cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unexcitably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unexcitably
form: most unexcitably
Etymology: From unexcitable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unexcitable manner.
sleep with one's fathers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sleeps with one's fathers
form: sleeping with one's fathers
form: slept with one's fathers
form: slept with one's fathers
Etymology: Calque of Biblical Hebrew וַיִּשְׁכַּב עִם־אֲבֹתָיו (wayyiškaḇ ʿim-ʾăḇōṯâw, literally “he slept with his fathers”) (found, for example, in the Bible at 1 Kings 2:10); compare be gathered to one's fathers.
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: To be buried together with one's forebears; hence, to die; also, to be dead.
chops and changes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: At last we were all arranged according to Mrs. Turnbull's wishes, although there were several chops and changes about
ref: 1834, Frederick Marryat, Jacob Faithful:
glosses: alterations
straighten up and fly right
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: straightens up and flies right
form: straightening up and flying right
form: straightened up and flew right
form: straightened up and flown right
Senses: examples: text: Now, we are going to straighten up and fly right is what was said. Well, we didn't straighten up and fly right. We continued our wild spending at home and abroad.
ref: 1973, United States, Foreign assistance and related agencies appropriations for 1974, hearings …, 93-1, Subcommittee on Foreign Operations and Related Agencies …, →OCLC, page 801:
synonyms: get right#Etymology_2
glosses: To start behaving properly; get one's act together.
Related terms: straight and narrow
wake up and die right
Lanier County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Sidney Lanier.
Senses: glosses: A county of Georgia, United States. County seat: Lakeland.
wikipedia: Sidney Lanier
nailbourne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nailbournes
form: eylebourn
form: nailbourn
Etymology: From nail + bourne (“seasonal stream or brook”). The etymology of the first part is uncertain. It may derive from ail via a rebracketing of an ailbourne as a nailbourne; compare similar cases such as English newt and nickname.
Senses: examples: text: Theſe Nailbourns, or temporary land-ſprings, are not unuſual in the parts of this county eaſtward of Sittingborne, for I know of but one, at Addington near Maidſtone, which is on the other ſide of it. Their time of breaking forth or continuance of running, is very uncertain; but whenever they do break forth, it is held by the common people as the forerunner of ſcarcity and dearneſs of corn and victuals. Sometimes they break out for one or perhaps two ſucceſſive years, and at others with two, three, or more years intervention, and their running continues ſometimes only for a few months, and at others for three or four years, as their ſprings afford a ſupply.
ref: 1797, Edward Hasted, “The Hundred of Loningborough”, in The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, 3rd edition, volume 8, page 81:
text: It should be understood that many small springs were not visited, and that the subject of streams and nailbournes (or occasional streams) has been only alluded to incidentally.
ref: 1893, Appendices to [the Report and] Minutes of Evidence of the Royal Commission on Metropolitan Water Supply, page 435:
text: A nailbourne spring in the parish breaks out at intervals of seven or eight years, and sends off its waters to the Leyborne rivulet.
ref: 1895, John Henry Fryden Brabner, editor, The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, Addington, page 13:
text: Ospringe Street. This was associated with a nailbourne (an intermittently flowing chalk stream) which sometimes ran from Kennaways into the lake at Whitehill and from there to Faversham Creek, via Water Lane and the Davington Ponds.
ref: 2009, Peter J. Kennett, Faversham From Old Photographs:
glosses: A chalk stream that only flows intermittently.
Synonyms: word: gypsey
english: Sussex
translation: Sussex
word: lavant
word: vipsey
nailbournes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nailbourne
see one's way to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sees one's way to
form: seeing one's way to
form: saw one's way to
form: seen one's way to
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of see one's way clear to.
lechuguilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lechuguillas
Etymology: From Spanish lechuguilla.
Senses: glosses: Agave lechuguilla, an agave species found only in the Chihuahuan Desert.
lechuguillas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lechuguilla
Long County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Partial calque of Mandarin 隴縣 /陇县 (Lǒng Xiàn).
Senses: examples: text: Lungchou had its district government at the present-day Lung-hsien in Shensi Province. The Lungchou barrier here indicated must be somewhere north of Ch’ing-shui in the present Kansu Province.
ref: [1956, Tieh-tseng Li, “Notes”, in The Historical Status of Tibet, New York: King's Crown Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 225:
text: The work methods followed by the party committee of the Kukuan Commune of Lung County, Shensi Province and the party committee of Pokang District of Tsungyang County, Anhwei Province, as reported in our paper today, are worthy of being promoted.
ref: [1978 January 30 [1977 December 22], “Fully Bring Into Play the Role of This New Political Force”, in Translations on People's Republic of China, number 414, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Peking KUANG-MING JIH-PAO p 2, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, Political and Sociological, page 2:
text: “Long” is an ancient name for the area around what is now Long County in Shaanxi Province. The land south of Long is the Sichuan Basin.
ref: 1997, Stephen R. Bokenkamp, Early Daoist Scriptures, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 346:
text: Each animal is cast with a hollow, open body that fits over the yoke of a cart (cat. nos. 31, 3c, 37), as do similarly designed animal figures excavated from a Qin tomb at Bianjiazhuang, Long county, southwestern Shaanxi Province.
ref: 2002, Emma C. Bunker, Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes: The Eugene V. Thaw and Other Notable New York Collections, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 24:
text: The shift of Ze from Long County down to central Baoji in the south presents an example of a polity's relocation from the periphery to the center of this frontier.
ref: 2021, Yan Sun, Many Worlds Under One Heaven: Material Culture, Identity, and Power in the Northern Frontiers of the Western Zhou, 1045–771 BCE, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=orpFEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT172:
glosses: A county of Baoji, Shaanxi, China.
Synonyms: alt: Wade–Giles
word: Lung Hsien
Long County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Crawford Long.
Senses: glosses: One of 159 counties in Georgia, United States. County seat: Ludowici.
barricade tape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barricade tapes
Senses: examples: text: The police put up barricade tape around the crime scene.
glosses: Brightly coloured tape used to discourage intrusion into a possibly hazardous area.
Synonyms: barrier tape
caution tape
construction tape
danger tape
hazard tape
police tape
warning tape
Ludowici
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Long County, Georgia, United States.
barricade tapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barricade tape
Romeoesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Romeoesque
form: most Romeoesque
Etymology: From Romeo + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Reminiscent of Shakespeare's Romeo, an ardent male lover.
Lumpkin County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Wilson Lumpkin.
Senses: glosses: A county of Georgia, United States. County seat: Dahlonega.
wikipedia: Wilson Lumpkin
Dahlonega
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cherokee ᏓᎶᏁᎦ, yellow.
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Lumpkin County, Georgia, United States.
subscription box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subscription boxes
Senses: synonyms: loot box
coordinate_terms: recipe box
vegetable box
glosses: A recurring delivery of niche products to subscribers.
subscription boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subscription box
McDuffie County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after George McDuffie.
Senses: glosses: One of 159 counties in Georgia, United States. County seat: Thomson.
wikipedia: George McDuffie
giandujas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gianduja
hematophagic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to hematophagy
haematophagic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hematophagic.
healthworker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: healthworkers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of health worker.
McDuffie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McDuffies
form: McDuffey
form: McDuffy
Etymology: Anglicized form of Irish and Scottish Gaelic Mac Duibshíthe (“son of Duibshíth”) a personal name composed of the elements dubh (“black”) + síth (“peace”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: McDuffie County
healthworkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of healthworker
health worker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: health workers
Etymology: Compound of health + worker.
Senses: glosses: A person who works in the health sector.
hemichrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemichromes
Etymology: From hemi- + -chrome.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A denatured form of methemoglobin
hemichromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemichrome
alternative music
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːzɪk
Senses: glosses: Alternative rock.
heterochronies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heterochrony
difference set
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: difference sets
Senses: topics: combinatorics
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A subset of a group such that any element of the group can be expressed as the difference (or the quotient) of two elements in such subset.
hexosylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexosylations
Etymology: From hexosyl + -ation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any reaction that adds a hexosyl group
hexosylations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hexosylation
Oglethorpe County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after James Oglethorpe.
Senses: glosses: One of 159 counties in Georgia, United States. County seat: Lexington.
wikipedia: James Oglethorpe
homologisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homologisations
Senses: glosses: Any process that makes something homologous
hyperproliferates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hyperproliferate
CCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CC
hypomineralized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypo- + mineralized.
Senses: glosses: Less than normally mineralized
hypomineralized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From hypo- + mineralized.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hypomineralize
hypophysiotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of hypophysiotropic.
take the L
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes the L
form: taking the L
form: took the L
form: taken the L
form: take the l
form: take an L
form: take an l
form: take Ls
form: take L's
Etymology: From take + the + L (“losses (in sports statistics)”).
Senses: examples: text: Dom (David Jonsson): Please tell me you dumped his arse right there and then. […]
Yas (Vivian Oparah): Nope. I took a big L and got this prick some fucking hummus.
ref: 2023, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, directed by Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane:
text: Chase [Stokes], Rudy [Pankow], and JD [Jonathan Daviss], we know the Pogues have taken a lot of L’s up to this point. What advice would you give to your characters heading into season 4?
ref: 2024 August 1, Kat Moon, “We Took the Guys of ‘Outer Banks’ to Therapy”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: To take the loss; to lose a game or competition, to make a mistake or to otherwise be beset with unfortunate circumstances.
examples: text: We took the L (elevated train) to get downtown last night.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, L.
take an L
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes an L
form: taking an L
form: took an L
form: taken an L
Senses: examples: text: The guy who sued Amazon for infringing on his Lord of the Rings fanfic takes a massive L, now owes $134,000 to the Tolkien Estate
ref: 2023 December 19, Andy Chalk, “The guy who sued Amazon for infringing on his Lord of the Rings fanfic takes a massive L, now owes $134,000 to the Tolkien Estate”, in PC Gamer:
glosses: Alternative form of take the L.
Oglethorpe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Oglethorpes
Etymology: Habitational surname from a place in West Yorkshire, Bramham cum Oglethorpe, so called from the Old Norse personal name Oddketill + thorpe. The personal name is composed by the elements odd (“point of a weapon”) + ketill (“cauldron”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old Norse.
glosses: A small city, the county seat of Macon County, Georgia, United States.
Derived terms: Bramham cum Oglethorpe
Oglethorpe County
ventriculopleural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ventriculo- + pleural.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a ventricle and the pleura.
diffusionistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more diffusionistic
form: most diffusionistic
Senses: glosses: Relating to diffusionism.
migrationistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more migrationistic
form: most migrationistic
Senses: glosses: Relating to migrationism.
vicarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The biogeographical theory that vicariance is responsible for the differences between species.
diskers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disker
discer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discers
form: disker
Etymology: From disc + -er.
Senses: glosses: A kind of disc harrow.
discers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discer
Peach County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Situated in a peach-producing region and named after the fruit.
Senses: glosses: One of 159 counties in Georgia, United States. County seat: Fort Valley.
month of consecution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: months of consecution
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A month as reckoned from one conjunction of the moon with the sun to another.
months of consecution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of month of consecution
Shaughnessy playoffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Shaughnessy playoff
banties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banty
Atiyah-Singer index theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Proved by Michael Atiyah and Isadore Singer in 1963.
Senses: qualifier: differential geometry
glosses: A theorem stating that, for an elliptic differential operator on a compact manifold, the analytical index (related to the dimension of the space of solutions) is equal to the topological index (defined in terms of some topological data).
Fort Valley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Coconino County, Arizona, United States.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Peach County, Georgia, United States.
glosses: A valley in Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States.
halzoun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Arabic حَلَزُون (ḥalazūn).
Senses: glosses: A buccopharyngeal infection occurring in Lebanon, probably caused by the larvae of Linguatula serrata.
kisra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kissra
Etymology: From Arabic كسرة (kisra).
Senses: glosses: A thin fermented bread made in Sudan.
kissra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kisra (“Sudanese bread”).
lahoh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Arabic لحوح (laḥūḥ), related to لَوْح (lawḥ, “board”), apparently in the sense of being a flat surface.
Senses: glosses: A spongy, pancake-like bread originating in Djibouti, Somaliland, Somalia, and Yemen.
Related terms: injera
Rabun County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after William Rabun.
Senses: glosses: One of 159 counties in Georgia, United States. County seat: Clayton.
wikipedia: William Rabun
Rockdale County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the Rockdale Baptist Church (image in Wikipedia).
Senses: examples: text: The fire was put out by around 8:10 a.m. by the Rockdale County Fire Rescue. But around noon, another fire erupted, according to the CSB.
ref: 2024 November 24, Chris Boyette, “Investigators release update on BioLab chemical plant fire probe”, in CNN:
glosses: One of 159 counties in Georgia, United States. County seat: Conyers.
forbursts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forburst
Conyers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
examples: text: The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) has released an update on its investigation into the September 29 BioLab fire in Conyers, Georgia, that shrouded neighborhoods in chemical smoke for days and forced thousands of residents to shelter in place or evacuate.
ref: 2024 November 24, Chris Boyette, “Investigators release update on BioLab chemical plant fire probe”, in CNN:
glosses: A city, the county seat of Rockdale County, Georgia, United States.
Derived terms: Norton Conyers
Yealand Conyers
stické
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sphairistike (“racquet sport”).
synonyms: word: sphairistike
extra: racquet sport
Nadar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Tamil caste of southern India and Sri Lanka.
cultipacker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cultipackers
Etymology: Blend of cultivator + packer
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A piece of agricultural equipment that crushes dirt clods, removes air pockets, and presses down small stones, forming a smooth, firm seedbed.
Synonyms: word: Cambridge roller
Related terms: culticutter
cultipackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cultipacker
cultipack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cultipacks
form: cultipacking
form: cultipacked
form: cultipacked
Senses: glosses: To compress soil with a cultipacker.
cultipacked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cultipack
cultipacks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cultipack
cultipacking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cultipack
thecaspore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thecaspores
Senses: glosses: A spore produced in a theca.
thecaspores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thecaspore
theciferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From theca + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: glosses: Bearing thecae.
theciform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From theca + -iform.
Senses: glosses: thecal
Rockdale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb in southern Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A village in Will County, Illinois, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Franklin County, Indiana, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Boyd County, Kentucky, United States.
glosses: A hamlet in Chenango County, New York, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, United States.
glosses: A city in Milam County, Texas, United States.
glosses: A ghost town and populated place in King County, Washington, United States.
glosses: A village in Dane County, Wisconsin, United States.
Derived terms: Rockdale County
mouse-sight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: myopia
heterochronia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of heterochrony.
heterochronistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to heterochrony.
tile red
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛd
Forms: form: tile reds
Senses: examples: text: Coral, apricot and peach pinks, henna, brick and tile reds are in this group.
ref: 1948, Dorothy Cocks, Quick Steps to Beauty and Charm, page 35:
glosses: The brownish-red the colour of baked tiles.
tile reds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tile red
at command
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: They refused us a han'fu' in our greatest need, but now it wull be our turn to ha' fou sacks and baith cakes and kebbucks at command, while their aumery is bare
glosses: available for use
never minds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of never mind
neb-neb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bablah.
synonyms: word: bablah
scoon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scoons
form: scooning
form: scooned
form: scooned
form: scon
form: scun
Etymology: Possibly related with shunt (“to cause to move (suddenly)”). Compare Danish skynde (“to hurry”).
Senses: glosses: To skim along (a surface) like a vessel on the water.
Derived terms: word: schooner
scooned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scoon
scoons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scoon
scooning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scoon
Gaocheng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: gouʹchǔngʹ
Forms: form: Kao-ch'eng
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 高城 (Gāochéng).
Senses: glosses: A town in Sui, Suizhou, Hubei, in central China.
Related terms: Goseong
Kosong
Gaocheng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: gouʹchǔngʹ
Forms: form: Kao-ch'eng
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 藁城 (Gǎochéng).
Senses: examples: text: It has been shown that remains of Erh-li-kang type occur throughout the region that was to become the Shang capital in the dynasty's final centuries, in Tz'u Hsien, Han-tan, and Hsing-t'ai. Further north, an important Shang site was found near T'ai-hsi-ts'un 台西村, west of Kao-ch'eng, near Shih-chia-chuang, and excavated in 1965,³ 1972,⁴ and 1973.⁵
ref: [1980, Kwang-chih Chang, Shang Civilization, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 290:
text: More than 20,000 citizens from 12 villages in the Gaocheng District of the Chinese city of Shijiangzhuang have been relocated to quarantine sites as a preventative measure against Covid-19, according to Chinese state media.
ref: 2021 January 14, “More than 20,000 Chinese villagers are moved to quarantine sites as a preventative measure”, in CNN, archived from the original on 14 Jan 2021:
text: A farmer plants seeds in a corn field at a farm in Gaocheng, Hebei province, China, September 30, 2015.
ref: 2021 August 27, David Stanway, “China's total arable land shrinks nearly 6% from 2009-2019 - survey”, in Krishna Chandra Eluri, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 27 Aug 2021, China:
glosses: A district of Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China.
nippling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nipple
Bowkett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The brainchild of synthesiser musician Rod Bowkett, Anvil is an example of a new style of digital music machine.
ref: 1985, Design, numbers 439-444:
glosses: A surname.
leftfielder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leftfielders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of left fielder.
leftfielders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leftfielder
boatnecked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From boat + necked.
Senses: glosses: Of clothing: having a boatneck.
worm in the apple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: worms in the apple
Senses: examples: text: The worms in the apple, of course, are Baby Boom liberals who latched on to the one institution they could control—the university.
ref: 2007, Leonard Steinhorn, The Greater Generation: In Defense of the Baby Boom Legacy, →ISBN:
text: In this witty satire Cheever, acting as both narrator and observer, seeks to find the Crutchman's fatal flaw, the “worm in the apple” that will bring them down to the level of everyone else.
ref: 2010, Kurt F. Stone, The Jews of Capitol Hill: A Compendium of Jewish Congressional Members, →ISBN:
text: The villain of this piece—the worm in the apple of Revolutionary antislavery—was white racism.
ref: 2011, John Craig Hammond, Matthew Mason, Contesting Slavery, →ISBN:
glosses: A serious flaw in something otherwise good; a problem that ruins everything else.
Synonyms: fly in the ointment
worms in the apple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of worm in the apple
yahooed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of yahoo
yahooing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of yahoo
psychohistorically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From psychohistorical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of psychohistory.
VPSO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VPSO
form: VPSOs
Etymology: Initialisms
Senses: examples: text: From this table, we can see that VPSO obtains best IEF values compared to other algorithms.
ref: 2016, Jyotsna Kumar Mandal, Handbook of Research on Natural Computing for Optimization Problems, →ISBN, page 310:
glosses: Variable length particle swarm optimization.
examples: text: The three chiefs may not agree on what the VPSO should do, or can legally do; and it is the VPSO who is caught in the cross-fire.
ref: 1993, Mark Findlay, Uglješa Zvekić, Alternative policing styles: cross-cultural perspectives, page 55:
text: Although the VPSO program was originally designed so that Alaska Native officers could provide public safety services to their home villages, over time a sizable minority of officers have been hired who are non-Natives and are outsiders to the villages they serve.
ref: 2001, National Institute of Justice Journal - Issue 246, page 21:
text: VPSO are not authorized to carry guns and many times do not have access to a lock-down facility.
ref: 2005, Lisa Marin Wexler, Inupiat Youth Suicide:
glosses: Village public safety officer.
VPSOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of VPSO
Junkanooer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Junkanooers
Senses: examples: text: As one Junkanooer designer astutely pointed out, tourists do not factor in the preparation for or even assume a noticeable presence at the celebrations.
ref: 2007, Krista A. Thompson, An Eye for the Tropics: Tourism, Photography, and Framing the Caribbean Picturesque:
glosses: Someone who participates in junkanoo.
Junkanooers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Junkanooer
pedha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedhas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of peda (“Indian sweet”).
pedhas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedha
overboosts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overboost
overboosts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overboost
overboosting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overboost
overboosted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overboost
refelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of refel
floreated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more floreated
form: most floreated
Senses: glosses: Decorated with floral ornamentation.
beneficials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beneficial
underboost
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underboosts
form: underboosting
form: underboosted
form: underboosted
Etymology: From under- + boost.
Senses: examples: text: It enables you to properly time the automatic loading of the entire system so that the regulator will not overboost, which would cause a hunting action, or so that it will not underboost and cause a deficiency in the pressure.
ref: 1941, Bulletin - Issues 19-22, page 155:
text: A pilot wishing to lose altitude rapidly and still not underboost could go to lower rpm, for example, 16 inches mp with 1600 rpm, rather than 16 inches mp with 2,000 rpm.
ref: 1960, The Engineer's Digest, page 10:
text: The only significant problem encountered is that pilots must be particularly cautious about underboosting the engines during the drops.
ref: 1973, United States. Naval Air Systems Command, United States. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Naval Historical Center (U.S.), Naval aviation news - Volume 55, page 84:
glosses: To create too little pressure in an engine's combustion chamber.
underboost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underboosts
Etymology: From under- + boost.
Senses: examples: text: After much analysis and compromise of the variables such as RPM, altitude, carburetor air temperature, fuel/air ratio, that affect BMEP, a simple solution has been arrived at to prevent underboost.
ref: 1970, Aerospace Safety - Volume 26:
text: This procedure requires a vacuum pump and a special compound gauge. (See Table 3-6.) Turbocharger problems lead to poor acceleration in the case of underboost, or poor fuel economy in the case of overboost.
ref: 1980, Scope and Impact of New Automotive Technology on the Inspection, Diagnosis and Repair Process.:
text: It can be stated that while the time at high power outputs must be minimized by the correct operating techniques, the time at the underboost condition must be eliminated.
ref: 1984, Fundamentals of fixed and rotary wing aerodynamics, page 130:
glosses: The process of underboosting.
examples: text: So pilots, keep the pressure on to stop underboosts and watch the red lines to stop overboosts.
ref: 1970, Aerospace Safety - Volume 26:
text: An underboost can occur whenever an excessively high rpm setting is used with a very low MAP setting, such as when you pull the throttle nearly to idle while descending at high airspeed with a fixed-pitch prop or a constant-speed prop set at high rpm.
ref: 1995, Fly Like a Pro, →ISBN, page 72:
text: We're walking along the flight line, heading toward the choppers, a clear morning with the sun's rays bouncing off the orange trees, Emmett giving us the straight skinny: “The underboost will tear up the engine as much as an overboost.
ref: 2011, Ken Babbs, Who Shot the Water Buffalo?: A Novel, →ISBN:
glosses: An instance of underboost.
underboosts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underboost
underboosts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underboost
underboosting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underboost
underboosted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underboost
underboosted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underboosted
form: most underboosted
Senses: examples: text: Aside from the intake cycle condition described above and when rapidly decelerating the engine, a helicopter power plant can not be seriously underboosted.
ref: 1961, Approach - Volume 6, Issue 8, page 39:
glosses: Suffering from underboost.
examples: text: The Millenia's steering feels precise and is the most naturally weighted of the three (the Audi's felt overboosted just off center; the Volvo's, underboosted).
ref: 1997, Road & Track - Volume 49, page 96:
text: They will have been driven in an overstuffed, underboosted car, to a party somewhere, sometime.
ref: 2013, Daisy Waugh, I Don't Know Why She Bothers, →ISBN:
glosses: Underpowered.
examples: text: Our symbol of success is Saturn 5; the USSR is now the underboosted one.
ref: 1967, Space/aeronautics - Volume 48, page 20:
text: In the publishing industry, however, most of the product goes un- or underadvertised, and even books that publishing people consider to be heavily pushed are ridiculously underboosted by the standards of most other business enterprises.
ref: 1990, Richard Curtis, Beyond the bestseller, →ISBN:
glosses: Insufficiently promoted.
underburies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underbury
underburying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underbury
underburied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underbury
chasmous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chasm + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Then was heard the mountain torrent
Swelling with a mighty current
Craggy rocks and boulders o'er
Like the sullen thunders' roar
In the chasmous dell beneath,
Hearing which the Elephant
Down that perilous descent
Madly plunging met his death.
ref: 1879, Sir Alexander Cunningham, The Stûpa of Bharhut, page 61:
text: There's always an arranged marriage. I can attest to their efficacy – though perhaps you should try an age gap less chasmous than Cesco's. Or mine! Also, it seems to me that if a woman wooed you, you could marry her.
ref: 2014, David Blixt, The Prince's Doom, Sordelet Ink, →ISBN:
text: I stand around them, I talk, I laugh, because I have to make believe that I can talk and laugh with people my age and ignore the chasmous depths whirling in blackness between us.
ref: 2014, Molly Miltenberger Murray, Today, She Is, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 62:
glosses: Like a chasm or gulf.
examples: text: Where once, off Cape Musandam, Indian sailors would pause for the sake of a propitious voyage to cast flowers, coconuts and fruit, or launch a model boat, upon the waters, chasmous oil tankers and cargo ships now process blithely and ...
ref: 1997, Charles E. Davies, The Blood-red Arab Flag: An Investigation Into Qasimi Piracy, 1797-1820, University of Exeter Press, →ISBN, page 271:
text: [...What] they had mistakenly landed on in their fright and confusion, dark raspy voices could be heard, and as Bryn did his best at listening in, he could slightly overhear what was being discussed at the end of that chasmous tunnel.
ref: 2012, Timothy Lopez, Citadel, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 131:
glosses: Cavernous, like a vast hollow space.
underdamp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underdamps
form: underdamping
form: underdamped
form: underdamped
Etymology: From under- + damp.
Senses: examples: text: Tube amplifiers, by and large, tend to underdamp most modern loudspeakers, and although the richly liquid quality of their bass is very pleasing, the net result with some dynamic speakers may prove to be a somewhat floppy low end.
ref: 1973, Popular Electronics - Volume 3, page 30:
text: The arm may overdamp or underdamp slightly without causing problems, while still obtaining nearly all of damping's advantages.
ref: 1975, High Fidelity - Volume 25, Issues 7-12, page 44:
text: Refine the controller so that the robot does not oscillate about the center of the hallway (do not underdamp the controller).
ref: 2010, Gregory Dudek, Michael Jenkin, Computational Principles of Mobile Robotics, →ISBN:
glosses: To fail to sufficiently suppress vibrations in.
underdamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underdamps
Etymology: From under- + damp.
Senses: examples: text: The place where mushrooms grow should be free from underdamp and noxious vapors.
ref: 1880, Thomas Meehan, Gardener's Monthly and Horticulturist - Volumes 22-26, page 78:
text: Through purple vistaed underdamps The ripe-heart roses shone for lamps.
ref: 1894, The Harvard Monthly - Volume 18, page 100:
text: This spontaneous creation will melt into the underdamp unless a hot dry wind should suddenly rise and bake the pattern into a bed of cracked clay:
ref: 2008, Philip Quirke, Journey to the Shore, →ISBN, page 22:
glosses: An underlying dampness.
underdamps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underdamp
underdamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underdamp
underdamping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underdamp
underfixes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underfix
underfixing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underfix
feminicides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feminicide
underfixed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underfix
cleché
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: clechée
form: cléché
form: cléchée
form: clechy
Etymology: From French cléché, from clé.
Senses: examples: text: Argent, a cross clechée sable — Sir Thomas BANASTER, K.G., ob. 2° Ric. II. (as depicted upon his stall-plate at Windsor, elsewhere blazoned, Argent, a cross patty pointed sable).
Or, on a mount between two lesser ones vert a lamb sable, holding with the dexter forefoot a banner ermine charged with a cross clechée gules—GROSE, Surrey (1756).
ref: 1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 162:
text: […] and of a cross cleché voided and pometté as in the arms of Cawston (Fig. 162).
ref: 1904, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, The Art of Heraldry: An Encyclopaedia of Armory, London: T.C.; & E.C. Jack, page 86:
text: Cross OF TOULOUSE (cross clechy, voided and botonny)
ref: 1974, The Coat of Arms:
text: (10) — patee : cross clechy, i.e. with the ends of the arms pointed, […]
ref: 1994, L. A. J. R. Houwen, The Deidis of Armorie: A Heraldic Treatise and Bestiary, page 213:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Having ends which flare out (like a cross patté) before tapering back to a point (urdé).
examples: text: […] our miniatures of c. 1375 or after, namely, the Christ Enthroned of the Fitzwarin Psalter. The background 'prints' formed in the interspaces crosses clechy (i.e. of mascles). This point is interesting if it is considered in relation to the mascles[…]
ref: 1955, Ernest William Tristram, English Wall Painting of the Fourteenth Century, page 44:
text: Cross cléchée (voided Greek cross formed of four sans-serif L's by closing ends. Three roundels (2 + 1) end each arm. Lys in each angle. PIECE-DE-XXX (pellet, on Lyon coins; engraver's différent, on Metz) DENIERS- Individual punches for all elements; dentilated borders.
ref: 1976, Eric P. Newman, Studies on Money in Early America, page 54:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Charged with another bearing of the same figure and of the colour of the field so that only a narrow border of the first bearing remains visible; voided.
Related terms: sense: pointed
roman: aiguisée, fitchy
word: patté
sense: voided
word: voided
magic mirror
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magic mirrors
Senses: examples: text: Magic mirror come and search my heart / Can you tell me what you see / There's a thousand voices whispering / Songs and you're the melody
ref: 1976, Earth, Wind & Fire, “Imagination”, in Spirit (Earth, Wind & Fire album):
glosses: A divinatory mirror in which a person sees images or scenes.
glosses: A Chinese magic mirror.
magic mirrors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magic mirror
hierogrammate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hierogrammates
Senses: glosses: A writer of sacred records.
hierogrammates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hierogrammate
hierographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hierographers
Senses: glosses: A sacred scribe.
hierographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hierographer
transfer paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transfer papers
Senses: glosses: Paper coated with wax and pigment, used in art and textile projects to transfer an image onto a surface.
transfer papers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transfer paper
transferribility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of transferability.
immunointervention
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunointerventions
Etymology: From immuno- + intervention.
Senses: glosses: Any of several therapies used to prevent or treat autoimmune diseases
immunorejection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immuno- + rejection.
Senses: glosses: rejection of foreign tissue by the immune system
interdistances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interdistance
isogenicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From isogenic + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being isogenic.
ladderbeam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ladderbeams
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ladder beam.
ladder beam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ladder beams
Senses: glosses: A scaffolding beam, resembling a ladder, composed of a pair of tubular members connected by struts
claimables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of claimable
levamisol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of levamisole.
nonclaimable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nonclaimable
form: most nonclaimable
Etymology: From non- + claimable.
Senses: examples: text: The State Agency shall require that all meals served to children be reported on the claim for reimbursement as either Program meals or nonclaimable meals.
ref: 1996, Official Oklahoma Administrative Code, page 125:
glosses: Not claimable.
nonclaimable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonclaimables
Etymology: From non- + claimable.
Senses: examples: text: The A.D.A. figures utilized in this study include the claimables for state aid plus the nonclaimables.
ref: 1963, Leo Cohen, Comparative Fiscal Capacity and Tax Effort of Units of Government in Madison and St. Claire Counties, Illinois, 1950-1960:
glosses: Something that is not claimable.
nonclaimables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonclaimable
locostatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The drug 1-oxo-2-butenyl]-4-(phenylmethyl)-2-oxazolidinone that inhibits cell migration
macrocolony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrocolonies
Etymology: From macro- + colony.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A relatively large-scale colony (of bacteria etc)
Related terms: microcolony
macrocolonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macrocolony
macropinocytosed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Modified by macropinocytosis
malonyldialdehyde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of malondialdehyde.
synonyms: word: malondialdehyde
malsegregation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mal- + segregation.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Incorrect segregation of chromosomes
mesostigmatid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesostigmatids
Senses: glosses: Any mite of the order Mesostigmata
Related terms: mesostigmatic
microdistribution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microdistributions
Etymology: From micro- + distribution.
Senses: glosses: Very small-scale distribution
microhomogenizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microhomogenizers
Etymology: From micro- + homogenizer.
Senses: glosses: A very small homogenizer
microperoxidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microperoxidases
Etymology: From micro- + peroxidase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any very small peroxidase, but especially any of the oligopeptides formed by cleavage of cytochrome
micropinocytotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to micropinocytosis
microvillosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microvillosities
Senses: glosses: A collection of microvilli
microvillosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microvillosity
monoclone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monoclones
Etymology: From mono- + clone.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A single clone
Related terms: monoclonal
monoclones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monoclone
monocularity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being monocular
myeloperoxydase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of myeloperoxidase.
neuroimmunologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of neuroimmunological.
nexins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nexin
nitrocellular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or composed of nitrocellulose
nonlipoproteins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonlipoprotein
takes the L
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take the L
taking the L
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take the L.
took the L
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of take the L.
olflactomedin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of olfactomedin.
oncostation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of oncostatin.
organophosphonates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of organophosphonate
overaccumulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overaccumulates
form: overaccumulating
form: overaccumulated
form: overaccumulated
Etymology: From over- + accumulate.
Senses: glosses: To accumulate excessively
Related terms: overaccumulation
ovulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ovulators
Etymology: From ovulate + -or.
Senses: glosses: An animal that ovulates (typically, in a specified manner)
ovulators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ovulator
paraortic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of paraaortic.
pathomorphosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pathomorphoses
Etymology: From patho- + morphosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The morphosis of disease
pentaglutamate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentaglutamates
Etymology: From penta- + glutamate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound (typically an ester) that has five glutamate groups