy.D.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PsyD
Etymology: Abbreviation of New Latin psychologiae doctor.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Doctor of Psychology.
linkboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linkboys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of link boy.
link boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of link boy
man-mountain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: man-mountains
Senses: examples: text: Frank was squashed by having this man-mountain on top of him, but didn’t feel this was the right moment to complain.
ref: 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A physically large, powerful, and imposing man.
man-mountains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of man-mountain
milk albuminate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milk albuminates
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: lactalbumin
lacticol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A polyhydric alcohol (polyol) derived from lactose, used as a sweetener
lecithinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lecithinates
form: lecithinating
form: lecithinated
form: lecithinated
Senses: examples: text: Lecithinated Soy Flour -- Soy flour to which lecithin is added. The lecithin contributes emulsification and pan release properties. It is used in breading, caked foods, and dough mixes.
ref: 2001, Robert S. Igoe, Dictionary of Food Ingredients, 4th edition, Springer:
glosses: to add lecithin to
linalyl isobutyrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: 3,7-dimethyl-2,6-octadien-3-yl isobutrate; a flavouring agent that is liquid, slightly yellow and has a fruity odour.
carubin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Scientific name for locust bean gum
magnesium caseinate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnesium caseinates
Etymology: From magnesium + caseinate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The magnesium form of caseinate; a food additive used in baked goods and drinks.
dysphemistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dysphemistically
form: most dysphemistically
Etymology: From dysphemistic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: They then give some twenty slang expressions used dysphemistically as a designation for a house or place of residence.
ref: 1933, Gerrit Albertus van Dongen, Amelioratives in English, volume 1, page 12:
antonyms: euphemistically
glosses: In a dysphemistic manner.
great-grandnephew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great-grandnephews
Etymology: From great- + grandnephew.
Senses: glosses: A great-grandson of one's sibling, a grandson of one's nephew or niece. (Brother's great-grandson: fraternal great-grandnephew. Sister's great-grandson: sororal great-grandnephew.)
Synonyms: great-great-nephew
great-grandniece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great-grandnieces
Etymology: From great- + grandniece.
Senses: glosses: A great-granddaughter of one's sibling, a granddaughter of one's nephew or niece. (Brother's great-granddaughter: fraternal great-grandniece. Sister's great-granddaughter: sororal great-grandniece)
Synonyms: great-great-niece
short-leggedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shortleggedness
Etymology: From short-legged + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: A special characteristic of the LTI is the shameless shortleggedness of their lies.
ref: 2000, Wolfgang Mieder, Strategies of Wisdom: Anglo-American and German Proverb Studies, page 313:
text: The shortleggedness of the Dexter cattle is determined by a dominant factor K (heterozygote Kk).
ref: 1968, Kjeld Wamberg, Veterinary Encyclopedia: Diagnosis and Treatment, Volume 1, page 648:
text: In 1919 another mutation for shortleggedness appeared among sheep of eastern Norway
ref: 1949, Growth, volumes 13-14, page 299:
glosses: The state or quality of being short-legged.
Wellesley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: variously
ipa: /ˈwɛlɪzli/
ipa: /ˈwɛlzli/
Forms: form: Wellersley
form: Wellsley
Etymology: From the name of the town Wells (“springs”) + lēah (“woodland”), thus 'the woodland by the springs'.
Senses: glosses: An English surname.
glosses: A town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts; named for the estate of local benefactor Horatio Hollis Hunnewell
glosses: A township in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: Ellipsis of Wellesley College.
Derived terms: Wellesley effect
Cricklade
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small town and civil parish in northern Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU1093).
Marsh Barton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An area and trading estate in the city of Exeter, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX9290).
rantiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of ranty: most ranty
rantier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of ranty: more ranty
Stokie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Stokies
Etymology: From Stoke + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: Stoke are a decent club fallen behind, League Cup winners back in 1971. […] My mate Alec, a Stokie, suggests later that in earlier times good professionals would have stopped at, say, five in a game like this: […]
ref: 2012, John Williams, Into the Red:
glosses: A person from Stoke-on-Trent, England.
Stokies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Stokie
trading estate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trading estates
Senses: glosses: An area of land used by a number of businesses for commercial and industrial purposes.
Related terms: business park
industrial estate
trading estates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trading estate
like stink on shit
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: In very close proximity; following closely.
Synonyms: like white on rice
Related terms: like stink
Eastalgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of East + nostalgia, a calque of German Ostalgie.
Senses: glosses: Nostalgia for East Germany; Ostalgie
Clemmie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Diminutive + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Clementine.
St Erth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in south-west Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW5535).
Sanfilippo syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after the US doctor Sylvester Sanfilippo who described the condition.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: mucopolysaccharidosis type III
glosses: A rare autosomal-recessive lysosomal storage disease that primarily affects the brain and spinal cord, caused by a buildup of glycosaminoglycans in the body's lysosomes.
be right
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: is right
form: being right
form: was right
form: been right
Senses: antonyms: be wrong
be mistaken
err
glosses: To be correct in one's judgment or statement about something. (This entry is a translation hub.)
cherry top
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cherry tops
Senses: examples: text: The cops turned on their cherry top lights and were approaching them fast.
ref: 2010, Kato, Good Guy Gone Bad, page 121:
text: When I caught up to the swirling cherry top lights, I stopped to rest and to check out what was happening.
ref: 2010, Michael Stull, Wallowing: The Joys and Pains of a Common Joe, page 43:
text: Lamont jammed the brakes and reached down by the shotgun seat, grabbing a cherry top. There was no time to throw it up on the roof of his car.
ref: 2015, James Patterson, Truth or Die, page 170:
glosses: Alternative form of cherrytop.
cherry tops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cherry top
Toddington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL0028).
glosses: A village and civil parish in Tewkesbury borough, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SP0332).
glosses: A suburb of Littlehampton, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ0303).
cherrytop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cherrytops
form: cherry top
Etymology: From cherry + top, from the resemblance to a maraschino cherry on top of a dessert.
Senses: examples: text: And it was less than five minutes before a black-and-white turned off Wisconsin Avenue onto P Street to investigate, its spotlight sweeping back and forth and its cherrytop spinning.
ref: 1988 -, Steve Sohmer, Favorite Son, page 425:
text: But we could hear it, we were happy, and we were as unprepared as we possibly could have been for the piercing white strobe and swirling red cherrytop of the police car that swooped in from nowhere and pulled up behind us.
ref: 2012, Mark Winegardner, Elvis Presley Boulevard: From Sea to Shining Sea, Almost:
text: As a police armored car with an earthmover-blade for a battering ram smashed through the barricade by the Citibank, whirling the watery-neon shine of its cherrytop beacon over the lizard-skin asphalt, cops in armor and heavy riot gear booming out unintelligible warnings with bullhorns, firing tear gas, the rioters scattering...
ref: 2013, John Shirley, Darkness Divided:
glosses: A round, red light that is mounted on top of a police car.
Derived terms: cherry topper
cherrytops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cherrytop
booch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /buːt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -uːtʃ
Etymology: Clipping of kombucha
Senses: examples: text: After a night of worrying, nothing soothes the stomach like a tangy bottle of ginger booch.
text: Want hooch with your booch? Make a kombucha cocktail.
ref: 2015 March 1, M. Carrie Allan, “Want hooch with your booch? Make a kombucha cocktail.”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 22 Sep 2019:
text: And, of course, bottles make transporting the booch much easier than lugging around a gallon jar or a continuous brewer!
ref: 2016, Hannah Crum, Alex LaGory, The Big Book of Kombucha: Brewing, Flavoring, and Enjoying the Health Benefits of Fermented Tea, Storey Publishing, →ISBN, page 131:
text: SeekNorth separates the alcohol content from the kombucha without affecting the probiotic or nutrient profile, making them one of the only virtually alcohol-free booch brands.
ref: 2019 November 1, Claudia Larsen, “The Booch Belt: Hudson Valley Kombucha Brewers”, in Chronogram, archived from the original on 05 Nov 2019:
glosses: Kombucha.
booch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /buːt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -uːtʃ
Senses: examples: text: The fellows left and were probably going to get some booch, but that was their business. Floyd was standing by his car wondering what was taking Susan so long, when a cab pulled up.
ref: 2011, Leroy Mathis, Die with a Little Dignity: A Harlem Tale for the New Renaissance, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 204:
text: All of these hoes, I made off records I produced.
I might take all my exes and put 'em all in a group.
Hit my eses, I need the booch.
'Bout to turn this function to Bonnaroo.
ref: 2018, Travis Scott, "Sicko Mode" (album: Astroworld)
glosses: Cocaine.
dynamilogy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The plan of the book as to speculative philosophy has, unless we are greatly mistaken, been adapted in the main from Sanseverino, and if so, we only regret that the great master has not been followed in his arrangement which places dynamilogy immediately after formal logic.
ref: 1894, Herman Joseph Heuser, The American Ecclesiastical Review - Volume 10, page 77:
text: In short, the present volume covers the ground which is generally known as Dynamilogy, and has for its subject matter the various powers of the soul and their respective acts.
ref: 1898, The Dublin Review, page 489:
text: Metaphysics. — Dynamilogy or the faculties of the soul: — intellect, will, sensibility, (organs of sensibility: the senses).
ref: 1899, Québec (Province). Dept. of Public Instruction, Report of the Superintendent of Education of the Province of Quebec for the Year 1898-99, page 376:
text: Archelogia philosophies nova, or, New principles of philosophy containing philosophy in general, metaphysicks or ontology, dynamilogy or a discourse of power, religio philosophi or natural theology, physicks or natural philosophy.
ref: 1990, University Microfilms International, Early English books, 1641-1700:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The study of the powers of the soul; the study of the capabilities of living or sentient beings.
Haltwhistle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈhɔːltwɪsəl/
Senses: glosses: A small town and civil parish in Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NY7064).
Howdon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban area in the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ3267).
South Gosforth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A residential area of Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ2567).
Related terms: North Gosforth
Gosforth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Copeland borough, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY0603).
examples: text: Pardew has high hopes that one young Englishman, Paul Dummett, a left-back from Gosforth, the same Newcastle suburb that produced Alan Shearer, will make at least 10 appearances for his side this season.
ref: 2013 August 20, Louise Taylor, “English talent gets left behind as Premier League keeps importing”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A residential area of Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ2468).
glosses: A rural suburb of Maitland, New South Wales, Australia.
Derived terms: North Gosforth
South Gosforth
downwell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: downwells
form: downwelling
form: downwelled
form: downwelled
Etymology: From down- + well.
Senses: examples: text: Some of the northward-flowing waters turn eastward and enter the Throughflow sponge above 1300 m (Figure 5b), where they downwell and return to the interior and spread both to the south and the north (Figure 5c).
ref: 1996, Tong Lee, Jochem Marotzke, Inferring Meridional Mass and Heat Transports of the Indian Ocean by Fitting a General Circulation Model to Climatological Data, page 12:
text: Ozone in the upper troposphere which downwells to the surface can also result from photochemical production enhanced by high levels of NOx from the natural stratosphere, aircraft emissions of NOx in the upper troposphere [Liu et al., 1980],
ref: 1999, Katherine Anne Duderstadt, Summertime tropospheric ozone photochemistry over the western Atlantic Ocean, page 10:
text: This cold water downwells and flows below the saltier but warmer surface water.
ref: 1999, Alison Duxbury, Alyn C. Duxbury, Fundamentals of Oceanography, page 141:
glosses: To sink below material of lower density.
examples: text: This measurement, as Region 4 stated, has been "commonly used to measure marine turbidity; it does not measure downwelling ambient light."
ref: 1983, State Waters Resources Control Board, Environmental Impact Report: Amendment of the Water Quality Control Plan, Ocean Waters of California:
text: There is a practical depth limit from which the radiance is reflected. Gordon & McCluny (1975) call the depth at which the spectral radiance downwelled from the surface falls to 1/e of its initial energy 'the first optical attenuation length'.
ref: 1988, J. A. Pyle, K. A. Browning, L. Thomas, Towards improved methods of exploiting remotely sensed imagery, page 329:
text: For those animals living in the mesopelagic zone, where some light downwells from the surface, a visual predator looking up at them could see a silhouette.
ref: 2001, James Willard Nybakken, Marine Biology: An Ecological Approach, page 153:
text: In other words, the signal always weakens while it downwells.
ref: 2012 January 17, “Typhoon Tip”, in American Weather:
glosses: To penetrate water downward.
raw_tags: of radiation
downwell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downwells
Etymology: From down- + well.
Senses: examples: text: The proposed work includes enlarging the basin and installing downwells for percolation.
ref: 1981, Final Budget of Stanislaus County and Financial Report:
text: A 14-foot by 14-foot shaft, or downwell, located downstream of the intake structure permits flow to fall approximately 36 feet to a pool Torraed by a 10-foot deep rock trap.
ref: 1986, Robert L. Schuster, Landslide dams: processes, risk and mitigation, page 206:
text: You can make this system a downwell by adding a water source above the tanks.
ref: 1989, T. A. Broadley, William Edward Lorne Clayton, British Columbia Manila Clam Culture Workshop, page 167:
text: A six-foot diameter steel transportation pipe connects the downwell at the end of the collection channel to the upwell box at the existing juvenile fish facility. The downwell ensures that the pipe is pressurised and eliminates air entrainment.
ref: 1994, Lower Snake River Biological Drawdown Test, page 20:
text: The Furnish Canal juvenile fish bypass facility caused few injuries to fall chinook salmon test fish that traveled through the headworks canal, past the screens, and through the downwell, bypass pipe, and outlet when canal flow was 67% of maximum and bypass flow was at maximum.
ref: 1995, Evaluation of Juvenile Fish Bypass and Adult Fish Passage Facilities at Water Diversions on the Umatilla River, page 44:
glosses: A vertical shaft or well in which water flows downward.
examples: text: Warm-water eddies are downwells and cold-water eddies facilitate vertical mixing rather than induce upwelling.
ref: 1986, Sea Frontiers, Sea Secrets - Volume 32, page 309:
glosses: Synonym of downwelling.
synonyms: word: downwelling
downwell
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more downwell
form: most downwell
Etymology: From down- + well.
Senses: examples: text: By measuring downwell and wellhead temperature, wellbore heat losses through the casing to the formation can be measured.
ref: 1982, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, A Collection of Technical Papers: AIAA/EPRI International Conference on Underground Pumped Hydro and Compressed Air Energy Storage:
text: In general, the present-day measured downwell temperatures are lower than those indicated by the alteration mineralogy (i.e. epidote, wairakite, laumontite, and clays)
ref: 1999, Paul Kruger, Henry J. Ramey, Proceedings -Stanford Geothermal Program Volume 24:
text: This paper describes the applications for large scale fibre optic sensing arrays in geophysical metrology. The main applications considered here are ocean bottom cables and streamers for marine seismic, and downwell seismic systems.
ref: 2000, Anbo Wang, Eric Udd, Industrial Sensing Systems, page 56:
glosses: In the lower part of a well.
examples: text: "[...] spend the two weeks after Translator Dlique's funeral on her estate downwell.
ref: 2014, Ann Leckie, Ancillary Sword, →ISBN, page 175:
text: I bought some land downwell.
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: towards the nearest planet or other gravity well.
downwell
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more downwell
form: most downwell
Etymology: From down- + well.
Senses: examples: text: These identification plaques will serve as one aspect of continuing control and are intended to be a long-term indication of a sealed radioactive source downwell.
ref: 1979, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Annual Report, page 216:
text: One of the principal techniques available for estimating the distribution of cracks in HDR reservoirs is by the analysis of acoustic events recorded downwell on three-component geophones during hydraulic fracturing.
ref: 1984, The Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, page 12:
text: A careful analysis of Fig, 19B (and other similar photographs) indicates some of the long exposure particle streaks "downwell" near the topography.
ref: 1990, Journal of Physical Oceanography - Volume 20, page 1438:
glosses: In the lower part of a well.
examples: To be safe, we'll have to go downwell.
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: toward the nearest planet or other gravity well.
downwells
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of downwell
downwells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of downwell
downwelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of downwell
dead-eye Dick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead-eye Dicks
Senses: examples: text: Unless the hunter is a dead-eye Dick, lighter guns may not kill cleanly.
ref: 1962, Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees, Journal - Volumes 71-72:
text: "What a shot! What a dead-eye Dick!" the guy with the apron would say as he pointed to me and yelled out to the passing crowd.
ref: 1996, Robert Gish, Bad Boys and Black Sheep: Fateful Tales from the West, page 36:
text: “These people here were Jap marines,” he wrote his parents, “and were highly selected, trained, and dead-eye Dicks with their weapons.”
ref: 2013, Joseph H. Alexander, Storm Landings: Epic Amphibious Battles in the Central Pacific:
glosses: A marksman who never misses.
dead-eye Dicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dead-eye Dick
tanning butter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tanning butters
Senses: coordinate_terms: suntan lotion#Noun
sunscreen#Noun
sunblock#Noun
glosses: A skin preparation or ointment designed to assist in tanning, while not providing any ultraviolet protection.
tanning butters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tanning butter
steppic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more steppic
form: most steppic
Etymology: From steppe + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Of the steppic goat (the Antilope Saiga of Pallas) which is accustomed to spend its winter in the southern parts on Lake Aral, I saw numerous herds returning with the warmer season to the Northern Steppe, where, both for their skin and flesh, they become valuable objects of the chace to the Cossacks.
ref: 1816 March 1, “Sketch of Professor Tauscher's Tours in the Southern parts of Russia in Asia”, in The New Monthly Magazine and Universal Register, page 103:
text: The groups include a steppic, a Mediterranean / temperate forest, and a montane group for larger herbivores; a rabbit group (as they are the most numerous of the fauna and possibly the most local to the rocky cliffs and sandy foreshore in the immediate vicinity of the site); and a carnivore group (to assess the potential for non-human carnivores being responsible for the assemblage).
ref: 1988, C. Michael Barton, Lithic Variability and Middle Paleolithic Behavior: New Evidence from the Iberian Peninsula, →OCLC:
text: The steppic corridor opened the way to and from Inner Asia.
ref: 2014, Pavel Dolukhanov, The Early Slavs: Eastern Europe from the Initial Settlement to the Kievan Rus, Routledge:
topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to a steppe.
bedbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedboxes
Etymology: From bed + box.
Senses: examples: text: In the NORTH ROOM, two bedboxes are built into one wall and hung with the same coarse striped silk as the fireplace.
ref: 1967, Researching Design in New York, page 7:
text: Her gaze swept the room, taking in the oatcakes cold on the stones of her firebox, the dusty loom she never used, her storage shelf above the bedbox stacked with baskets of dried berries and grain.
ref: 2003, Susan Squires, Danelaw, page 21:
text: The oval Norse hut at L15 was a substantial structure, probably with two rooms, a bedbox, and fireplace and was used for a considerable period of time.
ref: 2005, Keith Branigan, J. M. Bumsted, From Clan to Clearance: History and Archaeology on the Isle of Barra, C. 850-1850 AD, page 31:
glosses: A box-bed.
examples: text: She was a good deal excited, and ran frantically into and out of her little bedbox, which had a hole at each end. Soon this tiny gust of rage passed over. She now, though running about her cage, indulging in little gambols, indicating grace and agility, struck off into a truly beautiful strain of song.
ref: 1892, Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota, Bulletin - Issue 7:
text: We transferred Minnie to her new quarters after dark, carrying her in her bedbox and putting it inside the V-shaped pig house within the pen.
ref: 1984, Cully Gage, The Last Northwoods Reader, page 43:
text: Kiwi, our green-checked conure, crawled out of her bedbox and loudly demanded attention.
ref: 1992, The Pet Bird Report - Volumes 2-4, page 40:
glosses: A nest box.
examples: text: The rooms which in the introduction have been described as "bedboxes" are actually only about twice as large as the bed.
ref: 1939, The Chinese Medical Journal - Volumes 55-56, page 170:
text: It's essentially a budget hotel (the £69 room rate is valid every day), but comes with a reasonably stylish design that sets it apart from most cheapo bedboxes.
ref: 2006, Time Out Edinburgh and the Best of Glasgow, page 280:
glosses: A very small bedroom that does not hold much more than a bed.
bedboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bedbox
grapefruit spoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪpfɹuːt ˌspuːn/
ipa: /ˌɡɹeɪpfɹut ˈspun/
rhymes: -uːn
Forms: form: grapefruit spoons
Etymology: From grapefruit + spoon.
Senses: synonyms: orange spoon
glosses: A spoon with a pointed and/or serrated tip designed for separating the flesh of a grapefruit from its rind.
Hypernyms: spoon
white belts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white belt
eat away at
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eats away at
form: eating away at
form: ate away at
form: eaten away at
Etymology: From eat away + at.
Senses: examples: text: The river is eating away at the river bank.
text: The battery acid ate away at the metal until a large hole appeared.
glosses: To erode.
examples: text: The expenses ate away at our profits.
glosses: To consume or use up, erode or wear away gradually.
examples: text: Not confessing that I had stolen the money ate away at me until I could no longer sleep.
glosses: To cause to feel uneasy, troubled, worried, guilty, or vexed; to bother about something.
chaffle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɒ.fl/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɑ.fl/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɔ.fl/
rhymes: -ɒfəl
rhymes: -ɑfəl
rhymes: -ɔfəl
Forms: form: chaffles
Etymology: Blend of cheese + waffle
Senses: glosses: A low-carb or keto-style waffle, made from cheese and eggs rather than from traditional waffle batter.
chaffles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chaffle
airfarer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airfarers
form: air-farer
Etymology: From air + farer, modelled after seafarer, wayfarer, etc.
Senses: examples: text: The first is that a string of small lands such as Great Britain, the Faroes, Iceland, is an isthmus connecting Europe with North America, for the short strips of sea between them are only bits of desert to an airfarer.
ref: 1948, Sir Francis Tuker, The Pattern of War, page 109:
glosses: One who travels by air.
airfarers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of airfarer
land-farer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: land-farers
form: landfarer
Etymology: From land + farer, modelled after seafarer, wayfarer, etc.
Senses: glosses: One who travels by or over land.
land-farers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of land-farer
pickle fork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪkl̩ ˌfɔːk/
ipa: /ˌpɪk(ə)l ˈfɔɹk/
rhymes: -ɔːk
Forms: form: pickle forks
Etymology: From pickle + fork.
Senses: glosses: A fork with a long handle and usually two or three tines, used for extracting pickles from a tall jar.
glosses: A long-handled tool with two prongs used to unseat ball-and-socket joints.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A structure attaching an aircraft's wings to its body, having an arched shape with prongs at each end.
Hypernyms: fork
egg spoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛɡ ˌspuːn/
ipa: /ˌɛɡ ˈspun/
rhymes: -uːn
Forms: form: egg spoons
form: egg-spoon
form: eggspoon
Etymology: From egg + spoon. Known to be attested since at latest 1759.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he egg spoon must also be untarnishable—stainless steel, or horn. I've never seen a gold egg spoon, but I'm sure it would do. Whatever the material, the spoon has to have a small bowl with a fine edge on it: a thick edge can't coax all the egg white off the inside of the shell. The handle is short, for good balance and easy handling. An egg spoon is a tiny implement that, like the Viennese breakfast, cannot be improved.
ref: 2017, Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin, “Without Egg”, in No Time to Spare: Thinking about What Matters, New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, part 4 (Rewards), page 176:
hypernyms: spoon#Noun
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utensil
coordinate_terms: eggcup
egg cosy
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teaspoon
coffee spoon
saltspoon
glosses: A spoon, usually smaller than a teaspoon, which is used for eating a boiled egg from a hole made in the shell; the bowl of the spoon is shaped to make it easier to scoop out the contents of the eggshell.
Derived terms: eggspoonful
Foleshill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Coventry, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP3582).
nanobiodiagnostics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nano- + biodiagnostics.
Senses: glosses: nanoscale biodiagnostics
nanoelectropore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanoelectropores
Etymology: From nano- + electropore.
Senses: glosses: A nanoscale electropore
nanoelectropores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanoelectropore
nanorosette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanorosettes
Etymology: From nano- + rosette.
Senses: glosses: A nanoscale rosette
nanostandard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanostandards
Etymology: From nano- + standard.
Senses: glosses: A nanotechnology standard
nanostandards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanostandard
necriscence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: serotiny as a result of the death of a plant
Related terms: necriscent
necriscent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to necriscence
neoatherogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neo- + atherogenesis.
Senses: glosses: The formation of new atheromas
nicotinaldehyde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The aldehyde 3-pyridinecarboxaldehyde related to nicotinic acid
nitrohydroxylate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nitrohydroxylates
form: nitrohydroxylating
form: nitrohydroxylated
form: nitrohydroxylated
Etymology: From nitro- + hydroxylate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: To introduce a nitro and a hydroxyl group into a molecule
nitrohydroxylated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nitrohydroxylate
nonadministration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonadministrations
Etymology: From non- + administration.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The failure to administer a drug
nonechogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + echogenic.
Senses: glosses: Not echogenic
nonteratomatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + teratomatous.
Senses: glosses: Not teratomatous
nonvectorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + vectorial.
Senses: glosses: Not vectorial
Goostrey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Cheshire East district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ7770).
Oxenholme
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English oxna, genitive plural of oxa (“ox”) + Old Norse holmr (“pasture near a water source”).
Senses: glosses: A village in Kendal parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD5389).
fanimorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fanimorous
form: most fanimorous
Etymology: From Yoruba fanimọ́ra + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Your birthday outfits are really fanimorous.
text: And we laughed because he was fanimorous kokonbility.
ref: 1984, Tayo Olafioye, The Saga of Sego: An African Novel, page 31:
glosses: beautiful, attractive, captivating
Tide Mills
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A derelict village in Lewes district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ4500).
ploonet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ploonets
Etymology: Blend of planet + moon.
Coined in 2019 by the research team of Mario Sucerquia, Jaime A Alvarado-Montes, Jorge I Zuluaga, Nicolás Cuello, Cristian Giuppone (see quotations below).
Senses: examples: text: This paper explores the scenario where large regular exomoons escape after tidal interchange of angular momentum with its parent planet, becoming small planets by themselves. We name this hypothetical type of object a ploonet.
ref: 2019, Mario Sucerquia, Jaime A Alvarado-Montes, Jorge I Zuluaga, Nicolás Cuello, Cristian Giuppone, “Ploonets: formation, evolution, and detectability of tidally detached exomoons”, in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, volume 489, number 2, page 2313:
text: The researchers, who used simulations to explain the same, found that the simulated Ploonets were quite short-lived, crashing into the star or their parent planet in 0.5-1 million years.
ref: 2020, Varsha M, “Ploonets: Runaway Moons”, in Waves, archived from the original on 06 Jun 2020, page 2:
text: For now, such leftover debris fields may be the best chance for astronomers to infer the existence of ploonets. After all, even if astronomers detect a runaway ploonet orbiting its host star, it would be hard to distinguish it from normal planets.
ref: 2021 April, Randall Hyman, “The galaxy's marvelous rogues and misfits”, in Astronomy, page 22:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A theoretical planetary body that formed as a moon orbiting a planet, but which has become tidally detached, so that it enters orbit about its star, separated from its parent planet.
Related terms: english: a moon of a moon
translation: a moon of a moon
word: moonmoon
english: a planetary mass object which forms in the manner of a star
translation: a planetary mass object which forms in the manner of a star
word: brown subdwarf
english: a planetary mass object which is not part of a star system, wandering interstellar space without a star
translation: a planetary mass object which is not part of a star system, wandering interstellar space without a star
word: sub-brown dwarf
english: a planet that has been ejected from its star system, to wander interstellar space without a star
translation: a planet that has been ejected from its star system, to wander interstellar space without a star
word: rogue planet
english: a planetary mass object whose orbit about a star is strewn with comparable or larger mass objects
translation: a planetary mass object whose orbit about a star is strewn with comparable or larger mass objects
word: dwarf planet
english: a small moon, shepherding ring debris to keep a planetary ring in shape, as part of the ring
translation: a small moon, shepherding ring debris to keep a planetary ring in shape, as part of the ring
word: moonlet
english: a moon located beyond the Solar System
translation: a moon located beyond the Solar System
word: exomoon
turn the knife
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turns the knife
form: turning the knife
form: turned the knife
form: turned the knife
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of twist the knife.
twist the knife in the wound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: twists the knife in the wound
form: twisting the knife in the wound
form: twisted the knife in the wound
form: twisted the knife in the wound
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of twist the knife.
turn the knife in the wound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turns the knife in the wound
form: turning the knife in the wound
form: turned the knife in the wound
form: turned the knife in the wound
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of twist the knife.
Boreham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Borehams
Etymology: From Old English bor (“elevated place; hill”) + hām (“village, hamlet”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in the city of Chelmsford district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL7509).
glosses: A former hamlet, now a suburb of Warminster, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST8844).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
climate strike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklaɪmət straik/
Forms: form: climate strikes
Etymology: Firstly coined in 2015 during a mass demonstration at UN Climate Change Conference in Paris, the expression took off only in 2018 after the Swedish activist Greta Thunberg started skipping school on Fridays in order to protest in front of the national parliament. In September 2019 around six million people joined the climate strike worldwide.
Senses: synonyms: school strike for the climate, Fridays for Future
glosses: A protest in which people absent themselves from professional or educational activities in order to join demonstrations calling for action to counter climate change.
wikipedia: 2015 United_Nations Climate Change Conference
Greta Thunberg
Derived terms: climate striker
Related terms: global warming
climate change
fall into a trap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔːl ɪntə ə træp/
ipa: /fɑːl ɪntə ə træp/
Forms: form: falls into a trap
form: falling into a trap
form: fell into a trap
form: fallen into a trap
Senses: examples: If you are not careful, you can fall into a trap of focusing too much on getting more loans instead of paying off other bills.
glosses: To make a mistake, a bad decision or act senselessly and get into an extremely difficult situation.
examples: He fell into a trap by believing his childhood friend and giving away all of his savings.
glosses: To be fooled and get into a difficult situation by relying on someone or responding to a scam, trick or prank.
Synonyms: walk into a trap
fall for
Barmouth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small town and community with a town council in Gwynedd, Wales (OS grid ref SH6115).
Mawddach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river with a large estuary in Gwynedd, Wales.
Blaencwm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Welsh Blaencwm, from blaen (“point, apex”) + cwm (“a valley head created through glacial erosion and with a shape similar to an amphitheatre”).
Senses: glosses: A village in Treherbert community, Rhondda Cynon Taf borough county borough, in southern Wales (OS grid ref SS9298).
plantationer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plantationers
Etymology: From plantation + -er.
Senses: glosses: The owner of a plantation.
plantationers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plantationer
Tygwyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A railway station near Glan-y-Wern, Talsarnau community, Gwynedd, Wales (OS grid ref SH6034).
Capt.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Capts.
Senses: examples: text: I had previously read the entire testimony before Senator Dodd’s Subcommittee and was thoroughly familiar with the testimony of Chief Parker, Lieut. Kennedy, Capt. Colwell, and Capt. Collins.
ref: 1970, Morris Kominsky, chapter VI, in The Hoaxers: Plain Liars, Fancy Liars, and Damned Liars, volume I, Boston: Branden Press, Inc., 8283-1288-5, page 430:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Capt.
Lieut.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lieuts.
Senses: examples: text: I had previously read the entire testimony before Senator Dodd’s Subcommittee and was thoroughly familiar with the testimony of Chief Parker, Lieut. Kennedy, Capt. Colwell, and Capt. Collins.
ref: 1970, Morris Kominsky, chapter VI, in The Hoaxers: Plain Liars, Fancy Liars, and Damned Liars, volume I, Boston: Branden Press, Inc., 8283-1288-5, page 430:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Lieut.
Lieut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lieuts
form: Lieut.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of lieutenant.
Republic of Bolivia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Bolivia
code silver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: code silvers
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The condition when a weapon is seen and law enforcement are to be contacted.
Related terms: code blue • code brown • code red • code silver • code white • code yellow
colour code
mothers-out-law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mother-out-law
daughter-out-law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daughters-out-law
Etymology: From daughter + -out-law, by analogy to daughter-in-law.
Senses: examples: text: A very special note of appreciation goes to Rose (Tee) and Dale Heiberger for including me in their crazy family as their daughter-in-law or daughter-out-law as the case may be.
ref: 1998, Ardel Marie Thomas, Victorian Monstrosities:
text: I can't be bothered to keep track of her doings, as long as she stays clear of my daughter-out-law and of the baby.
ref: 2009, Libby Purves, Shadow Child:
glosses: The live-in girlfriend of one's child.
glosses: The ex-wife of one's child.
daughters-out-law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daughter-out-law
son-out-law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sons-out-law
Etymology: From son + -out-law, by analogy to son-in-law.
Senses: examples: text: “You also treated Haydar like your own son,” Didace observed. “He was my son-out-law, remember,” Henock prompted.
ref: 2013, Lucien Nzeyimana, Burning the Last Straw, page 339:
glosses: A live-in boyfriend of one's child.
examples: text: The parents decided to give their daughter and “son-out-law” the cold shoulder.
ref: 2014, Christopher W. Moore, The Mediation Process, page 540:
glosses: The ex-husband of one's child.
sons-out-law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of son-out-law
off-lease
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Off-lease Mk 4s taken to Worksop: LNER B26 is the latest rake of Mk 4s sent off-lease.
ref: 2019 November 6, “Fleet News”, in Rail, page 28:
glosses: No longer leased from a leasing company.
brothers-out-law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brother-out-law
fathers-out-law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of father-out-law
sisters-out-law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sister-out-law
fig roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fig rolls
Senses: glosses: A kind of sweet roll with a filling of fig paste.