cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
PIT maneuver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PIT maneuvers
Senses: topics: automotive
government
law-enforcement
transport
vehicles
glosses: A technique in which a pursuing car bumps the rear fender of a pursued car, causing it to spin out, in order to terminate a car chase.
PIT maneuvers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PIT maneuver
laicities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laicity
night court
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: night courts
Senses: qualifier: criminal justice
glosses: A criminal court which operates at night for certain routine functions such as granting bail and issuing charges.
night courts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of night court
night-night
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of night night.
shuffles off this mortal coil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shuffle off this mortal coil
shuffling off this mortal coil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shuffle off this mortal coil
shuffled off this mortal coil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shuffle off this mortal coil
nighting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of night
grow a custom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: grows a custom
form: growing a custom
form: grew a custom
form: grown a custom
Etymology: From a reanalysis of grow accustomed to as the phonetically indistinguishable grow a custom to.
Senses: glosses: Eggcorn of grow accustomed.
ARPA-E
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Five years in, ARPA–E’s priorities have shifted, too, for the same reason. The cheap natural gas freed from shale by horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) has helped kill off bleeding-edge programs like Electrofuels, a bid to use microbes to turn cheap electricity into liquid fuels, […]
ref: 2014 March 20, David Biello, “Fracking Hammers Clean Energy Research”, in Scientific American:
glosses: Initialism of Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy.
Related terms: ARPA
builds bridges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of build bridges
building bridges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of build bridges
built bridges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of build bridges
level setting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of level set
polonchay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polunchay
form: polon chay
form: polon chai
form: polun chai
Etymology: From Hokkien 菠倫菜 /菠伦菜 (po͘-lûn-chhài, “spinach”).
Senses: glosses: Chinese spinach
Related terms: kuchay
pechay
kiamchay
kinchay
glass arm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glass arms
Senses: examples: text: If he were to use his fingers instead of his wrist, he would soon have telegrapher's paralysis or a “glass arm," in the lingo of the radio cabin.
ref: 1926, Radio Broadcast, volume 9, page 57:
glosses: A stiff arm resulting from a long session of CB radio operation.
Related terms: telegrapher's paralysis
glass arms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glass arm
MARS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Military Auxiliary Radio System.
glosses: Acronym of Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport.
MARS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MARSes
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of multicast address resolution server.
cycloprotoberberine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cycloprotoberberines
Etymology: From cyclo- + protoberberine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: cyclic protoberberine
cycloprotoberberines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cycloprotoberberine
cystatine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cystatines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cystatin.
cystorrhaphies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cystorrhaphy
cystatines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cystatine
rib steaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rib steak
ribsteaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ribsteak
Spencer steak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Spencer steaks
Senses: glosses: ribeye steak
Spencer steaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Spencer steak
Westbury-on-Severn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Forest of Dean district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO7114).
807
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 807s
Etymology: In reference to the shape of the 807 vacuum tube.
Senses: examples: text: Also, he was low on beer money and, anyway, we'd scoff and wouldn't believe him. Well, this was a pretty obvious come-on, but I reckoned that a good story was worth the price of a couple of 807s.
ref: 1978, 73 Amateur Radio, page 103:
qualifier: Ham radio slang
glosses: A bottle of beer.
wikipedia: 807 (vacuum tube)
807s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 807
XYL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: XYLs
Etymology: From ex-young lady, i.e. former girlfriend; see YL.
Senses: examples: text: Games for the harmonics, (children), YL's and XYL's and the OM's, plus free soda for all.
ref: 1967, CQ: the Radio Amateur's Journal, volume 23, numbers 7-12, page 140:
qualifier: CB radio slang
glosses: One's wife.
XYLs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of XYL
TVI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TVIs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of television interference.
glosses: Initialism of tactical vehicle intervention.
glosses: Initialism of tensor vastus intermedius.
Related terms: Tennessee Valley Indians
Tennessee Valley Indians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Humorous alternative expansion of the initialism TVI.
Senses: examples: text: “I've been using the meter to chase Tennessee Valley Indians. That's what we hams call television interference connected in any way with an amateur station,” Barney went on in answer to Mac's questioning look.
ref: 1957, Radio & Television News, volume 57, page 70:
text: First of a Series: Tvi (television interference, commonly referred to as "Tennessee Valley Indians") is certainly one of amateur radio's biggest problems.
ref: 1963, CQ; the Radio Amateur's Journal, volume 19, numbers 1-6, page 87:
qualifier: CB radio slang
glosses: Interference with television signals, caused by CB radio.
continuous wave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: continuous waves
Senses: glosses: An electromagnetic wave of constant amplitude and frequency, typically a sine wave, that for mathematical analysis is considered to be of infinite duration.
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
glosses: An early method of radio transmission in which a sinusoidal carrier wave is switched on and off, and information is carried in the varying duration of the on and off periods.
Synonyms: CW
continuous waves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of continuous wave
Grange Court
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Westbury-on-Severn parish, Forest of Dean district, Gloucestershire, England, site of the former Grange Court railway station (OS grid ref SO7216).
read the mail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reads the mail
form: reading the mail
form: read the mail
form: read the mail
Senses: examples: text: You can “read the mail" with the U.S., you may violate local laws to transmit on amateur frequencies without a license […]
ref: 1983, Cruising World, volume 9, number 7, page 41:
text: And that's when the fun begins. You can read the mail, download the bulletins, keep up-to-date on OSCAR-13 operations, decode the numerical data and learn about the space environment, […]
ref: 1989, 73 Amateur Radio, numbers 340-351, page 20:
text: Participating in the different emergency nets is very important to some, while others prefer to monitor or "read the mail."
ref: 1994, Amateur Radio, volume 50, numbers 7-12, page 89:
qualifier: CB radio slang
glosses: To listen to CB radio conversations without taking part.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see read, mail.
Related terms: english: computing sense
translation: computing sense
word: lurk
OSCAR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio.
global scope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A type of scope that has an effect throughout an entire computer program.
junkbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: junkboxes
Etymology: From junk + box.
Senses: examples: text: The touch pad and four 7-segment displays are the only other parts that hurt the pocketbook and are not as likely to be in the standard junkbox.
ref: 1975, 73 Amateur Radio's Technical Journal, numbers 172-177, page 24:
text: The trouble is, it often takes considerable juggling of the component values in the circuit around the junkbox semiconductors before your completed project performs as the author's did.
ref: 1974, NRI Journal, volumes 32-33, page 2:
qualifier: CB radio slang
glosses: A radio operator's collection of miscellaneous equipment.
junkboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of junkbox
Global North
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Global North
form: global north
Senses: examples: text: EU member states, the UK and other countries from the global north pushed for ambitious conservation targets in the final text, with co-hosts Canada saying that the success of the summit depended on the headline target to protect 30% of Earth by the end of the decade for nature, known as 30 by 30.
ref: 2022 December 19, Patrick Greenfield, Phoebe Weston, “Cop15: historic deal struck to halt biodiversity loss by 2030”, in The Guardian:
text: “In the global north, when you don’t factor in emissions inequality, you can end up with ‘yellow vests’ protest situations,” Chancel said, referring to tax rises on diesel in France in 2018 that prompted mass demonstrations of the “gilets jaunes”.
ref: 2023 November 20, Damian Carrington, “Revealed: the huge climate impact of the middle classes”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: geopolitics
government
politics
antonyms: Global South
glosses: The regions of the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, the European Union member states, Israel, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, and four of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, excluding China, regarded as half of a socioeconomic and political divide opposite to the Global South.
Related terms: developed country
First World
Oakle Street
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village or hamlet in Churcham parish, Forest of Dean district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO7517).
name binding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: name bindings
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: the association of entities (data and/or code) with identifiers
name bindings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of name binding
OBs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of OB
OMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of OM
Ingrow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Keighley, Metropolitan Borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0539).
diiodohydroquinones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diiodohydroquinone
diisocyanatos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diisocyanato
diisopropylaminos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diisopropylamino
diisopropylphenyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diisopropylphenyl
dikaryophases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dikaryophase
dikaryotizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dikaryotization
dimethoxyarenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dimethoxyarene
abamines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abamine
deburrer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deburrers
Senses: glosses: A device used for deburring
deburrers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deburrer
Spanish Game
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: Synonym of Ruy Lopez.
synonyms: word: Ruy Lopez
deconfound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deconfounds
form: deconfounding
form: deconfounded
form: deconfounded
Etymology: From de- + confound.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To remove confounders from.
deconfounded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deconfound
deconfounds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deconfound
deconfounding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deconfound
dendrobatine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dendrobatines
Senses: glosses: Any frog of the subfamily Dendrobatinae
dendrobatines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dendrobatine
dendrochirotid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dendrochirotids
Senses: glosses: Any of the order Dendrochirotida of sea cucumbers.
dendrochirotids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dendrochirotid
dendrometrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dendrometric
Spanish Opening
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: Synonym of Ruy Lopez.
synonyms: word: Ruy Lopez
Spanish Torture
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: Synonym of Ruy Lopez.
synonyms: word: Ruy Lopez
Shipton-by-Beningbrough
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Shipton, North Yorkshire, and the name preferred by the parish council.
synonyms: word: Shipton
word: North Yorkshire
word: and the name preferred by the parish council
Sicilian Defense
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: US standard spelling of Sicilian Defence.
Stirchley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A settlement in Stirchley and Brookside parish, Telford and Wrekin borough, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ7006).
glosses: A suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP0580).
Oakengates
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in Telford and Wrekin borough, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ7010).
unreconstructedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unreconstructed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unreconstructed.
cwtsh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cwtshes
Senses: examples: text: Go on Geth give Ron a cwtsh.
ref: 2006, Greg Cullen, “Paul Robeson Knew My Father”, in Val Hill, editor, Hijinx (Hijinx Theatre), Cardigan, Ceredigion: Parthian, →ISBN, act 1, page 52:
text: The twins knew Mam was ill, and well, they wanted a cwtsh sometimes, because they knew Mam wasn’t here.
ref: 2006, Lleucu, quotee, “Lleucu”, in We Children of Wales: Snapshots of Our Lives, Llandysul, Ceredigion: Pont Books, →ISBN, page 49, column 1:
text: Mam heads over towards Terry. Sits on the sofa next to the cardboard box full of the Peg T-shirts. Terry gives her a cwtsh. All skin and shirt. I get a hunch that PC Charles seems ever so slightly jealous.
ref: 2015, Catrin Dafydd, “Cool Dude”, in Random Births and Love Hearts, Llandysul, Ceredigion: Gomer Press, →ISBN, page 105:
text: To my Kris and my boys - Diolch for always being there for me with your cwtshes, your love and wisdom…
ref: 2016, Alun Saunders, “Diolchiadau / Thanks”, in A Good Clean Heart (Oberon Modern Plays), London: Oberon Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of cwtch.
cwtsh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cwtshes
form: cwtshing
form: cwtshed
form: cwtshed
Senses: examples: text: When she put her arms around me and cwtshed me tight, tight, I could hardly breathe.
ref: 1998, Manon Rhys, translated by Meic Stephens, “Cwtshing”, in Gwyn Griffiths, Meic Stephens, editors, The Old Red Tongue: An Anthology of Welsh Literature from the 6th to the Early 21st Century (Lesser Used Languages of Europe; 8), London: Francis Boutle Publishers, published 2017, →ISBN, “The 20th and early 21st centuries” section, page 868:
text: ‘Cwtsh down,’ said the camera man breezily, ‘count to ten, then slide back up eye to eye with the lens, and smile.’ […] To come then, from crouching, forth into the presence of beloved light, and to understand how terror was flayed, quicker than by any Vietcong, by these taciturn mites, cwtshing down in Cu Chi.
ref: 2001, Menna Elfyn, translated by Nigel Jenkins, “Cu Chi”, in Cusan Dyn Dall / Blind Man’s Kiss, Tarset, Northumberland: Bloodaxe Books, →ISBN, page 47:
text: They all trooped down the garden path to the pigeon loft, Myra cwtshing low in case her mother happened to look out of the window.
ref: 2004, Joan Peake, chapter 9, in I Spy, Llandysul, Ceredigion: Pont Books, →ISBN, page 88:
text: Ah, poor Ron, his mother never cwtshed him.
ref: 2006, Greg Cullen, “Paul Robeson Knew My Father”, in Val Hill, editor, Hijinx (Hijinx Theatre), Cardigan, Ceredigion: Parthian, →ISBN, act 1, page 51:
text: It was Dad who had comforted and cwtshed her as she adjusted to her new family and surroundings.
ref: 2006, Sue Barrow, chapter 5, in Keeping Secrets, Llandysul, Ceredigion: Pont Books, →ISBN, page 34:
glosses: Alternative spelling of cwtch.
Queen's Gambit Declined
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
synonyms: word: QGD
hyponyms: elephant trap
glosses: A chess opening characterized by the moves 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6.
losmens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of losmen
Blackrod
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small town and civil parish with a town council in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD6110).
pin the meter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pins the meter
form: pinning the meter
form: pinned the meter
form: pinned the meter
Etymology: In reference to the measuring needle looking as though it is pinned in place.
Senses: examples: text: If signals tend to pin the meter, the sensitivity can be reduced by adjustment of R1.
ref: 1958, The Radio Amateur's Handbook, number 35, page 490:
text: It is not possible to do this using an ohmmeter because the current flowing will pin the meter and may cause damage to the movement or even burn out the coil.
ref: 1977, Amateur Radio, volume 33, page 59:
qualifier: CB radio
glosses: To cause a meter to register its highest possible value.
peanut whistle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peanut whistles
Senses: examples: text: Tom has a supersensitive single-signal receiver with tuned antenna, but a peanut-whistle transmitter.
ref: 1937, Radio, numbers 215-224, page 113:
qualifier: CB radio
glosses: A low-powered transmitter or receiver.
peanut whistles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peanut whistle
Newtonhill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal village in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland, originally in Kincardineshire (OS grid ref NO9193).
brass pounder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brass pounders
Etymology: In reference to the brass levers of early telegraphs.
Senses: glosses: A Morse code operator.
Morseman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Morsemen
Etymology: From Morse + -man.
Senses: glosses: A Morse code operator.
brass pounders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brass pounder
Morsemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Morseman
slips in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of slip in
slipping in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slip in
slipped in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slip in
mediocrats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mediocrat
dukes it out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of duke it out
duked it out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of duke it out
dukes out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of duke out
duked out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of duke out
Handsacre
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Armitage with Handsacre parish, Lichfield district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK0915).
Grendon Underwood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, formerly in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP6820).
mediumise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mediumises
form: mediumising
form: mediumised
form: mediumised
Senses: examples: text: Use a good retouching medium on the film; work out softly the main defects, and then varnish with a good hard negative varnish; when cool, again mediumise and retouch to a finish.
ref: 1905, William Crookes, J. Traill Taylor, William Blanchard Bolton, British Journal of Photography - Volume 52, page 319:
text: Even to think of this figure as a transitional object, vicariously mending the ruptured bonds of world-relation, is to mediumise the experience.
ref: 2007, J. H. Prynne, Field Notes: 'The Solitary Reaper' and Others, page 23:
text: This leads the reader to ask what sort of influence is it to be “mediumised?"
ref: 2017, Sarah A. Willburn, Possessed Victorians:
glosses: Alternative form of mediumize.
mediumises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mediumise
mediumising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mediumise
mediumised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mediumise
Jowell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
mediumizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mediumize
mediumizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mediumize
mediumized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mediumize
meecher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meechers
Etymology: From meech + -er.
Senses: examples: text: She went straight into high-sterics, and no wonder; any Christian would, and a Christian Emmeline is, though a meecher from her cradle and will be to her casket.
ref: 1923, Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, The Squire, page 65:
text: "Why," he asked, "have we produced a group of meechers and propagandists, who are Catholics, however nominal, before they are people, and whose principal concern seems to be not to write truly but to win ecclesiastical approbation?"
ref: 1951, Paul Blanshard -, Communism, democracy, and Catholic power, page 123:
text: Uriah Heep is a meecher.
ref: 1985, Alexander Russo, Profiles on Women Artists, page 244:
text: But it did and does seem better to shout a few obvious facts (they can never be 'obvious' enough) than to meech. The meechers will say, Yes, but do you realize all (or any) of the obstacles, presuming you are (in general) a little more right than merely raving?
ref: 2005, James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: A Death in the Family, & Shorter Fiction, page 266:
glosses: A loiterer; One who goes where he or she does not belong and avoids what he or she should be doing
meecher
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Eye dialect
Senses: examples: text: As the Major entered I observed upon his person a kind of uprightness that no sober man ever had, varied with quick little steps sideways, for no good visible reason, and when he comes up to the counter he grabs it with both hands and says, ' How do—gla' meecher—hot, ain't it?
ref: 1904, Henry Wallace Phillips, Mr. Scraggs:
text: Very pleased ter meecher, Steve.
ref: 1980, Dudley McCarthy, The Fate of O'Loughlin, page 284:
text: Pleased to meecher, I don't think.
ref: 2005, Carola Dunn, Fall of a Philanderer:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of meet you.
meechers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meecher
Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
form: Socialist People's Libyan Arab Great Jamahiriya
Senses: synonyms: Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
glosses: Libya from the late 1970s to 2011.
GSPLAJ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.
oilish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oilish
form: most oilish
Etymology: From Middle English oylyssh, equivalent to oil + -ish.
Senses: synonyms: oillike
;
oily
glosses: Characteristic of or resembling oil.
nv
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
coordinate_terms: n
glosses: Initialism of novel/new variant.
nv
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of never.
circle-ish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more circle-ish
form: most circle-ish
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of circlish.
circlish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more circlish
form: most circlish
form: circleish
form: circle-ish
Etymology: From circle + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat resembling a circle; circular.
circleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From circle + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state, quality, or condition of being a circle.
circley
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more circley
form: most circley
form: circly
Etymology: From circle + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The State Fair's advertised imagery was the same every year: the State Fair was red-barn, verdant, lakes and livestock and bright, circley suns.
ref: 2002, Gary Sernovitz, Great American Plain, page 11:
glosses: Resembling a circle.
metropolise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: metropolises
form: metropolising
form: metropolised
form: metropolised
Senses: examples: text: Cavendish Square was part of a big scheme to metropolise Marylebone in 1715.
ref: 1901, Walter Sydney Sichel, Bolingbroke and His Times: Period I. The reign of Queen Ann:
text: In contrast with Delhi, though, this development in Hyderabad juxtaposes (and conceptually collides!) with a stronger state-led aim to 'metropolise' the management of water.
ref: 2012, Joël Ruet, Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal, Governing India's Metropolises: Case Studies of Four Cities, page 194:
text: Three factors complicate this push by local governments to 'metropolise'.
ref: 2016, Lochner Marais, Etienne Nel, Ronnie Donaldson, Secondary Cities and Development:
glosses: Alternative form of metropolize.
Related terms: metropolisation
metropolising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of metropolise
metropolised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of metropolise
metropolize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: metropolizes
form: metropolizing
form: metropolized
form: metropolized
Etymology: From metropolis + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, the major issue in current communication policy revolves around the tendency of new communications technologies to centralize and metropolize sources of information.
ref: 1987, Telecommunications Abstracts, page 14:
text: Globalization influences the factors that determine economic growth as well. This study focusses on the causes of the urbanization process and its effects, including those that regionalize and metropolize a growing share of economic activity.
ref: 2003, Richard G. Harris, North American Linkages: Opportunities and Challenges for Canada:
text: Walpole's efforts to metropolize British politics (focusing his attentions upon the greater business of state) allowed, indeed encouraged, the development of parallel cultures of extra-urban political activity, predicated upon clientage and local connections.
ref: 2014, Andrew D. M. Beaumont, Colonial America and the Earl of Halifax, 1748-1761, page 16:
glosses: To urbanize; to center or focus on the city.
examples: text: Spoon River, like towns in all parts of the country, has become a standardized community, a "metropolized" town.
ref: 1959, Ima Honaker Herron, The small town in American literature, page 364:
text: Because of its rapid and recent growth this newly metropolized area was particularly hard hit by the demise of ambulance services.
ref: 1967, Today's Health - Volume 45, Issues 1-6, page 26:
text: I only ask that you not call us lazy, unless by that you mean we are not doing our part to help metropolize every last foot of wetland and old-growth forest.
ref: 1997, South Carolina Wildlife - Volume 44, page 7:
glosses: To develop into a city or urban area.
examples: text: Where is that real Real* Devil, in, or out of London, — Jo. Parkes ? If he metropolizes, tell him he ought to come hither.
ref: 1866, American Journal of Numismatics - Volumes 1-3, page 4:
text: Nine days after this, under date of March 17, Lord Byron says, “We mean to metropolize to-morrow, and you will address your next to Piccadilly.”
ref: 1870, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lady Byron Vindicated: A History of the Byron Controversy, page 176:
glosses: To visit the city.
metropolized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of metropolize
metropolizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of metropolize
metropolizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of metropolize
metropolizes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Finally, the strikingly large number of street and working children in the Third World metropolizes, as well as the disadvantageous environmental, societal and economical conditions faced by the poor urban population, call for immediate recapitulation and informed action in this area.
ref: 1995, Ana Cristina Leonardos, Effective Strategies and Approaches for Reaching Street and Working Children Through Education, page 3:
text: For this reason, colonial appendages of old European states were, for most metropolizes, no longer economically viable or sustainable.
ref: 2015, Nicholas K. Githuku, Mau Mau Crucible of War, page 2:
text: Herewith we wanted to point at the need to consider the place-based particularities of different metropolizes in policy processes of European urban development.
ref: 2017, Roberto Camagni, Roberta Capello, Second Rank Cities in Europe:
glosses: plural of metropolis
Chinggis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Genghis.
Nan'an
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nan-an
Etymology: From the pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 南安 (Nán'ān).
Senses: glosses: A county-level city of Quanzhou, Fujian, China.
Nan'an
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nan-an
Etymology: From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 南岸 (Nán'àn).
Senses: examples: text: Chicken is cooked in a variety of ways and two popular dishes are spicy chicken (làzi jī 辣子鸡) and a spicy chicken appetizer (kǒushuǐ jī 口水鸡) that's served cold. Chongqing's spring chicken (mineral water spring, not the season) is a local specialty. It's so good there's a whole street (nánshān quánshuǐjī yītiáojiē 南山泉水鸡一条街) dedicated to serving it. The chickens can be found by Nanshan Park at Huangjueya in the Nan'an District (南岸区黄桷垭南山公园).
ref: 2004, Intercontinental's Best of China, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 403:
text: On November 14, 2011, Heywood had checked in to the Lucky Holiday Hotel in the Nan'an district of Chongqing. Some twenty-six hours later, he was found dead in his hotel room. The apparent cause of death was alcohol poisoning. Heywood's wife traveled from their home in Beijing to Chongqing, and with her agreement, Heywood's body was cremated. There was no autopsy.
ref: 2013, Noah Feldman, “A Glimpse into the New China”, in Cool War: The Future of Global Competition, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 56:
text: Several areas along Nanbin Road in Nanan district were flooded, with water rushing into the main halls of a Hilton Hotel, according to footage on Pear Video.
ref: [2020 August 20, Phoebe Zhang, “Chinese megacity Chongqing braces for record flood”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 20 Aug 2020:
glosses: A district of Chongqing, China.
Shijing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shih-ching
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 石井 (Shíjǐng).
Senses: examples: text: The day 1 February marks the 320h anniversary of the recovery of Taiwan by national hero Zheng Chenggong. With profound reverence, this reporter recently paid a visit to Shijing Township of Nanan County, Fujian Province, the hero's native place.
ref: 1982 February 12 [1982 February 2], “Beijing Views Native Place of Zheng Chenggong”, in China Report: Political, Sociological and Military Affairs, number 271, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 43:
text: Shijing, a township in Nan’an County west of Quanzhou was the ancestral home of Zheng Chenggong (1624-1662), also known as Koxinga, the famous Ming loyalist general who succeeded in chasing the Dutch out of Taiwan in the early Qing dynasty.
ref: 1990 December, An Ge, “Western Shores of the Straits”, in China Tourism, number 126, H.K. China Tourism Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 20-21:
glosses: A town in Nan'an, Quanzhou, Fujian, China.
Shih-ching
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 石井 (Shih²-ching³).
Senses: examples: text: To me neither of these views appear mutually exclusive, and thus, without denying Cheng Chih-lung either a cosmopolitan outlook or a strong quick-witted personality, I see him rather as a son of his people, an off-shoot of the Shih-ching peninsula based family-tree firmly anchored by clan alliances with the neighbouring ports of Liu-wu-tien and An-hai in Ch'üan-chou prefecture.
ref: 1990, E. B. Vermeer, editor, Development and Decline of Fukien Province in the 17th and 18th Centuries, E.J. Brill, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 263:
glosses: Alternative form of Shijing.
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dimethoxybenzaldehydes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dimethoxybenzaldehyde
dimethoxybenzyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dimethoxybenzyl
dimethoxydecanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dimethoxydecane
dimethoxyphenyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dimethoxyphenyl
dimethoxystyrenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dimethoxystyrene
dimethoxystyryls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dimethoxystyryl
dimethylacetals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dimethylacetal
dimethylacrylamides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dimethylacrylamide
dimethylaminopropyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dimethylaminopropyl
B.F.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: B.F.s
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of BF.
dimethylanthracenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dimethylanthracene
dimethylthiazols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dimethylthiazol
dinitrobenzamides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dinitrobenzamide
dinokaryons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dinokaryon
Dinosaurians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dinosaurian
dinosauroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dinosauroid
dioic acids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dioic acid
diolefinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diolefination
dioleoyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dioleoyl
diphenylacetyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diphenylacetyl
diphenylallyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diphenylallyl
diphosphopeptides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diphosphopeptide
diphosphorylations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diphosphorylation
di-pimethane rearrangements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of di-pimethane rearrangement
dipivaloylketenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dipivaloylketene
pig stickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pig sticker
phase modulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phase modulation
place values
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of place value
alphas and omegas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alpha and omega
diplophases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diplophase
diplostomatids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diplostomatid
diplostomids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diplostomid
diplumbenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diplumbene
dipolaritons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dipolariton
dipper wells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dipper well
dipropylethynes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dipropylethyne
diprotodonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diprotodont
dipyrrolos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dipyrrolo
dipyrrolomethanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dipyrrolomethane
Dirac cones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dirac cone
Dirac equations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dirac equation
desilicification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desilicifications
Etymology: From de- + silicification.
Senses: glosses: The removal of impregnated silica
disagglomerations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disagglomeration
disapplications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disapplication
disasterpieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disasterpiece
discoblastulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discoblastula
dihydroxylated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dihydroxylate
dihydroxylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Modified by the addition of two hydroxyl groups
discriminances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discriminance
disfacilitations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disfacilitation
disgerminomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disgerminoma
dishers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disher
dishwipers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dishwiper
Beddgelert
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh, from Old Welsh bed (“grave”) + Old Welsh Gelert, a personal name most likely of a saint.
Senses: glosses: A village and community in Gwynedd, Wales (OS grid ref SH5948).
diskospondylitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From disko- + spondylitis.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of discospondylitis.
diunsaturated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + unsaturated.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Having two double bonds (or triple bonds)
duodenorrhaphies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duodenorrhaphy
dysdifferentiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dys- + differentiation.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Incorrect differentiation of cells, typically as a result of ageing
Eynsford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Sevenoaks district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ5465).
eartube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eartubes
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A tube inserted during tympanostomy or a similar operation
eartubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eartube
echinoclasterol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A sterol present in the marine sponge Echinoclathria
echinoclathriamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A steroid amide (R)-2′-hydroxy-N-((2S,3S,4R)-1,3,4-trihydroxy-19-methylicosan-2-yl)heptadecanamide present in the marine sponge Echinoclathria
echinoclathrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: echinoclathrines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of pyridine alkaloids present in the marine sponge Echinoclathria
echinoclathrines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of echinoclathrine
editome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: editomes
Etymology: From edit + -ome.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: That part of a genome that has undergone editing
editomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of editome
effectoromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of effectorome
unnestable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + nestable.
Senses: glosses: Not nestable.
elateroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elateroids
Senses: glosses: Any beetle of the superfamily Elateroidea
elateroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elateroid
electrocardioscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrocardioscopes
Senses: glosses: A device that displays an electrocardiogram
Related terms: electrocardioscopy
electrocardioscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrocardioscope
encephaledema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encephaledemas
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A cerebral edema
encephaledemas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of encephaledema
equiparsimonious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From equi- + parsimonious.
Senses: glosses: equally parsimonious
etiochloroplast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: etiochloroplasts
Senses: glosses: Synonym of etioplast.
synonyms: word: etioplast
etiochloroplasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of etiochloroplast
eulamellibranchs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eulamellibranch
exemplaric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to or characteristic of an exemplar
Tolhurst
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
exogenize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: exogenizes
form: exogenizing
form: exogenized
form: exogenized
Senses: glosses: To make exogenous
exogenized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of exogenize
extraindividual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + individual.
Senses: glosses: Having no contact with any person (individual)
extramesorectal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + mesorectal.
Senses: glosses: External to the middle rectum
extraviral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + viral.
Senses: glosses: External to a virus
Related terms: extravirion
Thornford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in northwest Dorset, England (OS grid ref ST6013).
Attalid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Attalids
Etymology: Attaleia or Attalus + -id
Senses: glosses: A member of the Hellenistic dynasty that ruled Pergamon in Asia Minor from 282 BCE to around 133 BCE
Attalids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Attalid
Seleukid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Seleukids
form: Seleukides
form: Seleukidae
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Seleucid.
Seleukids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Seleukid
Seleukides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Seleukid
Seleukidae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Seleukid
standing stock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: standing stocks
Senses: glosses: A measurement of population numbers per unit area or volume.
glosses: Synonym of cattle crush.
synonyms: word: cattle crush
standing stocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of standing stock
standing crop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: standing crops
Senses: topics: agriculture
biology
business
ecology
lifestyle
natural-sciences
glosses: The total dried biomass of the living organisms present in a given environment.
standing crops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of standing crop
livestock crush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: livestock crushes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cattle crush.
synonyms: word: cattle crush
livestock crushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of livestock crush
French Defense
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: US standard spelling of French Defence.
Caro-Kann Defense
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: French Defense
Senses: glosses: US standard spelling of Caro-Kann Defence.
Hoggarth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.