cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
orthoquartzitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more orthoquartzitic
form: most orthoquartzitic
Etymology: From orthoquartzite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to orthoquartzite.
multichemical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + chemical.
Senses: examples: multichemical contamination
glosses: Relating to more than one chemical.
unfatiguing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfatiguing
form: most unfatiguing
Etymology: From un- + fatiguing.
Senses: glosses: Not fatiguing.
unfatiguing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unfatigue
unfatigued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfatigued
form: most unfatigued
Etymology: From un- + fatigued.
Senses: glosses: Not fatigued.
unfatigued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unfatigue
Orionid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɹaɪ.ə.nɪd/
ipa: /oʊˈɹaɪ.ə.nɪd/
Forms: form: Orionids
Etymology: From Orion + -id; so called because the point they appear to come from, called the radiant, lies in the constellation Orion.
Senses: glosses: Any of the meteors in a prolific meteor shower associated with Halley's Comet.
Orionids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Orionid
Orion's belt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Orion's Belt.
untyrannized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untyrannized
form: most untyrannized
Etymology: From un- + tyrannized.
Senses: glosses: Not tyrannized.
Osler-Weber-Rendu disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Described by Sir William Osler, Henri Jules Louis Marie Rendu, and Frederick Parkes Weber.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia.
synonyms: word: hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia
wikipedia: Frederick Parkes Weber
Henri Jules Louis Marie Rendu
William Osler
orchidophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orchidophiles
Etymology: From orchid + -o- + -phile.
Senses: glosses: An orchid enthusiast.
orchidophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orchidophile
Oregon boot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Oregon boots
Etymology: Once used in Oregon State Penitentiary.
Senses: glosses: A heavy metal shackle attached to prisoners' legs to impede movement.
wikipedia: Oregon State Penitentiary
Oscared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Oscar + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having been awarded an Oscar statuette.
ornamentor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ornamentors
Etymology: From ornament + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who ornaments.
ornamentors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ornamentor
ornithogeography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From ornitho- + geography.
Senses: glosses: The study of the geological distribution of birds.
ornithogeographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ornitho- + geographical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to ornithogeography.
ornithogeographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ornitho- + geographic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to ornithogeography.
ornithogeographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ornithogeographers
Etymology: From ornitho- + geographer.
Senses: glosses: One who studies ornithogeography.
ornithogeographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ornithogeographer
orthonectid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthonectids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the Orthonectida, a small phylum of parasites of marine invertebrates.
orthonectids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orthonectid
Orkhon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Orhon
form: Orkon
Etymology: From French Orkhon, from Classical Mongolian ᠣᠷᠬᠣᠨ (orqon), a valley and river in central Mongolia where Old Turkic inscriptions were discovered.
Senses: glosses: The Old Turkic script.
examples: text: Extensive deposits of copper and molybdenum ore, situated some 200 miles northwest of Ulan Bator between the Selenga and Orkhon Rivers, will eventually be extracted by open‐pit methods and processed at the still unfinished town of Erdenet.
ref: 1975 January 6, Christopher S. Wren, “MONGOLIA SPURS BIG MINE PROJECT”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Dec 2024, page 5:
glosses: A tributary of the Selenga in Mongolia.
glosses: A valley in Mongolia surrounding the river of the same name
glosses: A province and aimag of Mongolia. Capital: Erdenet.
glosses: A district and sum of Bulgan, Mongolia.
glosses: A district and sum of Darkhan-Uul, Mongolia.
glosses: A district and sum of Selenge, Mongolia.
Orkhon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Orkhons
form: Orhon
form: Orkon
Etymology: From French Orkhon, from Classical Mongolian ᠣᠷᠬᠣᠨ (orqon), a valley and river in central Mongolia where Old Turkic inscriptions were discovered.
Senses: glosses: A sheep of a Mongolian breed developed in 1961, reared primarily for wool.
Ori
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Yoruba Orí.
Senses: glosses: An individual's spiritual intuition and destiny, according to Yoruba beliefs.
Related terms: orisha
Ori
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Oris
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Ori.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Oscar Asche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: After Oscar Asche (1871–1936), Australian actor, director and writer.
Senses: glosses: cash; money.
wikipedia: Oscar Asche
unwretched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unwretched
form: most unwretched
Etymology: From un- + wretched.
Senses: glosses: Not wretched.
Osiandrian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Osiandrian
form: most Osiandrian
Etymology: From the Latin Osiandriānus, from Osiander.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Andreas Osiander (1498–1552), German Lutheran theologian.
Osiandrian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Osiandrians
Etymology: From the Latin Osiandriānus, from Osiander.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of the theology of Andreas Osiander.
Saidian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Saidian
form: most Saidian
Etymology: From Said + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Edward Said (1935–2003), Palestinian American literary theorist and public intellectual who helped found the critical-theory field of postcolonialism.
oromandibular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪbjʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From oro- + mandibular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the mouth and mandible.
brokenhillite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Broken Hill, Australia, where it is found; equivalent to Broken Hill + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A disputed earth mineral, a manganese silicate of the pyrosmalite group.
Manahoac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Manahoacs
form: Manahoac
form: Mahock
Senses: glosses: A member of a small group of Siouan-language American Indians in northern Virginia at the time of European contact.
Manahoacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Manahoac
Mahock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mahocks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Manahoac.
Mahocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mahock
Bedfordian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bedfordians
Etymology: From Bedford + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A native of the town of Bedford, England
glosses: One who is enrolled in or has graduated from Bedford School, England.
Bedfordians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bedfordian
Mangyan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mangyans
Senses: glosses: Any of the eight indigenous groups found on the island of Mindoro in the Philippines.
Mangyans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mangyan
Manobo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An Austronesian indigenous agriculturalist people of the Philippines.
Derived terms: Dibabawon Manobo
Maorify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaʊɹɪfaɪ/
ipa: /ˈmaʊɹifaɪ/
ipa: /ˈmaʊɹɪfaɪ/
ipa: /ˈmæʊɹifɑe/
ipa: /ˈmɐʉɹifɑe/
ipa: /-ɘfɑe/
Forms: form: Maorifies
form: Maorifying
form: Maorified
form: Maorified
form: Māorify
Etymology: From Maori + -fy.
Senses: glosses: To render someone or something more Maori.
Derived terms: Maorification
Maorifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Maorify
Maorifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Maorify
Maorified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Maorify
Maorification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmaʊɹɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌmaʊɹifɪˈkeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌmaʊɹɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌmæʊɹifɘˈkæeʃɘn/
ipa: /ˌmɐʉɹifɘˈkæeʃɘn/
ipa: /-ɘfɘˈkæeʃɘn/
Forms: form: Māorification
Etymology: From Maori + -fication.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of Maorifying.
summut
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: "Lawk, what sinifies what the play was," said Miss Grimshaw, "'tweren't that; I was going to mention summut by way of proof poz; and there —" [some narrative omitted]
ref: 1808, Orton Smith, Sketches of Character, or Specimens of Real Life, II.130:
glosses: Alternative form of summat.
summut
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of summat.
zum'ot
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of summat.
zum'ot
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of summat.
Marblette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From marble + -ette; originally a trademark.
Senses: glosses: A synthetic phenolic resin similar to Bakelite.
summot
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: Is it not ſent to make a Mon to ſwear
Summot abaoot the King, and his reet Heir?
ref: 1773, John Byrom, Miscellaneous Poems, page 164:
text: And yet it may mean summot
ref: 1849, William Harrison Ainsworth, The Lancashire Witches, I.117:
glosses: Alternative form of summat.
summot
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of summat.
map unit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: map units
Senses: glosses: centimorgan
zummat
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: Thee musn’t lumber the room, if thee’l not drink zummat.
ref: 1826, “First Love”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 20, number 115, page 158:
glosses: Alternative form of summat.
zummat
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of summat.
zummet
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: A thawt, an if a war alive,
ref: 1825, James Jennings, Observations on Some of the Dialects in the West of England, Particularly Somersetshire, page 119
roman: That zummet war tha matter.
glosses: Alternative form of summat.
zummet
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of summat.
zummut
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: […] besides, he az been always doing zummut for her ever zince her feather died—zo he as.
ref: 1813, Patience and Perserverance; or, the Modern Griselda, volume 1, page 60:
glosses: Alternative form of summat.
zummut
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of summat.
zumat
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: If I could a lugged back the oss, that mought a bin wuth zumat.
ref: 1839, Benson Earle Hill, Home Service; or, Scenes and Characters from Life, I.282:
glosses: Alternative form of summat.
zumat
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of summat.
manoalide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A calcium channel blocker with antibiotic, analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects, found in some sponges.
autoradiographing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of autoradiograph
possessees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of possessee
zaar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zar.
taijin kyofusho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 対人恐怖症 (taijin kyōfushō).
Senses: glosses: A Japanese form of anthropophobia, a fear of interpersonal relations.
Sinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Korean shamanism
Muism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Korean 무(巫) (mu, “shaman”) + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Korean shamanism
shenkui
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 腎虧／肾亏 (shènkuī).
Senses: glosses: A syndrome in China in which the individual suffers somatic symptoms with anxiety, traditionally believed to be caused by a loss of semen.
ethnopsychiatric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ethno- + psychiatric.
Senses: glosses: Relating to ethnopsychiatry.
New Thought
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The ordinary Christian will read the claims of the New Thought fakers with contempt; but have I not shown the Catholic Church publishing long lists of money-miracles?
ref: 1917, Upton Sinclair, The Profits of Religion […] :
synonyms: Higher Thought
glosses: A spiritual movement, sometimes classed as a Christian denomination, promoting the ideas that Infinite Intelligence, or God, is everywhere, spirit is the totality of real things, true human selfhood is divine, divine thought is a force for good, sickness originates in the mind, and "right thinking" has a healing effect.
Derived terms: New Thoughter
New Thoughtism
New Thoughtist
Related terms: new political thinking
CCMD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Chinese classification of mental disorders.
Lutzian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lutzian
form: most Lutzian
Etymology: From Lutz + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Friedrich Lutz (economist) (1901–1975).
miryachit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myriachit
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian миря́чить (mirjáčitʹ), меря́чить (merjáčitʹ) or эмиря́чить (emirjáčitʹ, “to suffer from a special nervous disorder”).
Senses: glosses: A nervous disorder said to have been encountered in Siberia, characterized by a jumping tic and the involuntary imitation of the words and actions of other people.
jumping Frenchmen of Maine syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the name given to a group of 19th-century lumberjacks who exhibited this disorder.
Senses: glosses: A rare disorder involving an exaggerated startle reflex which may be described as an uncontrollable jump.
Synonyms: jumping disease
Related terms: lata
miryachit
hyperekplexic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyperekplexia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to hyperekplexia.
hyperexplexia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hyperekplexia.
ghost sickness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A syndrome, reported to occur among Native Americans, in which the sufferer is preoccupied by the deceased. Symptoms include weakness, loss of appetite, recurring nightmares, and a pervasive feeling of terror.
Ibofanga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The supreme deity according to the beliefs of the Creek tribe.
bouffée délirante
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French, introduced in 1886 by Magnan.
Senses: glosses: A syndrome in West Africa and Haiti, involving a sudden outburst of aggression with confusion and sometimes hallucinations.
wikipedia: Valentin Magnan
swallow tanager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swallow tanagers
Senses: glosses: Tersina viridis, a tanager found widely throughout South America.
women's troubles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Unpleasant symptoms associated with menstruation.
West Coast offense
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: West Coast offenses
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An offense that places a greater emphasis on passing than on running.
quantum mysticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A set of metaphysical beliefs and practices that seek to relate consciousness, intelligence, or mystical world-views to the ideas of quantum mechanics and its interpretations.
energy medicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: energy medicines
Senses: glosses: A branch of alternative medicine based on the belief that a healer can channel healing energy into a patient by various methods.
crescograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crescographs
Etymology: Latin crēscō (“to grow”) + -graph
Senses: examples: text: For the detection of variation of growth it was necessary to devise the extremely sensitive balanced crescograph.
ref: 1920 February 24, Scientific American Monthly, page 120:
text: The magnetic crescograph, invented by the famed Indian botanist, Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, for this purpose, seems capable of magnifying the highest powers of the microscope a hundred thousand times.
ref: 1920, Edward Jewitt Wheeler, “Are plant life and animal life essentially the same?”, in Current Opinion, volume 69, page 828:
text: His various "crescographs," or growth recorders, have steadily increased in sensitiveness, until in the latest, the magnetic crescograph, we have an instrument which magnifies the movement ten million times.
ref: 1936, J.C. Squire, The London Mercury, volume 33, page 511:
glosses: A device for measuring growth in plants.
crescographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crescograph
laughing academy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laughing academies
Senses: examples: text: Tell me, do you think your old man has slipped his trolley—that he belongs in a laughing academy?
ref: 1971 Oct. 11, Stefan Kanfer, "Cinema: Senescent Saint" (film review of Kotch), Time (retrieved 7 June 2014)
text: One day the men in white will walk in, throw a net over him, and take him off to the laughing academy.
ref: 1981 Nov. 23, John Leonard, "Books Of The Times" (review of The Letters of Nunnally Johnson), New York Times (retrieved 7 June 2014)
text: Meanwhile William struggled to shake the thought of his mother spending her final years locked away in a nuthouse—a laughing academy, a funny farm.
ref: 2009, Jamie Ford, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, →ISBN:
synonyms: word: bedlam
word: bin
word: booby-hatch
word: booby house
word: bughouse
word: crazy house
word: cuckoo's nest
word: funny farm
word: happy hotel
word: insane asylum
word: laughing academy
word: loony bin
word: lunatic asylum
word: madhouse
word: mental asylum
word: mental home
word: grippy sock vacation
word: mental health center
word: mental health hospital
word: mental hospital
word: mental institution
word: nutfarm
word: nuthouse
word: psych
word: psych hospital
word: psychiatric hospital
word: psychopathic hospital
word: psychiatric ward
word: psych ward
word: special hospital
word: Tanjung Rambutan
word: whack shack
glosses: A mental hospital.
metaemotion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metaemotions
Etymology: From meta- + emotion.
Senses: coordinate_terms: metathinking
metathought
metalanguage
metaphilosophy
glosses: Feelings (sentiment) about one's feelings (uncountable); a feeling about them (countable).
Related terms: word: metaemotional
metaemotions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metaemotion
metaemotional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meta- + emotional.
Senses: glosses: Relating to metaemotions.
Irish acre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Irish acres
Etymology: It was historically used in Ireland.
Senses: synonyms: plantation acre
glosses: A unit of area equal to 7840 square yards (approximately 0.66 hectares or 1.62 statute acres).
autocade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autocades
Etymology: Blend of auto + cavalcade
Senses: glosses: motorcade
autocades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autocade
T-minus
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Specifies the remaining time until some future event such as a takeoff or encounter commences.
fragfest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fragfests
form: frag-fest
Etymology: From frag + -fest.
Senses: examples: text: What better time is there than the holidays to revel in the profound joys of video gaming? Time off from work or school can be put to prime use: blasting a loved one in a "SOCOM II" multiplayer frag-fest, dropping a mad rhyme with "Karaoke Revolution," slashing your way across Middle Earth in "Lord of the Rings".
ref: 2003 December 11, Scott Taves, “Games to suit any player await easy-chair heroes in various formats”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, retrieved 07 Jun 2014:
text: Unreal is a total fragfest that is all about over-the-top, arcade-style action.
ref: 2006 September 10, Seth Schiesel, “Video Games: War, Whimsy, Wrestling and the New Zelda”, in New York Times, retrieved 07 Jun 2014:
text: Spec Ops: The Line is a cover-based shooter in the mould of Gears Of War, although comparing its gameplay to Epic's testosterone-juiced fragfest is doing the latter something of a disservice.
ref: 2012 June 26, Nick Cowen, "Spec Ops: The Line" (game review), The Guardian (UK) (retrieved 7 June 2014)
topics: video-games
glosses: Video gameplay, especially for multiple players, involving extreme action, deadly combat, explosions, etc.
meibomian gland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meibomian glands
form: Meibomian gland
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: A sebaceous gland at the rim of the eyelids, responsible for the production of meibum.
Synonyms: tarsal gland
meibomian glands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meibomian gland
frag-fest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frag-fests
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fragfest.
Ayurvedic medicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ayurvedic medicines
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Ayurveda.
synonyms: word: Ayurveda
examples: text: Hence an attempt has been made to treat the 'HbsAg+ve' patient through Ayurvedic medicines.
ref: 2004, H Panda, Handbook on Herbal Medicines:
glosses: A medicine (substance) that is based on Ayurvedic medicine.
Edisons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Edison
looney bin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: looney bins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of loony bin.
belt and braces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: belts and braces
Senses: examples: text: He believes in belt and braces, booking flights from two different airports on different airlines for important trips.
glosses: Redundancy affording mutual backup in the event of one system failing.
Synonyms: word: belt and suspenders
SSCC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of SSA Space Weather Coordination Centre, ESA's centre for space weather at the Space Pole in Belgium.
m'luds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of m'lud
weighed anchor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of weigh anchor
publification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: publifications
Senses: glosses: Making public, for or to be used by the people or community.
Related terms: public service
multimixer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multimixers
Etymology: From multi- + mixer, originally a trademark.
Senses: examples: text: Selling multimixers to corner drugstores with fountains, he was made intensely aware of the flight to the suburbs because it took away business from the drugstores.
ref: 2006, Jonathan Feinstein, The Nature of Creative Development, page 349:
text: The company sold five-spindle multimixer milk-shake machines — what Kroc believed to be the wave of the future. It was from his job as a multimixer salesman that Kroc was introduced to Dick and Mac McDonald […]
ref: 2010, Neil Snyder, Vision, Values, and Courage: Leadership for Quality Management:
glosses: A blender with multiple spindles, used for making milkshakes.
multimixers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multimixer
ethnosemanticist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethnosemanticists
Etymology: From ethno- + semanticist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies ethnosemantics.
ethnosemantically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From ethnosemantic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In terms of ethnosemantics.
ethnosemantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ethno- + semantic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to ethnosemantics.
Derived terms: ethnosemantically
ethnosemanticists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ethnosemanticist
ethnosemantics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ethno- + semantics.
Senses: glosses: The branch of ethnolinguistics dealing with semantics.
laughing academies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laughing academy
gangstalking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From gangstalk + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gangstalk
gangstalking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gangstalk + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The stalking of an individual by a large number of people who coordinate their separate stalking activities.
facioscapulohumeral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From facio- + scapulo- + humeral.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the face, scapula, and upper arms; applied to a form of muscular dystrophy.
Synonyms: faciohumeroscapular
facioauriculovertebral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)tɪbɹəl
-iːbɹəl
Etymology: From facio- + auriculo- + vertebral.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the face, ears, and vertebrae.
faciohumeroscapular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From humero- + scapular.
Senses: glosses: facioscapulohumeral
nihilisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nihilism
geoglyphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌd͡ʒiː.ə(ʊ)ˈɡlɪf.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒi.əˈɡlɪf.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɪfɪk
Etymology: From geoglyph + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to geoglyphs.
sun and planet gear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sun and planet gears
Senses: glosses: A device for converting reciprocating motion to rotary motion, used in the first rotative beam engines.
sun picture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sun pictures
Senses: glosses: A picture taken by the agency of the solar rays; a photograph.
baby pink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baby pinks
Etymology: First recorded in English in 1928.
Senses: glosses: A pale pink color.
baby pink
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: First recorded in English in 1928.
Senses: glosses: Of a pale pink colour.
fishpot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fishpots
Etymology: From fish + pot.
Senses: glosses: A basket or similar container that is sunk, with a float attached, and used for catching fish or other sea creatures
fishpots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fishpot
fish glue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fish glues
Senses: glosses: isinglass
sun star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sun stars
form: sunstar
Senses: glosses: Any of various starfishes belonging to Solaster, Crossaster, and allied genera, having numerous rays.
sun beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sun beetles
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Amara of carabid beetles.
eyelash mite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eyelash mites
Senses: glosses: A tiny parasitic mite, either Demodex folliculorum or Demodex brevis, living in or near the hair follicles of mammals.
face ague
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Trigeminal neuralgia.
Negro monkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Negro monkey
obeahman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obeahmen
Etymology: From obeah + -man.
Senses: glosses: A male practitioner of obeah.
obeahmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obeahman
negro bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: negro bugs
Senses: synonyms: ebony bug
glosses: Any shield bug of the family Thyreocoridae.
negro bugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of negro bug
aptagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæp.tə.ɡɹæm/
Forms: form: aptagrams
Etymology: Blend of apt + anagram
Senses: examples: text: "Moon starer" is an aptagram of "astronomer".
text: "Notes" is an aptagram of "tones".
text: "Vile" is an aptagram of "evil".
glosses: An anagram whose meaning is relevant to that of the original text that was anagrammed.
aptagrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aptagram
bleep test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bleep tests
Senses: glosses: A test of fitness in which the participant runs continuously between two lines, trying to cover the distance each time in the space between two recorded bleeps.
Synonyms: beep test
Hypernyms: shuttle run
negro corn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: durra; Indian millet (Sorghum bicolor)
anentropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From an- + entropic.
Senses: glosses: Not entropic.
allomorphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæləˌmɔː(ɹ)fi/
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Quality of being an allomorph.
broad ligament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broad ligaments
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The wide fold of peritoneum that connects the sides of the uterus to the walls and floor of the pelvis.
Karnatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Karnatic
form: most Karnatic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Carnatic.
cocuswood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cocus + wood.
Senses: glosses: The dense hardwood of Brya ebenus, a Caribbean flowering tree.
culturomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From culture + -omics (“study of the totality”); first described in a 2010 Science article by Harvard researchers Jean-Baptiste Michel and Erez Lieberman Aiden.
Senses: examples: text: The momentous term culturomics suggests the authors’ ambitious view of what can seem like an intellectual parlor game. The magazine Mother Jones, they cheerfully admit, called the Ngram Viewer “possibly the greatest time-waster in the history of the Internet.” But the authors argue that just as Galileo’s telescope opened new, previously unimagined worlds, the powerful lens of culturomics “is going to change the humanities, transform the social sciences and renegotiate the relationship between the world of commerce and the ivory tower.”
ref: 2013 December 24, William Grimes, “Big Data Becomes a Mirror”, in New York Times:
glosses: A form of computational lexicology that studies human behavior and cultural trends through the quantitative analysis of digitized texts.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The study of culturomes
Croatoan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Hatteras Island
wikipedia: Roanoke Colony
Hatteras
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈhætəɹəs/
Forms: form: Hatorask
Etymology: Uncertain, but probably from the Hatteras Indians' local Algonquian dialect.
Senses: glosses: A former American Indian tribe in the Outer Banks of what is now North Carolina, USA.
glosses: A barrier island in the Outer Banks, North Carolina, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated village in Dare County, North Carolina, United States.
glosses: Short for Cape Hatteras, a cape on Hatteras Island in North Carolina, United States.
Synonyms: sense: island
word: Croatoan
Derived terms: Cape Hatteras
Croatan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Croatans
form: Croatan
Senses: glosses: A member of a small Native American group once living in the coastal areas of what is now North Carolina.
Croatans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Croatan
greenscamming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From green + scamming.
Senses: glosses: greenwashing
preprogramme
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + programme.
Senses: glosses: Before a programme (of study, etc.).
preprogramme
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preprogrammes
form: preprogramming
form: preprogrammed
form: preprogrammed
Etymology: From pre- + programme.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of preprogram.
ristra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ristras
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish ristra.
Senses: glosses: An arrangement of chili pepper pods (or sometimes garlic) to aid drying and sometimes to serve as a decoration.
ristras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ristra
commest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of comest.
mackerelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mackerel + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having a pattern resembling the scales on a mackerel.
gang cask
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gang casks
Senses: glosses: A small cask in which to bring water aboard ships or in which it is kept on deck.
breed in and in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: breeds in and in
form: breeding in and in
form: bred in and in
form: bred in and in
Senses: glosses: To repeatedly breed from animals of the same stock that are closely related.
Related terms: inbreed
Spanish windlass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Spanish windlasses
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A wooden roller, with a rope wound about it, into which a marlinspike is thrust to serve as a lever.
Spanish flag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Spanish, flag.
glosses: The flowering plant Lantana camara.
pharaoh's chicken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pharaoh's chickens
Etymology: So called because it is often found in Ancient Egyptian sculpture.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Egyptian vulture.
synonyms: word: Egyptian vulture
mud plug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mud plugs
Senses: glosses: A plug for stopping the mudhole of a boiler.
green looper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green loopers
Senses: glosses: The cankerworm.
leading strings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Thenceforward my voice was a household law; and at an age when few children have abandoned their leading-strings, I was left to the guidance of my own will, and became, in all but name, the master of my own actions.
ref: 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, William Wilson:
glosses: Strings or straps by which a child is supported when learning to walk.
examples: text: In the hey-day of youth, and hardly out of the leading strings of a school, he formed an intention to nuptialize, and joined heart and hand with sweet Ann Hathaway at the age of eighteen and a half.
ref: 1827, The Boston Lyceum, volumes 1-2, page 206:
glosses: Guidance given during childhood.
frind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frinds
Senses: examples: text: There's a gossoon in me company that did be workin' in a dispinshary that's after tellin' me that bakin' sody in hot wather wid put the comether on yer pains, me poor frind.
ref: 1940, Sir James Elliott, The Hundred Years, Robert Hale Limited, page 125:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of friend.
labilization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: labilizations
form: labilisation
Etymology: From labile + -ization.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The act or process of making labile, that is, of making unstable.
labilisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: labilisations
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of labilization.
hutias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hutia
labilizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of labilization
star-of-Bethlehem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the Star of Bethlehem in Christian tradition.
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Ornithogalum of perennial plants mostly native to southern Europe and southern Africa, with clusters of typically white star-shaped flowers.
labilize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: labilizes
form: labilizing
form: labilized
form: labilized
form: labilise
Etymology: From labile + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: L. regards the oxidative processes of the body as taking place not as a result of activated O, but rather by means of "labilized" H atoms of the proteins of the cells so that they react readily with mol. O₂.
ref: 1915, Oscar Loew, Chemical Abstracts, volume 9, number 2, Notes on the mechanism of biological oxidation processes, page 1488:
text: […] in order to labilize the glycosidic bond.
ref: 1990, Stephen Kuby, A Study of Enzymes, volume 2, →ISBN, page 147:
text: High trans effect ligands such as H or CO labilize ligands that are trans to themselves.
ref: 2014, Robert H. Crabtree, The Organometallic Chemistry of the Transition Metals, →ISBN, page 41:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To make or become labile (i.e. unstable).
labilise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: labilises
form: labilising
form: labilised
form: labilised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of labilize.
mazames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mazame
trans effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trans effects
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The labilization (making unstable) of ligands which are trans to certain other ligands.
Coordinate terms: cis effect
Related terms: transphobia
labilised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of labilise
labilising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of labilise
labilises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of labilise
cis effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cis effects
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The labilization (making unstable) of ligands which are cis to certain other ligands.
Coordinate terms: trans effect
labilizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of labilize
labilizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of labilize
labilized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of labilize
goat fig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goat figs
Senses: glosses: caprifig
half-ape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-apes
Senses: glosses: lemur
self-arrest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-arrests
Etymology: From self- + arrest.
Senses: topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Any of various mountaineering maneuvers in which a climber who has fallen and is sliding down a slope halts the slide without recourse to a rope or other belay system.
semimechanized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + mechanized.
Senses: glosses: Partly mechanized.
longwall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: longwalls
Etymology: From long + wall.
Senses: examples: text: In addition to its work on longwall faces, the A.B. Fifteen has been adapted for shortwall work either as undercutter or as overcutter, particular care having been taken to give it increased manoauvrability by the provision of special pulleys, and increased mobility by the addition of a tilting underframe.
ref: 1960, Colliery Guardian Overseas, page 50:
topics: business
mining
coordinate_terms: shortwall
glosses: A long wall of coal that is mined in a single slice.
longwalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of longwall
Spanish broom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Spanish brooms
Senses: glosses: Spartium junceum, a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to the Mediterranean, with many flexible rush-like twigs.
nasal bones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nasal bone
prestack
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + stack.
Senses: glosses: Before stacking, in the context of seismic migration.
prestack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prestacks
Etymology: From pre- + stack.
Senses: topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The category c is called a prestack over a category C with a Grothendieck topology if it is fibered over C and for any object U of C and objects x, y of c with image U, the functor from objects over U to sets taking F:V→U to Hom(F*x,F*y) is a sheaf.
prestacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prestack
Grothendieck topology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Grothendieck topologies
Etymology: Named after the mathematician Alexander Grothendieck.
Senses: topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A structure on a category which makes the category's objects act like the open sets of a topological space.
wikipedia: Alexander Grothendieck
Grothendieck topologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Grothendieck topology
banking pin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banking pins
Senses: topics: hobbies
horology
lifestyle
glosses: A pin against which a lever strikes, to limit its motion.
folk memory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: folk memories
Senses: examples: text: That leisured past . . . is insistently evoked in Mr. Kiely's new collection. A compendium of folk memory, it features great bursts of balladry and doggerel.
ref: 1988 Aug. 21, Julia O'Faolain, "Bard of the Bar" (review of A Letter to Peachtree and Nine Other Stories by Benedict Kiely), New York Times (retrieved 8 June 2014)
text: James Wilson would have been bewildered and horrified to learn that 150 years later Britain is credited in the Irish folk memory—and general liberal opinion—with callously allowing a million people to starve to death.
ref: 1997 June 3, Ruth Dudley Edwards, “No need to apologise for the potato famine”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 08 Jun 2014:
text: Arguments about the "deserving" and "undeserving" poor . . . underpinned the popular fear and loathing of the workhouse that endure in folk memory.
ref: 2011 October 18, Peter Beresford, “Harassing people on benefits degrades us all”, in The Guardian, UK, retrieved 08 Jun 2014:
glosses: The collective lore, beliefs, and traditional stories which help to define a society, culture, or nation.
examples: text: But behind these folk-memories of national history, extending over more than a thousand years, there is, in the popular consciousness, a dim background of a far earlier period.
ref: 1898, The Scottish Review, volume XXXII, page 126:
text: In the island of Lewis, librations [sic] were offered, to "Shoney," a sea fairy, in order to bring seaweed, this being a folk-memory of an ancient sea god or goddess, to whom offerings of ale were made by the Vikings at Halloween.
ref: 1913 December 20, The Fitzroy City Press, Melbourne, page 4, column 5:
text: Did the watchers retain a folk memory that they themselves resulted from a mating of different types: a black human and a pale Neanderthal?
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 186:
glosses: A belief, traditional story, or the like, which is common to the people of a particular culture; especially, such a belief or piece of knowledge that is not consciously held but is nonetheless known.
knocking boots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of knock boots
rue-bargain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rue-bargains
Etymology: From rue + bargain.
Senses: glosses: A bad bargain.
glosses: A forfeit paid for withdrawing from a bargain.
pingases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pingas
babylift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babylifts
Etymology: From the name of Operation Babylift.
Senses: examples: text: The second prong of my effort, Plan B, was to try to provide some help for the 2000 babylift children we had already brought to America.
ref: 1978, Elwyn James Anthony, Colette Chiland, Children and their parents in a changing world, page 112:
text: There are ominous implications for babylift children in the story of Leigh Marsh, an adopted Korean child who lost eight years in the Connecticut public school system.
ref: 1978, Gerald G. Hotchiss, Psychology Today, page 30:
text: Over the next few weeks, on the Pan Am 747s and on military flights that followed, about 1,400 orphans rode the babylift to America.
ref: 1995, Newsweek - Volume 125, page 802:
text: They believe there was collusion between Lockheed and its friends in the Air Force to use the babylift to give the C-5 publicity.
ref: 2001, Danny Schechter, News Dissector: Passions, Pieces, and Polemics, page 108:
text: Holt speeded up its efforts when the end of the war became imminent but kept a distance from the babylift by refusing an offer to use military transport planes.
ref: 2010, Cheri Register, Are Those Kids Yours?: American Families With Children Adopted From Other Countries, →ISBN:
glosses: The evacuation of foreign children from abroad into a country for adoption.
wikipedia: Operation Babylift
babylifts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of babylift