cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Jesus Harold Christ
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Unknown or disputed. Likely a variant of Jesus H. Christ, from the Christogram IHS, an abbreviation of Ancient Greek Ιησούς (Iēsoús) Χρῑστός (Khrīstós, “Jesus Christ”). An alternate theory speculates that Harold is a mishearing of hallowed in the Lord's Prayer: “Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.” A third theory is that the middle name is arbitrary, used to mark the difference between profane and sacred invocations of Jesus Christ.
Senses: examples: text: The BPBs [members of the Brotherhood of Professional Believers] would have these long discussions about how a simple man with a Mexican name had become the savior of Jerusalem and the whole world, and what was Christ’s middle name or did he have a middle name at all? One of the rooks said that he thought the full name might be Jesus Harold Christ, because he had heard his father refer several times to Jesus H. Christ.
ref: [1974, Jack Olsen, “The Flight III: 10 Rounds a Second”, in Alphabet Jackson, Chicago, Ill.: Playboy Press, →ISBN, page 91:
text: Since, as I mentioned, my arse is intact, I meditate first upon the pain in my balls. Jesus Harold Christ! I wonder if Monger's got some morphine kicking about. I wouldn't put it past him.
ref: 2007, David Thewlis, The Late Hector Kipling, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN, page 304:
glosses: An expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, frustration.
wikipedia: Lord's Prayer
Synonyms: Jesus H. Christ
calabazas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calabaza
Swiss Re Tower
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The building was commissioned by Swiss Re, a global reinsurance company.
Senses: glosses: 30 St Mary Axe, a commercial skyscraper in the City of London.
East Riding
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of East Riding of Yorkshire.
karve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: karves
form: karvi
Etymology: Borrowed from Old Norse karfi, or one of its descendants, potentially Swedish karve, or Danish karve.
Senses: topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: a multipurpose intermediate size Viking longship
xacutti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of xacuti.
softly softly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: softly-softly
form: softly, softly
Etymology: Reduplication of softly. Likely an allusion to softly, softly, catchee monkey or a similar phrase.
Senses: examples: text: Second, this lack of divergence is also the outcome of the EU's softly-softly approach to human rights and democracy in Morocco.
ref: 2003, Annette Jünemann, Euro-Mediterranean relations after September 11, →ISBN:
qualifier: often hyphenated
glosses: Discreet, low-key, careful.
Synonyms: diplomatic
understated
softly softly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: softly-softly
form: softly, softly
Etymology: Reduplication of softly. Likely an allusion to softly, softly, catchee monkey or a similar phrase.
Senses: examples: text: We couldn't get him back into training before Christmas time because he picked up an injury at the Cheltenham Festival last year and we had to go softly softly.
ref: 2006 April 28, “Royal heads Betfred field”, in RTE Sport, Ireland, retrieved 22 Jun 2009:
glosses: In a very tactful, careful, or nondisruptive manner.
Synonyms: gingerly
Old London Town
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: London, predominantly the central fifteen or so boroughs.
case fan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: case fans
Senses: glosses: A cooling fan in a personal computer
Melia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Amelia.
glosses: A surname.
Keanu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kiːˈɑːnuː/
ipa: /kiˈɑnu/
Etymology: Borrowed from Hawaiian Keanu.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Hawaiian.
abortorium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbɔɹˈtɔɹi.əm/
ipa: /æbɔɹˈtɔːɹi.əm/
Forms: form: abortoriums
form: abortoria
Etymology: From abort. Compare auditorium, vomitorium. Possibly a borrowing of Russian абортарий (abortarij) or its variant аборторий (abortorij).
Senses: examples: text: A well-equipped abortorium was then visited. This consists of a suite of rooms on the first floor.
ref: 1933, James Purves-Stewart, A physician's tour in soviet Russia, page 86:
glosses: A hospital or hospital department that specializes in abortions.
Synonyms: abortion clinic
barroom brawl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barroom brawls
Senses: examples: text: His name was Charlie Upton, from Liverpool. And he had a penchant for whiskey and barroom brawls.
ref: 2017, Sam Shepard, Spy of the First Person, →ISBN, page 8:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: A brawl in a barroom.
examples: text: The naval battle which cost the Japanese 23 ships off Guadalcanal November 13 was a gigantic "barroom brawl with all lights out and every body swinging," Captain Edward Parker related today.
ref: 1942 December 19, “Guadalcanal's Great Naval Battle Barroom Brawl, Says Commander”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
text: "We don't want to get involved in a barroom brawl with the United States" while there is still hope for revoking Reagan's decision, the official said.
ref: 1987 March 28, “Reagan Imposes 100% Tariffs on Japan Goods Retaliatory Sanctions...”, in Los Angeles Times:
text: But in a pair of debates this week, the campaign escalated into a barroom brawl, as a number of top candidates began throwing verbal punches at each other.
ref: 1993 March 12, “LA MAYOR Personal Attacks Begin to Turn Race Into Brawl”, in Los Angeles Times:
glosses: A conflict with no rules.
glosses: An inferior boxing match.
Nanea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: For when the leader was come into Persia, and the army with him that seemed invincible, they were slain in the temple of Nanea by the deceit of Nanea's priests.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Maccabees 1:13:
glosses: A Persian goddess mentioned in the Bible.
Moana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /məʊˈɑːnə/
Forms: form: Moanas
Etymology: From Hawaiian Moana (“sea, ocean”), Maori moana, and other Polynesian languages.
Senses: glosses: A unisex given name from Polynesian.
glosses: A unisex given name from Polynesian.
A unisex given name from Hawaiian.
glosses: A coastal suburb of Nelson, New Zealand.
glosses: A small town in the West Coast region, New Zealand, on the shore of Lake Brunner (known as Moana in Maori).
Related terms: Te Moana
Te Moana-a-Toi
resorbable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈzɔː(ɹ)bəbəl/
Forms: form: more resorbable
form: most resorbable
Etymology: From resorb + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.
ref: 2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 200:
glosses: Able to be resorbed.
tensive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tensive
form: most tensive
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to tension
volemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of volaemia.
hypoacidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypoacidities
Etymology: From hypo- + acidity.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The condition of having less than the normal amount of acidity in the stomach
Related terms: hypoacidic
hypochylia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypo- + chyle + -ia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A deficiency of chyle (gastric juice)
hypochloridria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: hypoacidity
caterwauler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caterwaulers
Etymology: From caterwaul (verb) + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who caterwauls.
gammaglobulinemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gamma globulin + -emia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The presence of gamma globulin in the bloodstream.
Related terms: agammaglobulinemia
dysgammaglobulinemia
hypergammaglobulinemia
hypogammaglobulinemia
panhypogammaglobulinemia
iliaci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iliacus
rewicker
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rewickers
form: rewickering
form: rewickered
form: rewickered
Etymology: From re- + wicker.
Senses: examples: text: So as to be able to use them for years to come, Susan decided to rewicker Grandma Rose's old dining room table chairs.
glosses: To redo the wickerwork, as the wicker seat of a piece of furniture
examples: text: After learning more details of the customer's needs, the team felt it was important to rewicker the proposal.
glosses: To rework, update, redo, reformulate; especially in the case of a multi themed, or woven, product.
Synonyms: rework
update
redo
reformulate
Related terms: wicker
wickerwork
five-and-twenty
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: examples: text: Having brought it to a close, he took his way to the Kursaal. The great German watering-place is one of the prettiest nooks in Europe, and of a summer evening in the gaming days, five-and-twenty years ago, it was one of the most brilliant scenes.
ref: 1879, Henry James, chapter III, in Confidence, London: Chatto & Windus:
glosses: Twenty-five.
plutarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plutarchies
Etymology: From pluto- + -archy.
Senses: glosses: rule by the wealthy; plutocracy
habiline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: habilines
Etymology: From Homo habilis + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: By around 2.3 million years ago, the first tentative record emerges of a new species, a habiline. Habilines, still poorly understood, are the “missing link” between apes and humans.
ref: 2009, Richard Wrangham, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, Basic Books, page 4:
glosses: A specimen of the now extinct species Homo habilis.
habiline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Homo habilis + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: Finally, new finds from Olduvai prompted Leakey, Tobias and Napier (1964) to recognize a new form, Homo habilis. Although the post-cranial elements of this find are no longer believed to be habiline, further finds[…]suggest that there is indeed a reality to this species.
ref: 1985, Charles E. Oxnard, Humans, Apes and Chinese Fossils: New Implications for Human Evolution, Hong Kong University Press, page 7:
text: Sexual division of labor may be as old as the habiline hominids (H. habilis, ± 2.5 mya), who in all probability practiced a flexible subsistence strategy of "ecological opportunism optimized by tool use"[…].
ref: 1995, Johan Matheus Gerardus van der Dennen, The Origin of War: The Evolution of a Male-Coalitional Reproductive Strategy, Origin Press, page 572
glosses: Of or pertaining to habilines.
alhajis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alhaji
oncome
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: oncomes
form: oncoming
form: oncame
form: oncome
Etymology: From Middle English oncomen, from Old English oncuman, ancuman (“to arrive, come upon, happen”), from Proto-Germanic *anakwemaną (“to come to, come at, arrive”), equivalent to on- + come. Cognate with Dutch aankomen (“to arrive”), German ankommen (“to arrive”), Swedish ankomma (“to arrive”).
Senses: examples: text: This said, and shaking his long dark spear, then forward he hurl'd it Into the fullround buckler of Priamides Alexander; Right thro' his glittering shield oncame the redoubtable warspear, On still advanced, throughpiercing his breastplate's various-art-work [...]
ref: 1844, Homerus, The Iliad, rendered in Homeric verse, by L. Shadwell:
text: A trip from you. Taken. . . . Then time oncame [...]
ref: 1999, Alfred Corn, Stake: poems, 1972-1992:
glosses: To arrive; come to; come on.
oncome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oncomes
Etymology: From Middle English oncome (“an attack”), equivalent to on- + come. Compare Old English ancuman (“to arrive, come upon, happen”). More at ancome, income.
Senses: examples: text: I see the dawn or rather I feel the oncome of it.
ref: 1978, Edna O'Brien, I hardly knew you:
glosses: Advent, arrival, approach; onset.
glosses: The commencement or initial stages of a business, especially of one which requires great exertion.
glosses: The setting about of an action; development; progress.
examples: text: On inquiry it was found that this neurosis corresponded in time with the oncome of the catamenia.
ref: 1881, American journal of obstetrics and diseases of women and children: Volume 14:
text: "She often has oncomes," explained Angus shortly. "But now we will tell, for though but children, we talk straighter."
ref: 1906, Appleton's magazine: Volume 7:
glosses: An attack; an attack or onset of a disease, fit, or episode.
examples: text: This woman had acquired a considerable reputation among the ignorant by the pretended cures which she performed, especially in oncomes, as the Scotch call them, or mysterious diseases, which baffle the regular physician.
ref: 1858, Sir Walter Scott, The bride of Lammermoor:
glosses: A mysterious disease or ailment.
glosses: A heavy fall of rain or snow; cloudburst.
glosses: The lower edge of a fire-clay lining piece.
raw_tags: of a chimney
Synonyms: outburst
outgush
advent
arrival
auriculares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔˌɹɪk.jəˈlɛɹˌiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of auricularis
alhaji
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alhajis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hajji.
Related terms: alhajia
alhaji
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alhajis
Etymology: From Hausa àlhajī.
Senses: glosses: title of respect, often used as a shorthand for a businessman from Northern Nigeria.
alhajia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alhajias
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A woman who has made a religious pilgrimage to Mecca
Related terms: alhaji
hajj
benzphetamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An anti-obesity drug.
Hypernyms: phenethylamine
ore tenus
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin; Medieval Latin oretenus
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Of testimony, presented orally.
rock climber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rock climbers
Senses: glosses: A person who takes part in rock climbing
curium bromide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The curium salt of hydrobromic acid, CmBr₃
cycle time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cycle times
Senses: examples: text: Order cycle time can now be minutes from when the customer starts entering an order to when it is visible to the warehouse.
text: Production cycle time is not as important as the time spent in transit.
text: Design cycle time for an all-new state-of-the-art compressor is still years from go-ahead to readiness for manufacture.
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
software
glosses: The total elapsed time to complete an operation or set of operations.
qualifier: equipment
glosses: the time equipment takes to complete one cycle of operation, from start to finish
cycle times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cycle time
get the drop on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets the drop on
form: getting the drop on
form: got the drop on
form: got the drop on
form: gotten the drop on
Senses: examples: text: He got the drop on them and proceeded to shoot and kill them before they could fire a shot or respond.
glosses: To point one's firearm at another person, thereby gaining dominance in a situation.
examples: text: We’re always getting the drop on our competitors because the owner really knows the business and can act fast.
text: The petty critic in me would say the show could’ve done a better job of revealing how she got the drop on the Night King instead of just Deus Ex Arya’ing the situation, but it’s a very satisfying moment, so we’ll let it pass.
ref: 2019 April 28, Alex McLevy, “Game Of Thrones Suffers the Fog of War in the Battle against the Dead (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 31 May 2021:
synonyms: beat to the punch
get the jump on
glosses: To obtain an advantage over another person, by acting before that person.
Related terms: have the drop on
steal a march
hand in glove
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hand in glove
form: most hand in glove
form: hand and glove
form: hand-in-glove
Senses: examples: text: The vendors were working hand in glove with our people.
text: Isn't it beautiful to see two people / So much in love? / Barenaked as two virgins hand in hand / And hand and hand in glove
ref: 1992, “Be My Yoko Ono”, in Gordon, performed by Barenaked Ladies:
glosses: In very close cooperation.
hand-in-glove
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hand-in-glove
form: most hand-in-glove
Senses: glosses: Closely cooperative.
hand-in-glove
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hand-in-glove
form: most hand-in-glove
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hand in glove.
boyfriendless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From boyfriend + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a boyfriend.
Derived terms: boyfriendlessness
girlfriendless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From girlfriend + -less.
Senses: examples: text: He had been alone, girlfriendless, for nearly a year, and had sort of adjusted to bachelorhood […]
ref: 2009 July 21, David Updike, Old Girlfriends:
text: He doesn't seem to mind being girlfriendless.
ref: 2012 July 5, Cecily von Ziegesar, Gossip Girl 4:
glosses: Without a girlfriend.
Derived terms: girlfriendlessness
off the reservation
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: From go off the reservation.
Senses: synonyms: beyond the pale
glosses: Violating rules or decorum; out of bounds.
examples: text: While politicians remained blackballed on opening night, the Clintonites' search for "real people" was not limited to the obscure. Thomason floated Billy Graham's name, but Hillary worried that he might get off the reservation on abortion.
ref: 1999, Martin Plissner, The Control Room: How Television Calls the Shots in Presidential Elections:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Having broken with one's party or group, usually temporarily.
Related terms: go off the reservation
nonreservation
Munroist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Munroists
Etymology: From Munro + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who has climbed all of the Munros (Scottish mountains of more than 3,000 feet in height).
euglobulin lysis time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: euglobulin lysis times
Senses: topics: hematology
medicine
sciences
synonyms: euglobulin clot lysis time
glosses: A blood test that measures the amount of time required for a clot to break down in the blood.
Related terms: ELT
euglobulin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /juːˈɡlɒbjʊlɪn/
Forms: form: euglobulins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A fraction of serum proteins obtained as a precipitate by adjusting salt levels and pH.
Derived terms: euglobulin clot lysis time
euglobulin lysis time
magnesemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From magnes(ium) + -emia or magnes(io)- + -emia.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The presence of magnesium in the blood, and (usually, especially) the degree (that is, its concentration).
Coordinate terms: word: calcemia
word: cupremia
word: kalemia
english: types of biometallic cation concentration in blood
translation: types of biometallic cation concentration in blood
word: natremia
english: blood sugar concentration
translation: blood sugar concentration
word: glycemia
Derived terms: alt: eumagnesemic
word: eumagnesemia
word: that is
alt: normomagnesemic
word: normomagnesemia
alt: hypermagnesemic
word: hypermagnesemia
alt: hypomagnesemic
word: hypomagnesemia
word: magnesemic
hyponutrition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypo- + nutrition.
Senses: glosses: undernutrition
Derived terms: hyponutritional
osmolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -əʊlə(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to osmolarity
Derived terms: equiosmolar
hyperosmolar
hypoosmolar
isoosmolar
iso-osmolar
isosmolar
milliosmolar
normosmolar
deduplication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˌdʒuːplɪˈkeɪʃən/
Forms: form: deduplications
Etymology: From de- + duplication.
Senses: glosses: The act of removing duplication or redundancy.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The elimination of redundant duplicate data.
Related terms: dedupe
deduplicate
deduplication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˌdʒuːplɪˈkeɪʃən/
Forms: form: deduplications
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The division of that which is morphologically one organ into two or more, such as the division of an organ of a plant into a pair or cluster.
Related terms: dedoublement
hyporchema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyporchemata
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὑπόρχημα (hupórkhēma).
Senses: glosses: A form of ancient Greek choral song accompanied by dance
dolmade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dolmades
Etymology: Back-formation from dolmades, from Greek ντολμάδες (ntolmádes), plural of ντολμάς (ntolmás).
Senses: examples: text: Both share a fascination for baklava and the stuffed leaves known as dolmades.
ref: 2007 January 30, Ian Fisher, “Pursuing Happiness, Greeks and Turks Find One Another”, in New York Times:
glosses: A dolma.
dolmades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Greek ντολμάδες (ntolmádes).
Senses: glosses: plural of dolma
dolmades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dolmade + -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of dolmade
meltaway
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From melt + away.
Senses: examples: text: Gould’s mother mailed him a recipe box that contained cards with easy-to-follow instructions for some of the family’s favorites: teriyaki chicken, broccoli salad, peanut butter meltaway cake and corn dip.
ref: 2007 January 30, Karen Crouse, “Dash of Success Spices Up Gould’s Neighborhood”, in New York Times:
glosses: Used in the names of various recipes for cakes and cookies that seem to melt in the mouth.
snotnoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snotnose
wazzers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wazzer
nonasthmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + asthmatic.
Senses: examples: text: The development of lung function was also lower in nonasthmatic and nonsmoking teenagers living near freeways, suggesting that the highways had an adverse effect on otherwise healthy children.
ref: 2007 January 30, Nicholas Bakalar, “Highway Exhaust Stunts Lung Growth, Study Finds”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not asthmatic.
nonasthmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonasthmatics
Etymology: From non- + asthmatic.
Senses: glosses: One who does not have asthma.
nonasthmatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonasthmatic
nonfreeway
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + freeway.
Senses: examples: text: They also recorded the distance of each child’s home from the nearest limited-access highway and from other major nonfreeway roads.
ref: 2007 January 30, Nicholas Bakalar, “Highway Exhaust Stunts Lung Growth, Study Finds”, in New York Times:
glosses: That is not, or does not relate to, a freeway.
midaltitude
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + altitude.
Senses: examples: text: The beetle’s usual targets were once midaltitude lodgepole and ponderosa pines.
ref: 2007 January 30, Charles Petit, “In the Rockies, Pines Die and Bears Feel It”, in New York Times:
topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: At a moderate altitude.
nontradable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + tradable.
Senses: examples: text: Many state-owned companies, for example, have settled on formulas to begin cleaning up the problems over nontradable shares.
ref: 2007 January 30, Jim Yardley, “Chinese United by Common Goal: A Hot Stock Tip”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not tradable.
Synonyms: untradable
nontradable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nontradables
Etymology: From non- + tradable.
Senses: glosses: something not tradable
myringotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myringotomy
tympanostomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tympanostomies
Etymology: From tympano- + -stomy or tympan- + -ostomy.
Senses: examples: text: The children were randomly assigned in a clinical trial to undergo tympanostomy promptly or six to nine months later.
ref: 2007 January 30, Nicholas Bakalar, “Child Care: Ear Tubes Not Found to Affect Development”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Synonym of myringotomy, incision in the eardrum (tympanic membrane).
synonyms: word: myringotomy
extra: tympanic membrane
word: incision in the eardrum
extra: tympanic membrane
Derived terms: tympanostomy tube
tympanostomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tympanostomy
fettucini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fettucinis
Senses: examples: text: Within a half-hour, Gould (pronounced GOLD) was stirring in pieces of breaded and sautéed chicken, pouring the finished sauce over fettucini noodles cooked al dente and serving one of the newest entrees from his growing recipe file — rustic chicken — to Tanner, his 9-year-old twin brothers, Colton and Austin, and their parents.
ref: 2007 January 30, Karen Crouse, “Dash of Success Spices Up Gould’s Neighborhood”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of fettuccini.
watersoaked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more watersoaked
form: most watersoaked
form: water-soaked
Etymology: From water + soaked.
Senses: glosses: Soaked with water.
Related terms: water-soak
onomastically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more onomastically
form: most onomastically
Etymology: From onomastic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an onomastic way.
cherrystone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cherrystones
Etymology: From cherry + stone. The name of the clam came from a fancied resemblance to a cherry's stone. The fancied resemblance is in shape, color, and sheen, not in size; the clams are several inches across.
Senses: examples: text: Miss Violette Shumberger names twelve dozen cherrystone clams as the second course, and Joe Duffle says two gallons of Philadelphia pepperpot soup as the third.
ref: 1937, Damon Runyon, A Piece of Pie:
hypernyms: hard clam
round clam
quahog
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coordinate_terms: countneck
peanut
littleneck
topneck
quahog
glosses: Ellipsis of cherrystone clam, a hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria) that has grown to a size within a certain range, being larger than a countneck, littleneck or topneck but smaller than a quahog.
raw_tags: used as a size classification by fish merchants
glosses: Synonym of cherry pit.
synonyms: word: cherry pit
cherrystones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cherrystone
nonbasketball
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + basketball.
Senses: examples: text: To draw a conclusion like that lets me think a nonbasketball player probably made the decision on this particular act.”
ref: 2007 January 31, Liz Robbins, “Bryant Barred for One Game After Hard Hit”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not basketball, or not associated with it.
nontalkative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + talkative.
Senses: examples: text: But Super Bowl media day demanded Harrison’s presence Tuesday, so the famously nontalkative Harrison planted himself somewhat uneasily in front of waves of reporters who were trying desperately to plumb the depths of his inscrutability.
ref: 2007 January 31, Judy Battista, “Harrison Opens Up on the Field, Not Off It”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not talkative.
Synonyms: taciturn
untalkative
Hebb's rule
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Introduced by Donald Hebb in his 1949 book The Organization of Behavior.
Senses: topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Neurons that fire together wire together.
posthole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postholes
Etymology: From post + hole.
Senses: examples: text: Indentations in the floor were interpreted as postholes and slots that once anchored wooden furniture.
ref: 2007 January 31, John Noble Wilford, “Village May Have Housed Builders of Stonehenge”, in New York Times:
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A cut feature used to hold a surface timber or stone, usually much deeper than it is wide.
posthole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: postholes
form: postholing
form: postholed
form: postholed
Etymology: From post + hole.
Senses: examples: text: There, Kate dismounted, postholed through the snow to the door of the Park Service's headquarters, marched down the hall to Dan O'Brian's office, walked in without knocking, sat down without invitation, and said, "Now then. Would you mind repeating to me exactly what you told Ethan Int-Hout this morning?"
ref: 2002, Dana Stabenow, A Fine and Bitter Snow, →ISBN, page 1:
text: Diane and I held our breaths. Good, she was still upright. She slowly moved her weight forward, and picked up her back foot. We exhaled, and she promptly postholed.
ref: 2012, Carol Stone White, Peak Experiences, →ISBN:
text: The chances of postholing can be minimized by landing with your whole foot at once as well as by wearing shoes with larger outsole surface area to increase flotation marginally.
ref: 2016, Meghan M. Hicks, Bryon Powell, Where the Road Ends: A Guide to Trail Running, →ISBN:
glosses: To sink one's legs deep into snow while walking.
postholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of posthole
postholes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of posthole
prelease
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preleases
form: preleasing
form: preleased
form: preleased
Etymology: From pre- + lease.
Senses: examples: text: “When we tried to prelease the old warehouse, it was almost impossible to convince anyone that this rather nondescript building could be turned into a regional arts center,” said Roger E. Noyes, a Noisette director of development for this project.
ref: 2007 January 31, Elsa Brenner, “From Arms to Art”, in New York Times:
glosses: To arrange a lease for in advance.
prelease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preleases
Etymology: From pre- + lease.
Senses: glosses: A lease arranged in advance.
preleases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prelease
preleases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prelease
preleasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prelease
preleased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prelease
pressureless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pressure + -less.
Senses: examples: a pressureless gas
glosses: Without pressure or the use of pressure.
ungowned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + gowned.
Senses: glosses: Not gowned; not wearing a gown; unrobed.
girderlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more girderlike
form: most girderlike
Etymology: From girder + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The astronauts exceeded a planned time of six and one-half hours as they labored to switch electrical and fluid lines from interim to permanent locations on the station’s girderlike supporting truss.
ref: 2007 February 1, Warren E. Leary, “Spacewalkers Start Switch of Station’s Cooling System”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a girder.
hardwearing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hardwearing
form: most hardwearing
Senses: examples: text: The best maintenance technique for this rugged, hardwearing material is to do practically nothing.
ref: 2007 February 1, Mitchell Owens, “Room to Improve”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of hard-wearing.
monopolylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more monopolylike
form: most monopolylike
Etymology: From monopoly + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Given the limited number of exchanges in the world and their monopolylike characteristics, investors have leaped at the opportunity to own a piece of what are considered by many to be toll roads for traders.
ref: 2007 February 1, Jenny Anderson, “NYSE Makes Alliance With Tokyo Exchange”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a monopoly.
midsea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + sea.
Senses: examples: text: Over the next two years he finished two paintings and a drawing that referred to Hart Crane, the American poet who jumped off a ship in midsea and drowned.
ref: 2007 February 2, Holland Cotter, “Bull’s-Eyes and Body Parts: It’s Theater, From Jasper Johns”, in New York Times:
glosses: A point out at sea, away from the shore.
nonmortal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + mortal.
Senses: glosses: Not subject to mortality; undying, immortal.
examples: text: By Tuesday, the same page no longer showed a total for nonmortal casualties.
ref: 2007 February 2, Denise Grady, “U.S. Reconfigures the Way Casualty Totals Are Given”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not deadly; nonfatal.
nonmortal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonmortals
Etymology: From non- + mortal.
Senses: glosses: One who is not mortal; an immortal.
nonpaid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + paid.
Senses: examples: text: Whether we see an underpaid Minister of War selling contracts for the supply of the army, and receiving bribes through the hands of his wife from the men to whom he pays out the public money, or the member of a nonpaid board jobbing for the execution of a lucrative contract for his nominee, the details bear a great family resemblance.
ref: 1877 January 24, “Considerations on municipal government”, in Fraser's Magazine, volume 15, page 39:
text: As in most small rural Mexican communities, local residents fill municipal office, or cargos, on a nonpaid basis.
ref: 1986, Michael Kearney, The Winds of Ixtepeji: World View and Society in a Zapotec Town:
text: The show’s director, Tania Inessa Kirkman, and her design team have created a set that enthusiastically embraces commercialism by including a slew of obvious (but nonpaid) product placements, commercials for everything from Red Bull to Campbell’s Soup that play during intermission and corporate logos, made of light, dancing across the stage floor.
ref: 2007 February 2, The New York Times, “Theater Listings”, in New York Times:
glosses: For which no payment is levied.
reinvolve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹi.ɪnˈvɒlv/
ipa: /ˌɹi.ɪnˈvɑlv/
ipa: /-ˈvɔlv/
rhymes: -ɒlv
Forms: form: reinvolves
form: reinvolving
form: reinvolved
form: reinvolved
Etymology: From re- + involve.
Senses: examples: text: Ms. Murray also worked with the family to set goals, including getting Devonta reinvolved in after-school activities and re-enrolling Ms. Hand in school and helping her to find a job. Ms. Hand plans to finish her G.E.D. this spring and then study architecture.
ref: 2007 February 2, Alexis Rehrmann, “An Older Sister Who Has Become Head of the Family”, in New York Times:
glosses: To involve again.
reinvolves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reinvolve
reinvolving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reinvolve
reinvolved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reinvolve
squeegeelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more squeegeelike
form: most squeegeelike
Etymology: From squeegee + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Duchampian too are the so-called “devices” paintings, which have rotatable wooden discs, with squeegeelike arms for smoothing arcs of paint, affixed to their surfaces.
ref: 2007 February 2, Holland Cotter, “Bull’s-Eyes and Body Parts: It’s Theater, From Jasper Johns”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a squeegee.
skateway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skateways
Etymology: From skate + way.
Senses: examples: text: In the winter it would freeze over into a skateway.
ref: 1975, Dennis Holloway, Huldah Curl, Franz C Hall, Winona: towards an energy conserving community:
text: One night after the incident, Stribling told a skateway employee, Crawford, that the rink had had trouble with a "nigger" (Johnson) the night before...
ref: 1992, West's federal reporter:
text: (Officials now say that thanks to the recent cold weather, the entire five-mile skateway is skate-worthy for the festival opening today.)
ref: 2007 February 2, Austin Considine, “Snow or No, It’s a Party”, in New York Times:
glosses: An ice rink or other route for ice skating.
skateways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skateway
celebrification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of celebrity + -ification
Senses: examples: text: Chuck Todd, editor of the online political clearinghouse Hotline, calls the gossip phenomenon “pack gossip journalism,” a byproduct of the celebrification of politics and the attendant proliferation of media to cover it.
ref: 2007 February 3, Mark Leibovich, “Titillating or Not, Washington Gossip Blossoms”, in New York Times:
text: The rise of populism in an age of celebrification also plays into the coarsening of discourse.
ref: 2025 January 30, Stephen Humphries, “An uncivil union: Can America break its addiction to violent rhetoric?”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: The introduction of celebrity as a factor in some field or discipline.
dipperful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪpəfʊl/
Forms: form: dipperfuls
form: dippersful
Etymology: From dipper + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: He [the horse-doctor] made up a bucket of bran-mash, and said a dipperful of it every two hours, alternated with a drench with turpentine and axle-grease in it, would either knock my ailments out of men in twenty-four hours, or so interest me in other ways as to make me forget they were on the premises. […] I took up the Christian Science book and read half of it, then took a dipperful of drench and read the other half.
ref: 1899 October, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter III, in Christian Science […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, published February 1907, →OCLC, book I, page 28:
text: Earmarks—those undebated dipperfuls of taxpayer-financed contracts that tripled under the Republicans—will undoubtedly return in the new budget.
ref: 2007 February 3, “A rare bill in Congress”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: As much as a dipper will hold; a cupful.
dipperfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dipperful
dippersful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dipperful
laojiao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Chinese 勞教／劳教 (láojiào) (an abbreviation of 勞動教養／劳动教养 (láodòng jiàoyǎng)).
Senses: coordinate_terms: laogai
glosses: A system of administrative detentions in the People's Republic of China in which penal labour is done for a small salary, generally used to detain people who have committed minor crimes.
lifehacking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From life + hacking.
Senses: examples: text: It's all about finding ways to make yourself more efficient. Lifehacking, baby. This morning, I brushed my teeth in the shower, saved myself 90 seconds, which I just used to explain this to you. Damn it!
ref: 2012 October 4, “Andy's Ancestry” (2:00), in The Office (US), season 9, episode 3, spoken by Darryl Philbin (Craig Robinson):
glosses: The use of lifehacks.
nonartist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonartists
Etymology: From non- + artist.
Senses: examples: text: The gift-giving nature of the exchange feels nice and pokes gently at art world economics. Mr. Ovelman is the subject of the portraits here, but they are all by nonartists.
ref: 2007 February 3, Holland Cotter, “To Explore Race, Sometimes You Focus on the Explorer”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who is not an artist (creator of art).
nonartists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonartist
wooliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wooly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of woolliness.
ragalike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ragalike
form: most ragalike
Etymology: From raga + -like.
Senses: examples: text: On a ballad called “If Only Once,” she shared lyrical duties with Mr. Cline, who demonstrated sensitivity and restraint in an improvisation over a ragalike pedal tone. Ms. Scheinman’s solo on the tune was stately but not remote; she packed many shades of melancholy into a few understated phrases.
ref: 2007 February 3, Nate Chinen, “Kindred Spirits in Groove”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling raga or some aspect of it.
Hasse diagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hasse diagrams
Etymology: Named after Helmut Hasse (1898–1979), though he was not the first to use them.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: A diagram which represents a finite poset, in which nodes are elements of the poset and arrows represent the order relation between elements. Transitivity of the order relation is tacit, in other words, if x<y and y<z then no arrow is drawn from x to z, but if there is no distinct z between x and y (such that x<z<y) then an arrow is draw from x to y.
Boolean lattice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Boolean lattices
Senses: examples: text: A Boolean lattice always has 2ⁿ elements for some cardinal number n.
text: If two Boolean lattices have the same size, then they are isomorphic.
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The lattice corresponding to a Boolean algebra.
Hypernyms: orthocomplemented lattice
ortholattice
caveola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊlə
Forms: form: caveolae
Etymology: Learned borrowing from New Latin caveola, constructed from cavea (“hollow, cavity; cage”) + -ola (diminutive suffix). Doublet of jail, which is from Late Latin caveola, an earlier, natural formation of the same term. More at cave, cavum, cava and cage.
Senses: glosses: A small (50–100 nanometer) invagination of the plasma membrane in many vertebrate cell types.
Derived terms: cavin
Related terms: caveogenesis
caveolar
caveolin
caveolae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caveola
viv
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vivs
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: examples: text: I recently purchased a new viv, however up until now I have not been able to find a background that is high enough for the viv. The viv is 36 inches wide and at least 20 inches high. All the backgrounds I have seen have only been 18 inches high.
ref: 2002, Mark, “Vivarium Backgrounds”, in alt.pets.reptiles.lizards (Usenet):
glosses: vivarium
distributive lattice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: distributive lattices
Senses: examples: text: In a distributive lattice, the set of complemented elements is a sublattice.
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A lattice in which the "meet" and the "join" operations are distributive with respect to each other.
Hyponyms: De Morgan algebra
Ockham algebra
day labor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daylabor
form: daylabour
form: day-labor
form: day-labour
form: day labour
Senses: glosses: Work done where the worker is hired and paid one day at a time, with no promise that more work will be available in the future.
Related terms: day laborer
day laborer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: day laborers
form: day labourer
Senses: glosses: A laborer who is hired and paid one day at a time, with no promise that more work will be available in the future.
Related terms: day labor
transmembranal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + membranal.
Senses: glosses: Occurring across a membrane.
Related terms: membranal
short strokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Possibly an allusion to painting, in which a painter typically finishes a work with short, careful, finishing strokes of the paint brush, or to golf, in which a player concludes each hole by making short strokes with a putter.
Senses: examples: text: He knows they are in the short strokes—it's almost over.
ref: 1990, M. E. Morris, The Last Kamikaze, →ISBN, page 242:
text: Ironing out the short strokes has taken a little longer than expected, but it all should be worth the wait for Strawberry when the Yankees officially announce today they have re-signed the rehabbed slugger.
ref: 1998 January 8, Peter Botte, “Straw Signing Official Today”, in New York Daily News, retrieved 18 May 2009:
text: Sly and Dave Chandler having set the deal, and Al McAfee moving in to do the legal fine points, Maxwell and Johnson tumbled into our lap for just over a million in cash up front and about twice that in Slumberhaven stock and options. I didn't even have to get involved, except for the short strokes toward the end.
ref: 2006, William Annett, The Final Undertaking, →ISBN, page 87:
qualifier: usually preceded by the
glosses: The final steps of an undertaking, especially one which has been lengthy or laborious.
examples: text: She can evoke an entire scene in short strokes, as in this from "The Wamsutter Wolf": "This trailer was in ruins, broken-backed because its west end had slipped off the cinder-block supports. All the windows had been shot out."
ref: 2005, Martin Levin, "Shelf Life" (review of Close Range by Annie Proulx), Globe and Mail (Canada), 15 Jan., p. D13
glosses: Bare essentials.
Synonyms: sense: final steps
word: finishing touches
sense: final steps
word: final effort
sense: final steps
word: last gasp
Derived terms: down to the short strokes
Related terms: broad strokes
empty graph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: empty graphs
Senses: examples: The empty graph with n vertices is denoted as Eₙ.
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A graph with vertices but no edges.
down to the short strokes
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Possibly an allusion to painting, in which a painter typically finishes a work with short, careful, finishing strokes of the paint brush, or to golf, in which a player concludes each hole by making short strokes with a putter. In swimming competition, as a swimmer nearly reaches a wall to turn or to finish, the competitor might take a shorter stroke to start the turn smoothly, or to finish faster.
Senses: examples: text: "I would say we are down to the short strokes, down to the cleanup phase" of the investigation, said E. Campion Kersten, a Fox Point lawyer.
ref: 1992 June 10, “Bembenek Doe near completion”, in Milwaukee Sentinel, retrieved 29 May 2009, page 12A:
glosses: In the final steps or decisive phase of an undertaking, especially one which has been lengthy or laborious.