cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
communitarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˌmjuː.nɪˈtɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /kəˌmju.nəˈtɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: communitarians
Etymology: From community + -arian, c. 1910.
Senses: examples: text: I'm a libertarian, but John here is a communitarian.
text: Two of the groups involved, he said, are simply characterized: individualists (most people would call them libertarians, who want the government to butt out) and communitarians, the two poles on the political spectrum. The two other groups, he said, are called hierarchists and egalitarians.
ref: 2011 February 1, Felicity Barringer, “Are We Hard-Wired to Doubt Science?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: An adherent of communitarianism
glosses: A member of a community.
unsacred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + sacred.
Senses: examples: text: It is supposed to be made unsacred. The priest comes and says some words.
ref: 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 148:
text: Several of our veteran museums are doing by undoing: loosening up the rigid values and temple-of-art models that shaped them, and replacing these with a new "people's museum" model, unsacred in atmosphere, fluid in values, with complicated answers to the question of what museums are.
ref: 2009 January 11, Holland Cotter, “Museums Look Inward for Their Own Bailouts”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not sacred or sacrosanct; thus, accessible
nonschool
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-school
Etymology: From non- + school.
Senses: examples: text: Children should spend a healthy amount of time in nonschool activities.
text: At a different workplace, a woman who employs a gardener worries when, on nonschool days, the gardener's "9-year-old daughter works alongside her."
ref: 2009 January 11, Randy Cohen, “Performance Review”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not school, or not directly related to school
nonschool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonschools
form: non-school
Etymology: From non- + school.
Senses: glosses: A building or organization that is not a school.
nonreviewing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + reviewing.
Senses: examples: text: For nonreviewing viewers, interactivity is an opportunity for fun, creativity, intimacy with the talent, exposure to advertising and giveaways and community.
ref: 2009 January 11, Virginia Heffernan, “The Burden of Interactivity”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not engaged in reviewing; not a reviewer
nonjaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + jaded.
Senses: examples: text: "They are looking at what is really American in a nonjaded way," said Mark Russell, who produces the Under the Radar Festival at the Public.
ref: 2009 January 11, Gwen Orel, “The Importance of Being Heartfelt”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not jaded; fresh
Synonyms: word: unjaded
nondiscretionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-discretionary
Etymology: From non- + discretionary.
Senses: examples: text: Most of our expenses are nondiscretionary.
glosses: Not discretionary; thus, frequently, mandatory
examples: text: He pointed to nondiscretionary stocks, which include food and drug manufacturers.
ref: 2009 January 11, J. Alex Tarquinio, “The Bears Disagree, Too, About the Market’s Future”, in New York Times:
topics: business
glosses: Of or pertaining to non-discretionary spending
Derived terms: nondiscretionary spending
noncopyrighted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + copyrighted.
Senses: examples: text: Some noncopyrighted volumes have been available through Google's book-copying program .
ref: 2009 January 11, Glenn Collins, “Lead Testing Closes Main Library’s Stacks”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not copyrighted, or no longer subject to copyright
nonburger
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + burger.
Senses: examples: text: Even fast-food restaurants have a range of nonburger options.
text: It bought into nonburger franchises like Chipotle and Boston Market.
ref: 2009 January 11, Andrew Martin, “At McDonald’s, the Happiest Meal Is Hot Profits”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not a burger, or not specializing in burgers
megamedia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mega- + media.
Senses: examples: text: For decades, the name "Hearst" meant megamedia -- an empire of dozens of opinionated news-papers, magazines, broadcast properties, a movie studio and expansive real estate holdings as well as a great art collection.
ref: 2009 January 11, Jack Rosenthal, “The Mogul at Play”, in New York Times:
glosses: Large, corporate media
Synonyms: mainstream media
tradmed
meningococcal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meningococcus + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The patient had a severe meningococcal infection.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or caused by meningococci.
Derived terms: antimeningococcal
mispricings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mispricing
multireligious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multireligious
form: most multireligious
Etymology: From multi- + religious.
Senses: examples: text: On the basis of these criteria, which have to be spelled out and applied, we can describe and evaluate the monoreligious, multireligious and interreligious models for dealing with religious plurality in an educational context.
ref: 2001, Carl Sterkens, Interreligious Learning […] , BRILL, →ISBN, page 49:
text: Despite their being multiethnic and multireligious democracies with an entrepreneurial streak, the two countries had drifted apart during the cold war[…]
ref: 2009 January 10, Anand Giridharadas, “India Has a Soft Spot for Bush”, in New York Times:
coordinate_terms: monoreligious
glosses: Having, or being home to, multiple religions.
netminding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He said he would make sure the Hall's selection committee included women, academics, legislators and representatives from across the republic rather than just Prague -- an approach as unorthodox as his Slinky-for-a-spine netminding style.
ref: 2009 January 11, Jeff Z. Klein, Stu Hackel, “Canucks Are Bolstered With Arrival of Sundin”, in New York Times:
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
qualifier: field hockey
glosses: goalkeeping, goaltending
netminding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of netmind
Related terms: netminder
teaheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teahead
tastemaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tastemakers
Etymology: From taste + maker.
Senses: examples: text: The tastemakers have just discovered his work.
text: SMILE WHEN YOU CALL AN ART worldling a "tastemaker." […] Where previous great tastemakers such as the Steins, the artist Marcel Duchamp and the dealer Alfred Stieglitz were dedicated amateurs, few in number, today there are swarms of them whose interests are professional or commercial.
ref: 1987 August 30, Grace Glueck, “Tastemakers”, in The New York Times Magazine, archived from the original on 28 Mar 2023:
glosses: A trendsetter with respect to taste.
speechmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speechmakings
Etymology: From speech + making.
Senses: examples: text: Conciliatory gestures and speechmaking have abounded from both sides in recent weeks.
ref: 2009 January 11, Mark Leibovich, “Looking for Peace, Love and Manners in Washington”, in New York Times:
glosses: The delivery of speeches
Synonyms: oratory
rhetoric
speechifying
meningococcus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meningococci
Etymology: From meningo- + -coccus.
Senses: glosses: A pathogenic bacterium (Neisseria meningitidis), common cause of cerebrospinal meningitis
Derived terms: meningococcal
Related terms: coccus
teahead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teaheads
Etymology: From tea + -head.
Senses: glosses: A habitual marijuana smoker.
Synonyms: pothead
tastemakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tastemaker
sakpata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Fon.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A rhythm used in the vodoun drumming of Benin to invoke Sakpata, the god of smallpox
repatched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of repatch
repatching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of repatch
repatches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repatch
reopenings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reopening
survivability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: survivabilities
Etymology: From survive + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: The accident was also one of several since Clapham [...] that demonstrated the role of breakable windows in the death toll. RSSB research would later confirm and reinforce the need for laminated glass to protect passengers and increase survivability.
ref: 2021 February 24, Greg Morse, “Great Heck: a tragic chain of events”, in RAIL, number 925, page 42:
glosses: The condition of being survivable
glosses: A measure of the extent to which something is survivable
reillustration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + illustration.
Senses: examples: text: Another stumper is a 1954 retelling and reillustration by Walt Kelly, of "Pogo" fame, of an episode from Lewis Carroll's novel "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland."
ref: 2009 January 11, Caleb Crain, “Children of the Left, Unite!”, in New York Times:
glosses: An alternative illustration of something which has already been illustrated at least once
Related terms: reillustrate
psychopharmacologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From psychopharmacology + -ic.
Senses: examples: a psychopharmacologic treatment
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or making use of psychopharmacology
glosses: Of or pertaining to the interaction of drugs with the mind
Synonyms: psychopharmacological
psychodynamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From psycho- + dynamic.
Senses: examples: text: In the classic marshmallow studies, delaying gratification by waiting to eat the marshmallows is seen as a good result—indicating more willpower. This framing is expected given that the starting point of this research was the Freudian psychodynamic position, which contrasted hot animalistic drives with cool rational processes.
ref: 2020, Joseph Cesario, David J. Johnson, Heather L. Eisthen, “Your Brain Is Not an Onion With a Tiny Reptile Inside”, in Current Directions in Psychological Science, volume 29, number 3:
text: It then told me it was trained in cognitive behavioral therapy, which it said was an “effective way to challenge how you’re thinking about things.” Unlike psychodynamic or psychoanalytic therapies, C.B.T. argues that our emotions and moods are influenced by our patterns of thinking; change those patterns, the theory goes, and you’ll start to feel better.
ref: 2022 September 27, Barclay Bram, “My Therapist, the Robot”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 27 Sep 2022:
glosses: Of or pertaining to psychodynamics, the dynamic interplay between forces that govern human behavior, or the study of this
Related terms: psychodynamically
psychodynamics
pseudonymity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudonymities
Etymology: From pseudonym + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: To be sure the anticipatory proleptics of the "historical survey in future-form" associated with pseudonymity rests upon the literary fiction of the pre-historicality of the revelation of these secrets; but this fictionality is intended to emphasize precisely by means of its esoteric quality that God will allow the elect righteous (cf. I Enoch 1:1) and wise persons (cf. I Enoch 100:6, 104:12) of the present day to participate already in his revelation that has proceeded from the mouths of the righteous and wise ones of pre-history, through the "literary" medium of the book.
ref: 1979, Erhardt Güttgemanns, Candid Questions Concerning Gospel Form Criticism, page 132:
text: Look, Mark, your attempt at pseudonymity is transparent.
ref: 2009 January 11, William Safire, “Haircut”, in New York Times:
glosses: The state of being pseudonymous, of hiding one's true identity behind a pseudonym.
Related terms: pseudonym
pseudonymic
pseudonymical
pseudonymically
prelinguistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + linguistic.
Senses: examples: text: Look, you know, a grunted uh, I mean — which is what I use to fill up a silence to show I'm conscious while I'm groping for a word — is, like, prelinguistic language.
ref: 2009 January 11, William Safire, “Haircut”, in New York Times:
text: Video a prelinguistic child with its mother. Show the recording to the mother and ask her which of the baby's noises and gestures she believes are intentional communication.
ref: 2013, Alison Wray, Aileen Bloomer, Projects in Linguistics and Language Studies, Third Edition, page 35:
glosses: Preceding the use of true language
Derived terms: prelinguistically
Related terms: prelingual
postconcussion
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + concussion.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps Ben Roethlisberger's breezy announcement last week that his helmet gave him a headache after his first postconcussion practice would have been met with more alarm if such offbeat medical updates were not such a routine part of his career.
ref: 2009 January 11, Judy Battista, “Roethlisberger Takes Risks as Rushing Fades”, in New York Times:
glosses: Occurring after, or as a consequence of, a concussion
Synonyms: postconcussional
overweighted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overweighted
form: most overweighted
Derived terms: overweightedness
overweighted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overweight
overbills
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overbill
overbilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overbill
overweights
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overweight
overweighting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overweight
overdiagnosed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overdiagnose
overdiagnosed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overdiagnosed
form: most overdiagnosed
Senses: glosses: Diagnosed more often than it truly occurs.
glosses: Diagnosed as a clinical case despite truly being a subclinical, asymptomatic case.
screamingest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of screaming: most screaming
overdiagnose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overdiagnoses
form: overdiagnosing
form: overdiagnosed
form: overdiagnosed
Etymology: From over- + diagnose.
Senses: examples: text: Health experts deny claims that they overdiagnose mental health conditions.
text: Dissociative identity disorder is a contentious diagnosis: some professionals say the disorder is overdiagnosed; others say it doesn't even exist.
ref: 2009 January 11, Jeanne Dorin Mcdowell, “The Four (at Least) Faces of Tara”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
sciences
antonyms: underdiagnose
glosses: To diagnose something more often than it actually occurs.
examples: text: Her GP incorrectly referred her to a pulmonologist, overdiagnosing what was clearly a case of subclinical, mild allergy.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To diagnose as a clinical case what is truly a subclinical case.
Related terms: word: overdiagnosis
word: underdiagnosis
overdiagnoses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overdiagnose
overdiagnosing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overdiagnose
inter-Palestine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inter-Palestine
form: most inter-Palestine
Etymology: From inter- + Palestine.
Senses: glosses: Between the two geographical areas, or between the two political factions, of Palestine.
fuck you, Jack, I'm alright
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: [fʌkʰ ju̟ d͡ʒæk a(ɪ)mˌɔːlˈɹaɪt]
Forms: form: fuck you, Jack, I'm all right
form: I'm alright, Jack
form: I'm all right, Jack
form: I'm alright and fuck you Jack
Etymology: Early 20th-century sailors' slang, popularized during the First World War.
Senses: glosses: Used to epitomize arrogance and selfishness, with dismissive disregard of others.
intrapsychic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more intrapsychic
form: most intrapsychic
Etymology: From intra- + psychic.
Senses: glosses: Within the psyche or mind
Derived terms: intrapsychically
unreadably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unreadably
form: most unreadably
Etymology: From unreadable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The instruction manual was unreadably complicated.
text: Ms Crabb wrote that she had been at an event with Federal MP Paul Fletcher and “he didn’t know about Kate ... he responded to the news a bit unreadably”.
ref: 2021 June 26, “‘Strange dude’: Court reveals texts between Annabel Crabb and friend of Porter accuser”, in The Brisbane Times:
glosses: In an unreadable way.
unsendable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + sendable.
Senses: examples: text: And Deianira, realizing that she has brought about Hercules' death, apparently breaks off her unsendable letter to him in order to express her despair […]
ref: 1973, J W Binns, Ovid:
glosses: That cannot be sent.
leisureliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From leisurely + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: […] their Local Motion […] is neither by Fins nor Wings, as in Fishes or Birds, who are fain to sustain themselves by these instruments from sinking to the bottome of either Element: but it is meerly by the direction of the agitation of the particles of their Vehicle toward the place they aime at; and in such a swiftness or leasureliness as best pleases themselves, and is competible to their natures.
ref: 1659, Henry More, The Immortality of the Soul, London: William Morden, Book 3, Chapter 5, pp. 379-380:
text: […] he frequently commenced a long-winded narrative of his own accord,—repeated at length the tradition of some old battle, or some passage in the recent history of his tribe in which he had acted a prominent part, from time to time drawing a long breath, and resuming the thread of his tale, with the true storyteller’s leisureliness, perhaps after shooting a rapid,—prefacing with “we-ll-by-by,” &c., as he paddled along.
ref: 1864, Henry David Thoreau, “The Allegash and East Branch”, in The Maine Woods, Boston: Ticknor & Fields, page 296:
text: There is always an atmosphere of leisureliness in this place. A boy like Rick will take three or four hours to work out, and spend most of the time just yakking about show biz, about sport cars, about football and boxing […]
ref: 1964, Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man, London: Vintage, published 2010:
glosses: The property of being leisurely.
unrepresentable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrepresentable
form: most unrepresentable
Etymology: From un- + representable.
Senses: examples: text: Some concepts found in literature are unrepresentable on the theatrical stage.
glosses: That cannot be represented, shown or displayed.
morology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Old Greek μωρολογία (mōrología) (composed of μωρία (mōría, “foolishness”), and λόγος (lógos, “word, talking, science”)).
Senses: glosses: Foolish talk; nonsense.
glosses: The scientific study of nonsense.
federal governments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of federal government
Italiote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Italiotes
form: Italiot
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἰταλιώτης (Italiṓtēs).
Senses: glosses: A member of the Greek-speaking peoples of southern Italy before Roman times.
Related terms: Magna Graecia
FIDS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey.
FIDS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of flight information display system, a key system of every airport for displaying actual flight information on several display devices (e.g. monitors, LED boards, etc.) and Intranet real-time information distribution/broadcasting for airport staff.
pussify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pussifies
form: pussifying
form: pussified
form: pussified
Etymology: From pussy + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: It's a perfectly noble and respectable word. So let's look at this pussified, trendy bullshit phrase, Native Americans. First of all, they're not natives.
ref: 1998, George Carlin, Brain Droppings:
text: The old men who were dying in the Frank Sinatra Wing were here in part because they thought cholesterol was a concept invented by feminists to pussify them […]
ref: 2004, Eric Dezenhall, Shakedown Beach:
text: […] to pussify their sound in order to appeal to the lowest common denominator, which will theoretically help that corporation move a bajillion units.
ref: 2006, Alan Goldsher, Modest Mouse: A Pretty Good Read:
text: […] how she kept telling him that he was getting too pussified to be seen with her by Marines.
ref: 2006, Wallace Williamson, Collins Crossing:
glosses: To render someone weak and effeminate.
Derived terms: pussification
pussified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pussify
pussifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pussify
pussifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pussify
body mass indices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of body mass index
filipodia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filipodium
filipodium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filipodia
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A hairlike projection, especially in parts of the brain, or as used for locomotion by some amoebas
in unity, there is strength
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: More can be accomplished by a team with a common goal than by individuals.
Related terms: many hands make light work
unity is strength
flowthrough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flowthroughs
Etymology: Deverbal from flow through, from flow + through.
Senses: glosses: flow (through a system or process)
topics: economics
government
sciences
taxation
synonyms: passthrough
glosses: A legal entity intended to not incur (income) taxation at the entity, but solely at the beneficiaries.
Related terms: fall-through
MPKC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MPKCs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of multivariate public-key cryptosystem.
gephyrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gephyrins
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γέφυρα (géphura, “bridge”) + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein associated with synapses.
twilight zone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twilight zones
Etymology: Because such a zone (in the literal sense of the term) is twilit; see twilight § Etymology.
Senses: topics: astronomy
astrophysics
natural-sciences
synonyms: terminator
coordinate_terms: greyline
glosses: A moving line that divides the daylit side and the dark night side of a planetary body.
examples: text: As to this right, therefore, the people have expressly created a twilight zone, in which neither nation nor state can act.
ref: 1911, Case and Comment:
text: They were interesting because they represented a sort of twilight zone separating the "old days" from modern times.
ref: 1978, Cornelius Cole Smith, Fort Huachuca: The Story of a Frontier Post:
text: ...the classification scheme related to goods which lay in a "twilight zone" between consumer goods and equipment or between inventory and farm products.
ref: 1999, Grant Gilmore, Security Interests in Personal Property:
text: But is there not a twilight zone over which both Church and State put forth claims?
ref: 2006, Charles C Marshall, The Roman Catholic Church in the Modern State:
synonyms: shadowland
glosses: A region or context located in between others and therefore not subject to their norms.
examples: text: Geographically speaking, the twilight zone encompasses those areas that lie between the central business district and the first ring of suburban shopping centers, many of which are comparatively obsolete.
ref: 2012, George Sternlieb, James W. Hughes, Shopping Centers: U.S.A., page 52:
topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: A deteriorating area surrounding a central business district.
glosses: Synonym of mesopelagic zone (“The part of the ocean where there is very minimal light, located below the photic epipelagic zone but above the aphotic bathypelagic zone.”).
synonyms: word: mesopelagic zone
extra: (“The part of the ocean where there is very minimal light, located below the photic epipelagic zone but above the aphotic bathypelagic zone.”).
Related terms: word: crepuscular
word: grey area
twilight zone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: twilight zones
form: twilight zoning
form: twilight zoned
form: twilight zoned
Etymology: Because such a zone (in the literal sense of the term) is twilit; see twilight § Etymology.
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes I think she's really a gym teacher twilight-zoned into the corridors of government. I'm always surprised to see that it's a gold, clipless Cross pen she's carrying and not a gym whistle.
ref: 1989, Jack Kendall, Playing for Keeps:
glosses: To put or place into an indeterminate position; to be in an ambiguous, undetermined, or improper context.
examples: text: "I've been distant and into myself all night," I said. "The kids say I get twilight zoned."
ref: 1997, James Patterson, Cat & Mouse:
glosses: To cause to daydream or zone out; to cause to lose attention to one's surroundings.
twilight zone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twilight zones
Etymology: From the anthology television series The Twilight Zone, first aired in 1959, whose name was inspired by the astrophysical sense.
Senses: examples: text: Oh, I can't talk right now, Duke. I'm in the twilight zone.
ref: 1996 Christopher Lloyd, "Mixed Doubles," Frasier, Season 4, Episode 6 (originally aired 19 November 1996), spoken by Martin Crane (John Mahoney)
text: Ground controllers were uncertain for some agonizing hours what had happened to the spacecraft [...] "We have entered the twilight zone," dead-panned one jaded engineer.
ref: 1998, Eric Chaisson, The Hubble wars: astrophysics meets astropolitics in the two-billion-dollar struggle over the Hubble Space Telescope, Harvard University Press, page 337:
text: Suddenly, to her astonishment and mine, it turned black and blue! I wondered if we'd just entered the twilight zone.
ref: 2009, Steve Sisgold, What's Your Body Telling You?: Listening To Your Body's Signals to Stop Anxiety, Erase Self-Doubt and Achieve True Wellness, McGraw-Hill Professional, page 103:
glosses: A region in which surreal, supernatural, or fantastic events occur.
twilight zone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: twilight zones
form: twilight zoning
form: twilight zoned
form: twilight zoned
Etymology: From the anthology television series The Twilight Zone, first aired in 1959, whose name was inspired by the astrophysical sense.
Senses: examples: text: Then a gnome like white haired lady, bent like a human question mark, lurched toward me and asked if I was the mailman. [...] I was Twilight Zoning.
ref: 2016, Bill Roddey, Making ID TV's 'Too Pretty to Live' Crime Show Starring Me:
glosses: To experience or perceive something bizarre or fantastic.
examples: text: The service is likely from a bad twilight zone episode. [...] I did get what I required but I had to ask lots of questions as the communication was Twilight Zoning often.
ref: 2011, David H., Beddington Registry Service review, Yelp:
glosses: To behave or occur in a confusing or unexpected manner.
twilight zones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twilight zone
twilight zones
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of twilight zone
a man is known by the company he keeps
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: People are similar in character to their friends.
Related terms: birds of a feather flock together
eucryptite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eucryptites
Etymology: From eu- + crypto- + -ite, suggesting well hidden, from its presence among albite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A lithium-bearing aluminium silicate mineral.
eucryptites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eucryptite
botallackite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: botallackites
Etymology: Botallack mine, Cornwall, and -ite.
Senses: glosses: A green monoclinic copper mineral, polymorphous with atacamite, paratacamite, and clinoatacamite.
botallackites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of botallackite
quetenite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Quetena (“a place name in Chile”) + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: botryogen
botryogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βότρυς (bótrus, “cluster of grapes”) + -gen.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydrous magnesium sulfate mineral.
Derived terms: zincobotryogen
pussification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʊsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
Etymology: From pussy + -ification.
Senses: examples: text: Maybe more than anywhere, the pussification of the west is seen in our insanely sensitive society where even our humor is under a microscope.
ref: 2015 March 7, Chad Howse, “The Pussification of the West”, in Chad Howse Fitness:
glosses: The act or process of pussifying.
Related terms: pussify
bikini bottom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bikini bottoms
Senses: examples: text: Sandy had to clean sand out of her bikini bottom after Patrick accidentally kicked the ground next to where she was seated.
text: The poster depicts model Gail Kelly as a snorkeler clad only in a bikini bottom with her back to the camera.
ref: 1979 December 7, Morton Lucoff, “No nude girl, but new poster's an eyeful”, in The Miami Herald:
glosses: The bottom half of a bikini.
Related terms: bikini top
bikini briefs
bikini panties
swim briefs
blue flashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue flash
bikini bottoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bikini bottom
timber wolves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of timber wolf
walking cane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: walking canes
Senses: glosses: A cane, a walking stick usually about hip high and often with a handle or formed handgrip on its upper end, made of a suitable material affording strength and rigidity or flexibility. Sometimes carried mainly as a fashion accessory or occasionally as a defensive weapon.
Related terms: stick
stave
sword cane
debatably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈbeɪtəbli/
Forms: form: more debatably
form: most debatably
Etymology: From debatable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a way subject to challenge or worthy of debate.
Synonyms: debatedly
non-standard variant
arguably
closest synonym
plausibly
question marks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of question mark
exclamation marks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exclamation mark
interrobangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interrobang
interrobangs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of interrobang
worth one's weight in salt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: worth one's salt.
Related terms: worth one's weight in gold
archiloquies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archiloquy
tumorigenicities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tumorigenicity
crospovidone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular substance used as a binder in many pharmaceutical tablets.
Synonyms: polyvinylpyrrolidone
PVP
hypromellose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Hydroxypropyl methylcellulose, a semisynthetic, inert, viscoelastic polymer used as a food additive, an excipient in oral medicaments, and an ophthalmic lubricant.
Synonyms: E464
HPMC
hydroxypropyl methylcellulose
hydroxypropylmethylcellulose
Hypernyms: polysaccharide
excipient
run afoul
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs afoul
form: running afoul
form: ran afoul
form: run afoul
Senses: examples: text: At last we hove in sight of the Pacific, and run afoul one of those villainous head winds which you know often set into the west end of the Straits.
ref: 1857, Thomas Jefferson Farnham, Life, Adventures, and Travels in California, page 407:
text: Propellers can run afoul in heavy seaweed, and ships are said to be afoul when they collide.
ref: 1995, James Laurence Pelletier, Mariner's Employment Guide, page 514:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To become entangled or in conflict with.
Related terms: run afoul of
receed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of recede.
CDAD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Initialism of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea, Clostridium difficile-associated disease.
Senses: glosses: A particular intestinal and colonic disease caused by the bacterium Clostridium difficile.
tizanidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: And most neurologists are in the habit of prescribing antispasticity drugs like tizanidine and baclofen, which are oral and inexpensive, but which cause drowsiness and weaken every muscle in the body, not just the target ones.
ref: 2009 March 17, Donald G. Mcneil Jr., “After a Stroke, Freeing Muscles With Botox”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2017:
glosses: A particular drug used as a muscle relaxant.
afloqualone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A quinazolinone sedative and muscle relaxant.
atracurium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæ.tɹəˈkjʊɹ.i.əm/
Etymology: From atra- (of unknown origin) + -curium (“curare-like substance”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A muscle relaxant administered intravenously in the form of its besylate C₆₅H₈₂N₂O₁₈S₂ especially in conjunction with general anesthesia to facilitate insertion of an endotracheal tube or to relax skeletal muscles during surgery or mechanical ventilation. It counteracts the action of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine at neuromuscular junctions by binding to the same receptors it acts upon.
Derived terms: atracurium besilate
cisatracurium
baclofen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæˈkloʊ.fɪn/
Senses: examples: text: And most neurologists are in the habit of prescribing antispasticity drugs like tizanidine and baclofen, which are oral and inexpensive, but which cause drowsiness and weaken every muscle in the body, not just the target ones.
ref: 2009 March 17, Donald G. Mcneil Jr., “After a Stroke, Freeing Muscles With Botox”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2017:
glosses: A particular drug used to control spasms. It is a derivative of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA). It is primarily used to treat spasticity and is in the early stages of use for the treatment of alcoholism.
carisoprodol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular skeletal muscle relaxant.
chlormezanone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular drug used to reduce anxiety and relax muscles.
chlorphenesin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular muscle relaxant.
chlorzoxazone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular muscle relaxant.
cyclobenzaprine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular antidepressant generally prescribed as an analgesic and muscle relaxant.
dantrolene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæn.tɹəˌliːn/
Etymology: Probably from (hy)dan(toin) + (ni)tro- + (methy)l(id)ene.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A postsynaptic muscle relaxant that lessens excitation–contraction coupling in muscle cells.
decamethonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɛk.ə.məˈθoʊ.ni.əm/
rhymes: -əʊniəm
Etymology: From deca- + meth(ylene) + -onium (“quaternary ammonium compound”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of decamethonium bromide.
synonyms: word: decamethonium bromide
Derived terms: decamethonium bromide
emylcamate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular drug used to reduce anxiety and relax muscles.
eperisone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular muscle relaxant used against spasms.
febarbamate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -barb- (“barbituric acid derivative”) + (c)arbamate.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A particular muscle relaxant.
flavoxate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular antimuscarinic used to control bladder spasms.
antimuscarinics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antimuscarinic
prehypertension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pre-hypertension
Etymology: From pre- + hypertension.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A blood pressure higher than normal but not high enough to be considered hypertension.
prehypertensive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prehypertensive
form: most prehypertensive
Etymology: From pre- + hypertensive.
Senses: glosses: Having prehypertension (fairly high blood pressure).
Coordinate terms: antihypertensive
nonhypertensive
normotensive
prehypertensive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prehypertensives
Etymology: From pre- + hypertensive.
Senses: glosses: A person with fairly high blood pressure
ischiatic nerve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ischiatic nerves
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A particular nerve that runs down the leg from the back.
Synonyms: sciatic nerve
ischiatic nerves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ischiatic nerve
sciatic nerves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sciatic nerve
geranyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geranyls
Etymology: From geraniol + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A univalent radical derived from geraniol.
Derived terms: digeranyl
geranylation
geranylcoumarin
geranylflavonoid
geranylgeraniol
geranylgeranyl
geranylgeranyltransferase
geraniol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geraniols
Etymology: From geranium + -ol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A monoterpenoid alcohol found in the essential oils of rose, palmarosa and citronella
Derived terms: geranyl
geranylgeraniol
geranylgeranyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geranylgeranyls
Etymology: From geranyl + geranyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A univalent diterpenoid radical consisting of two geranyl residues end-to-end
Derived terms: geranylgeranylase
geranylgeranylation
geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate
glacioeustatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From glacio- + eustatic.
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to glacioeustasy
glacioeustasy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From glacio- + eustasy.
Senses: examples: text: Subtidal, carbonate and carbonate-clastic symmetric cycles are interpreted to form when the long-term, tectonically driven eustasy prevails over glacioeustasy.
ref: 1995, R. J. Steel, Sequence Stratigraphy on the Northwest European Margin, →ISBN:
text: Our data suggest that a large part of the regression associated with the deposition of the SS is not primarily controlled by glacioeustasy.
ref: 2006, G. Moratti, A. Chalouan, Tectonics of the Western Mediterranean and North Africa, →ISBN, page 333:
text: Asthensosphere adjustment effects in the mantle can extend far away from the site of ice loading, called “far field effects”, one of the reasons glacioeustasy effects are not exactly similar on all coasts world-wide.
ref: 2013, Michael J. Lace, John E. Mylroie, Coastal Karst Landforms, →ISBN, page 7:
glosses: a change in sea level due to the uptake or release of water from glaciers and polar ice
Related terms: glacioeustatic
guanidinium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guanidiniums
Etymology: From guanidine + -ium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The cation derived from guanidine.
teacher's pets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teacher's pet
teachers' pets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teacher's pet
Promised Land
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Promised Land
form: promised land
Senses: examples: text: At last, after years of patient waiting, he stood like Moses on the mountain, looking down into the Promised Land.
ref: 1910, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 3, in The Intrusion of Jimmy:
topics: Christianity
glosses: The area historically known as Judea, which was promised to the Israelites by God according to oral tradition recorded in the Book of Genesis.
glosses: The United States of America.
examples: text: "Be good, my boy, and God will make you great." Then she said she was cold, and . . . murmured: "I'll away, I'll away to the Promised Land—to the Promised Land. […] It is cold—so cold—God keep my boy!"
ref: 1901, Gilbert Parker, chapter 3, in The March of The White Guard:
text: On Sunday night, April 29, 1900 Engineman John Luther Jones, called "Casey", […] took his farewell journey to the promised land.
ref: 1934 July 16, “Heroes: Brave Engineer”, in Time:
glosses: Heaven or the afterlife.
Related terms: Zion
Promised Land
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Promised Lands
form: promised land
Senses: examples: text: The country, too, which had been the promised land of my boyhood, did not, like most promised lands, disappoint me.
ref: c. 1820, “The Early Experiences of Ralph Ringwood”, in The Crayon Papers, Washington Irving:
text: When Frances had developed her plan, she intimated, in some closing sentences, her hopes for the future. […] [A]nd what was to hinder us from going to live in England? England was still her Promised Land.
ref: 1857, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 25, in The Professor:
text: That is the danger that always menaces people when they get over into their Promised Land.
ref: 1912, Annie Fellows Johnston, chapter 8, in Mary Ware's Promised Land:
text: I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land.
ref: 1968 April 3, Martin Luther King Jr., I've Been to the Mountaintop:
text: When the angels from above / Fall down and spread their wings like doves / As we walk hand in hand / Sister, brothers, we'll make it to the promised land
ref: 1987, Joe Smooth, “Promised Land”, performed by Anthony Thomas:
glosses: Any place to which one eagerly seeks to go and which one expects to greatly improve one's situation.
hot-headedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hotheadedness.
rule-book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rule-books
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rulebook.
rule book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rule books
Senses: examples: text: The not-for-profit organisation, whose primary purpose is to improve health and safety, publishes the railway Rule Book, along with standards for infrastructure, rolling stock and other aspects.
ref: 2022 April 20, “Network News: RSSB to explore new terms to replace 'pilotman'”, in RAIL, number 955, page 16:
glosses: Alternative spelling of rulebook.
rule-books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rule-book
rule books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rule book
China's Sorrow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: So-called because of the devastating consequences when the Yellow River floods. Loess, or fine sand, blown into China, gathers on the bottom and causes the water level to rise.
Senses: glosses: The Yellow River.
sing from the same hymn sheet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sings from the same hymn sheet
form: singing from the same hymn sheet
form: sang from the same hymn sheet
form: sung from the same hymn sheet
Senses: examples: text: It will be difficult to unpick much of what happened in privatisation, particularly asset ownership and freight, but GBR promises that everyone will still be singing from the same hymn sheet.
ref: 2025 October 15, Howard Johnston, “Public versus private: is there any difference?”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 63:
glosses: Alternative form of sing from the same hymnbook.
singing from the same hymnbook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sing from the same hymnbook
pub crawls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pub crawl
push-bikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of push-bike
push-bikes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of push-bike
nondocumentary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + documentary.
Senses: examples: text: The director James Cameron on the set of "Avatar," a 3-D space adventure and his first nondocumentary film since "Titanic."
ref: 2009 January 12, Brooks Barnes, “Hollywood Finds Headaches in Its Big Bet on 3-D”, in New York Times:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Not a documentary, or not documentary in nature
nondocumentary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nondocumentaries
Etymology: From non- + documentary.
Senses: glosses: A film or programme that is not a documentary.
minicar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minicars
Etymology: From mini- + car.
Senses: examples: text: The company also said it would add two more models to its Chevrolet lineup -- a minicar and a seven-passenger crossover -- in 2011.
ref: 2009 January 12, Bill Vlasic, “New Cars Arrive, Courting Few Buyers”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A very small car; specifically, a car that is smaller than a subcompact
minicars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minicar