cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pentavigesimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From penta- + vigesimal.
Senses: glosses: quinary-vigesimal (based upon both the numbers five and twenty).
glosses: quinquavigesimal (based upon the number twenty-five).
meta-textual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more meta-textual
form: most meta-textual
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of metatextual.
Tuggeranong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈtʌɡɹənɒŋ/
Etymology: Believed to be derived from a Ngunnawal expression meaning 'cold place'.
Senses: glosses: A district of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
Related terms: word: Tuggers
Civic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪvɪk/
Etymology: Refers to the area's status as the civic centre.
Senses: glosses: A central business district of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
piano-forté
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piano-fortés
Senses: examples: text: You know, I ſuppoſe, that ſpeaking bad French, drawing hideouſly, and thrumming a few Italian airs on the piano-forté, are each of them called an accompliſhment; and ſhe who engroſſes all the three is thought a moſt accompliſhed woman indeed. I have known ſome of theſe accompliſhed ladies, however, to any one of whom if I were married, I ſhould willingly relinquiſh half her fortune, on condition that ſhe would renounce her painting, and never attempt to ſpeak French, nor to play on the piano-forté, in my hearing.
ref: 1800, [John Moore], “Letter XXI. The Same in Continuation.”, in Mordaunt. Sketches of Life, Characters, and Manners in Various Countries; Including the Memoirs of a French Lady of Quality., volume I, London: […] G. G. and J. Robinson, […]; S. Hamilton, […], page 256:
text: “Marianne can never keep long from that instrument you know, ma’am,” said Elinor, endeavouring to smooth away the offence; “and I do not much wonder at it; for it is the very best toned piano-forté I ever heard.”
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume II, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 16:
text: To Henry Smart, of Berner’s-street, in the parish of St. Mary-le-bonne, in the county of Middlesex, piano-forté manufacturer, for his invention of certain improvements in the constructions of piano-fortés.
ref: 1828, “New Patents, Sealed”, in W. Newton, The London Journal of Arts and Sciences; […], volume VI, London: […] Sherwood, Jones, & Co. […]; and W. Newton, […], page 110:
text: Among much that was curious, there were tables with raised edges of delicate workmanship, holding some fine old china; there was a small oak spinning-wheel, on which my grandmother spun; and standing alone, too modern for its surroundings, was a piano-forté, on which Miss Green played.
ref: 1870, Sketches from the Border Land; or, A Daughter of England, London: F. Bowyer Kitto, […], page 9:
text: “I will see to it there is a piano-forté in the music room when she comes home for the summer.”
ref: 2014, Linda Rae Sande, The Promise of a Gentleman (The Cousins of the Aristocracy; I), Twisted Teacup Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: Rare form of pianoforte.
piano-fortés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piano-forté
Fuli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: fo͞oʹlēʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 富里 (Fùlǐ).
Senses: examples: text: Sunday's quakes damaged the east coast railroad at seven places in the 75-mile stretch between Hualien and Taitung.
Hualien, hard hit by quakes that killed about 100 persons Oct. 22 and 23, suffered no casualties Sunday.
The rail towns of Yuli and Fuli 50 and 60 miles south, bore the bunt of the Sunday tremors.
ref: 1951 November 26, “15 Killed, Over 200 Hurt In Latest Formosa Quakes”, in Victoria Daily Times, volume 118, number 279, Victoria, B.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6, columns 6, 7:
text: Loshan Village of Fuli Township in Hualien was Taiwan's first demo village of organic agriculture.
ref: 2016 June 29, Chang Hsiao-Ying (張筱瑩), 周明文 [Chou Ming-Wen], translated by Anthony Lin, “羅山有機示範村 青年返鄉共尋出路 [FIRST ORGANIC AGRICULTURE DEMONSTRATION VILLAGE]”, in Public Television Service, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2016:
english: FIRST ORGANIC AGRICULTURE DEMONSTRATION VILLAGE
translation: FIRST ORGANIC AGRICULTURE DEMONSTRATION VILLAGE
glosses: A rural township in Hualien County, Taiwan.
rahat lokum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish راحت لوقوم (rahat lokum), vulgar form of راحت الحلقوم (râhatü'l-hulkûm), from Arabic رَاحَة الْحُلْقُوم (rāḥat al-ḥulqūm).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of locoum.
synonyms: word: locoum
Rich Grove
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A township in Pulaski County, Indiana, United States.
Shark Bay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A bay and World Heritage Site on the coast of Western Australia.
glosses: A local government area in the Gascoyne region, Western Australia, which includes the bay; in full, the Shire of Shark Bay.
glosses: The Ngen language of Vanuatu.
Derived terms: Shark Bay mallee
ansaphone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ansaphones
Senses: examples: text: When I get home there are two ansaphone messages, one from Laura’s friend Liz and one from Laura.
ref: 1995, Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, page 60:
glosses: Alternative form of answerphone.
ansaphones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ansaphone
decillionaires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decillionaire
unlover-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unlover-like
form: most unlover-like
Senses: examples: text: For it was impossible to suppose that a woman of any spirit (and from some hints in the letter she seemed to have rather more than came to her share) should not highly resent such an unlover-like epistle, written in so dictatorial a style.
ref: 1801, “Private Memoirs of Swift”, in The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin. […], volume I, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], page 282:
text: They then talked on for a few minutes longer without her catching a syllable, when another lucky stop in Marianne’s performance brought her these words in the Colonel’s calm voice, “I am afraid it cannot take place very soon.” Astonished and shocked at so unlover-like a speech, she was almost ready to cry out, “Lord! what should hinder it?”—but checking her desire, confined herself to this silent ejaculation, “This is very strange!—sure he need not wait to be older.”
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter III, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume III, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 61–62:
text: It seems that, despite the strange, sometimes the unlover-like and fiercely selfish nature of these letters from Brandon, something of a genuine tone of passion,—perhaps their originality,—aided, no doubt, by some uttered eloquence of the writer, and some treacherous inclination on the part of the mistress, ultimately conquered; and that an union, so little likely to receive the smile of a prosperous star, was at length concluded.
ref: 1830, E[dward] L[ytton] B[ulwer], chapter VIII, in Paul Clifford, volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], page 179:
text: Maurice smiled, and with the same sense of serene benignity, wholly unlover-like, clasped her in his arms.
ref: 1880 December, [Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen], “Under the Glacier”, in Scribner’s Monthly, volume XXI, number 2, section VII, page 245, column 1:
text: I pleaded the darkness of the night as an excuse; was rebuked by Kitty for my unlover-like tardiness; and sat down.
ref: 1890, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom ’Rickshaw”, in The Phantom ’Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: Messrs. A. H. Wheeler & Co.; London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, Ld, […], page 19:
glosses: Alternative form of unloverlike.
constitutioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: constitutioners
Etymology: From constitution + -er.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:constitutioner.
glosses: One who frames or revises a constitution.
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Constitutioner (“member of the Constitution Club”).
w⚓
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: w⚓s
Etymology: From wanker, with anker replaced with ⚓, a symbol depicting an anchor, based on their similar pronunciation.
Senses: examples: text: People who are chatting away on their phones while paying in shops... Ignorant w⚓️s!
ref: 2013 November 28, Marc Slater (@mookavfc), Twitter:
text: This is what human garbage looks like. No words. Sorry Jo this w⚓️ upset you. x
ref: 2018 August 22, Red Tory 🇺🇦 (@78SoylentGreen), Twitter:
glosses: A wanker.
Related terms: w-anchor
direct message
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: direct messages
form: direct-message
Senses: synonyms: word: DM
word: private message
glosses: Synonym of private message.
direct message
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: direct messages
form: direct messaging
form: direct messaged
form: direct messaged
form: direct-message
Senses: examples: text: And just last week, I gave my partner the silent treatment for not answering me after five minutes. On social media, all I seem to do is hard-block people left and right, foregoing the soft-block altogether. If I’m not doing that, I leave rude comments with super sassy emojis or direct message my friends with passive-aggressive cat GIFs.
ref: 2022 October 27, Paloma Torres, quoting Potentially Petty/Hot Person, “Advice Column: Am I becoming hotter or just pettier? Paloma Torres answers the age-old question constantly on everyone's minds”, in The Eyeopener, volume 56, number 7, page 3:
synonyms: word: DM
word: private message
glosses: Synonym of private message.
fire-place
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire-places
Senses: examples: text: The first half hour was spent in piling up the fire, lest she should suffer from the change of room; and she removed at his desire to the other side of the fire-place, that she might be farther from the door.
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XI, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 120:
text: It has frequently been a subject of inquiry, whether the ancients were acquainted with chimneys, or open fire-places.
ref: 1815, Robertson Buchanan, A Treatise on the Economy of Fuel, and Management of Heat, Especially as it Relates to Heating and Drying by Means of Steam, Appendix, p. 307.:
text: How bright were the fire-irons; how clean the Dutch riles round the old-fashioned fire-place, how well-behaved even the cat.
ref: 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter II, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 35:
text: The fire-place was an old one, built by some Dutch merchant long ago, and paved all round with quaint Dutch tiles, designed to illustrate the Scriptures.
ref: 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave I. Marley’s Ghost.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 23:
text: The old cabin, with its rail floor and rail bedsteads up stairs, and its clay floor down stairs, and its dirt chimney, and windowless sides, and that most curious piece of workmanship of all the rest, the ladder stairway, and the hole curiously dug in front of the fire-place, beneath which grandmammy placed the sweet potatoes to keep them from the frost, was my home—the only home I ever had; and I loved it, and all connected with it.
ref: 1855, Frederick Douglass, “The Author Removed from His First Home”, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York; Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC, part I (Life as a Slave), page 44:
glosses: Archaic form of fireplace.
fire-places
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fire-place
East Acton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb in the borough of Hammersmith and Fulham and borough of Ealing, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2181).
half hour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half hours
Senses: examples: text: [U]pon the whole she spent her time comfortably enough; there were half hours of pleasant conversation with Charlotte, and the weather was so fine for the time of year, that she had often great enjoyment out of doors.
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter VII, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 80–81:
text: Every half hour or so one or the other would steal off with snowshoes and toboggan to make the round of the holes, often returning with half a dozen fish that together weighed perhaps twelve pounds, perhaps twenty-four pounds; […]
ref: 1897, Charles A. Bramble, “Winter Fishing Through the Ice”, in The Sportsman’s Magazine, page 430:
text: I was a night owl and could be a bit grumpy (mean, Michelle would say) within the first half hour or so of getting out of bed.
ref: 2006, Barack Obama, “Family”, in The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, →ISBN, page 338:
text: Your stomach secretes ghrelin in pulses every half hour, sending subtle chemical impulses to your brain—almost like subliminal biological messages (carrot cake, carrot cake, carrot cake).
ref: 2006, Michael F[redric] Roizen; Mehmet C[engiz] Oz; with Ted Spiker, Lisa Oz, and Craig Wynett, You, on a Diet: The Owner’s Manual for Waist Management, New York, N.Y.: Free Press, →ISBN, page 44:
glosses: Alternative spelling of half-hour.
half hours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half hour
voicemailed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of voicemail
voicemailing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of voicemail
store-room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: store-rooms
Senses: examples: text: In Jane’s eyes she had been a rival; and well might any thing she could offer of assistance or regard be repulsed. An airing in the Hartfield carriage would have been the rack, and arrow-root from the Hartfield store-room must have been poison.
ref: 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter XI, in Emma: […], volume III, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 188:
text: "Here's what the arsenic or strychnine was in, but now it is mixed with the dishes, knives, forks, spoons, biscuits, beef, &c.; in fact, our pantry and store-room are worse than a score of Pritchard's."
ref: 1870 February–March, David Leslie, “Wild Life in South Africa”, in W[illiam] H[enry] Drummond, editor, Among the Zulus and Amatongas: With Sketches of the Natives, Their Language and Customs; and the Country, Products, Climate, Wild Animals, &c. […], Glasgow: […] W[illiam] Gilchrist, […], published 1875, →OCLC, section VI (A Night Round the Fire), page 132:
text: The place of meeting was not poetic, being in the store-room, amid great piles of boxes, containing the Wonderful Soap and the Superior Candles.
ref: 1888, Donn Piatt, “The Great Dynamite Scare”, in The Lone Grave of the Shenandoah and Other Tales, Chicago, Ill.; […]: Belford, Clarke & Co., →OCLC, page 143:
text: Fyodor, Pedro and the second heard the first crash from the door of the store-room, and it was succeeded by sprintings of feet overhead along the deck. For a moment they stood listening.
ref: 1942, Alex Comfort, The Almond Tree: A Legend, page 144:
glosses: Dated form of storeroom.
store-rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of store-room
involveth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of involve
involvedst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of involve
re-appearance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: re-appearances
Senses: examples: text: Harriet was one of those, who, having once begun, would be always in love. And now, poor girl! she was considerably worse from this re-appearance of Mr. Elton. She was always having a glimpse of him somewhere or other. Emma saw him only once; but two or three times every day Harriet was sure just to meet with him, or just to miss him, just to hear his voice, or see his shoulder, just to have something occur to preserve him in her fancy, in all the favouring warmth of surprize and conjecture.
ref: 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Emma: […], volume II, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, pages 67–68:
text: If Mr. [Thomas] Campbell's poetry was of a kind that could be forgotten, his long fits of silence would put him fairly in the way of that misfortune. […] [T]he re-appearance of such an author, after those long periods of occultation, is naturally hailed as a novelty—and he receives the double welcome of a celebrated stranger and a remembered friend.
ref: 1825 January, [Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey], “Art. I. Theodric, a Domestic Tale: With other Poems. By Thomas Campbell. 12mo. pp. 150. London, 1824.”, in The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, volume XLI, number LXXXII, Edinburgh: Printed by the heirs of D[avid] Willison, for Archibald Constable and Company, Edinburgh; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, London, →OCLC:
text: It is the fate of sequels to disappoint those who have waited for them; and my David, having been left to kick his heels for more than a lustre in the British Linen Company’s office, must expect his late re-appearance to be greeted with hoots, if not with missiles.
ref: 1893, Robert Louis Stevenson, Catriona, Dedication: To Charles Baxter
glosses: Alternative form of reappearance.
re-appearances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of re-appearance
Horsebridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Sydenham Damerel parish, West Devon district, Devon, England; the bridge over the River Tamar into Cornwall is named Horse Bridge (OS grid ref SX4074).
glosses: A small village in King's Somborne parish, Test Valley district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU3430).
glosses: A hamlet in Minsterley parish, Shropshire, England; there is a Horse Bridge here also (OS grid ref SJ3606).
chimney-piece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chimney-pieces
Senses: examples: text: Went to visit our good neighbor, Mr. Bohun, whose whole house is a cabinet of all elegancies, especially Indian; [...] [A]bove all, his lady's cabinet is adorned on the fret, ceiling, and chimney-piece with Mr. Gibbons's best carving.
ref: 1682 July 30, John Evelyn, edited by William Bray, The Diary of John Evelyn: Edited from the Original MSS. [...] In Two Volumes (Universal Classics Library), volume II, New York, N.Y.; London: M. Walter Dunne, publisher, published 1901, →OCLC, page 170:
text: As you say, we passengers are to be taxed to pay all these fineries. I have often seen a good sideboard, or a marble chimney-piece, though not actually put in the bill, inflame a reckoning confoundedly.
ref: 1773, [Oliver] Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer: Or, The Mistakes of a Night. A Comedy. […], London: […] F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page):
text: When this information was given, and they had all taken their seats, Mr. Collins was at leisure to look around him and admire, and he was so much struck with the size and furniture of the apartment, that he declared he might almost have supposed himself in the small summer breakfast parlour at Rosings; a comparison that did not at first convey much gratification; but when Mrs. Philips understood from him what Rosings was, and who was its proprietor, when she had listened to the description of only one of Lady Catherine’s drawing-rooms, and found that the chimney-piece alone had cost eight hundred pounds, she felt all the force of the compliment, and would hardly have resented a comparison with the housekeeper’s room.
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XVI, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 170–171:
text: The chimney-piece was of party-coloured marble, covered with figures, some of whose faces were beautiful, but generally running off into those grotesque combinations which characterised the peculiar taste of their time.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 114:
text: The Baroness perceived that her entertainer had analyzed material comfort to a sufficiently fine point. And then he possessed the most delightful chinoiseries—trophies of his sojourn in the Celestial Empire: pagodas of ebony and cabinets of ivory; sculptured monsters, grinning and leering on chimney-pieces, in front of beautifully figured hand-screens; […]
ref: 1878, Henry James, chapter VI, in The Europeans, Macmillan and Co.:
text: [...] and the chastest women thought it no shame for their pictures to be exposed in every stationer's shop or to decorate the chimney-piece of a platonic counter-jumper.
ref: 1905, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter V, in The Merry-Go-Round:
text: "Crabtree's become a—a womanthrope," said Tommers. "No—a misowench. There's not been a fresh photo of ankles on his chimney-piece for months."
ref: 1924, E. F. Benson, David of King's:
glosses: Alternative form of chimneypiece.
chimney piece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chimney pieces
Senses: examples: text: The designs for Chimney Pieces are of Grecian, Roman, Gothic, and Elizabethan styles of architecture, some being suitable for houses of moderate pretensions, as also others of a more expensive character to decorate the extensive and highly-finished mansion.
ref: 1843, William Thomas, “Description of the Plates”, in Designs for Monuments and Chimney Pieces, London: John Weale, […]:
text: 1984, J. P. Donleavy, De Alfonce Tennis, New York: Dutton / Seymour Lawrence, Part 5, p. 86,
a vast drawing room asprawl with immense sofas, high backed chairs, two massive refectory tables and four chimney pieces
text: First Floor/Rere Room: Doors, door cases, chimney piece, decorative plaster ceiling.
ref: 1996 Written Answers. - Departmental Buildings Dáil Éireann - Volume 463 - 26 March, 1996
glosses: Alternative form of chimneypiece.
chimney-pieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chimney-piece
chimney pieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chimney piece
King's Somborne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Test Valley district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU3631).
before-hand
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: […] God did not work as a necessary, but a voluntary agent, intending before-hand, and decreeing with himself, that which did outwardly proceed from him.
ref: 1594, Richard Hooker, “Book 1”, in Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, London: John Walthoe et al, published 1782, page 5:
text: But the practice of dispensations was much more foul: witness their Penitentiary Tax, wherein a man might see the price of his sin before-hand; their common nundination of pardons, their absolving subjects from their oaths of allegiance […]
ref: 1654, John Bramhall, A Just Vindication of the Church of England from the Unjust Aspersion of Criminal Schism:
text: For to subscribe, unsight, unseen, / To an unknown Church-discipline, / What is it else, but before-hand / T'engage, and after understand?
ref: 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part 1, canto 2, lines 638–641:
text: Agricola, who perceav'd that the noiſe of this defeat had alſo in the Province deſirous of novelty, ſtirr'd up new expectations, reſolves to be before-hand with the danger: […]
ref: 1670, John Milton, The History of Britain, that Part especially now called England, Book II:
text: And though antient Tragedy use no Prologue, yet using sometimes, in case of self defence, or explanation, that which Martial calls an Epistle; in behalf of this Tragedy coming forth after the antient manner, much different from what among us passes for best, thus much before-hand may be Epistl’d; that Chorus is here introduc’d after the Greek manner, not antient only but modern, and still in use among the Italians.
ref: 1671, John Milton, “Of that sort of Dramatic Poem which is call’d Tragedy”, in Paradise Regain’d, to which is added Samson Agonistes, London: John Starkey, page 4:
text: Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other, or ever so similar before-hand, it does not advance their felicity in the least.
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter VI, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 47:
glosses: Archaic form of beforehand.
fire-sides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fire-side
subvocabulary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subvocabularies
Etymology: From sub- + vocabulary.
Senses: glosses: A vocabulary forming part of a larger vocabulary.
sublexicon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sublexicons
form: sublexica
Etymology: From sub- + lexicon.
Senses: glosses: A lexicon forming part of a larger lexicon.
subvocabularies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subvocabulary
sublexicons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sublexicon
sublexica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sublexicon
Eurasian dotterel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eurasian dotterels
Senses: glosses: The common dotterel of Europe, Eudromias morinellus.
Eurasian dotterels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eurasian dotterel
Sydenham Damerel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Manorial affix from the de Albemarle family.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in West Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX4076).
recation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recations
Senses: glosses: A vacation from the routine of retirement
exorbitant privilege
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The benefits afforded to the United States due to its currency (the United States dollar) being the favored international reserve currency.
setting a thief to catch a thief
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of set a thief to catch a thief
sets a thief to catch a thief
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of set a thief to catch a thief
deuterium oxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of heavy water.
synonyms: word: heavy water
icepicked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of icepick
icepicking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of icepick
toolsetting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tool + setting.
Senses: glosses: The fitting of a tool onto a machine.
Related terms: toolsetter
toolsetter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toolsetters
Etymology: From tool + setter.
Senses: glosses: A device that fits a tool onto a machine.
Related terms: toolsetting
toolsetters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toolsetter
hoiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hoit
smokeroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smokerooms
form: smoke room
Etymology: From smoke + room.
Senses: examples: text: Large, spacious lounges, smokerooms, and restaurants are provided for both first and second class passengers.
ref: 1947 September and October, “First Southern Railway Post-War Vessel”, in Railway Magazine, page 294:
glosses: Synonym of smoking room.
synonyms: word: smoking room
smokerooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smokeroom.
pyrodiverse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pyrodiverse
form: most pyrodiverse
Etymology: From pyro- + diverse.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of an environment or ecosystem, subject to variation in the kinds of fire experienced, whether produced by natural conditions or controlled burning.
w-anchor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: w-anchors
form: wanchor
Etymology: Blend of wanker + anchor.
Senses: examples: text: Can't wait until the summer to see how many unloyal 'players' jump ship (spoilt, money grabbing, unpassionate, W-ANCHORS).
ref: 1996 May 5, Robbie Bettison, “Premier league”, in alt.sports.soccer.european.uk (Usenet):
text: Agreed. It's when the response is "and please don't top post", without explanation, as if the poor poster has farted in the lift, that I am inclined to think, "what a w-anchor".
ref: 2005 April 22, Tim Streater, “Re: Security Update 2005-004”, in uk.comp.sys.mac (Usenet):
qualifier: minced oath
glosses: Euphemistic form of wanker.
Related terms: w⚓
twerkathon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twerkathons
Etymology: From twerk + -athon.
Senses: examples: text: In America, we like to blame pop for the ills in society – just look at the savage attacks critics have launched against Britney Spears' recent “Work Bitch,” or Miley Cyrus' infamous twerkathon.
ref: 2013 September 17, Jake Folsom, “Scandinavian Pop”, in Washington Square News, New York University, page 2:
text: More than a month removed from Miley Cyrus's “twerkathon” at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards, it's hard to get the painful image out of my mind.
ref: 2013 October 2, Matthew Walter, “Celebrities create negative influence”, in The Corral, Parkway Central High School, Chesterfield, MO, page 19:
text: There was a twerkathon onstage, inciting one of the loudest crowd reactions we've experienced in our four years at Beauty Bar.
ref: 2015 June 4, Mike Prevatt, Spencer Patterson, “10 Years of Beauty Bar”, in Las Vegas Weekly, page 19:
glosses: An energetic display of twerking, particularly to an audience.
over-stimulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: over-stimulations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of overstimulation.
lidoderm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Trade name, from lidocaine and Ancient Greek δέρμα (dérma, “skin”).
Senses: examples: text: What medication can John use to help control his pain? […] He may also benefit from applying a lidoderm to the painful area or using a mild opioid
ref: 2007, Yvonne M. D'Arcy, Pain Management: Evidence-Based Tools and Techniques for Nursing Professionals, Marblehead, MA: HCPro, Inc., →ISBN, page 70:
text: Conditions that result in increased lidocaine absorption and hence increase its blood concentrations include:
• Application of a lidoderm patch for longer than 12 hours/day
• Application of more than three patches at a time
ref: 2011, Maggy G. Riad, “Local Anesthetics: Lidocaine transdermal”, in Raymond S. Sinatra, Jonathan S. Jahr, J. Michael Watkins-Pitchford, editors, The Essence of Analgesia and Analgesics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 290:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A transdermal patch of lidocaine, used to help reduce pain or itching.
TKR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TKRs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Initialism of total knee replacement.
lekkus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lekku
murdabad
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Borrowed from Urdu مردہ باد (murda bād, “death to”), from Persian مرده باد (morde bâd).
Senses: examples: text: Taliban Murdabad!
antonyms: zindabad
glosses: A shout of hatred; "death to".
burflower tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burflower trees
Senses: glosses: The kadam.
hydrogen-2
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: So named because it is the isotope of hydrogen that has two nucleons (a proton and a neutron).
Senses: related: word: hydrogen 2
coordinate_terms: hydrogen-1
hydrogen 1
;
hydrogen-3
hydrogen 3
;
hydrogen-4
hydrogen 4
glosses: Synonym of deuterium.
synonyms: word: deuterium
hydrogen-1
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: So named because it is the isotope of hydrogen that has one nucleon (a single proton and no neutrons).
Senses: related: word: hydrogen 1
coordinate_terms: hydrogen-2
hydrogen 2
;
hydrogen-3
hydrogen 3
;
hydrogen-4
hydrogen 4
glosses: Synonym of protium (“most common isotope of hydrogen”).
synonyms: word: protium
extra: most common isotope of hydrogen
wishalloy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A hypothetical material that would have certain desirable properties, but is not known to exist.
Related terms: handwavium
unobtainium
earth snake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earth snakes
Senses: glosses: A shieldtail snake.
vibratone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vibratones
Senses: glosses: Leslie speaker designed for use with electric guitars, manufactured by Fender from 1967-1972
glosses: the vibraphone
vibratones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vibratone
changesite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: changesites
Etymology: From Chang'e + -s- + -ite. Named after Chinese goddess Chang'e (the moon goddess). Named for the Chang'e program, the Chinese lunar landers which discovered the minerals. From Mandarin Cháng'é (“ㄔㄤˊ ㄜˊ”) (Ch‘ang²-ê²), from Chinese 嫦娥 (Cháng'é).
Senses: topics: astronomy
geography
geology
natural-sciences
qualifier: Moon
glosses: Any of several minerals discovered by the Chang'e series of lunar landers and Yutu series of lunar rovers
wikipedia: en:Chang'e program
Hypernyms: mineral
Hyponyms: changesite-(Y)
Derived terms: changesite-(Y)
changesite-(Y)
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: changesite+Y. From being discovered by the Chang'e 5 Chinese lunar lander mission. Named after Chinese goddess Chang'e (moon goddess).
Senses: topics: astronomy
geography
geology
natural-sciences
qualifier: Moon
glosses: A mineral formed by (Ca₈Y)□Fe₂⁺(PO₄)₇ forming colorless columnar transparent crystals, found on the Moon.
wikipedia: en:Chang'e 5
Hypernyms: changesite
merrillite
mineral
twerktastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtwɝkˈtæstɪk/
rhymes: -æstɪk
Forms: form: more twerktastic
form: most twerktastic
Etymology: From twerk + -tastic.
Senses: examples: text: It's a subject that's never far from the surface of cultural discourse here, and it's been a particularly sensitive subject because of two of the biggest pop cultural stories of the last few weeks: Miley Cyrus and her twerktastic VMAs performance, […]
ref: 2013 October 8, Tom Hawking, “New York Conversation”, in The Music, Melbourne, Australia, page 75:
text: This is not to say that she’s [Beyoncé] not serving up some expected sultry and playful sex appeal, which is found in spades on “XO” (written and produced by The-Dream and OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder) and the twerktastic “Yoncé.”
ref: 2014, Frontiers, 8 January 2014 - 21 January 2014, page 47
text: Nothing can compare to Miley's twerktastic performance last year, but with that butt-filled opening I think things came fairly close.
ref: 2014 August 26, Matt Sowell, “Buzz List Page: VMA Edition”, in The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University, page 11:
synonyms: twerkalicious
glosses: Excellent in a way involving twerking; ideal for or conducive to twerking.
twerkalicious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtwɝkəˈlɪʃəs/
rhymes: -ɪʃəs
Forms: form: more twerkalicious
form: most twerkalicious
Etymology: From twerk + -a- + -licious.
Senses: examples: text: From Nicki Minaj's twerkalicious video for "Anaconda" to Jason Derulo's butt-obsessed "Wiggle," pop culture caught booty fever this year.
ref: 2014 December 20, “Booty: By The Numbers”, in Billboard, page 65:
text: Sure enough, there was Serena Williams, dancing away in a twerkalicious cameo during the song “Sorry.”
ref: 2016 May 9, Cindy Boren, “Serena Williams explains how she ended up twerking in Beyonce’s ‘Lemonade’”, in The Washington Post:
text: Big Freedia threw down downtown Tampa's most twerkalicious dance party ever.
ref: 2021, Ray Roa, "Hallelujah", Creative Loafing, 18 March 2021 - 24 March 2021, page 41
glosses: Synonym of twerktastic.
synonyms: word: twerktastic
nuclear explosion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nuclear explosions
Senses: glosses: The explosion of a nuclear bomb.
nuclear explosions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nuclear explosion
nuclear terrorism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Terrorism using nuclear weapon(s)
nuclear radiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nuclear radiations
Senses: glosses: Radiation produced by an atomic nucleus
glosses: Ionizing radiation
glosses: Radiation from radioactive decay
nuclear radiations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nuclear radiation
supergrade
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + grade.
Senses: glosses: Of plutonium: containing a very small portion of isotopes other than plutonium-239 (especially plutonium-240) (less than perhaps 3%), making the plutonium especially suitable for nuclear weapons
Coordinate terms: reactor grade
fuel grade
weapons-grade
interceptives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interceptive
nuclear fallout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nuclear fallouts
Etymology: In reference to such material falling out of the sky.
Senses: glosses: Residual radioactive material in the upper atmosphere which settles down to Earth over a protracted period; typically ash which has been propelled upwards by a nuclear explosion or disaster, sometimes mixed with rain or snow.
glosses: An event in which this occurs, generally perceived as an ecological disaster due to the distribution of irradiated material over a much larger area than the zone directly affected by the original event.
Synonyms: radioactive fallout
nuclear fallouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nuclear fallout
nuclear halo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nuclear halos
form: nuclear haloes
Senses: glosses: A bunch of protons and/or neutrons orbiting a nucleus, giving the nucleus a bigger radius than it should have. Such a nucleus is called a halo nucleus.
nuclear halos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nuclear halo
nuclear haloes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nuclear halo
nuclear poison
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nuclear poisons
Senses: glosses: Something that absorbs neutrons very well, hence sabotaging a nuclear chain reaction
Synonyms: neutron poison
nuclear poisons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nuclear poison
neutron poison
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neutron poisons
Senses: glosses: Synonym for nuclear poison
neutron poisons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neutron poison
LENR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LENRs
Etymology: Acronym for low-energy nuclear reaction(s).
Senses: glosses: Synonym for cold fusion (nuclear fusion near room temperature).
LENRs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LENR
Mandarinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Forms: form: more Mandarinic
form: most Mandarinic
Etymology: From Mandarin + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Mandarin language.
agentials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agential
pea aphid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pea aphids
Senses: synonyms: green dolphin
pea louse
clover louse
glosses: Any of species Acyrthosiphon pisum of insects that feed on plants of family Fabaceae.
pea aphids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pea aphid
green dolphin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green dolphins
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pea aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum)
synonyms: word: pea aphid
extra: Acyrthosiphon pisum
green dolphins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of green dolphin
pickpocketee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pickpocketees
Etymology: From pickpocket + -ee.
Senses: glosses: A victim of pickpocketing.
peace belt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peace belts
Senses: glosses: An ornamental belt traditionally presented by certain Native American tribes as a symbol of peace.
Related terms: peace pipe
peace belts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peace belt
Peale's falcon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Peale's falcons
Etymology: Named in honour of Titian Ramsay Peale.
Senses: glosses: Falco peregrinus pealei, a subspecies of the peregrine falcon.
wikipedia: Titian Ramsay Peale
Peale's falcons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Peale's falcon
pickpocketees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pickpocketee
pearl danio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pearl danios
Senses: glosses: Danio albolineatus, a tropical fish of the minnow family.
pearl danios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pearl danio
pear thrips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pear thrips
Senses: glosses: The thrips Taeniothrips inconsequens.
overpronunciation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overpronunciations
Etymology: From over- + pronunciation.
Senses: glosses: Exaggerated pronunciation.
overpronunciations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overpronunciation
overred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overred
form: most overred
Etymology: From over- + red.
Senses: examples: text: Worse was the overgrown persimmon tree outside the window of my old room. Its overred fruit looked obscene.
ref: 2002, Carole Lawrence, Looking for Mary Gabriel, page 139:
glosses: Excessively red.
overnumber
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overnumbers
form: overnumbering
form: overnumbered
form: overnumbered
Etymology: From over- + number.
Senses: examples: text: In the most acute cases they may greatly overnumber the white corpuscles and epithelial cells.
ref: 1900, United States, Annual Reports of the War Department, War Department, page 774:
qualifier: archaic or non-native speakers' English
glosses: To outnumber.
overnumbers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overnumber
overnumbering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overnumber
orig.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of original.
orig.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of originally.
disyllabize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disyllabizes
form: disyllabizing
form: disyllabized
form: disyllabized
Senses: glosses: To make disyllabic.
disyllabized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disyllabize
disyllabizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disyllabize
disyllabizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disyllabize
Tiny
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A township in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Dickenson County, Virginia, United States.
glosses: A nickname.
accession number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accession numbers
Senses: glosses: The unique number given to each new acquisition as it is entered into the catalogue of a library or museum.
topics: bioinformatics
biology
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A unique identifier given to a biological polymer sequence (DNA, protein) when it is submitted to a sequence database.
accession numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accession number
Gombroon ware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of gombroon (“Iranian pottery”).
synonyms: word: gombroon
extra: Iranian pottery
gom-paauw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gom-paauws
Senses: glosses: The kori bustard.
gom-paauws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gom-paauw
intermurals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intermural
Bataknese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bataknese
form: most Bataknese
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Batak people of Sumatra.
Inchture
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Perth and Kinross council area, Scotland, originally in Perthshire (OS grid ref NO2828).
Nanshi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 南市.
Senses: examples: text: Some peasants may have come to teach them how to use a hoe and when to plant, but most of their contacts were with other city people. In 1965, a group of 150 volunteers from Nanshih District, Shanghai, founded the Hsints’un (New Village) Brigade, in T’aochuang Commune of Chiashan County, Chekiang.
ref: [1978, Lynn T. White, III, “Citizenship Incentives”, in Careers in Shanghai: The Social Guidance of Personal Energies in a Developing Chinese City, 1949-1966, Berkeley; Los Angeles; London: University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 88:
text: SHANGHAI'S Nanshi district, which includes the southern Bund area, plans to build a cable car system to Pudong across the Huangpu River to boost retail activities on both banks.
ref: 1996 February 1, Elaine Chan, “Nanshi plans cable car project”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Feb 2024:
text: Farther east is Nanshi, the original walled city of Shanghai. The circular wall is long gone; a road has replaced it. Visitors usually go to the maze of mostly rebuilt Qing dynasty buildings around the Temple of the City God and Yu Yuan Garden.
ref: 2000 April 16, Craig S. Smith, “WHAT'S DOING IN Shanghai”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015, WHAT'S DOING IN:
glosses: A district of Shanghai, China.
Synonyms: Nantao
AOTY
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AOTYs
form: AotY
form: Aoty
form: AOY
form: AoY
form: Aoy
Senses: examples: text: Into the Unknown is my AOTY without question, followed by SOTLB and Morningrise respectively.
ref: 2011 February 16, audiophile, “Re: 1996”, in alt.music.judas-priest (Usenet):
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Initialism of album of the year (music).
glosses: Initialism of angler of the year (fishing).
glosses: Initialism of athlete of the year (sports).
glosses: Initialism of automobile of the year (car reviewing).
glosses: Initialism of agency of the year.
glosses: Initialism of airline of the year.
glosses: Initialism of anime of the year.
Lyminge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Folkestone and Hythe district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR1641).