cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
diebs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dieb
die-casts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of die-cast
die-casts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of die-cast
die-casting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of die-cast
die-casting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: die-castings
Senses: glosses: a cast, a casting, made from a die: Synonym of die-cast (“n.”).
glosses: The process of making a cast from a die: gerund of die-cast (“v.”)
Heaton Mersey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SJ8690).
Lees
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Leeses
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A placename:
A village in South Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK2637).
glosses: A placename:
A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD9504).
Lees
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lee
Related terms: Lee's
Leeson
Martyropolis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: city on the Nymphius river in Sophanene, ancient Armenia, near the border with Arzanene, corresponding to modern Silvan, Turkey
Synonyms: Martyropole
Mayyafariqin
Mayafariqin
Miyafariqin
Derived terms: Martyropolitan
Callinicum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Callinicum.
Senses: glosses: city in Syria, corresponding to modern-day Raqqa
Synonyms: Kallinikos
Barbalissus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Barbalissos
Etymology: From Latin Barbalissus, from Aramaic.
Senses: glosses: An ancient city in Aleppo Governorate, Syria.
Synonyms: english: medieval
translation: medieval
word: Balis
Resafa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Arabic الرِصَافَة (ar-riṣāfa).
Senses: glosses: a fortified city in Syria
Synonyms: Sergiopolis
Rusafa
Anastasiopolis
Circesium
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Circēsium, from circus.
Senses: glosses: a fortress city in Mesopotamia in Roman and Islamic periods, near the junction of the Euphrates and Khabur rivers
Synonyms: Qarqisiya
Bezabde
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bazabde
Etymology: From Latin [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A fortress city in Zabdicene.
nonattempt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonattempts
Etymology: From non- + attempt.
Senses: examples: There was significant risk of intubation nonattempt and intubation failure in the pediatric cardiac arrest and adult traumatic arrest cohorts. (2005)
glosses: The nonoccurence of any attempt.
que sera sera
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪ sɛˌɹɑː sɛˈɹɑː/
Forms: form: que sera
form: sera
form: que será, será
Etymology: An ungrammatical hispanicization of the artificial Italian language phrase "che sara sara", from standard Italian quel che sarà, sarà (“what will be, will be”), coined by American composers Jay Livingston and Ray Evans for use as the title to their 1956 song “Que Sera, Sera” (as such, this phrase represents an artifice based upon an artifice).
Senses: glosses: "whatever happens, happens", "whatever will be, will be". Ostensibly employed to express a personal philosophy of fatalism and acceptance of the future.
wikipedia: Jay Livingston
Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)
Ray Evans
endocolonization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endocolonizations
Etymology: From endo- + colonization.
Senses: examples: text: All of these practices by which the body is voluntarily tortured, disciplined, denied and de(p)leted are part of a larger tendency Paul Virilio calls "endocolonization": "It's no longer exo-colonization (the age of extending world conquest) but the age of intensiveness and endocolonization. One now colonizes only one's own population […]" In the age of endocolonization, then, bodies are disappearng from themselves and (dis)integrating into technology.
ref: 1990, Cincinnati Romance Review, pages 62–63:
text: Does that dominance produce its own endocolonizations? Is there thus a dominant culture, then, or is all culture and subculture — from the American middle class to cadres of Queer theorists — dominant and dominating to those who live within it?
ref: 2002, Anthony Kubiak, Agitated States: Performance in the American Theater of Cruelty, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 31:
text: But Maslowska's text obeys a different, post-cold war imperative: to mirror a cultural and socioeconomic situation that is precisely not that of the colonial epoch during which Poland was the site of various European endocolonizations, devoured amongst Russian (later Soviet) and Austo-Hungarian empires.
ref: 2006, Ulbandus Review, page 130:
text: Western national economies were beginning to turn inward, and endocolonization was launched at home. At that point, Western high art could indeed identify its subjects with colonial peoples, as the Westerners were now being subjected […]
ref: 2009, Enda Duffy, The speed handbook: velocity, pleasure, modernism, Duke University Press Books, page 45:
text: As stated above, no longer is this a situation of partial endocolonization, but instead one of total endocolonization, a situation also referred to by Virilio as total war.
ref: 2013, J. Adams, Occupy Time: Technoculture, Immediacy, and Resistance after Occupy Wall Street, Springer, →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
glosses: Colonization by a state or society of (part of) its own population, especially by taking control of their bodies or bodily integrity.
endocolonizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endocolonization
Anisian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from German Anisisch, from Latin Anisus.
Senses: topics: biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A subdivision of the Triassic period.
Related terms: Ladinian
Lostock Hall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban village in South Ribble district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD5425).
biocolonial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more biocolonial
form: most biocolonial
Etymology: From bio- + colonial.
Senses: examples: text: Today the logic of this level of biocolonial war is, strictly speaking, not war at all, but rather the establishment of a naturalized, permanent link between "developed nations" and a Western health-care paradigm based on costly prescription drugs.
ref: 2006, Eugene Thacker, The Global Genome: Biotechnology, Politics, and Culture, MIT Press, →ISBN:
text: individuals and groups (such as RAFI) to speak out against biocolonial practices. Is there a space, within the biocolonial encounter, for negotiation? As Fanon notes, Specialists in basic health education should give careful thought to the new ...
ref: 2010, Pramod K. Nayar, The New Media and Cybercultures Anthology, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 244:
text: […] vulnerable populations have demanded that the international community recognize that genetic resources belong to the populations from which the resources are extracted and have mobilized in opposition to a neoliberal biocolonial agenda.
ref: 2013, Dr Laura J Hatcher, Dr Wayne V McIntosh, Property Rights and Neoliberalism: Cultural Demands and Legal Actions, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., →ISBN:
text: The figure of the living dead in a state of nature becomes central to how genetics research functions as technology of sovereignty in biocolonial political economies.
ref: 2014, Mark Munsterhjelm, Living Dead in the Pacific: Contested Sovereignty and Racism in Genetic Research on Taiwan Aborigines, UBC Press, →ISBN, page 209:
text: […] and biopolitical/biocolonial issues (for example, fear of disease or contamination). […]
ref: 2017, Lisa Hinrichsen, Gina Caison, Stephanie Rountree, Small-Screen Souths: Region, Identity, and the Cultural Politics of Television, LSU Press, →ISBN, page 233:
glosses: Pertaining to biocolonization, pertaining to or involving colonizing peoples by making them reliant on the colonizer's (bio)medical or (bioengineered) agricultural resources.
Derived terms: biocoloniality
biocoloniality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From biocolonial + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: 2013, Ernesto Schwartz-Martin and Eduardo Restrepo, Biocoloniality, Governance, and the Protection of 'Genetic Identities' in Mexico and Colombia, in Sociology, volume 47, issue 5
text: Such critiques of data mining through global health surveillance are further buttressed by literatures addressing other globalising processes of 'bioprospecting', 'biocoloniality', and intellectual property extraction from the hinterlands of global health […]
ref: 2019, Colin McInnes, Kelley Lee, Jeremy Youde, The Oxford Handbook of Global Health Politics, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 42:
text: The battle between Amazonian communities and transnational corporations (→ II /23) is ongoing and the notion of biocoloniality is based upon biopolitical arguments developed in different contexts, no longer necessarily European or Western, to conceptualize the local process and the global forces that impinge upon this area of Latin America.
ref: 2019, Olaf Kaltmeier, Josef Raab, Mike Foley, Alice Nash, Stefan Rinke, Mario Rufer, The Routledge Handbook to the History and Society of the Americas, Routledge, →ISBN, page 231:
glosses: The quality of being biocolonial, the nature or totality of that which is biocolonial.
que será, será
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪ sɛˌɹɑː sɛˈɹɑː/
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of que sera sera.
noncatheterized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + catheterized.
Senses: glosses: Not catheterized
Synonyms: uncatheterized
Kirkby-in-Ashfield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A market town in Ashfield district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK5056).
Westhouses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Blackwell parish, Bolsover district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK4257).
Hasland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb in Chesterfield borough, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3969).
Related terms: Grassmoor, Hasland and Winsick
Dhanteras
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hindi धनतेरस (dhanteras).
Senses: glosses: The first day that marks the festival of Diwali in India.
waterfall plot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waterfall plots
Senses: glosses: A three-dimensional plot in which multiple curves of data, typically spectra, are displayed simultaneously, used for example to show how two-dimensional information changes over time.
waterfall plots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waterfall plot
Rowsley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK2565).
glosses: A rural locality in the Shire of Moorabool, Victoria, Australia.
wich town
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wich towns
form: -wich town
Etymology: From the suffix -wich that appears in many of their names.
Senses: glosses: A settlement in Anglo-Saxon England characterised by extensive artisanal activity and trade.
wich towns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wich town
undisprovability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + disprovable + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The property of not being disprovable.
Norton Bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Chebsey parish, Stafford borough, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ8730).
Fedex
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Fedexes
form: Fedexing
form: Fedexed
form: Fedexed
Senses: examples: text: When it's over, delivered, faxed and Fedexed then reality sets in and the mood du jour takes over.
ref: 2002, Ted Rall, Attitude: The New Subversive Political Cartoonists:
text: My junior editor had Fedexed deadline items from my in-box to Iowa.
ref: 2005, Donald Nichols, Currency of the Heart, page 81:
text: Well, I think he could have had the contract Fedexed here and then he could have signed it and sent it home.
ref: 2011, Kate Morris, Seven Days One Summer:
glosses: Alternative form of FedEx.
Fedexes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Fedex
Fedexing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Fedex
Fedexed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Fedex
fedex
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fedexes
form: fedexing
form: fedexed
form: fedexed
Senses: examples: text: I fedexed a copy of the papers to my comrade sister in New York City.
ref: 1999, J. Bernard Nicolas, Payback is a Dog, page 163:
text: She fedexed the full story, credit card reports and details of mistreatment to the CEO of TJ Maxx.
ref: 2012, Mindy Levy, Mindy's Musings, page 23:
text: “I truly enjoyed this book,” wrote one Amazon.com reviewer, “and one can only hope that conservative readers will finally loosen up their minds a bit and see the bible as not something fedexed by God to a lucky few, but as an evolving adventure of the human spirit in search of its own cosmic place.
ref: 2015, Erin A. Smith, What Would Jesus Read?:
glosses: Alternative form of FedEx.
fedexes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fedex
fedexing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fedex
fedexed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fedex
breezings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breezing
Squiffite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Squiffites
Etymology: By loss of the initial syllable, and th-fronting.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Asquithite.
synonyms: word: Asquithite
Squiffites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Squiffite
Selly Oak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Escelie (Domesday Book 1086), and Selvele (1204); Oak was added later.
Senses: glosses: An industrial and residential area in Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP0482).
Related terms: Selly Park
hairy cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hairy cells
Etymology: Coined in 1966.
Senses: examples: text: Studies of the viable blood cells with phase contrast microscopy showed peculiar cells that had numerous short villi and were arbitrarily called “hairy cells.”
ref: 1966 February, Robert Schrek, ““Hairy” Cells in Blood in Lymphoreticular Neoplastic Disease and “Flagellated” Cells of Normal Lymph Nodes”, in Blood, volume 27, number 2, page 199:
glosses: A kind of malignant B cell in an uncommon form of leukemia of unknown cause, having a "hairy" appearance under the microscope.
hairy cells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hairy cell
data dictionary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: data dictionaries
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A document or repository that describes the data and metadata within a system.
data dictionaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of data dictionary
Barbiefication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɑːbifɪˈkeɪʃən/
ipa: /-bɪ-/
ipa: /ˌbɑɹbifɪˈkeɪʃən/
ipa: /-bɪ/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: Barbification
Etymology: From Barbie (“tall, slender female fashion doll”) + -fication (suffix denoting the process of becoming something).
Senses: examples: text: On the road toward Barbiefication, we are so taken by artificially plastic standards of beauty that we surgically alter our human characteristics to look like idealized dolls.
ref: 1995 July, Adweek: Western Advertising News, volume 36, Los Angeles, Calif.: A/S/M Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page C-16, column 1:
text: While the Barbiefication of women of the world is serious business (all puns intended), I want to add that I have seen evidence that the globalization of Barbie has been met with resistance.
ref: 1996, The Bangladesh Journal of American Studies, volumes 9–10, Dhaka, Bangladesh: Bangladesh Journal of American Studies, →OCLC, page 71:
text: The official recognition enjoyed by [Geri] Halliwell supposedly marked the ‘Barbiefication of Britain’ and the triumph of superficial ‘plastic’ values.
ref: Mary Riddell (13 November 1998), “Geri Halliwell May Appeal to Six Year Old Girls, but that Doesn’t Make Her the Right Person to Relaunch the Women‘s Unit”, in New Statesman, volume 127, number 17, London: New Statesman Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10
text: Where Alexander Lebed identifies the enemy of Russian culture as the soap opera, Estonia's Jaan Kaplinski attributes the erosion of Baltic culture to ‘Barbification’ and cultural imports such as dolls, comic strips and cable TV[…].
ref: 1999, Philip Melling, “Race and Promiscuity: Millennial Ministry and the Legacy of Ham”, in Fundamentalism in America: Millennialism, Identity and Militant Religion, Chicago, Ill.: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers; Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, footnote 1, page 74:
text: The Estonian poet-politician Jaan Kaplinski has criticised his fellow citizens for their heedless consumerism and what he called the ‘Barbiefication’ of society – a phenomenon that he considers to be more dangerous even than Bolshevism.
ref: 2013, Charles de Chassiron, “The Re-emergence of National Cultures following Independence in the Baltic States”, in Peter I. Barta, editor, The Fall of the Iron Curtain and the Culture of Europe (Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series; 44), Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN:
text: [W]e must now resist anachronistic legislation and the Barbification of young women, the saddest phenomenon being the identical non-identifiable missing photos of girls and women surgically and cosmetically altered to resemble dolls.
ref: 2022, Linda Rogers et al., “Nurselogs”, in Mother, the Verb, Swan Sister Treasure Book, Altona, Mb.: Friesens, →ISBN, page 67:
glosses: A cultural move toward superficiality and a focus on physical attractiveness at the expense of depth and intellect.
microweapon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microweapons
Etymology: From micro- + weapon.
Senses: glosses: A very small weapon, generally in the realm of high technology.
microweapons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microweapon
Fidelism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Fidel + -ism, from Fidel Castro.
Senses: examples: text: He is undoubtedly conscious of Fidelism and its threat to constituted governments and Cuba can push him too hard. Better than most Latin American leaders today, he can meet Fidelism with its own weapons which he understands well.
ref: 1958, United States. Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, page 796:
text: A summary dialectic would thus make of Fidelism an a posteriori synthesis of two currents, national and international, nationalist and Communist. But such an interpretation risks giving Fidelism the consistency of a distinct ideology, which it does not have and does not want.
ref: 1970, Régis Debray, Strategy for revolution, page 81:
text: Originally the New Left was indistinguishable from Fidelism, but in view of this uneven development the vanguard is no longer coextensive with the entire movement.
ref: 1974, Donald Clark Hodges, The Latin American Revolution, page 147:
glosses: Synonym of Castrism.
synonyms: word: Castrism
wikipedia: Fidel Castro
Scotswood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ2063).
Fieldingesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Fieldingesque
form: most Fieldingesque
Etymology: From Fielding + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: Sexually frank and verbally inventive, Cleland's text constitutes an intriguing response to the dual claims of Richardsonian and Fieldingesque fiction.
ref: 2006, Brean Hammond, Shaun Regan, Making the Novel: Fiction and Society in Britain, 1660-1789:
text: But the only examples that Benson provides of this separate Fieldingesque perspective are the novel's title and what he calls the self-pitying epigraph from Gertrude Stein (ibid.).
ref: 2011, Peter L. Hays, The Critical Reception of Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, page 69:
text: The reader finds him/herself in a Fieldingesque landscape full of ruddy life but marked by scepticism about human motivation and about enthusiasm and pretension in all its guises.
ref: 2017, W M Verhoeven, Claudia L Johnson, Philip Cox, Anti-Jacobin Novels, Part II:
glosses: In the style of the novelist and dramatist Henry Fielding
well in good
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of well and good.
foxholing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of foxhole
foxholed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of foxhole
blogola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊlə
Etymology: From blog + -ola.
Senses: examples: text: An element more problematic […] in the move of corporate communications and practices online is the sometimes masked nature of such initiatives, for example through blogola and flogs.
ref: 2009, Nico Carpentier, Benjamin De Cleen, Participation and Media Production: Critical Reflections on Content Creation, page 33:
glosses: A form of payola in which a blogger is given money or other inducements to write favourably about a product or service.
Burscough Bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small town in Burscough parish, West Lancashire district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4412).
Heads of Ayr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A headland, locality, and holiday camp in South Ayrshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS2918).
reluctant dragon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reluctant dragons
Etymology: In reference to The Reluctant Dragon, an 1898 children's story by Kenneth Grahame about a shy dragon with no desire to fight people, adapted into a Walt Disney animated film in 1941.
Senses: examples: text: ENDICOTT: I think probably one of the promotive things we did was to finally convince Luther Terry that he had to do something about smoking and health. He certainly was a reluctant dragon, for a long time.
ref: 1979, A History of Cancer Control in the United States, 1946-1971:
text: […] Dodd seemed a “reluctant dragon.” No report on his violence probe was ever published. An interim report was mimeographed in a watered-down version for subcommittee members, but never released to the public.
ref: 1990, Eric Barnouw, Tube of Plenty: The Evolution of American Television:
text: Cage, a barrel-chested, tattooed (and how!) loner, finds himself dragooned into national service, a reluctant dragon, selected after a series of bizarre “tests” and then infiltrated into Prague […]
ref: 2007, Alan Farrell, High Cheekbones, Pouty Lips, Tight Jeans, page 311:
glosses: A reluctant person; somebody unwilling to get involved.
wikipedia: The Reluctant Dragon
reluctant dragons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reluctant dragon
Franklinize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Franklinizes
form: Franklinizing
form: Franklinized
form: Franklinized
form: franklinize
Etymology: From Franklin + -ize from Benjamin Franklin.
Senses: examples: text: This Flotilla is the natural consequence of the Treaty defensive and offensive between la Fayetted France and Franklinized America; the same infernal inspiration that lopped the limb, would crush the carcase;
ref: 1804, Joshua Larwood, No Gun Boats, or no Peace! A letter from Me to Myself, page 27:
text: This makes up for many of your blunders ; not , however , for Fredericksburg , although you have been there McClellanized , and , above all , Franklinized .
ref: 1866, Adam Gurowski, Diary ...: 1863-'64-'65, page 51:
text: I find that Philadelphia is really a Franklinized City, though the inhabitants do not know it. In the course of my prolonged visit I was able to see all of the physical monuments to Franklin, and was much depressed because the man does not seem to be much understood in his own city.
ref: 1908, The Book News Monthly - Volume 27, page 89:
glosses: To cause to be influenced by Benjamin Franklin and his political leadership.
examples: text: Franklinize your good principle. Let your treasurer at term-day acknowledge the "principle" of Stipend-paying, but renounce its specific forms of Sovereigns and Bank-notes, —how do you like it?
ref: 1837, Reply to ... Dr. H. Cooke, page 17:
text: Government Savings Stamps will aid you to Franklinize.
ref: 1920, Electrical Construction and Maintenance - Volume 20, page 109:
text: Painting is another way I've found to Franklinize my income.
ref: 1969, Harrie Sheridan Baketel, Medical Economics - Volume 46, page 224:
text: Often the meals were cold, the colonel having neither coal nor faggots to burn on his Franklinized hearth.
ref: 1982, Milton Lomask, Aaron Burr: The conspiracy and years of exile, 1805-1836, page 345:
glosses: To economize; to subject to extreme thrift.
examples: text: The Franklinic currents of all degrees were supplied by a Goltz's friction machine; all the patients were left uninsulated and Franklinized during from five to fifteen minutes at a sitting, by the positive pole alone.
ref: 1884, The Eclectic Medical Journal - Volume 44, page 136:
text: The identical result has been obtained in faradic electrification of muscle tissue. Thirdly, there occurs in properly Franklinized subjects a notable increase in body weight.
ref: 1903, The Cincinnati Lancet-clinic - Volume 90, page 154:
text: Capriati and Pisani have shown by the ergograph that fatigue shows itself much later in Franklinized muscles than in the normal state.
ref: 1905, Archives of Physiological Therapy - Volumes 1-2, page 274:
glosses: To electrically stimulate.
Franklinize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Franklinizes
form: Franklinizing
form: Franklinized
form: Franklinized
form: franklinize
Etymology: From Franklin + -ize from Franklin Planner.
Senses: examples: text: The design itself, the content of the plan, basically followed the outline that was presented at the seminar I attended. From that sketch we “Franklinized” the format, furnished the minimum requirements for the respective plan components.
ref: 1988, Proceedings of the Insurance Accounting and Systems Association:
text: Let's Franklinize Your Schedule First, get a yellow pad and a pen.
ref: 1998, Michael F. Staley, Igniting the Leader Within:
text: For example: A few years ago, I became “franklinized,” and now I use the Franklin Planner to manage my time and hold people accountable.
ref: 2001, Simone P. Joyaux, Strategic Fund Development, page 268:
glosses: To arrange according to the Franklin Planner system of time management.
Franklinizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Franklinize
Franklinizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Franklinize
Franklinized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Franklinize
Hemmings
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
franklinize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: franklinizes
form: franklinizing
form: franklinized
form: franklinized
Senses: examples: text: The perspiration from the franklinized portions of skin was diminished in most cases, while it was increased over the portion not franklinized.
ref: 1884, The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease:
text: It is certain that most sensitive persons can be franklinized without discomfort and without fear, and without any unpleasant after-effects.
ref: 1884, George Miller Beard, Sexual neurasthenia nervous exhaustion, page 229:
text: There is no necessity to undress a franklinized patient, as the therapeutic effects of this excellent agent remain unchanged — a circumstance of practical importance in female cases.
ref: 1885, George Henry Napheys, Modern Medical Therapeutics:
glosses: Alternative form of Franklinize.
franklinizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of franklinize
franklinizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of franklinize
franklinized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of franklinize
dragon's tail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dragon's tails
Senses: glosses: A thermistor that is towed behind a ship to measure the ocean's temperature.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dragon, tail.
Related terms: tickle the dragon's tail
dragon's tails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dragon's tail
dress the house
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dresses the house
form: dressing the house
form: dressed the house
form: dressed the house
Senses: examples: text: […] to pay this tax through inviting a certain class of the public, who are always invited, to theatres of standing to dress the house.
ref: 1917, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), page cccxlvi:
text: […] we critics were not his fellow-guests, but simply deadheads whose business it was to "dress the house" and write puffs.
ref: 1931, Bernard Shaw, Our Theatre in the Nineties, volume 24, page 246:
text: The box office in a reserved seat house and the ushers in a non-reserved situation are responsible for dressing the house—that is, seating the audience so as to elicit the maximum response, […]
ref: 1979, Lawrence Stern, School and Community Theater Management: A Handbook for Survival:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: To position oneself, or others, so as to make the auditorium appear fuller than it really is.
Hind
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hinds
form: Hynd
Etymology: From hind, a nickname for a gentle or timid person.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the nickname.
Hind
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Abbreviation of Hindustan.
Senses: examples: text: Jai Hind!
glosses: Synonym of Hindustan.
synonyms: word: Hindustan
Mardon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
dress-out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Deverbal from dress out.
Senses: examples: text: On the day of the patient's discharge, the patient will be called to 1 of the 2 dress-out rooms. The patient will be dressed out and then will be escorted to the agent cashier's office where he will pick up the money he had had on account, the valuables he has had in safekeeping, and last, but not least, his ticket and transportation to his home.
ref: 1956, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means, Traffic In, and Control Of, Narcotics, Barbiturates, and Amphetamines:
text: Proper Dress-out.
1. Radiological emergency response team members dressed-out in waterproof gowns and other standard surgical attire.
2. Cuffs and inner gloves are taped for contamination control purposes.
ref: 1984, Robert C. Ricks, Hospital Emergency Department Management of Radiation Accidents:
text: One crew was initially assigned to the emergency operations center, the second to the emergency response team's (ERT's) dress-out area, […]
ref: 2007, Philip Jan Rothstein, Disaster Recovery Testing: Exercising Your Contingency Plan:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The process of medical staff or patients dressing and equipping themselves in preparation for leaving the hospital.
red niggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red nigger
red nuggets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red nugget
red nuclei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red nucleus
Winstanley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Winstanleys
Etymology: From the Old English personal name Wynnstān + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).
Senses: glosses: A suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD5503).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: winstanleyite
STUFT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: STUFTs
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Acronym of ship taken up from trade, a civilian ship requisitioned for government use.
STUFTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of STUFT
dripholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of driphole
driplessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From dripless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without dripping.
drip painting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drip paintings
Senses: glosses: A form of abstract art in which paint is dripped or poured onto the canvas.
glosses: An individual artwork in this style.
drip paintings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drip painting
Maxted
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Wardrop
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wardrops
form: Waldrep
form: Waldrup
form: Wardrip
form: Wardrope
Etymology: Metonymic occupational surname for someone who was in charge of the garments worn by a feudal lord and his household.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
drogulus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: droguli
Etymology: Coined by the English philosopher A. J. Ayer.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Something that exists but whose existence cannot be verified because it is completely intangible.
wikipedia: A. J. Ayer
droguli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drogulus
Reyner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Durio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Durios
Etymology: Americanized spelling of French Durieu.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
microlibrary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microlibraries
Etymology: From micro- + library.
Senses: examples: text: We imagined a microlibrary which would be a well organized digital collection of resources, focused specifically on our project, and employing both traditional library cataloging and organization, and the folksonomy made possible by user-generated tagging.
ref: 2011, Charles Wankel, Educating Educators with Social Media, page 291:
glosses: A very small library (collection of books or similar resources).
examples: text: If you were to take a library like jQuery and pull it apart into all its different functions, it would form a bunch of microlibraries.
ref: 2012, Tim Wright, Learning JavaScript:
text: You should certainly explore the wealth of microlibraries available in the community and use the ones that solve your problems.
ref: 2014, Eric Elliott, Programming JavaScript Applications:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A compact, minimalistic library (set of routines).
microlibraries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microlibrary
Rwanda-Rundi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Kinyarwanda and Kirundi, considered as dialects of the same language
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Rwanda-Rundi terms
Xbones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Xbone
drop-by
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drop-bys
Etymology: Deverbal from drop by.
Senses: examples: text: About all George had scheduled during these long hours were a few delegation drop-bys, a duty he shared with other party luminaries, to motivate the troops for the fall campaign.
ref: 2008, James A. Baker, Steve Fiffer, "Work Hard, Study . . . and Keep Out of Politics!", page 103:
text: […] might be off to talk at a West Point graduation, return to Washington to speak to an assemblage of liberal city mayors, and conclude by making a few remarks to members of a political action committee that has been scheduled as a "drop-by."
ref: 2011, William Muir, Freedom in America:
text: Bush managed well, what with Wednesday morning breakfasts and occasional drop-bys at their offices. These private meetings were where differences were aired and settlements started to be fashioned.
ref: 2013, Alan Rosenthal, The Best Job in Politics:
coordinate_terms: drop-in
glosses: A brief visit, especially (politics) for the purpose of attracting voters or motivating one's staff.
drop-bys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drop-by
gamebot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gamebots
Etymology: From game + -bot.
Senses: examples: text: They weren't talking about a gamebot like Magdeil, who might be programmed to seek vengeance. This was the game's manager. Why would a MUD god attack someone?
ref: 1997, Jefferson Scott, Terminal Logic, page 256:
text: Current anti-hack solutions are able to distinguish software-based keyboard events and mouse events in order to detect a gamebot for automatic item harvesting.
ref: 2007, Mario Freire, Encyclopedia of Internet Technologies and Applications:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A bot (automated user) that takes part in a game or offers gaming functionality.
gamebots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gamebot
stock-take
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stock-takes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of stocktake.
for show
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Wealthy Nauruans spent their abundant money on cars that were for show.
text: Guys, get down from the climbing frames! They're just there for show!
ref: 2024, Teacher Tommy T, What did I miss? 🤣 #schoolmemes #school #teacher #schoolmemories #teaching #schooldays #students:
glosses: intended to be seen but not bought or used; aesthetic as opposed to practical.
glosses: done in an insincere or affected manner in order to impress others.
aha effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aha effects
Senses: glosses: Synonym of eureka effect.
synonyms: word: eureka effect
aha effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aha effect
orxatas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orxata
mansioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mansion + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The etymology of this name is a moot point. Colonel Sykes thought it meant “Nuptial Palace.” Others have thought it meant Two-Mansioned Cave from Du Mahall.
ref: 1879, John Murray (Firm), Edward Backhouse Eastwick, Handbook of the Madras Presidency (page 400)
text: Only when we know how 'many-mansioned' the universe of reality really is can we hope to have a philosophy that shall rest upon anything but the flimsiest foundations.
ref: 1911, Jacob Gould Schurman, James Edwin Creighton, Frank Thilly, The Philosophical Review, volume 20, page 558:
text: It appears, then, that when individual members of the Scheduled Castes gather their courage to see the gate-keepers of the multi-mansioned and multi-layered bureaucratic edifice to get some help, most of them are unable to make their case […]
ref: 1999, Ramashray Roy, Dalits, Development And Democracy, page 61:
glosses: Having a specified number or kind of mansions.
better-humored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of good-humored: more good-humored
best-humored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of good-humored: most good-humored
better-humoured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of good-humoured: more good-humoured
best-humoured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of good-humoured: most good-humoured
subclausing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of subclause
subclaused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of subclause
Scotchka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɒtʃkə/
ipa: /skɑt͡ʃkə/
Forms: form: Scotchkas
Etymology: Blend of Scotch whisky + vodka.
Senses: examples: text: In that he samples a chemistry prof's drink, scotch with a vodka undertone, and proposes a new drink entirely: “Scotchka.”
ref: 1958, Harold Wallace Ross, William Shawn, Tina Brown, David Remnick, Katharine Sergeant Angell White, Rea Irvin, Roger Angell, edited by Elwyn Brooks White, The New Yorker, volume 34, F-R Publishing Corporation, page 94:
text: Not bad. Kind of scotchy, with a vodka undertone. Why don't you market it? Call it “Scotchka.” Well, I've got a lot of work to do—
ref: 1958, Norman Krasna, Who was that Lady I Saw You With?: A New Comedy, Random House, page 6:
text: They asked me what kind of Scotch I used and how much I had put in the drink. I said just a jigger and the Scotch was a well-known brand. But the complaints got louder. Then I checked on the carafe of water. I had been pouring vodka instead of water. What they were drinking was Scotch and vodka, or Scotchka.
ref: 1959, Gentlemen's Quarterly: GQ., volume 29, Esquire, page 148:
text: If you've been to a screening, then you know about the spoons, the games of catch, the tuxes, the scotchka, “Hi, Denny,” and when it's appropriate to break into the Full House theme or bellow “focus/unfocus!” and “Go! Go! Go! Go!”
ref: 2011 December 7, Bob Batchelor, Cult Pop Culture: How the Fringe Became Mainstream [3 volumes], volumes 1-3, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 103:
text: Lisa gets Johnny drunk on a peculiar mixture of vodka and whiskey (which Room fans have christened the Scotchka) in order to accuse him of hitting her
ref: 2018 March 20, Tom Bissell, “Great and Terrible Truths”, in Magic Hours, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 216:
text: We're talking about the right kind of cult, where people get to maintain their status as thinking individuals but also have the opportunity to spend a few days every year dressing like aliens, drinking scotchka, or […]
ref: 2019 August 1, Daniel Harmon, Super Pop!: Pop Culture Top Ten Lists to Help You Win at Trivia, Survive in the Wild, and Make It Through the Holidays, Zest Books ™, →ISBN:
text: He objects that he does not drink, showing himself once again to be a sensible guy. Lisa insists, however, and after a few drinks of scotchka (a curious mix of scotch and vodka), Johnny is quite drunk—
ref: 2022 October 4, Adam M. Rosen, “I'm Tired, I'm Wasted 13”, in You Are Tearing Me Apart, Lisa!: The Year's Work on The Room, the Worst Movie Ever Made, illustrated edition, Indiana University Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A cocktail consisting of equal parts Scotch whisky and vodka.
ghost restaurant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghost restaurants
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dark kitchen.
synonyms: word: dark kitchen
ghost restaurants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghost restaurant
Yengiostang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yengiosteng
Etymology: From Uyghur يېڭىئۆستەڭ (yë'ngi'östeng).
Senses: glosses: A township in Qiemo, Bayingolin prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
glosses: A township in Maralbexi, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
examples: text: With a high survival rate compared to traditional cash crops, marigolds are easier to plant. The flowers, which contain lutein, are widely used in food and medicine. "It offers more economic benefits than cotton and wheat," said Zhu Yubao, Party chief of Yengiostang Township.
ref: 2020 September 30, “Xinjiang county smells success in marigold business”, in China Internet Information Center, archived from the original on 30 Sep 2020:
glosses: A township in Yarkant, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
glosses: A village in Teram, Yopurga, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Synonyms: sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Yingwusitang
canary trap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canary traps
Senses: glosses: The practice of giving slightly different versions of a document to each recipient, so that if the document is leaked then the person who leaked it can be identified.
Related terms: booby trap
canary traps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canary trap
Awat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Uyghur ئاۋات (awat).
Senses: examples: text: Shajimuhan Momin, the director of the Yengierik township planning office in Awat county was visiting the family of Reyimjan Sadir to 'propagandise and educate his wife about family planning measures'.
ref: 2004, Michael Dillon, Xinjiang: China's Muslim Far Northwest, Routledge, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 121:
text: The field experiment was carried out in Awat county, located in west edge of Taklimakan desert, XinJiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
ref: 2008, Jurat Matruzi, Mamtimin Geni, Ilham Abdureyim, Xamxinur Abdikerem, “Relationship Between Sand Ripple Moving Speed and Wind Speed under Local Wind Tunnel Experiment by Using Natural Sand in Taklimakan Desert”, in Wei Yang, Mamtimin Geni, Tiejun Wang, Zhuo Zhuang, editors, Advances in Fracture and Materials Behavior: Selected, peer reviewed papers of the Seventh International Conference on Fracture and Strength of Solids, (FEOFS2007), Urumqi, China, August 27-29, 2007, volume 2, Trans Tech Publications Ltd, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1051:
text: In October 2015, RFA reported that authorities in Awat county, Aksu prefecture, had forced 2 of the 109 Uyghurs forcibly deported from Thailand to participate in a film “as a deterrent to others in the area not to flee the country and seek asylum elsewhere.”
ref: 2016 October 6, Congressional-Executive Commission on China, Annual Report 2016, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, archived from the original on 10 Nov 2016, page 285:
text: A source recently told RFA that residents of Awat (in Chinese, Awati) county, in the XUAR’s Aksu (Akesu) prefecture, had been informed that an “inspection team” would soon be visiting the area, which is home to three re-education camps.
ref: 2018 December 12, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Xinjiang Authorities ‘Preparing’ Re-education Camps Ahead of Expected International Monitors”, in Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2018:
glosses: A county of Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
glosses: A township in Maralbexi, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
glosses: A town in Yarkant, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
examples: text: The general pattern is that the closer a township is to Kashgar city, the lower the changes of finding a female donkey in a household. Qoghan, Bäshkeräm, Awat, Yengi-östeng and Döwletbagh are townships which are within a 50-km distance from the city, and where female donkeys are nearly absent.
ref: 2010, Donald Wood, editor, Economic Action in Theory and Practice: Anthropological Investigations, via Google Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 172:
glosses: A township in Kashgar, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Synonyms: sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Awati
word: A-wa-t'i
Lachesian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /læˈkiːʃ(i)ən
-ʒən/
Forms: form: more Lachesian
form: most Lachesian
Etymology: From Lachesis.
Senses: examples: text: [He was] absolutely certain that he would live to age 90! But following an illness of several months, the Lachesian thread was cut short by just four months.
glosses: Pertaining to Lachesis, the Fate who measures the thread of life.