cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
come up with the goods
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes up with the goods
form: coming up with the goods
form: came up with the goods
form: come up with the goods
Senses: examples: text: This was the acid test - at least before Sunday's final with formidable Italy - and they came up with the goods not only in the context of Euro 2020 but also in demonstrating their character and big match mentality.
ref: 2021 July 7, Phil McNulty, “England 2-1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To produce what was expected or required.
Synonyms: english: only in a less common sense of this verb
translation: only in a less common sense of this verb
word: come across with
english: figurative sense
translation: figurative sense
word: cough up
word: deliver
Related terms: put up or shut up
heat island
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heat islands
Senses: examples: text: Currently, no plans for panel installation in Sinsing District, where the urban heat island effect can be better alleviated through greening facility construction, have been made.
ref: 2021, Chien-Chiao Chao et al., “Application of a High-Density Temperature Measurement System for the Management of the Kaohsiung House Project”, in Sustainability, volume 13, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 13:
glosses: Any area, populated or not, which is consistently hotter than the surrounding area.
glosses: Ellipsis of urban heat island.
Derived terms: urban heat island
snake vine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snake vines
form: snakevine
Etymology: From snake + vine.
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of vines, including:
A flowering vine grown ornamentally, Hibbertia scandens
glosses: Any of a number of vines, including:
Tinospora smilacina
glosses: Any of a number of vines, including:
Kennedia nigricans
glosses: Any of a number of vines, including:
Cynanchum viminale subsp. australe
glosses: Any of a number of vines, including:
false Solomon's seal, Maianthemum racemosum
glosses: Any of a number of vines, including:
Aristolochia fragrantissima
glosses: Any of a number of vines, including:
Stephania japonica
snake vines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snake vine
Chinese water torture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It has come to be known as Chinese water torture, but was actually invented by a sixteenth-century Italian lawyer named Hippolytus de Marsiliis.
ref: 2002, Greg Emmanuel, Extreme Encounters, →ISBN:
text: The plunk of the keys was beginning to feel like Chinese water torture, each note a painful drip. Is that a real thing? Chinese water torture, I mean.
ref: 2006, Jacqueline Pearce, The Truth About Rats (and Dogs), →ISBN, page 1:
text: My name is General Robinson Risner. I was the highest-ranking prisoner-of-war in the Vietnam War. I spent seven years locked up in solitary confinement. I was tortured beyond belief. I limp because of it. Today I still have a hole in the front of my skull from the Chinese water torture inflicted on me.
ref: 2007, Dan Clark, The Thrill of Teaching, →ISBN, page 61:
text: Is it true that a person really went crazy when subjected to the ancient practice of Chinese water torture?
ref: 2010, Erin Barrett, Jack Mingo, Just Curious About History, Jeeves, →ISBN, page 220:
glosses: A form of torture in which water is repetitively dripped onto the forehead of a victim who is restrained.
examples: text: The growth of subsidies is a Chinese water torture on individual liberty.
ref: 1994, James Bovard, Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty, →ISBN, page 162:
text: The end wasn't about money, nobody had an affair, and no firearms were involved. I think what I learned from the experience is that if there are things that bother you before you get married and you can't even discuss them, can't even talk about how to change or deal with whatever issues are going on, run. It was an exercise in Chinese water torture for me.
ref: 2007, Theresa Alan, Getting Married, →ISBN, page 8:
text: Compared to Hansen's own blitzkrieg appointment, it was a drawn-out affair, like some kind of political Chinese water torture.
ref: 2011, Alun Carter, Nicholas Bishop, Seeing Red: Twelve Tumultuous Years in Welsh Rugby, →ISBN:
glosses: Any repeated irritation that builds to deliver cumulative damage.
Related terms: death by a thousand cuts
dripping water hollows a stone
snakevine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snakevines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of snake vine.
snakevines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snakevine
danger signal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: danger signals
form: danger-signal
Senses: examples: text: 2005, "Practical Railway Engineering" by Clifford F. Bonnett, Imperial College Press →ISBN https://books.google.no/books?id=qcMgBJ1exfIC&pg=PA137&lpg=PA137&dq=%22at+a+danger+signal%22&source=bl&ots=c4Rl2aryKd&sig=vhZYJY8AkP63OAbCws6GS9882q4&hl=no&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjg2OSL19PZAhXJJMAKHQxdA2sQ6AEILzAB#v=onepage&q=%22at%20a%20danger%20signal%22&f=false
On a train travelling at say 40 miles per hour a driver would have to react quite quickly to bring his train to a halt at a danger signal even if he could see that signal half a mile away.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A signal set at danger and showing a red light or other stop indication, which a train driver must not pass until it changes or until manually cleared past the signal by a dispatcher.
glosses: An indication that a potentially bad or dangerous situation could develop.
Related terms: sense: rail
word: SPAD
danger signals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of danger signal
incy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incy
form: most incy
Senses: examples: text: “Okay, God did give me one incy little clue.”
ref: 2013, Loron-Jon Stokes, Beige Soup, page 31:
text: “We will inform HQ as soon as we return, but there still is this small incy little thing . . . The Alliance.”
ref: 2013, Ellie Williams, A Broken Paradise Series: Chasing Fears:
glosses: Very small; incy wincy.
juyces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of juyce
protanopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Forms: form: more protanopic
form: most protanopic
Etymology: From protanopia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or relating to protanopia.
kennets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kennet.
kennets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kennet
airgraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airgraphs
Etymology: From air + -graph.
Senses: examples: text: A recent airgraph from the G.I.P. Railway to "The Railway Magazine"
ref: 1942 May-June, “The Why and the Wherefore”, in Railway Magazine, page 192, photo caption:
glosses: A form of airmail used to send messages to servicemen during the Second World War.
biramose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of biramous.
airgraphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of airgraph
audad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: audads
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aoudad.
blashy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: blashier
form: blashiest
Etymology: From blash (“heavy rainfall”) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: ... a cold blashy rain is driven from the spongy west by a wind that would certainly blow you away, […]
ref: 1845, Thomas Aird, The Old Bachelor in the Old Scottish Village. [Essays and Sketches.], page 38:
text: "Mr dowse, what's your opinion o' this blashy weather? Will it blow over, do y' think?" Dowse pursed his lips and studied the racing clouds. […] "the wind's still in the sou'-west. Could be it gets worse afore it gets better."
ref: 2008 October 1, Julian Stockwin, Admiral's Daughter, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 249:
glosses: Rainy and windy.
raw_tags: of weather
examples: text: ... their streets are like wors - brave and blashy! Song, Canny Nerocassel.
ref: 1825, John Trotter Brockett, A Glossary of North Country Words, in Use: From an Original Manuscript, in the Library of John George Lambton, Esq., M. P., with Considerable Additions, page 18:
text: It's blashy deed, gannan' alang t' rooads, sike weather.
ref: 1868, John Christopher Atkinson, A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect: Explanatory, Derivative, and Critical, page 50:
text: .[The] road fra Gunnas to Burringham's blashier noo then ever I seed it.
ref: 1877, Edward Peacock, A Glossary of Words Used in the Wapentakes of Manley and Corringham, Lincolnshire, page 27:
text: tharrs sa mitch rain o' t' Fog, [...] it maks it blashy as weel, [...]
ref: 1882, Joseph Lucas (F.G.S.), Studies in Nidderdale, page 33:
glosses: Wet, splashy; muddy.
raw_tags: of weather
glosses: Watery.
raw_tags: of food
raccahout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of racahout.
within an inch of one's life
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪðˌɪn ən ˈɪntʃ əv wʌnz ˈlaɪf/
rhymes: -aɪf
Senses: synonyms: word: within an inch of one's skin
glosses: To a point where one is at great risk of death; or (figuratively, hyperbolic) of severe danger or trouble.
examples: text: Every drawer had the names of the tools inside written on the front. There were also several parts lockers; they too were labeled and organized within an inch of their lives.
ref: 2000, Dana Stabenow, Midnight Come Again, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Minotaur, →ISBN, page 77:
glosses: Almost as much as possible; to an extreme extent.
Related terms: difficult situation
by a hair's breadth
close shave
bugeyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bug eyes.
bugeyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bugeye
meconiums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meconium
bonspell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bonspells
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bonspiel.
endomixis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endomixes
Etymology: From endo- + Ancient Greek μίξις (míxis). Compare cytomixis. Also mixis and -mictic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A periodic reorganization of the cell nucleus in certain ciliated protozoa
eolopiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eolopile
eolopile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eolopiles
Senses: glosses: A metal sphere, containing water, and having two opposing jets, that rotates when the water is boiled
microbrecciated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + brecciated.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Containing microbreccias
microbreccia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microbreccias
Etymology: From micro- + breccia.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A breccia that contains very small particles of mineral
inshelter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inshelters
form: insheltering
form: insheltered
form: insheltered
Etymology: From in- + shelter.
Senses: glosses: To put into a shelter.
insheltering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inshelter
insheltering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The action of putting something in a shelter
Ecclesiast
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Ecclesiast
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: The author of Ecclesiastes, traditionally considered to be King Solomon.
keratan sulfate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keratan sulfates
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several sulfated glycosaminoglycans that have been found especially in the cornea, cartilage, and bone, and act to absorb mechanical shock in joints.
Synonyms: keratosulfate
KS
keratan sulfates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keratan sulfate
beneffectance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of beneficence + effectance. Coined by psychologist Anthony Greenwald in 1980.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Perception of responsibility for desired outcomes, but not for undesired ones.
haircolor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hârʹkŭl-ər
ipa: /ˈhɛə.kʌ.ləɹ/
enpr: hârʹkŭl-ər
ipa: /ˈhɛəɹ.kʌ.ləɹ/
Forms: form: haircolors
form: hair color
form: haircolour
form: hair color
Etymology: From hair + color.
Senses: synonyms: hair coloring
hair dye
glosses: artificial hair coloring
microbreccias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microbreccia
inshelters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inshelter
insheltered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inshelter
soil fertilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soil fertility
basophilism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From baso- + -philism.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of basophilia.
synonyms: word: basophilia
bathycardia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bathy- + -cardia.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A condition in which the heart occupies a lower position than normal
bathyesthesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bathy- + -esthesia.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Any sensation that arises from below the skin
glacierization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glacierizations
Etymology: From glacier + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of becoming glacierized, or modified by the action of glaciers.
glacierizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glacierization
eISBN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eISBNs
Etymology: From e- + ISBN.
Senses: glosses: The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) of an electronic edition of a book.
eISBNs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eISBN
Cariello
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Italian Cariello.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Mauss
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German Mauß.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Kingsway
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From King + -s- + way; named for George W. King, first postmaster of the community.
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community in Sandusky County, Ohio, United States.
Marçal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Guim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
take one's seat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes one's seat
form: taking one's seat
form: took one's seat
form: taken one's seat
Senses: examples: text: Take your seat, Richard! It's time to start class.
glosses: Synonym of take a seat.
synonyms: word: take a seat
takes one's seat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take one's seat
taking one's seat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take one's seat
took one's seat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take one's seat
taken one's seat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take one's seat
takes a seat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take a seat
taking a seat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take a seat
took a seat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take a seat
taken a seat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take a seat
takes a pew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take a pew
taking a pew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take a pew
took a pew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take a pew
taken a pew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take a pew
blows over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blow over
blowing over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blow over
blew over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of blow over
blown over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of blow over
makes a difference
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of make a difference
making a difference
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of make a difference
made a difference
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of make a difference
difference maker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: difference makers
form: difference-maker
Etymology: From make a difference + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who, or something that, makes a difference.
Related terms: difference-making
difference makers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of difference maker
difference-maker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: difference-makers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of difference maker.
difference-makers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of difference-maker
difference-making
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more difference-making
form: most difference-making
Etymology: From make a difference + -ing.
Senses: glosses: That makes a difference; that is consequentially important.
difference-making
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From make a difference + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act of making a difference.
Related terms: difference maker
viral sex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Bacterial and viral sex, we believe, evolved in response to nucleic acid-threatening radiation and led to the spread of genes as "small genetic entities" in protected packets [Sonea and Panisett, 1983].
ref: 1985, Harlyn Odell Halvorson, Alberto Monroy, The Origin and Evolution of Sex, page 75:
text: Once each of the eight gene segments have been sequenced, he says, it will be possible to recreate viral sex in the lab, inserting one segment at a time into an everyday human flu strain.
ref: 2000, New Scientist - Volume 167, Issues 2254-2262, page 332:
text: Phages are well known for mistakenly incorporating bits of DNA from one host and carrying them to the next, thereby spreading genetic material rapidly between their host bacteria. In the marine environment, this behaviour, which has been referred to as 'viral sex', seems to be rife, with viruses capturing host genes and passing them around the community
ref: 2011, Dorothy H. Crawford, Viruses: A Very Short Introduction, →ISBN:
glosses: The process by which two viruses meet in a single host and reproduce to create a new virus that includes genetic material from both of them.
immunologically naïve
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more immunologically naïve
form: most immunologically naïve
Senses: examples: text: In Western Kenya, approximately 100 percent of immunologically naïve older infants and toddlers develop confirmed clinical malaria during high season.
ref: 2006, Institute of Medicine, Medical Follow-Up Agency, Committee on U.S. Military Malaria Vaccine, Battling Malaria, →ISBN:
text: Animals entering shelters are either (a) immunologically naïve and susceptible to infection and development of disease if exposed to pathogens; (b) already immune as a result of natural immunization (e.g., recovery from infection or disease) or previous vaccination; or (c) already infected, either showing clinical signs or possibly incubating disease and/or shedding the infectious organisms to other susceptible animals.
ref: 2011, Lila Miller, Kate Hurley, Infectious Disease Management in Animal Shelters:
text: Viruses that cause persistent productive infections (e.g., cytomegalovirus, HIV) are a particular problem because the infected person is a continual source of virus that can be spread to immunologically naïve people.
ref: 2015, Patrick R. Murray, Ken S. Rosenthal, Michael A. Pfaller, Medical Microbiology, →ISBN, page 382:
glosses: Alternative spelling of immunologically naive.
immunologically naive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more immunologically naive
form: most immunologically naive
form: immunologically naïve
Senses: examples: text: Thus, as global minimum temperatures continue to increase, the isotherm border will extend into higher latitudes and altitudes, affecting immunologically naive populations and generating increased morbidity and mortality in vulnerable regions.
ref: 2001, Andrew T. Price-Smith, The Health of Nations, →ISBN:
text: Animal experiments show that repeated inhalation of an allergen by immunologically naive rat pups usually results in a transient low-level IgE antibody response.
ref: 2013, Judah A. Denburg, Allergy and Allergic Diseases: The New Mechanisms and Therapeutics, →ISBN:
text: On introduction of the parasite into immunologically naive mouse populations, the impact was dramatic (Fig. 4.9).
ref: 2013, G.W. Esch, J.C. Fernandez, A Functional Biology of Parasitism, →ISBN:
glosses: Having an immune system that has never been exposed to a specific antigen.
Related terms: axenic
monocultured
whistlestop tour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whistlestop tours
Senses: examples: text: Gordon then accompanied the former Confederate president on what amounted to a whistlestop tour from Montgomery to Atlanta.
ref: 1987, Gaines M. Foster, Ghosts of the Confederacy, →ISBN:
text: It now only remained for the world to decipher precisely what de Gaulle had meant in the various utterances of this his first whistlestop tour of Algeria, and how he was going to follow them up.
ref: 2011, A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962, →ISBN:
text: In October 1964, First Lady Claudia “Lady Bird” Johnson embarked on a whistlestop tour of Southern cities to support her husband's presidential reelection bid.
ref: 2011, Michael O. Holt, Valdosta 1964, →ISBN:
text: A short walk, and soon we were in the train station. Well, not an entire station, but a room with Kim Il-sung's private locomotive, pulled to a stop inside the Memorial Palace. It's parked there so visitors can have a peek inside the very train car that took the Great Leader as far as West Africa on a lifelong whistlestop tour of fellow authoritarian regimes.
ref: 2013, Bill Richardson, Kevin Bleyer, How to Sweet-Talk a Shark:
glosses: A trip by train in which one visits many locations along the way, especially if those locations are not major cities.
examples: text: This chapter is a whistlestop tour of basic marketing ideas.
ref: 2009, Susannah Bowen, Steve Carey, How to Save Your Life, →ISBN:
text: This vast wealth of information has drawn on a wide range of examples and case studies from different parts of the world. Inevitably, this has been something of a whistlestop tour, but it has deliberately paused longer where the materials and technologies are less familiar.
ref: 2014, Linda Hurcombe, Perishable Material Culture in Prehistory, →ISBN:
text: First, let's sketch out that geographical unevenness with a whistlestop tour of the world in figures - excess mortality rates, to be precise..
ref: 2017, Laura Spinney, Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World:
qualifier: by analogy
glosses: An overview of a subject which includes a number of illustrative examples.
whistlestop tours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whistlestop tour
inflationless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inflation + -less.
Senses: examples: text: We wanted an inflationless gold standard economy as embodied in the Second Napkin Kemp drew up at the Republican Convention in July 1980.
ref: 2013, David Stockman, The Triumph of Politics: Why the Reagan Revolution Failed, page 420:
glosses: Without inflation.
agrometeorologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agrometeorologists
Senses: glosses: One who studies agrometeorology.
agrometeorologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agrometeorologist
free Boolean algebra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: free Boolean algebras
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A field of sets whose elements are equivalent to Boolean formulas (or, perhaps more precisely, equivalence classes of Boolean formulas). Starting with a set of n variables which are independent of each other and are called generators, the power set of this set has 2ⁿmembers which may be called atoms and are valuations of the n variables: a valuation can be considered to be a set of variables which are "true" under that valuation, or a conjunction of generators (such that variables not included in that set are included in negated form in the equivalent conjunction). Then the power set of the set of atoms yields a set of 2^(2ⁿ) members which are the elements of the said field of sets. These elements correspond to Boolean formulas: a formula can be considered to be a set of valuations which make the formula true, or a linear combination (i.e., a disjunction) of atoms.
knobwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knobwoods
Etymology: From the cone-shaped knob-like protuberances that cover the bark.
Senses: examples: text: In one, whe had seen an object wrapped in a dirty cloth hanging from the branch of a knobwood tree.
ref: 2017, Laura Spinney, Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World:
glosses: Any of various South African trees of genus Zanthoxylum that have knob-like protuberances on the bark.
knobwoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knobwood
hymenectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: hymenectomies
Etymology: From hymen + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Surgical excision of the hymen.
pork Wellington
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pork Wellingtons
Etymology: Blend of pork + beef Wellington
Senses: glosses: A variant of beef Wellington, where a pork tenderloin replaces the beef tenderloin.
hidradenitis suppurativa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: HS
acne inversa
Verneuil's disease
glosses: A chronic condition which causes inflamed, painful, swollen lumps to form under the skin.
chicken Wellington
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chicken Wellingtons
Etymology: Blend of chicken + beef Wellington
Senses: glosses: A variant of beef Wellington, where a boneless chicken breast fillet replaces the beef tenderloin.
OPOC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: OPOCs
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Abbreviation of opposed cylinder.
OPOC
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Acronym of opposed piston opposed cylinder.
Coordinate terms: opposed-cylinder engine
opposed-piston engine
Related terms: boxer engine
opposed cylinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opposed cylinders
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A type of engine cylinder, with two pistons, horizontally opposed with each other, and the combustion chamber sitting centrally between the two pistons.
Synonyms: word: OPOC
Derived terms: word: OPOC
Related terms: boxer engine
opposed piston opposed cylinder
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the opposed-piston engine / opposed-cylinder engine
Synonyms: word: OPOC
Coordinate terms: opposed cylinder
opposed piston
Derived terms: word: OPOC
Related terms: boxer engine
pussy finger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pussy fingers
Etymology: The index finger is typically used to finger a woman.
Senses: glosses: The index finger.
pussy fingers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pussy finger
in someone's light
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: You're in my light. Move it!
glosses: Blocking someone's light, especially when someone is attempting to see a particular thing.
perimetrial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + metrial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the perimetrium
Derived terms: subperimetrial
CNCF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Christina Noble Children's Foundation.
qualifier: cloud computing
glosses: Initialism of Cloud Native Computing Foundation, an organization created to promote and advance container technology.
Laniakea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌlɑːni.əˈkeɪ.ə/
Etymology: From Hawaiian lani (“heaven”) + ākea (“spacious, immeasurable”).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A supercluster of galaxies that includes the Milky Way.
Synonyms: Local Supercluster
LS
LSC
Hypernyms: galaxy supercluster
SC
SCG
SCl
SClG
supercluster
supercluster of galaxies
Hyponyms: Earth
Local Group
Milky Way Galaxy
Orion Arm
Solar System
Virgo Supercluster
belladonnine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A tropane alkaloid, bis(8-methyl-8-azabicyclo[3.2.1]octan-3-yl) (1S,4S)-4-phenyl-2,3-dihydro-1H-naphthalene-1,4-dicarboxylate, related to atropine
bellmetal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bellmetals
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bell metal.
beneceptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beneceptors
Senses: examples: text: He divides receptors into three classes— "nociceptors", such as the nerve-endings for pain and hunger, "beneceptors", such as the nerve-endings stimulated when sugar melts on the tongue, and "neutroceptors", such as the nerve-endings in the eye and ear, called " neutroceptors " because they receive more or less indiscriminately both pleasant and unpleasant messages.
ref: 1929, The Australasian Journal of Psychology and Philosophy, page 310:
text: The “beneceptors,” “nociceptors,” and "neutroceptors” generally signalled stimuli that were, respectively, beneficial, harmful, or neutral as regards the organism or its species.
ref: 1973, Behaviorism, page 42:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
antonyms: nociceptor
hypernyms: ceptor
glosses: A sensory receptor that sends pleasurable or beneficial signals.
benzanthrene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benzanthrenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of benzanthracene.
synonyms: word: benzanthracene
benzeneamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benzeneamines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of aniline.
synonyms: word: aniline
benzoated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Modified by the addition of a benzoate (typically sodium benzoate)
benzolamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The sulfonamide drug 5-(benzenesulfonamido)-1,3,4-thiadiazole-2-sulfonamide
benzopurpurin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benzopurpurins
Etymology: From benzo- + purpurin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of red azo dyes used for dying cotton
benzoquinonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benzoquinoniums
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A cation derived from benzoquinone
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The drug benzyl-[3-[[4-[3-[benzyl(diethyl)azaniumyl]propylamino]-3,6-dioxocyclohexa-1,4-dien-1-yl]amino]propyl]-diethylazanium used as the dichloride or dibromide that causes neuromuscular paralysis.
benzoresinol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A resin obtained from benzoin
benzosulfimide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of saccharin.
synonyms: word: saccharin
benzoylarginine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benzoylarginines
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any benzoyl derivative of arginine
benzoylcholine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The benzoyl derivative of choline 2-benzoyloxyethyl(trimethyl)azanium
benzperidol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of benperidol.
mesemb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /məˈzɛm/
Forms: form: mesembs
form: mesem
Etymology: Clipping of Mesembryanthemoideae.
Senses: glosses: Any plant from the subfamily Mesembryanthemoideae of the family Aizoaceae; a mesembryanthemum.
mesembs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesemb
at a guess
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The woman opposite him was a mere girl - twenty at a guess.
ref: 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 3, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 27:
glosses: Upon cursory examination; at a glance.
up to a point
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: To a certain extent.
Related terms: english: relevant to the topic
translation: relevant to the topic
word: to the point
near thing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: near things
Senses: examples: text: The Jylland only missed running down a schooner by a few yards in the fog; it was a near thing—near enough, in fact, to allow of some shouted remarks between those on the bridge of the motorship and the man at the wheel of the schooner to be clearly heard.
ref: 1943 May and June, Chas. S. Lake, “Some Continental Travel Experiences (1922-1939)—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 143:
glosses: A close call, a close shave, a close thing
like father like son
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of like father, like son.
Low Exercise Price Option
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Low Exercise Price Options
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A European call option on a share or index, with a 1 cent strike price, traded on ASX. Instead of paying an upfront premium, margin is held and marked-to-market daily, making it similar to a futures contract on the underlying asset.
Low Exercise Price Options
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Low Exercise Price Option
low exercise price option
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: low exercise price options
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Low Exercise Price Option.
low exercise price options
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of low exercise price option
LEPO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LEPOs
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of Low Exercise Price Option.
LEPOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LEPO
endowment assurance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endowment assurances
Senses: topics: business
insurance
glosses: A form of life insurance paying a lump sum to the policyholder on survival to a fixed date, or to the estate or beneficiaries if the policyholder dies before that date.
Coordinate terms: pure endowment
roemer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roemers
Senses: examples: text: The delicate stringings, or wheeled quillings, also, round the necks of the roemers and berkemeyers are not less noteworthy than the stringings or spinnings―naturally never quilled―of their bases or footings.
ref: 1897, Albert Hartshorne, Old English Glasses: An Account of Glass Drinking Vessels in England, page 50:
text: Here the pipe and roemer glass obviously indicate taste and smell, and equally obviously, the transience of sensual pleasures.
ref: 1999, Country Life, volume 193, page 118:
text: When I first saw complete roemers (often pronounced 'rummer', the name comes from the Dutch for making a toast, roemen) in the auction house where I was working, I knew their appeal went far beyond dedicated collectors.
ref: 2016, Ted Sandling, London in Fragments: A Mudlark's Treasures:
glosses: Alternative form of rummer.
roemers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roemer
endowment assurances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endowment assurance
benzpyrinium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From benz(yl)pyr(id)ine + -ium (“quaternary ammonium compound”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: The pyridinium cation 1-benzylpyridin-1-ium-3-yl N,N-dimethylcarbamate, the bromide of which is used to relieve postoperative urinary retention.
pure endowment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pure endowments
Senses: topics: business
insurance
glosses: A form of life insurance paying a lump sum to the policyholder on survival to a fixed date, with no payment if the policyholder dies before that date.
Coordinate terms: endowment assurance
pure endowments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pure endowment
gloaty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gloaty
form: most gloaty
Etymology: From gloat + -y.
Senses: examples: text: […] I saw Rosita and José, hand in hand, doing a sort of gloaty, derisive fandango for the torturing of Pete.
ref: 1912 September, Clarence L. Cullen, “The Hangman and Pedro Salazar”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume 47, number 6, page 948:
text: The rest of the town looked like servant’s quarters surrounding the “big house.” And different from everybody else in the town he put off moving in until it had been painted, in and out. And look at the way he painted it—a gloaty, sparkly white.
ref: 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, chapter 5, in Their Eyes Were Watching God, University of Illinois Press, published 1978, page 75:
text: 1947, Rex Stout, Too Many Women, Thorndike Press & Chivers Press, 1999, Chapter 24, p. 233,
“This,” Cramer declared in as gloaty a tone as I had ever heard from him, “is really rich. […] ”
text: 2014, Rick Owens, cited by Alexander Fury in “Rick Owens and the Dark Art of Creativity,” The Independent, 17 October, 2014,
I don’t have to do anything I don’t want to. It’s not like I’m obligated to make any compromises, which is a wonderful thing. I probably sound a little gloaty to say that, or a little boastful, but it’s significant.
glosses: Characterized by or resembling gloating.
Synonyms: smug
Derived terms: gloatily
gloatiness
Dakotaverse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Dakota + -verse.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: The fictional universe of the city of Dakota, the home of the superheroes Static Shock, Icon, etc., in comics published by Milestone Media/DC Comics.
Hypernyms: DCverse
gloatily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gloatily
form: most gloatily
Etymology: From gloaty + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […] if you’re better off than your friends and neighbours, then you're gloatily content, but if you're a millionaire trapped in a ghetto of billionaires, you're more likely to be a miserable git.
ref: 2005 August 16, “Joanna Briscoe: At the Sharp End”, in The Independent:
glosses: In a gloaty manner, gloatingly.
Synonyms: smugly
gloatiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gloaty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being gloaty.
Synonyms: smugness
ophthalmopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ophthalmopathy
ophthalmopathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ophthalmopathy + -ic.
Senses: topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: Relating to eye disease.
berkemeyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: berkemeyers
Senses: glosses: A drinking glass with a wide, flared bowl, dating from 15th-century Germany and the Netherlands, with a characteristic green or yellow colour caused by iron impurities in the sand used for glass production.
berkemeyers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of berkemeyer
barycentric energies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barycentric energy
sarolaner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An isoxazoline ectoparasiticide drug.
shamozzle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shamozzles
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:shamozzle.
glosses: Alternative form of shemozzle.
shamozzles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shamozzle
dodecaphonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Austrian composer Arnold Schönberg created a whole new musical system, dodecaphonics, while Russian-born composer Igor Starvinsky - under the influence of jazz - set out to replace feeling by rhythm.
ref: 2017, Laura Spinney, Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World:
glosses: Synonym of dodecaphony.
synonyms: word: dodecaphony
shlemozzle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shlemozzles
Senses: examples: text: A boy with pin wheels stuck to his ears is lucky to have anyone, never mind my lovely Channaleh. But then I was lucky to be invited. The whole shlemozzle at the party after, too. Some party!
ref: 2011, Howard Jacobson, The Mighty Walzer: A Novel, →ISBN, page 336:
glosses: Alternative form of shemozzle.
shlemozzle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shlemozzles
Senses: examples: text: “That's what this moron did,” Louise McKay shouted, glaring at Abbie and me as though to defy us to question her. Tarbok turned his head and looked at her. “Shut up, sweetheart,” he said, slowly and distinctly. “I'm talking to the shlemozzle.” “I'm not a shlemozzle,” I said.
ref: 2011, Donald E. Westlake, Somebody Owes Me Money, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of schlimazel.
shlemozzles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shlemozzle
forced heir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forced heirs
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A person who, under the laws of a particular jurisdiction, can not be disinherited, even by a will.
forced heirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forced heir
rello
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rellos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of relo.
rellos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rello
used-to-be
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: 1888, Daily Evening Bulletin, Maysville, Kentucky, 3 September, 1888,
Milburn Ellis, a used-to-be resident of this place, but now of the Grasshopper Country […] is visiting relatives here.
text: Said it was a spittoon just like his used-to-be bossman used to have in his bank up there in Atlanta.
ref: 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, chapter 5, in Their Eyes Were Watching God, University of Illinois Press, published 1978, page 76:
text: “The mudflow destroyed houses on the eastern edge of my used-to-be recruiting area,” said [Staff Sergeant] David Orman of the Longview [recruiting station].
ref: 1980 November, Dave Pankey, “Mount St. Helens”, in All Volunteer, volume 33, number 11, page 5:
text: […] I love her but something’s not there. I don’t even know if it’s love anymore. Maybe it’s just a used-to-be love.
ref: 1983, Simon J. Ortiz, “3 Women”, in Fightin’: New and Collected Stories, Chicago: Thunder’s Mouth Press, page 79:
text: 2004, Adrienne Rich, “Dislocations: Seven Scenarios,” 4, in The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004, New York: Norton, p. 88,
her / orders don’t necessarily / get obeyed / because / the government / is paying / and the / used-to-be / warriors / are patients
glosses: Former, ex-.
Related terms: has-been
Brazilianization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brazilianizations
form: brazilianization
form: Brazilianisation
form: brazilianisation
Etymology: From Brazilian + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: As chief of Interventor Cordeiro de Farias' personal military staff. Peracchi had been active in the local implementation of the Estado Novo's Brazilianization campaign, in which excesses had occurred against Germans and Italians.
ref: 1974, Carlos E. Cortés, Gaúcho politics in Brazil: the politics of Rio Grande do Sul, 1930-1964, page 163:
text: Given this context of religious pluralism, the main theme and purpose of this chapter is to discuss the process of Brazilianization caused by the increasingly significant presence of Brazilian immigrants and their evangelical churches in the New Your Metropolitan Area (Rodrigues 2010).
ref: 2012, Richard Cimino, Nadia A Mian, Weishan Huang, Ecologies of Faith in New York City, →ISBN:
text: Having been longer and better established in Brazil than Japanese firms, U.S. firms were better able to cope with Brazilianization.
ref: 1988, Leon Hollerman, Japan's Economic Strategy in Brazil: Challenge for the United States, →ISBN:
text: The Afro-Brazilian contribution to and influence on Brazilian folk dances is reflected in the number of specific Afro-Brazilian dances and the Brazilianization—that is, Afro-Brazilianization—of European dances, an important aspect of Brazilian urban popular music.
ref: 2013, The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, →ISBN:
glosses: An increase in the percentage of Brazilian people or cultural elements in an area or industry.
examples: text: What is going on in my opinion is the "Brazilianization of India". You have high levels of inequality, a spectacular film and culture industry, the proliferation of television, and for the first time in the history of India, you have the legitimization of inequality among the elite.
ref: 2004, Geert Lovink, Uncanny Networks: Dialogues with the Virtual Intelligentsia, →ISBN:
text: Neo-liberal globalization has created a great disruption of previously stable employment patterns, (re)introducing temporary, insecure, and "informal" employment in the North and even social marginality in the great cities. Brazilianization, over and beyond the slightly pejorative and Eurocentric it might have in Beck's usage, can be seen to reflect the globalization of the uneven development that once seemed to be confined to the Third World.
ref: 2005, Ronaldo Munck, Globalization and Social Exclusion: A Transformationalist Perspective, →ISBN:
text: Figures as diverse as the Americans Michael Lind and Mike Davis, the Frenchman Alain Lipietz, the German Ulrich Beck, and the Indian Ravi Sundaram have all spoken of Brazilianization as the imminent condition of the entire world as a “planet of slums” (Davis).
ref: 2012, Robert Stam, Ella Shohat, Race in Translation: Culture Wars Around the Postcolonial Atlantic, →ISBN:
glosses: Social change characterized by classism, economic disparity, and a large underclass that suffers from unemployment and underemployment.
brazilianization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brazilianizations
Senses: examples: text: Corrêa has voiced the need to be aware of derivative cultural forms and has called for the "brazilianization" of Brazilian crime fiction.
ref: 1992, Amelia S. Simpson, New Tales of Mystery and Crime from Latin America, →ISBN, page 17:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Brazilianization.