cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pay raise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pay raises
form: payraise
Senses: glosses: Standard form of pay rise (“an increase in salary or wages”).
Derived terms: raise
fiscal cliff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fiscal cliffs
Senses: topics: economics
government
politics
sciences
glosses: A situation where a number of large spending or taxation bills begin or end simultaneously.
pay rise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pay rises
form: payrise
Senses: examples: text: Whelan called the offer "risible", describing it as a "land grab for all the terms and conditions we have negotiating over the years". He demanded a no-strings pay offer that recognises the "significant cost of living increases" since the last pay rise in 2019.
ref: 2024 May 1, Mel Holley, “Network News: New action from ASLEF to hit Bank Holiday services”, in RAIL, number 1008, page 14:
qualifier: rest of Commonwealth
glosses: An increase in salary or wages.
Synonyms: sense: increase in pay
word: raise
sense: increase in pay
word: pay raise
Derived terms: rise
payrise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: payrises
Etymology: From pay + rise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pay rise.
debt ceiling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: debt ceilings
form: debt-ceiling
Senses: topics: economics
government
politics
sciences
glosses: The limit up to which an entity (usually a government) is legally allowed to borrow.
Related terms: fiscal cliff
fol de rol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fol de rols
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of folderol.
Dabrowskian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒmˈbɹɒfski.ən/
ipa: /dəmˈbɹɒfski.ən/
enpr: dŏm-brŏfʹskē-ən
enpr: dəm-brŏfʹskē-ən
Forms: form: more Dabrowskian
form: most Dabrowskian
Etymology: From Dabrowski + -an or -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Kazimierz Dąbrowski (1902–1980), Polish psychiatrist and psychologist.
semidrunk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + drunk.
Senses: glosses: Partially drunk (intoxicated by alcohol).
Synonyms: drunk
Lyubavichi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lubavitch
Senses: glosses: a village in the Rudnyansky District of the Smolensk Oblast of Russia
glosses: a village in the Monastyrshchinsky District of the Smolensk Oblast of Russia
victrolla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: victrollas
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of victrola.
mtorolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the mining town of Mtoroshanga, + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A green variety of chalcedony, coloured by small quantities of chromium.
Gra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hebrew גְּרָ״א (gr"a), acronym of גָּאוֹן רַבֵּנוּ אֵלִיָּהוּ (ga'ón rabéinu 'eliyáhu, “Gaon Rabbeinu Eliyahu”).
Senses: glosses: Elijah ben Shlomo Zalman Kremer, the Vilna Gaon.
Vilna Gaon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Yiddish דער ווילנער גאון (der vilner goen, literally “the genius from Vilnius”).
Senses: glosses: Eliyahu ben Shlomo Zalman, a Jewish polymath from Vilnius renowned for his erudition and one of the most influential opponents of the developing Hasidic movement.
Synonyms: word: Gra
quillai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quillais
form: quillay
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish quillay, from Mapudungun küllay.
Senses: glosses: Quillaja saponaria, the soapbark tree.
glosses: The bark of that tree.
radwaste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radwastes
Etymology: Shortening. Compare hazwaste.
Senses: examples: text: To obtain an estimate of the distribution of radwaste volume into wastestreams, the following assumptions were made: […]
ref: 1979, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, NUREG/CR. (issue 1137, page 43)
glosses: Radioactive waste.
ZPG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Zero population growth: a condition of demographic balance where population remains constant over time.
jiaos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jiao
demonetisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: demonetisations
Etymology: From de- + monetisation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of demonetization.
demonetisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demonetisation
zorapteran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zorapterans
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the insect order Zoraptera.
zorapterans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zorapteran
zygogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From zygo- + -genesis.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: zygosis, conjugation
topics: biology
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: embryogenesis
fetogenesis
glosses: Zygote formation.
Related terms: zygogenetic
zygology
zinckenite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Zincken + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A sulfosalt mineral containing lead and antimony.
expwy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expwys
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of expressway.
expwys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of expwy
fearnoughts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fearnought
Europocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛntɹɪk
Forms: form: more Europocentric
form: most Europocentric
Etymology: From Europe + -o- + -centric.
Senses: glosses: Eurocentric
anthroparian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthroparians
Etymology: From anthrop- + -arian.
Senses: examples: text: Out there in the winter streets a few ashen anthroparians scuttling yet through the falling soot.
ref: 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 188:
glosses: A human or a creature having human characteristics or traits.
unwatering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + water + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The removal of water, as for example after a flood.
unbunched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + bunched.
Senses: glosses: Not bunched.
unbenched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + benched.
Senses: examples: the unbenched part of a church
glosses: Not furnished with a bench or benches.
unbenched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unbench
UNIP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of United National Independence Party.
unlead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈlɛd/
Forms: form: unleads
form: unleading
form: unleaded
form: unleaded
Etymology: From un- + lead.
Senses: glosses: To take away the leaden seals from (the bales of transit goods).
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: To take out the leads from (printed matter that has been set up).
unleads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unlead
unleading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unlead
leadless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛdləs/
Etymology: From lead + -less.
Senses: examples: text: a leadless glaze
glosses: Without lead (the metal).
Derived terms: leadlessness
leadless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛdləs/
ipa: /ˈliːdləs/
ipa: /ˈlɛdləs/
Etymology: From lead + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a lead (“clue, main actor etc.”).
ubermodel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ubermodels
Etymology: From uber- + model.
Senses: examples: text: […] ubermodels of the eighties; there was no room in their world for the likes of Elle Macpherson, Karen Mulder or Cindy Crawford. No, these elegant waifs were Kate Moss' pixie nieces […]
ref: 2022, Dylan Jones, Faster Than A Cannonball: 1995 and All That:
glosses: A particularly successful supermodel.
anthroparians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anthroparian
uberchef
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uberchefs
Etymology: From uber- + chef.
Senses: glosses: A very successful chef.
uberchefs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uberchef
gilsonites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gilsonite
uintaite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uintaites
Etymology: From Uinta + -ite.
Senses: glosses: gilsonite
uintahite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uintahites
Senses: glosses: gilsonite
uintaites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uintaite
uintahites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uintahite
unvalved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + valved.
Senses: glosses: Not fitted with valves.
Unalaska
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Uncertain. Possibly from Russian Унала́шка (Unaláška), an adapted borrowing of Aleut Nawan-Alaxsxa, the native name for the island.
Senses: glosses: A volcanic island in the Aleutian Islands, an archipelago owned by the US state of Alaska.
glosses: A city and largest settlement on this island.
Derived terms: Unalaskan
vernalin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vernal + -in, coined by the German botanist G. Melchers in 1939.
Senses: glosses: A hypothetical plant hormone thought to be responsible for vernalization.
urogenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uro- + -genous.
Senses: examples: the urogenous theory of bladder cancer
glosses: Originating in the urine.
unprime
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + prime.
Senses: glosses: Not prime; not of the highest quality.
unprime
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unprimes
form: unpriming
form: unprimed
form: unprimed
Etymology: From un- + prime.
Senses: examples: to unprime a pump
glosses: To take out of a state of readiness.
Vertumnus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vertimnus
form: Vortumnus
Etymology: Ultimately related to Latin vertō.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The Ancient Roman god of seasons, change, and plant growth, capable of changing his form at will.
Related terms: Vertumnalia
Vertumnalia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An Ancient Roman festival in honour of Vertumnus, held on 13 August.
ubiquitarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ubiquitarian + -ism.
Senses: synonyms: ubiquism
glosses: The beliefs of the ubiquitarians; the belief that Christ's human form is present everywhere.
Ubaidian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ubaid + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the Ubaid period of prehistory.
Ubaidian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ubaidians
Etymology: From Ubaid + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A person who lived during the Ubaid period of prehistory.
Ubaidians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ubaidian
unvoice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unvoices
form: unvoicing
form: unvoiced
form: unvoiced
Etymology: From un- + voice.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: devoice
unvoices
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unvoice
unvoicing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unvoice
unvoicing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unvoicings
Senses: glosses: devocalization
typecase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: typecases
Etymology: From type + case.
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A case containing the printer's type characters.
typecases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of typecase
Kupffer cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kupffer cells
Etymology: First observed by Baltic German anatomist Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer (1829–1902) in 1876.
Senses: glosses: A kind of specialized macrophage located in the liver lining the walls of the sinusoids that form part of the reticuloendothelial system.
wikipedia: Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer
Kupffer cells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kupffer cell
promonocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of promonocyte
vestrywoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vestrywomen
Etymology: From vestry + woman.
Senses: glosses: female vestryman
vestrywomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vestrywoman
vestryperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vestrypersons
form: vestrypeople
Etymology: From vestry + person.
Senses: examples: text: We call it “a program of education for wardens, vestry and advisory board members.” It’s primarily to acquaint newly elected ones with their duties and responsibilities, but vestrypersons who have not been before can enroll too, if we have room for them.
ref: 1978 July 23, Robert N. Willing, “A Ministry of Regional Leadership”, in The Living Church, volume 177, number 4, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, page 9:
text: The original Constitution and Canons of the Diocese, adopted by the Primary Convention in 1849, had no qualification of gender for voters in annual meetings, referred to the election of vestrymen, and gave no gender for council delegates. It can be presumed that no women would have thought of accepting election as vestryperson or council delegates at that period.
ref: 1979 March, Lawrence L. Brown, “Texas Bishop Vetoes Women Council Delegates in 1921”, in Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church, volume 48, number 1, →JSTOR, pages 94–95:
text: The letter was dated March 8, some six weeks after the vestry’s letter to the bishop, and the only vestrypersons at that time to sign were John Peterson and Ransom Wake.
ref: 2005, Craig D. Townsend, Faith in Their Own Color: Black Episcopalians in Antebellum New York City, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 122:
synonyms: vestryman
glosses: A member of a parochial vestry.
vestrypersons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vestryperson
vestrypeople
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vestryperson
vidclip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vidclips
Etymology: From vid + clip.
Senses: glosses: video clip
vidclips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vidclip
vipassana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Transliteration of Pali vipassanā, from Sanskrit विपश्यना (vipaśyanā).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Insight into the true nature of reality, namely as the three marks of existence: impermanence, suffering or unsatisfactoriness, and the realisation of nonself.
wikipedia: vipassana
vulture fund
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vulture funds
Senses: examples: text: This chapter discusses current official initiatives designed to curb vulture fund litigation and proposes a rethinking of the doctrine of sovereign immunity as a key measure to curb the predatory behaviour of vulture funds.
ref: 2018, Ilias Bantekas, Cephas Lumina, Sovereign Debt and Human Rights, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 498:
topics: business
finance
glosses: A hedge fund or private equity fund that invests in debt considered to be very weak or in imminent default. Investors profit by buying debt at a discounted price on a secondary market and then suing the debtor for a larger amount than the purchasing price.
vulture funds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vulture fund
Junagadh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Gujarati જૂનાગઢ (jūnāgaḍh).
Senses: glosses: A district of Gujarat, India.
Related terms: Junagarh
Juffrou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Prince Frederick drew alongside the Juffrou Sara and threatened to fire on her, whereupon Captain Huijblings struck his colors. The Prince Frederick sent the Juffrou Sara to Newport, where she arrived in August.
ref: 1926, Howard Millar Chapin, Rhode Island Privateers in King George's War, 1739-1748, page 107:
text: A new teacher, Juffrou Janneke Phillips, who Meneer Van Niekerk, the headmaster, said was 'only temporary' and was a practice teacher from Johannesburg, came to take our class. She was very pretty and looked quite young […]
ref: 2011, Bruce Courtenay, Whitethorn, page 189:
glosses: Miss; form of address for an unmarried woman
jootha
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: utensils
glosses: Soiled by saliva and thus not suitable for somebody else to eat from.
raw_tags: of food
mamotty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mamotties
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mamoty.
mamotties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mamotty
maikas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maika
unfondly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unfondly
form: most unfondly
Etymology: From unfond + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I hope you don't remember me too unfondly after our disagreements back in the day.
text: It is remembered unfondly by politicians, communities and campaigners as the document that heralded widespread reductions in the size of the railway.
ref: 2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 44:
glosses: Without fondness.
Josephite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒəʊ.zəˌfaɪt/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒəʊ.səˌfaɪt/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒoʊ.zəˌfaɪt/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒoʊ.səˌfaɪt/
Forms: form: Josephites
Etymology: From Joseph + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A descendant of the biblical patriarch Joseph and the two half tribes which descended from his sons Ephraim (Ephraimites) and Manasseh (Manassites).
glosses: A student or alumnus of St Joseph's College, Allahabad.
glosses: A student or alumnus of St Joseph Higher Secondary School, Dhaka.
glosses: One of the Russian followers of hegumen Joseph Volotsky, who advocated the church's ownership of land, social activity and charity.
glosses: A member of a late 1920s-1940s movement in the Russian Orthodox Church, followers of Metropolitan Joseph (Petrovykh).
glosses: A member of Josephites-CJ, a Roman Catholic religious order founded in Belgium.
glosses: A member of St. Joseph's Missionary Society.
glosses: A member of the Josephite Fathers, a Roman Catholic religious order originally established to minister to African Americans, headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
glosses: A Latter Day Saint adherent tracing Restorationist priesthood lineage through Joseph Smith III, son of the movement's founder.
glosses: A member of the Congregation of Sisters of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart.
Derived terms: Josephite marriage
Related terms: word: Abraham
word: Isaac
word: and Jacob
sense: descendants of the patriarch Jacob, later renamed Israel
alt: Asherite
word: Asher
alt: Benjaminite
word: Benjamin
alt: Danite
word: Dan
alt: Gadite
word: Gad
alt: Issacharite
word: Issachar
alt: Josephite: Ephraim (Ephraimite); Manasseh (Manassite)
word: Joseph
alt: Judahite
word: Judah
alt: Levite
word: Levi
alt: Naphtalite
word: Naphtali
alt: Reubenite
word: Reuben
alt: Simeonite
word: Simeon
alt: Zebulunite
word: Zebulun
word: Israel
word: Israeli
word: Israelite
word: Israelitic
word: Israelitish
word: Jew
word: Jewish
word: Judah
word: Judean
hegumens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hegumen
Josephites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Josephite
Brighamite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brighamites
Etymology: From Brigham + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A follower of Brigham Young (1801–1877), American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and a settler of the western United States.
Brighamite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Brigham + -ite.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to Brigham Young, his followers and their beliefs.
Brighamites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brighamite
Jordan curve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jordan curves
Etymology: Named after French mathematician Camille Jordan (1838-1922), who first proved the Jordan curve theorem.
Senses: examples: text: When μ is small and positive, the locus (1) consists of a Jordan curve near each of the Jordan curves belonging to B.
ref: 1950, Joseph Leonard Walsh, The Location of Critical Points of Analytic and Harmonic Functions, American Mathematical Society, page 242:
text: If fis a closed curve that is one-one on [0,1] except for f(0) = f(I), then we say that f is a Jordan curve. A Jordan curve can be seen as a homeomorphism from the circle C onto a subset of the given space.
ref: 1992, Konrad Jacobs, Invitation to Mathematics, page 164:
text: The most general Jordan curves, like the triangle, have the property of dividing the plane into two regions.
ref: 2001, Constantin Carathéodory, Theory of Functions of a Complex Variable, volume 1, page 100:
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: A non-self-intersecting continuous loop in the plane; a simple closed curve.
wikipedia: Camille Jordan
Jordan curve theorem
Synonyms: sense: non-self-intersecting loop in the plane
word: simple closed curve
Related terms: Jordan arc
Jordan curves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jordan curve
jollytail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jollytails
Etymology: From jolly + tail.
Senses: glosses: Galaxias maculatus (common galaxias), a freshwater fish with a marine larval stage, found from western Australia to the Falkland Islands.
Synonyms: common jollytail
cowfish
eel gudgeon
inanga
lananga
minnow
native trout
pulangi
slippery tarki
spotted minnow
whitebait
jollytails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jollytail
inangas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inanga
Joe Soap
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A foolish stooge or scapegoat.
Synonyms: alt: stooge
word: sucker
word: dupe
sense: scapegoat
word: scapegoat
word: scapegoat
one-to-many
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having the property that the same argument may yield multiple values, but different arguments never yield the same value.
raw_tags: of a function
examples: text: "Being a genetic mother of" is a one-to-many relation from the set of cats to the set of cats.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Having the property that an element of one set may be assigned by the relationship to several elements in the other set, but that a given element in the second set can have only one member of the first set assigned to it.
raw_tags: of a relationship between two sets
examples: text: Traditional mass media, both print and broadcast, are forms of one-to-many communications.
glosses: From a single source to multiple recipients.
Synonyms: topics: mathematics
sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
human-sciences
sciences
word: one-many
Coordinate terms: one-to-one
many-to-one
many-to-many
jollify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jollifies
form: jollifying
form: jollified
form: jollified
Etymology: From jolly + -fy.
Senses: synonyms: word: elate
word: happify
word: beatify
word: begladden
word: blissen
word: bright
word: cheer
word: cheer up
word: content
word: delight
word: elate
word: enbliss
word: exhilarate
word: fain
word: gay
word: gladden
word: gladden someone's heart
word: gratify
word: happify
word: happy
word: hearten
word: jollify
word: laetificate
word: light up
word: make someone's day
word: perk up
word: please
word: raise someone's spirits
word: rejoice
word: turn the frown upside down
word: upcheer
word: warm someone's heart
word: warm the cockles of someone's heart
glosses: To make jolly.
glosses: To engage in jollification; to carouse.
jollified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jollify
jollifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jollify
jollifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jollify
kabab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kababs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kebab.
kababs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kabab
kangaroo vine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kangaroo vines
Senses: glosses: Cissus antarctica (synonym Cissus oblongata), an Australian climbing plant sometimes used as an ornamental.
kangaroo vines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kangaroo vine
kapakahi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kapakahi
form: most kapakahi
Etymology: From Hawaiian [Term?].
Senses: glosses: askew; crooked
Kelvinside
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Kelvin + side, after the River Kelvin.
Senses: glosses: A district of Glasgow, Scotland, north of the River Clyde.
wikipedia: River Kelvin
Keogh plan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Keogh plans
Etymology: Named after US Representative Eugene James Keogh of New York.
Senses: glosses: A type of retirement plan for self-employed people and small businesses in the United States.
Keogh plans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Keogh plan
isitolotolo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An African musical instrument, a form of Jew's harp.
Islamise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Islamises
form: Islamising
form: Islamised
form: Islamised
Etymology: From Islam + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of Islamize.
Derived terms: Islamisation
izimbongi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪzɪmˈbɒŋɡi/
ipa: /ˌɪzɪmˈbɔŋɡi/
ipa: /-ˈbɑŋ-/
ipa: /ˌɪzɪmˈbɔːŋɡi/
Etymology: Borrowed from Zulu izimbongi, from izim- (“class 10 noun prefix”) + imbongi.
Senses: examples: text: In the national figures this bawdy laughter seems hardly ever to be present; it is only slyly winked at once in the King's praises in the "pillow" reference, but on the whole it is suppressed or censored out by successive izimbongi.
ref: 1991, Liz Gunner and Mafika [Pascal] Gwala, translators and editors, “Introduction: Izibongo, Power, and the Popular Voice”, in Musho!: Zulu Popular Praises (African Historical Sources; no. 3), East Lansing, Mich.: Michigan State University Press, →ISBN:
text: Modern South African film directors and performers as bards, izimbongi or storytellers have only residues of existing 'traditional societies' to bring to the surface. Where primarily oral cultures elaborate their stories within the epic form, fables and extraordinary heroes and fantasies, the izimbongi in The People's Poet and Songololo are more concerned with cultural loss, oppression, colonisation and emancipation.
ref: 2006, Keyan G[ray] Tomaselli, “Orality in African Cinema: Reasoning, Representation and Relativism”, in Encountering Modernity: Twentieth Century South African Cinemas (SAVUSA Series; 4), Amsterdam: Rozenberg Publishers; South Africa: UNISA Press, →ISBN, page 92:
text: Mandhlakazi provided a description of the dress and actions of izimbongi (praise singers) as they recited and performed praises and told Stuart, / I, Mandhlakazi, once asked a son of Magolwana how it was that the Zulu izimbongi were able to remember the praises of kings to so extraordinary a degree[…]. He said it was because they were given always tripe to eat. Moreover, they used to eat the drug umklele, […]
ref: 2015, Elizabeth A. Eldredge, “Oral Traditions in the Reconstruction of South African History”, in Kingdoms and Chiefdoms of Southeastern Africa: Oral Traditions and History, 1400–1830 (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora; 64), Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press; Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, →ISBN, page 46:
glosses: plural of imbongi.
jayvee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jayvees
Etymology: Phonetic respelling of the initialism JV; compare deejay.
Senses: glosses: A member of a junior varsity team.
jayvees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jayvee
Jivaroan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Jivaroan
form: most Jivaroan
Etymology: From Jivaro + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Jivaro peoples.
Jivaroan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jivaroans
Etymology: From Jivaro + -an.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Jivaro peoples.
Jivaroans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jivaroan
Jivaro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A group of indigenous peoples in the headwaters of the Marañon River and its tributaries in northern Peru and eastern Ecuador.
Hyponyms: Achuar
Aguaruna
Humabisa
Shuar
Derived terms: Jivaroan
J-cloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: J-cloths
Etymology: From a brand name, short for Johnson & Johnson, the name of the manufacturer.
Senses: glosses: (Canada) A kind of absorbent cloth for washing dishes, mopping up spillages, etc.
Italian hitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Italian hitches
Senses: glosses: A kind of knot, the Munter hitch.
Munter hitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Munter hitches
Etymology: Named after a Swiss mountain guide, Werner Munter, who popularised its use in mountaineering.
Senses: glosses: A simple knot, commonly used by climbers, cavers, and rescuers, consisting of a set of wraps using a rope or cord around an object, mainly used as a friction device for controlling the rate of descent in belay systems.
Synonyms: Italian hitch
Ixtacalco
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small delegación (borough) of Mexico's Federal District, located in the center-east of the district.
many-to-one
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Having the property that many elements of one set may be assigned by the relationship to one element in the other set, and that a given element in the first set can be assigned by only one member of the second set.
raw_tags: of a relationship between two sets
examples: text: Traditional management structure consisted of a hierarchical tree of many-to-one communications (from subordinate to manager), with each manager often significantly filtering what he passed on to his manager.
glosses: From many sources to a single recipient.
Synonyms: topics: mathematics
sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
human-sciences
sciences
word: many-one
Coordinate terms: one-to-one
one-to-many
many-to-many
many-to-many
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: "Is a fellow citizen with" is a many-to-many relationship on the set of people (from the set of people to the set of people).
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Having the property that many elements of one set may be assigned by the relationship to any element in the other set, and that a given element in the first set can also be assigned more than one member of the second set.
raw_tags: of a relationship between two sets
examples: text: The normal state of human affairs is many-to-many communications, each source going out to many recipients, but each recipient also having multiple sources.
glosses: From many sources to many recipients.
Synonyms: topics: mathematics
sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
human-sciences
sciences
word: many-many
Coordinate terms: one-to-one
one-to-many
many-to-one
stalkette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stalkettes
Etymology: From stalk + -ette.
Senses: examples: text: The woman in question came to the maternity ward and went door-to-door until she found DW. At that time I was home and the nanny was filling in. The "stalkette" wore a long, heavy coat and instructed the nanny to leave so she could talk with DW. DW said "no way" and instructed nanny to stay, then pressed the nurse button, and told the nurse to call security. The woman left.
ref: 1998 March 18, Roy, “Re: Hubby's pregnancy experience?”, in misc.kids (Usenet):
text: Oooh - be careful Richard - I think you have a stalker - or stalkette.
ref: 2001 May 13, Acid Queen [username], “Re: Find your sole mate here!! Post your FREE personal ADs here!”, in alt.marketing.online.ebay (Usenet):
text: Heard of a film called Sorority Row? No? It's a lame teen horror flick starring nobody of note but Rumer Willis and Audrina Patridge. But pathological teenage stalkettes have, because it's got the new Twilight: New Moon trailer preceding it.
ref: 2009 September 12, Twitchell [username] (quoting Foster Kamer of Gawker), “Twilight: New Moon Trailer Leaks To Internet, Teenage Girl Heads Explode”, in alt.gossip.celebrities (Usenet):
glosses: A female stalker.
stalkettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stalkette
rangoli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaŋˈɡəʊli/
Forms: form: rangolis
Etymology: From Marathi रांगोळी (rāṅgoḷī), from Sanskrit रङ्ग (raṅga, “colour”). Compare also Hindi रंगोली / رَن٘گولی (raṅgolī).
Senses: examples: text: In one corner of the room she had drawn an incredibly elaborate painting with rangoli powder of the Flautist and herself dancing the raas on the banks of the Jamuna.
ref: 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 188:
text: The client is given the option of having multicoloured rangoli designs around the pyre, as well as the freshest flowers to decorate it.
ref: 2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 143:
glosses: A geometric or stylized design on the floor (or other flat surface) made using small coloured granules, powder or flowers.
ironwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ironwomen
Etymology: From iron + woman.
Senses: glosses: An extremely tough and strong female athlete.
ironwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ironwoman
Isaurian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Isaurian
form: most Isaurian
Etymology: From Isaura + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Isauria.
Isaurian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Isaurians
Etymology: From Isaura + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Isauria.
Isaurian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Isaura + -ian.
Senses: glosses: An extinct language spoken in the area of Isaura, Asia Minor.
J curve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: J curves
Etymology: Such a curve resembles the capital letter J.
Senses: glosses: A curve on a graph that initially falls, then rises to a point higher than its starting point.
Italianesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Italianesque
form: most Italianesque
Etymology: From Italian + -esque.
Senses: glosses: In an Italian style.
jetbridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jetbridges
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jet bridge.
jetbridges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jetbridge
Wigner-Eckart theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after physicists Eugene Wigner and Carl Eckart.
Senses: glosses: A theorem of representation theory and quantum mechanics, stating that matrix elements of spherical tensor operators on the basis of angular momentum eigenstates can be expressed as the product of two factors, one of which is independent of angular momentum orientation, and the other a Clebsch-Gordan coefficient.
January effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: January effects
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A hypothetical seasonal anomaly in the financial market where securities' prices increase in the month of January more than in any other month.
isodrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An organochlorine insecticide that is an isomer of aldrin.
glosses: pholedrine, a methylamphetamine derivative.
shavasan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of savasana.
ironperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ironpersons
form: ironpeople
Etymology: From iron + person.
Senses: glosses: An ironman or ironwoman.
ironpeople
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ironperson
ironpersons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ironperson
havaldar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: havaldars
Senses: examples: text: The word is that every petty havaldar, sub-inspector and police inspector, licensing clerk and petty official has to be bribed before he'll do his duty.
ref: 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 252:
glosses: Alternative form of havildar.
isodop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isodops
Etymology: Shortened iso- + Doppler
Senses: glosses: A line of equal Doppler velocity.
isodops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isodop
isoecho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isoechoes
Etymology: From iso- + echo.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
climatology
engineering
meteorology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A line on a map joining points of equal radar reflectivity.
Related terms: isoechoic
isoechoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isoecho
isodose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isodoses
Etymology: From iso- + dose.
Senses: glosses: A line (on a map, etc.) of equal dose of radiation.
isodoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isodose
isophene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isophenes
Etymology: From iso- + the first element of phenology, the word having been first used to refer to phenological phenomena.
Senses: synonyms: isophane
glosses: A line (on a map, etc.) joining places where a particular biological phenomenon is exhibited in the same way, such as where plants flower at the same time (an isanthesic) or where the same proportion of clines is found.
Related terms: isogloss
isograph
isophenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isophene
Marshall-Lerner condition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Marshall-Lerner conditions
Etymology: Named after Alfred Marshall and Abba P. Lerner.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The condition that an exchange rate devaluation or depreciation will only cause a balance of trade improvement if the absolute sum of the long run export and import demand elasticities is equal to, or greater than 1.
hydrotherapeutics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hydro- + therapeutics.
Senses: glosses: hydrotherapy
hypnogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypno- + -genesis.
Senses: glosses: The process of inducing hypnosis.
Iceland poppy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Iceland poppies
Senses: glosses: Papaver nudicaule, a boreal flowering plant.
Iceland poppies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Iceland poppy
chelidonine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A benzophenanthidine alkaloid found in the Iceland poppy.
skimmianine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Skimmia + -anine.
Senses: glosses: A furoquinoline alkaloid found in plants of subfamily Zanthoxyloideae, such as Zanthoxylum chalybeum rootbark and Skimmia japonica.
furoquinoline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: furoquinolines
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of alkaloids essentially limited to the plant family Rutaceae.
furoquinolines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of furoquinoline
dictamnine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Dictamnus + -ine.
Senses: glosses: A furoquinoline alkaloid found in the roots of Dictamnus albus.
Dieckmann condensation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dieckmann condensations
Etymology: Named after the German chemist Walter Dieckmann (1869–1925).
Senses: glosses: The intramolecular chemical reaction of diesters with base to give β-ketoesters.
I formation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: I formations
Etymology: From the vertical (as viewed from the opposing endzone) alignment of quarterback, fullback, and running back, particularly when contrasted with the same players' alignments in the T formation.
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A common offensive formation, beginning with the usual five offensive linemen (two offensive tackles, two guards, and a center), the quarterback under center, and two backs in-line behind the quarterback. The base variant adds a tight end to one side of the line and two wide receivers, one at each end of the line.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: A formation in doubles where the server's partner starts crouched down close to the center of the net
Coordinate terms: T formation
Bubbette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bubbettes
Etymology: From Bubba + -ette.
Senses: examples: text: Bubba and Bubbette love rasslin' because Bubba and Bubbette should really walk around wearing a sandwich board that reads "quick, someone give me a lobotomy."
ref: 1988, Pete Franklin, Terry Pluto, You Could Argue But You'd Be Wrong, Contemporary Books, →ISBN, page 79:
text: The good folks of Sugar Tit have been sponsoring this festival since the early 90s to honor the hard-working good-ole-boys and their lifestyle in the South. They honor the gals, too. That would be the Bubbettes.
ref: 2000, Jan Hornung, This Is the Truth, as Far as I Know: I Could Be Wrong, Writers Club Press, →ISBN, page 1:
text: Not just dealers but every scumbag and gunrunner calling nonstop, every Bubba and Bubbette that ever wanted a gun.
ref: 2014, Stephen Schottenfeld, Bluff City Pawn, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 105:
glosses: A working-class white female from the rural American South, stereotyped as ignorant, unrefined, etc.
Coordinate terms: Bubba
Bubbettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bubbette
Ifni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Ifni, from Arabic إِفْنِي (ʔifnī).
Senses: glosses: A former Spanish province on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, south of Agadir and across from the Canary Islands.
Igorot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Igorots
form: Igorot
Etymology: Borrowed from Tagalog Igorot.
Senses: glosses: A member of any of several Austronesian ethnic groups in the Philippines, inhabiting the mountains of Luzon.
xenocrystic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From xenocryst + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to xenocrysts.
xenurines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xenurine
xenharmonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Why, I can't even call myself avant-garde or experimental these days because that does not imply escaping the 12-tone squirrelcage; so I had to introduce the term xenharmonics to mean something that SOUNDS different.
ref: 1978 September 24, Ivor Darreg, “A Xenharmonist's Message to the Computer Musicians”, in Computer Music Journal, volume 2, number 2, The MIT Press:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Xenharmonic music generally.
xanthyliums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xanthylium
xylorutinosides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xylorutinoside
xylosylfructosides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xylosylfructoside
American South
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the American South
Senses: glosses: The Southern United States.
Related terms: moonlight-and-magnolia
Southern United States
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Southern United States
Senses: synonyms: American South
Dixie
the South
glosses: An expansive region encompassing the southeastern and south-central part of the United States.
wikipedia: United States Census Bureau
bushly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bushly
form: most bushly
Etymology: From bush + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In the ground-kangaroos, which use the tail as a support trailing behind them on the ground, that organ is again only slightly covered with coarse hairs, almost entirely wanting on the extremity of the under surface; but in the tree-kangaroos, which carry the tail partly erect, it assumes a bushly and ornamental appearance.
ref: 1879, The Popular Science Monthly:
text: It can therefore be seen that pruning is necessary in fruit trees if the best results are desired. This is particularly the case with Mangosteens, Rambutans, Mangoes and other close growing fruit trees of a bushly compact nature.
ref: 1909, Gardens' Bulletin, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: Mr Astles, aged 58, whitehaired with a bushly grey moustache, and wearing a crumpled blue suit, told reporters before being led away: "Justice was in that court. I felt it the moment the judge sat down."
ref: 1982, Africa Diary, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: Frightened at the grins and the bushly heads, the herd made for Amboseli, without hurrying too much, as though they knew whom they had to do with.
ref: 1984, Traian Filip, Safari: on the way to Kilimanjaro:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or resembling a bush; bushlike; bushy.
pseudoschizophrenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoschizophrenias
Etymology: From pseudo- + schizophrenia.
Senses: glosses: Any of various conditions resembling schizophrenia in their symptoms, but not necessarily schizophrenic in origin.
gerontotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From geronto- + therapy.
Senses: glosses: therapy targeting elderly people
Related terms: gerontotherapeutic
gerontotherapist
skinny jeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: She ordered a pair of plus-size skinny jeans online.
text: Got your tongue pierced anyway / You in your high-tops any day / You in your skinny jeans anyway
ref: 2012, “Sex”, performed by The 1975:
topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A style of form-fitting jeans with very narrow, straight legs, which often taper inward at the ankles.
Synonyms: skinnies
drainpipes
drainpipe trousers
stovepipes
stovepipe trousers
form-fitting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more form-fitting
form: most form-fitting
form: formfitting
Senses: examples: text: a form-fitting evening dress
glosses: Fitting closely to the body of the wearer, thus clearly revealing its shape.
raw_tags: of clothing
Synonyms: close-fitting
figure-hugging
slinky
snug
tight
tight-fitting
Obamageddon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Obama + -geddon.
Senses: examples: text: It is still very possible that he will surprise us and develop into a great leader, the chosen one we so desperately seek to lead us from the darkness of Obamageddon, the Barracolypse.
ref: 2011, Mark Easely, "President Perry", The Observer (Notre Dame and Saint Mary's), Volume 45, Issue 4, 26 August 2011, page 10
text: He has turned American tax policy in the direction that Europe's been going for the past fifty years. Great Obama Depression, here we come. We're one step closer to Obamageddon.
ref: 2013, Wayne Root, The Ultimate Obama Survival Guide: How to Survive, Thrive, and Prosper During Obamageddon, Regnery Publishing, →ISBN:
text: I remain deeply skeptical of people amassing weapons against a coming Obamageddon.
ref: 2013 June 6, Christopher Swindell, “Can We Put Guns Down and Talk?”, in The Charleston Gazette:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The decline or fall of the United States caused by the presidency of Barack Obama.