cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Kilkenny cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kilkenny cats
Etymology: Referring to an old story about two cats who fought to the death and ate each other up such that only their tails were left.
Senses: examples: text: Yet for my father the war was a source of considerable inner conflict; much as he detested Nazism he was psychologically incapable of desiring a British victory. (Very likely his secret wish was that Germany and Britain should do a Kilkenny cat act.
ref: 1979, Dervla Murphy, Wheels Within Wheels, page 66:
text: Even pirate crews and bands of robbers prefer a peaceful settled understanding as to the division of their plunder to the Kilkenny cat plan.
ref: 1984, Bernard Shaw, The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism, →ISBN, page 29:
text: In the words of a member of the Press Gallery in 1967: 'Here we have 630 men and women, friendly – except for normal human antipathies – in private, and fighting like Kilkenny cats in public.'
ref: 2015, Emma Crewe, The House of Commons: An Anthropology of MPs at Work, page 68:
glosses: A tenacious fighter.
Related terms: mutual assured destruction
Kilkenny cats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kilkenny cat
kern-baby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kern-babies
Senses: synonyms: harvest queen
harvest doll
glosses: A doll or image decorated with corn (grain) flowers, etc., traditionally carried in the festivals of a kern, or harvest home.
kern-babies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kern-baby
harvest home
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harvest homes
Senses: glosses: The gathering and bringing home of the harvest.
glosses: A feast held at the time of gathering and bringing home the harvest.
Synonyms: word: horkey
word: kern
kefir grain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kefir grains
Senses: glosses: A small hard yellowish aggregation found in the Caucasus region, containing various yeasts and bacteria, and used as a ferment in preparing kefir.
kefir grains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kefir grain
knight's fee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knights' fees
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A kind of land tenure requiring military service to the land's chief lord as an obligation to maintain possession.
topics: law
glosses: The specific amount of land giving rise to such requirements generally, being sometimes a hide or less and sometimes six or more hides.
Coordinate terms: knight service
serjeanty
kissing string
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kissing strings
Senses: glosses: One of the strings of a cap or bonnet, made long to tie under the chin.
kissing strings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kissing string
knockout drop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knockout drops
Senses: glosses: A drop of a drug used to make a person fall asleep or become unconscious or stupefied for the purpose of robbery, etc., typically by mixing it into a drink.
knockout drops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knockout drop
Kurosiwo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kuroshio.
Kuro Siwo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kuroshio.
Kuro Shio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kuroshio.
unevaluable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + evaluable.
Senses: glosses: Not evaluable.
evaluably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From evaluable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a way that can be evaluated.
evaluability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Ability to be evaluated.
planogamete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planogametes
Etymology: From plano- + gamete.
Senses: glosses: One of the motile ciliated gametes, or zoogametes, found in isogamous plants and green algae.
planogametes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planogamete
zoogametes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zoogamete
zoogamete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoogametes
Etymology: From zoo- + gamete.
Senses: glosses: planogamete
plowter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plowters
form: plowtering
form: plowtered
form: plowtered
Senses: examples: text: As I did not want to plowter about any more in the drizzle and the dark, I put my waterproof over the muzzle of one gun, and made a sort of wigwam with two or three rammers that I found, and lay along the tail of another gun, wondering where Vixen had got to, and where I might be.
ref: 1894 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Servants of the Queen”, in The Jungle Book, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published June 1894, →OCLC, page 187:
glosses: Alternative spelling of plouter.
plowter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plowters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of plouter.
plowtered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of plowter
plowters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of plowter
plowtering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of plowter
pluviography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The use of a pluviograph; the automatic recording of precipitation.
glosses: The graphic presentation of precipitation data.
Derived terms: pluviographic
pluviographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pluviography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to pluviography.
pogamoggan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡən
Forms: form: pogamoggans
Senses: glosses: A Native American weapon consisting of a stone or piece of antler fastened to the end of a slender wooden handle.
pogamoggans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pogamoggan
polyphaser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyphasers
Etymology: From poly- + phaser.
Senses: glosses: A machine generating more than one pressure wave.
Synonyms: multiphaser
multiphaser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multiphasers
Etymology: From multi- + phaser.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of polyphaser.
synonyms: word: polyphaser
polyphasers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyphaser
multiphasers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multiphaser
polytypisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polytypism
bracingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bracing + -ness.
Senses: examples: the bracingness of the sea air
glosses: The quality of being bracing.
fecality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fecal + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Notwithstanding these admonitions, she did eat sixteen quarters, two bushels, three pecks and a pipkin full. O the fair fecality wherewith she swelled, by the ingrediency of such shitten stuff!
ref: 1653, Francis Rabelais [i.e., François Rabelais], translated by [Thomas Urquhart, Peter Anthony Motteux], chapter IV, in The Works of Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick: Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds, and Sayings of Gargantua, and His Sonne Pantagruel. […], London: […] [Thomas Ratcliffe and Edward Mottershead] for Richard Baddeley, […], →OCLC; republished in volume I, London: […] Navarre Society […], [1948], →OCLC, 1st book:
text: Their appearance leads to an orgy of multitudinous fornications, a wild tumult of perversions and obscene interlacings which language is dislocated and fiercely fractured to express. The vision is not simply of a jungle of wild copulations, but of filth, fecality, bestiality.
ref: 1989, Contemporary literary criticism : excerpts from criticism of the works of today's novelists, poets, playwrights, and other creative writers, page 400:
glosses: The quality of being fecal.
faecality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From faecal + -ity.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fecality.
pluvioscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pluvioscopes
Etymology: From pluvio- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: rain gauge
pluvioscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pluvioscope
pluviometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin pluvius (“rain”) + -metry.
Senses: glosses: The scientific measurement of rainfall.
Derived terms: pluviometric
phototelescope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phototelescopes
Etymology: From photo- + telescope.
Senses: glosses: A telescope adapted for taking photographs of the heavenly bodies.
phototelescopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phototelescope
phototelescopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Etymology: From photo- + telescopic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the phototelescope.
photomezzotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photomezzotypes
Senses: glosses: A photomechanical process similar to collotype.
glosses: A picture produced by this process.
photomezzotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photomezzotype
photographone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photographones
Etymology: Blend of photograph + -phone
Senses: glosses: A device, consisting essentially of an electric arc and a camera, by which a series of photographs of the variations of the arc due to sound waves are obtained for reproduction by means of a selenium cell and a telephone.
photographones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photographone
photoluminescences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photoluminescence
photoetchings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photoetching
photochromotypy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The art of making photochromotypes.
photochromotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photochromotypes
Etymology: From photo- + chromotype.
Senses: glosses: A coloured print made by photomechanical means.
photochromotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photochromotype
bitchless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bitch + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The fellow's lechery with these half-caste females was really quite insufferable! He was worried about that, in fact. Quite worried. The chap was as undiscriminating as a bitchless dog in heat. No sense of sexual selection whatsoever.
ref: 1961, Frank Hercules, Where the Hummingbird Flies, page 21:
glosses: Without a bitch (female dog).
examples: text: “Is he bitchless?” […] “He isn't gay, is he?”
ref: 2021, L. L. Eadie, My Mistaken Identity: Enhanced and Revised:
text: Holloway explained the decision; "those bitchless sad-sacks need to learn that 4.0 is not a replacement for character, or social skills, or a personality, or...hopefully the new rizzology course will teach them how to crush major prostate/puss."
ref: 2023 February 8, Lonely Reporter, “Rutgers Announces Creation Of New Rizzology Class [satire]”, in The Medium, page 1:
synonyms: maidenless
hypernyms: loverless
glosses: Single; lacking a girlfriend.
photoceramics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æmɪks
Etymology: From photo- + ceramics.
Senses: glosses: The art or process of decorating pottery with photographically prepared designs.
Philathea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Coined from Ancient Greek words for "loving" and "truth".
Senses: glosses: An international, interdenominational organization of Bible classes for young women in the early twentieth century.
Derived terms: Philathean
Philathean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Philathea + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Philathea Bible classes.
Philathean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Philatheans
Etymology: From Philathea + -an.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Philathea Bible classes.
Philatheans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Philathean
phenologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenologists
Etymology: From phenology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies phenology.
phenologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phenologist
phasing current
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phasing currents
Senses: glosses: The momentary electrical current between two alternating-current generators when juxtaposed in parallel and not agreeing exactly in phase or period.
acetphenetidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acetphenetidines
Etymology: From acet- + phenetidine.
Senses: glosses: phenacetin
phenacetine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenacetines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phenacetin.
acetphenetidines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acetphenetidine
phenacetines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phenacetine
phantom circuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phantom circuits
Senses: glosses: The equivalent of an additional electrical circuit or wire, in reality not existing, obtained by certain arrangements of real circuits, as in some multiplex telegraph systems.
phantom circuits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phantom circuit
petune
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: petunes
form: petuning
form: petuned
form: petuned
Etymology: See petunia.
Senses: glosses: To spray (tobacco) with a liquid intended to produce flavour or aroma.
petuned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of petune
petunes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of petune
petuning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of petune
periptery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peripteries
Etymology: From peri- + Ancient Greek πτερόν (pterón, “wing”).
Senses: examples: F. W. (Frederick William) Lanchester, "Aerial Flight - Volume 1", Chapter IV, p.139 Wing Form and Motion in the Periptery
glosses: The region surrounding a moving body, such as the wing of a bird or a gliding aeroplane, within which cyclic or vortical motion of the air occurs.
topics: architecture
glosses: A building surrounded by a wing or row of columns.
peripteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of periptery
pentosane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentosanes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pentosan.
pentosanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pentosane
pedrails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedrail
pedrail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedrails
Senses: glosses: A device intended to replace the wheel of a self-propelled vehicle, allowing traversal of rough roads and the ability to climb over obstacles. The tread consists of a number of rubber-shod feet connected by ball-and-socket joints to the ends of sliding spokes attached to rollers and springs.
glosses: A vehicle, such as a traction engine, fitted with these devices.
peachblow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peach + blow; see blow (“a bloom”).
Senses: topics: ceramics
chemistry
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of a delicate purplish-pink colour suggesting peach blooms; applied especially to a style of Chinese porcelain.
Patriots' Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civic holiday commemorating the anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the first battles of the American Revolutionary War on April 19, 1775. It was previously celebrated on April 19, but since 1969 has been observed on the third Monday in April.
parashoth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parashah
Panhandle State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From its geography; see panhandle.
Senses: glosses: West Virginia
panpsychicism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From panpsychic + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of panpsychism.
palolo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palolos
Senses: glosses: palolo worm
palolos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palolo
palolo worm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palolo worms
Senses: glosses: Palola viridis, a polychaete from the waters of the Pacific islands around Samoa.
Synonyms: word: mbalolo
word: palolo
palolo worms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palolo worm
tokenizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tokenize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be tokenized.
hailfall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hailfalls
Etymology: From hail + fall.
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: An instance of hail falling.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: The amount of hail that falls on one occasion.
hailfalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hailfall
sabotageable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sabotageable
form: most sabotageable
Etymology: From sabotage + -able.
Senses: examples: text: His pipe was very sabotageable, and we'd empty out the tobacco, put back a thin layer, pack about twenty match-heads in, then cover them with another layer of tobacco. George would light up, puff away for a while, then the lot would detonate […]
ref: 1981, Donald Woods, Asking for Trouble: The Autobiography of a Banned Journalist:
glosses: susceptible to sabotage
Abiatha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
Abiah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Abijah
Etymology: From Hebrew אביה, name of minor biblical characters.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew.
Gayley process
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after US metallurgist James Gayley.
Senses: glosses: The process of removing moisture from the blast of an iron blast furnace by reducing its temperature so far that it will not remain suspended as vapour in the blast current, but will be deposited as snow in the cooling apparatus. The resultant uniformly dehydrated blast effects great economy in fuel consumption, and promotes regularity of furnace operation, and certainty of furnace control.
hydropeaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydropeakings
Etymology: From hydro- + peaking.
Senses: glosses: The practice of releasing pulses of water to increase hydroelectric power production at hydro dams to meet peak daily electricity demand.
classical inheritance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: concept of inheritance where parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclasses
Hypernyms: inheritance
arrivistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more arrivistic
form: most arrivistic
Etymology: From arriviste + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or characteristic of an arriviste
vindicatress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vindicatresses
Etymology: From vindicator + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: When our readers have gone through this article, and have heard us declare our perfect conviction of its truth; when they have heard us say, that it is agreeable, as far as it goes, with the enquiries which we have made, when they have further heard, that the scene of the brutal transaction was in a back room of the public-house above mentioned: that the parties had drawn the curtains to the room, but had left a part that the curtains did not cover but that might be seen through: that a little girl (vindicatress of her sex!) happening to go into the back court into which the window looked, Wondering to see the curtains drawn, had the curiosity to look in, where she saw the parties engaged in a way not to be described; that the little girl (better guardian of public morals than the "respectable" part of the press) ran to the landlord, who came out with other persons with him, who were all witnesses of the fact, to that certain extent, at least, of which the Observer speaks; that after this, the landlord and others laudably went, dashed in the door, took the parties in the state of Achilles as far as nakedness was necessary to their intentions; that they then dragged them to the watch-house, in that very same state: when our readers have heard all this, they will naturally cry aloud, 'why is the name of this Bishop suppressed?'
ref: 1822, William Cobbett, Cobbett's Political Register, volume 43, page 220:
text: Had the vindicatress of the 'Rights of Women' lived in these days (fifty years later), when the iron pen is the almost universal instrument of writing, she would have bestowed upon Time a less common material for recording his doings.
ref: 1854, Charles Knight, Once Upon a Time - Volume 1, page 201:
glosses: A female vindicator; a woman who vindicates.
Synonyms: vindicatrix
hydropeakings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydropeaking
buffer state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buffer states
Senses: examples: text: The conflict was finally settled in 1828 with the creation of the buffer state of Uruguay, but the prestige of the emperor had suffered a further blow as a result of this reverse, as it was perceived.
ref: 1992, Edwin Williamson, The Penguin history of Latin America, London; New York: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 249:
topics: geopolitics
government
politics
glosses: A nation lying between potentially hostile nations.
vindicatresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vindicatress
VCRs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of VCR
volcanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: volcanites
Etymology: From volcano + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A volcanic rock
glosses: Selenian sulfur
Derived terms: neovolcanite
volcanic glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: volcanic glasses
Senses: glosses: A natural glass produced by the cooling of molten lava, or a liquid fraction of it, too rapidly to permit crystallization.
volcanic glasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of volcanic glass
leisureful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leisureful
form: most leisureful
Etymology: From Middle English leiserful, equivalent to leisure + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Providing leisure, restful.
Ricœur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the French Ricœur.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French — famously held by
examples: text: Many existing textual models take for granted assumptions made by Ricœur who is one of the forestanding figures of a contemporary field referred to as hermeneutics (involved with a study of the theory and practice of texts).
ref: 2003, Zachàr Alexander Laskewicz, Music as Episteme, Text, Sign & Tool: Comparative approaches to musicality as performance, chapter two: “The Musical Text”, § 2.10: ‘Conclusion: the importance of a new approach to text’
glosses: A surname from French — famously held by:
Paul Ricœur (1913–2005), French philosopher who combined phenomenological description with hermeneutics.
zero-hours contract
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zero-hours contracts
Senses: examples: text: Workers on zero-hours contracts lose an estimated £1,000 a year compared with employees doing the same work, according to a study that underscores the divide between people in precarious jobs and those who have a permanent contract.
ref: 2016 December 30, Phillip Inman, “Zero-hours workers '£1,000 worse off a year' than employees”, in The Guardian:
text: And Swissport, the company which handles aircraft and baggage at many British airports, has already told all staff on zero hours contracts that they are no longer required.
ref: 2020 March 25, “Network News: What COVID-19 means for rail in a wider transport context”, in Rail, page 10:
glosses: Alternative form of zero-hour contract.
sodcast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒd.kɑːst/
ipa: /ˈsɒd.kæst/
rhymes: (UK) -ɒdkɑːst
rhymes: (UK) -ɒdkæst
Forms: form: sodcasts
form: sodcasting
form: sodcast
form: sodcast
form: sodcasted
form: sodcasted
Etymology: From sod (“contemptible person”) + -cast, from broadcast. Possibly influenced by podcast.
Senses: examples: text: Unlike American gangsta rap, which was well-produced and cinematic and had an element of exotic remoteness, grime was always going to remind non-converts, people from outside the scene itself, of hooded youths on the top deck of buses sodcasting tinny music at top volume out of their mobiles.
ref: 2010 January 20, Simon Reynolds, “Simon Reynolds' Notes on the noughties: Grime and dubstep – a noise you could believe in”, in The Guardian:
text: Rapper Giggs is said to be the most sodcasted artist, though quantifying this is very difficult.
ref: 2011 June 11, Alex Hudson, “Why do people play music in public through a phone?”, in BBC News:
text: Thou shalt not sodcast […] There’s a clear positive correlation between how awful music is and the likelihood of it being sodcasted - chewed-and-spat from a phone speaker; landing on your eardrums with all the clarity and soothing of mud splatter.
ref: 2014 September 22, Hannah Jane Parkinson, “Six steps to perfect mobile phone etiquette”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To play music on a mobile phone or other portable device in public, without regard for those around.
sodcasting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: With mobile phones in many a teenager's pocket, the rise of sodcasting - best described as playing music through a phone in public - has created a noisy problem for a lot of commuters.
ref: 2011 June 11, Alex Hudson, “Why do people play music in public through a phone?”, in BBC News:
text: When times are good, a community can just about cope: lack of empathy leads to nothing worse than the rudeness of sodcasting on buses, the discharging of one’s nostrils on to a pavement, the casual dropping of a takeaway food container into the doorway of someone else’s flat.
ref: 2011 December 9, Graeme Archer, “Empathy has fled the inner city, and it’s time for me to follow”, in The Telegraph:
text: Take, for example, the following passage from Dan Hancox's blog post about sodcasting and note in particular how Hancox names a variety of technologies — from filesharing software limewire to mobile phones—and the way their traces seem to issue from the crunchy timbres and impoverished (bass) frequencies of the music itself, qualities which have come to periodize these recordings for the author and his cohorts.
ref: 2014, Wayne Marshall, “Treble Culture”, in The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 61:
glosses: Playing music on a mobile phone or other portable device in public, without regard for those around.
sodcasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sodcast
sodcasts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sodcast
sodcasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sodcast
flamencologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flamencologists
Etymology: From flamencology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who studies flamenco.
flamencologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flamencologist
flamencological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From flamencology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to flamencology.
flamencology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From flamenco + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The study of flamenco.
Derived terms: flamencological
flamencologist
-phagia
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek -φαγία (-phagía) (compare -φαγος (-phagos, “eater”)), suffix corresponding to φαγεῖν (phageîn, “to eat”), infinitive of ἔφαγον (éphagon, “I eat”), which serves as aorist for the defective verb ἐσθίω (esthíō, “I eat”).
Senses: glosses: eating, biting or swallowing
Related terms: -phage
-phagy
-phagous
saime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of seim.
neuropharmacologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˌn(j)uˈɹɒfɑɹməkəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkəli/
Forms: form: more neuropharmacologically
form: most neuropharmacologically
Etymology: From neuropharmacological + -ly.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: In a neuropharmacological manner; with regard to neuropharmacology.
ungusseted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + gusseted.
Senses: glosses: Not gusseted.
instrumentalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of instrumentalism
Inverness cape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Inverness capes
Senses: glosses: A sleeveless weatherproof outercoat.
outercoat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outercoats
Etymology: From outer + coat.
Senses: examples: text: Antelope suede in its natural soft tan color was a new material for an outercoat with set-in sleeves […]
ref: 1973, O. E. Schoeffler, William Gale, Esquire's Encyclopedia of 20th Century Men's Fashions, page 119:
glosses: A topcoat or overcoat.
Inverness capes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Inverness cape
outercoats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outercoat
iris diaphragm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iris diaphragms
Etymology: Derives from its action which is reminiscent of the iris of the eye.
Senses: glosses: An adjustable diaphragm by which the diameter of an approximately circular opening may be controlled, as for regulating the aperture of a lens; it consists of a number of movable thin curved plates fastened at regular intervals around the inside of a ring, the positions of which are simultaneously adjusted by a single knob on the outside of the lens. It is used in cameras and microscopes.
iris diaphragms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iris diaphragm
yolk plugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yolk plug
endothermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endo- + thermal.
Senses: glosses: endothermic
Jahvist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jahvists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Jehovist.
Jahvists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jahvist
Jahvistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Jehovistic.
Jahvism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Jehovism.
Jehovism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Jehovah + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Jehovist beliefs or principles generally.
antonyms: Elohism
glosses: The use of Jehovah instead of Elohim as the name of the Supreme Being.
infarcing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of infarce
infarces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of infarce
infantile paralysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: poliomyelitis
odalman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: odalmen
Etymology: From odal + -man.
Senses: glosses: A man having odal, or able to share in it by inheritance.
odalmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of odalman
Elsatian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Compare Alsatian and Elsass.
Senses: glosses: Alsatian: of or pertaining to Alsace, especially when it is considered a German rather than a French area.
Synonyms: Elsassian
Alsatian
Elsatian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Elsatians
Etymology: Compare Alsatian and Elsass.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Alsace.
odal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: odals
form: udal
Etymology: From Icelandic óðal. Cognate with Norwegian odel, odal (“allodium, patrimony”), Old English ēþel (“homeland”). Compare athel, Odelsthing.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Among the early and medieval Teutonic peoples, especially Scandinavians, the heritable land held by the various odalmen constituting a family or kindred of freeborn tribesmen.
glosses: The ownership of such land.
odal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: udal
Etymology: From Icelandic óðal. Cognate with Norwegian odel, odal (“allodium, patrimony”), Old English ēþel (“homeland”). Compare athel, Odelsthing.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to odal land.
Derived terms: odalborn
odalism
odaller
Related terms: roman: a rune associated with odal
word: ᛟ
word: odal oil
odal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ode + -al.
Senses: examples: text: But what’s clear from the extraordinary proliferation of contemporary lyric odes, and the reactions to the ecstatic claims of these odes, is that the question of poetry, sociality, and globality has become unavoidable: contemporary poetry, which has long resisted incorporation into the discourse of globalization, must be understood on a global, and odal, scale.
ref: 2016, Walt Hunter, “Planetary Dejection: An Ode to the Commons”, in Symploke, volume 24, numbers 1–2, page 227:
glosses: Of or relating to an ode or odes.
œil-de-perdrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: œils-de-perdrix
form: oeil-de-perdrix
Etymology: Borrowed from French œil-de-perdrix (literally “eye of a partridge”).
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: A small, round figure; a decorative dot.
œil-de-perdrix
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: oeil-de-perdrix
Etymology: Borrowed from French œil-de-perdrix (literally “eye of a partridge”).
Senses: examples: an œil-de-perdrix pattern
topics: art
arts
glosses: Characterized by, or decorated with, small round spots or rings.
glosses: Having a brownish-red colour; used especially of light-coloured red wine.
ooze leather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ooze leathers
Senses: glosses: Leather made from sheep and calf skins by mechanically forcing ooze through them; especially, such leather with a soft, finely granulated finish (sometimes called velvet finish) applied to the flesh side for special purposes. Ordinary ooze leather is used for shoe uppers, in bookbinding, etc.
Dobermen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Doberman
Ophism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The doctrines and rites of the Ophites.
orograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orographs
Etymology: From oro- + -graph.
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
surveying
glosses: A machine for use in making topographical maps, operated by being pushed across country, and recording distances and elevations.
Related terms: oroheliograph
orographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orograph
oroheliograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oroheliographs
Etymology: From oro- + heliograph, from Ancient Greek word for "mountain".
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A camera for obtaining a circular panoramic view of the horizon. The photographic plate is placed horizontally with a vertical lens above. A specially-shaped mirror reflects light from the entire horizon to the lens, by means of which it is focused upon the plate.
Related terms: orograph
oroheliographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oroheliograph
ozone paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ozone papers
Senses: glosses: Paper coated with starch and potassium iodide, turning blue when exposed to ozone.
ozone papers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ozone paper
Quichuan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Quichuan
form: most Quichuan
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Quechuan.
Quichuan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Quichuans
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Quechuan.
Quichuans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Quichuan
Quirinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The most splendid choice, and the one identified with political rule in Rome, was the Quirinal Palace, the huge complex at the top of the Quirinal hill in the center of the city.
ref: 2006, David I. Kertzer, Prisoner of the Vatican, page 78:
glosses: Of or relating to the Quirinal Hill, one of the Seven Hills of Rome.
Quirinal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Quirinal
Senses: glosses: Clipping of Quirinal Hill.
technofascism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: techno-fascism
Etymology: From techno- + fascism.
Senses: glosses: A form of fascism that uses modern technologies to attain its ends.
Related terms: technofascist
cyberpopulism
technopopulism
technofascist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technofascists
Etymology: From techno- + fascist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of technofascism.
technofascists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technofascist
Yahwism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈjɑːwɪz.əm/
Etymology: From Yahweh + -ism.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A religion of Iron Age Israel, believing in a pantheon of gods headed by Yahweh.
glosses: Synonym of Jehovism.
synonyms: word: Jehovism
Jahwism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Jehovism.
Jahwist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jahwists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Jehovist.
Yahwist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yahwists
Etymology: From Yahweh + -ist.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A follower of the Iron Age religion of Yahwism.
examples: text: The Yahwist especially enjoys putting the long speeches into God's own mouth. Yahweh dialogues with Adam in the Garden of Eden about the first sin; he carries on a monologue with himself over whether he should bring on a flood in Genesis 6; he discusses with Abraham the sin and destruction of Sodom in Genesis 18; he plays with Moses' request to see the divine face in Exodus 33.
ref: 1984, Lawrence Boadt, Reading the Old Testament: An Introduction, page 99:
text: When Westermann comes to deal with the literary stage of the tradition, however, he once again refers to von Rad's view of the Yahwist as a historian in the Davidic-Solomonic era. He states that the Yahwist's work "is the first, as far as we know, in the history of the world to bring together a historical whole that encompasses several different epocs [sic]".
ref: 1992, John Van Seters, Prologue to History: The Yahwist as Historian in Genesis, page 15:
text: The Yahwist (J) has also come under controversial discussion as well in the recent years.
ref: 2006, Thomas B. Dozeman, Konrad Schmid, A Farewell to the Yahwist?, page 30:
glosses: Alternative form of Jehovist.
Yahwist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Yahweh + -ist.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: Of or pertaining to Yahwism (the Iron Age religion).
Yahwists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Yahwist
Jahwists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jahwist
antiquedom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From antique + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: The exotic atmosphere of the whole queer underworld of antiquedom and of collector-cranks spicily pervades the hook. Yet this, after all, is but the sauce of the dish. The viand itself is the exasperating yet lovable humanness of humanity.
ref: 1915, Life:
text: To such folk as qualify in the class of small collectors I recommend excursions into the obscure bypaths of antiquedom.
ref: 1935, The Magazine Antiques:
text: He really doesn't care much aboutthe furniture in his house. It is not the possession of antiques that fascinates him, but the routing out, the discovering, the acquiring. And every now and then he branches off into some other form of antiquedom.
ref: 1980, Ernie Pyle, Images of Brown County:
text: Without them, Christianity could not be, Catholicism would shrivel into antiquedom.
ref: 1990, John Carmody, Roman Catholicism: An Introduction:
text: Why is a watch that does nothing but keep time an endangered species, doomed to antiquedom? Why is the Dick Tracy watch already here?
ref: 1998, Leonard I. Sweet, 11 Genetic Gateways to Spiritual Awakening:
glosses: The world of antiques or of things old; antiquity.
Related terms: antiquehood
eau forte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eaux fortes
Etymology: Borrowed from French eau forte (“strong water; nitric acid (which is used in etching plates)”).
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: An etching or a print from an etched plate.
Easter lilies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Easter lily
antiquehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antique-hood
Etymology: From antique + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: [...] there will be good reproductions (some of the reproductions themselves are over 100 years old, and even current ones will some day enjoy their own antiquehood).
ref: 1972, Leona G. Rubin, How to defend yourself at auctions:
text: I searched my area of the Eastern Hundreds for clues, landmarks, anything of significance, and drew a circle with my school compass, a derelict brass pivot aspiring to antiquehood.
ref: 1990, Jonathan Gash, Moonspender: A Lovejoy Novel of Suspense:
text: Alas, after comparing the current list with the list for my college class of 2005, I seem to be approaching antique-hood—[...]
ref: 2011, Adam Thomas, Digital Disciple: Real Christianity in a Virtual World:
glosses: The state, condition, or quality of being an antique or of being old; antiquity.
Related terms: antiquedom
antiqueness
Eleme fig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eleme figs
Etymology: Borrowed from Turkish eleme (“anything sifted and freed from dust or broken parts”), verbal noun of elemek (“to sift, eliminate”).
Senses: glosses: A superior kind of fig (the fruit).
terpineols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terpineol
terpinenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terpinene
terpinolenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terpinolene
scullcap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scullcaps
Etymology: From scull + cap.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of skullcap.
scullcaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scullcap
enface
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enfaces
form: enfacing
form: enfaced
form: enfaced
Etymology: From en- + face.
Senses: examples: to enface drafts with memoranda
glosses: To write or print on the face of (a draft, bill, etc.).
Derived terms: enfaced
enfaced paper
enfacement
enface
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From en- + face.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Of a section of tissue: cut tangentially to an area of interest.
enfaced paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Indian government securities whose principal and interest are enfaced as payable in silver rupees.
enfaces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enface
enfaced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enface
enfacing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enface
engine generator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: engine generators
Senses: glosses: A generator having its revolving part carried on the shaft of the driving engine.
engine generators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of engine generator
ergon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon). Doublet of erg and work.
In philosophy, the word is loaned in its capacity as a technical term in Aristotelianism, in English usage following Alexander Grant, The Ethics of Aristotle (1857).
In classical thermodynamics, the term is coined as translating German Werk. Rudolf Clausius (1864) made a technical distinction between Werk and Arbeit, both translating to English "work", and suggested Ergon for the purposes of the translation of his terminology into other modern languages.
The author has used the German word Werk, which is almost synonymous with Arbeit, but proposes the term Ergon as more suitable for introduction into other languages. The Greek word ἔργον is so closely allied to the English word work, that both are quite well suited to designate two magnitudes which are essentially the same, but measured according to different units.
—T.A.H.", T. A. Hirst (trans.), The Mechanical Theory of Heat (1867), Appendix A. to Sixth Memoir [1864], "On Terminology" (translator's note), p. 254.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Work, measured in terms of the quantity of heat to which it is equivalent.
examples: text: "O where is that humming stuff now / With Irish 'vis' and 'vir' gone? / We haven't brain enough now / For Aristotle's ergon!"
ref: 16 March 1874, Punch Magazine, p. 212
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A task or function of a creature.
Derived terms: ergal
ergonal
ergons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ergon
ferndom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fern + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: In ferndom all people are divided into two classes: the first, those who are in profound ignorance of these beautiful forms in the vegetable kingdom; the second, those who know almost everything about them and are full of enthusiasm, …
ref: 1921, The Maine Naturalist
text: Staghorn ferns, with their antlerlike leaves, are really curios of ferndom and never fail to gain attention.
ref: 2013, Joan Lee Faust, The New York Times Garden Book, Revised:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The world of ferns; ferns collectively.
cyburban
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From blend of cyber + suburban, and/or equivalent to cyber- + urban.
Senses: examples: text: Just as early malls commodified public life under the rhetoric of community building, then, the owners of cyburban space could do the same.
ref: 1996, Pion, Environment and Planning: Society & space:
text: Outside these carefully managed and massaged sites, the Internet is becoming a cyburban nightmare pervaded by blog dialogues hijacked by foul-mouthed mischief makers, Facebook ‘friendships’ much shallower than conviviality from an earlier epoch, and mindless multitasking by teens distracted by gaming, texting and sexting in the nonstop video mental universe.
ref: 2010 April 1, John Trumpbour, “Labor in the information age”, in Labor History:
text: New knowledge, however, hinges on new ways of seeing, and thus on the recognition of the overlooked, silenced, marginal, and on the intentional agency of individual actors that are actively remixing their everyday lives in their cyburban place-worlds.
ref: 2014, Peter Marolt, David Kurt Herold, China Online: Locating Society in Online Spaces, →ISBN:
glosses: Related to online communities or cyberspace.
ergographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ergograph + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the ergograph (measuring instrument).
experience table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: experience tables
Senses: glosses: A table of mortality computed from the experience of one or more life insurance companies.
experience tables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of experience table
eikonogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: arts
chemistry
hobbies
lifestyle
natural-sciences
photography
physical-sciences
glosses: The sodium salt of a sulphonic acid of a naphthol, C₁₀H₅(OH)(NH₂)SO₃Na, used as a photographic developer.