cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fair exchange is no robbery
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: "You can get anything you need here," Shamlack explained. "Longheads will adapt to whatever trade is needed at any given time and they have an excellent eye and mind for business. They are always honest, but don't ever expect to get anything for nothing -- you get what you ask for and nothing more or less than that." "Well, you know, fair exchange is no robbery," one of the Longheads chipped in, overhearing them.
ref: 2006 -, Michele Baxter, The Chronicles of Serendipus: The Tale of the Secret Keeper, →ISBN, pages 118–119:
text: When you add all the other elements (risk, security, deposit, currency, condition, title, mortgage interest, planning consents, inhibitions, tenants' titles, access, utilities, damage, landscaping and so on) of the sale or purchase of the building, the 'equal' movement fantasy is exposed as meaningless in detail. 'Fair exchange is no robbery' is true but it says nothing about a fair exchange being equal in some way. In fact, no exchange is an equal transaction.
ref: 2012, Gavin Kennedy, Everything is Negotiable, →ISBN:
text: The current maxim that a fair exchange is no robbery—so confidently urged— cannot apply to the profit system, for if the exchange is fair there is no profit, and if there is no profit there will be no exchange
ref: 2013, Vernon Louis Parrington, The Beginnings of Critical Realism in America, →ISBN:
text: An old saying has it that “fair exchange is no robbery,” and in fact, exchange, per se, is a form of interdependence that can make both sides better off.
ref: 2014, Roger A McCain, Reframing Economics: Economic Action as Imperfect Cooperation, →ISBN:
glosses: Swapping two things or subjects of equal value is considered an honest deal.
clippock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clippocks
Etymology: From clip + -ock.
Senses: glosses: A sharp-tongued, quarrelsome individual.
Related terms: clippart
clipwit
charpering carsey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From charper (“to seek”) + carsey (“house”). Compare charpering omi (“policeman”).
Senses: examples: text: Fact is, / she’ll end up in the charpering carsey / of Jennifer Justice.
ref: 2015 October 12, Adam Lowe, “Poem of the week: Vada That”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A police station.
a bad tree does not yield good apples
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Bad parents do not raise good children.
Related terms: the apple does not fall far from the tree
smackier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of smacky: more smacky
deathbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deathboxes
form: death-box
form: death box
Etymology: From death + box. Compare Dutch doodskist (literally “death-chest”).
Senses: examples: text: Once he was asleep again, they brought him back again, bound him, sealed him in his deathbox, muffled the World from him with a black, black pall.
ref: 2002, William T. Vollmann, Argall: The True Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith:
text: I always remember hearing infantry men say to us again and again: 'I wouldn't like to go in your deathboxes,' and we always answered: 'And we don't like to walk.'”
ref: 2003, Philip Kaplan, Chariots of Fire:
text: Razor's mother hollered and spread her body atop her son's shiny death box. “Why, Lord? Why my chile?!” the woman screamed.
ref: 2011, Amaleka McCall, Hard Candy:
text: The local militia, led by their 'jack captain, paid their respects by carrying the death-box and by escorting it.
ref: 2011, Ian Watson, The Book of the Stars: Black Current, book 2:
qualifier: kenning
glosses: coffin
deathboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deathbox
coolchest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coolchests
form: cool-chest
Etymology: From cool + chest. Compare West Frisian kuolkast and Dutch koelkast (literally “cool-chest”), German Kühlschrank.
Senses: examples: text: "Aw, not much, just some sody and buttermilk. Don't get up, I'll just get it myself." Edith followed the creaks in the floorboards back to the coolchest, slid the door, took down a quart box (on which the handsome browneyed indian maid knelt in a sunset of butter) and then took a free look in the mirror lining the back of that cool-chest.
ref: 1996, Confrontation, numbers 60-61, page 70:
text: Beside the tent mast stood a low couch and a table supporting a coolchest and bottles of drink.
ref: 2006, Vernor Vinge, The Tatja Grimm's World:
text: Finally he took me up some rickety steps into a men's dosshouse where cell-like rooms led off a passageway equipped with a washbasin and a coolchest of cans of Coke.
ref: 2006, Sheila Paine, The Afghan Amulet: Travels from the Hindu Kush:
text: In both vehicles, we carried cool-chests containing food and drinks plus extra water and camping gear.
ref: 2011, Rod Koch, When The Green Flag Drops: Memoirs Of A Baja And Pro-Rally Racer:
glosses: A chest or compartment for keeping food cold; refrigerator
Ennead
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἐννεάς (Enneás), itself a calque of Egyptian psḏt (“nine, nineness, ennead”), from psḏw (“nine”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The collection of nine gods worshipped at Heliopolis and taking part in the Heliopolitan creation myth, together representing the sum of all the elements of the created world: Atum, Shu, Tefnut, Nut, Geb, Osiris, Isis, Set, and Nephthys.
Ennead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Enneads
Etymology: See ennead.
Senses: examples: text: Which Darkneſs is a fourth Property of the Moſaick Matter, and on which Plotinus inſiſts pretty copiouſly in this ſecond Ennead, and contends we can have no other notion of it, […]
ref: 1662, Henry More, “An Appendix to the Defence of the Philosophick Cabbala”, in A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr Henry More, Fellow of Christ’s Colledge in Cambridge. […], 2nd edition, London: Printed by James Flesher, for William Morden […], →OCLC, chapter VIII, paragraph 3, page 137:
text: [W]e find side by side in the Enneads the positive and negative conceptions of the One.
ref: 1941 April, F[rederick] C[harles] Copleston, “The Architecture of the Intelligible Universe in the Philosophy of Plotinus. An Analytical and Historical Study. By A. H. Armstrong. Pp. xii + 126. (Cambridge University Press, 1940. 7s. 6d.) [book review]”, in Christopher Dawson, editor, The Dublin Review, volume 208, number 417, London: Burns Oates & Washbourne, →OCLC, page 263:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: One of the six parts of the writings of the Greek-speaking philosopher Plotinus (c. 204–205 – 270), each containing nine treatises, compiled by his student Porphyry (c. 234 – c. 305).
vampirina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vampirinas
Etymology: From vampire + -ina.
Senses: examples: text: Star, Old Mother Hubbard, Vampirina. She herself had bestowed the titles.
ref: 1922, William Rose Benét, The First Person Singular, page 13:
text: If the blonde vampirina was truly beautiful, then this vampirina was even more so.
ref: 2013, Rick Hall, The Chosen One, page 274:
glosses: A female vampire.
Synonyms: vampiress
vampirette
Targ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Targs
Etymology: Clipping of Targaryen.
Senses: examples: text: If the Targ looks were carried by dominant genes, they wouldn't be so rare.
ref: 2005 January 18, Jenny Chase, “Re: Ashara Dayne”, in alt.fan.grrm (Usenet):
text: Targs do like to marry other Targs.
ref: 2005 July 20, Palpie, “Re: *Bringing up an old topic*”, in alt.fan.grrm (Usenet):
text: AND, if, in fact Jon turns out to be R+J^([sic]) after all, making him a Targ by blood if not even legally (who's to say Rhaegar didn't marry Lyanna? Wouldn't be the first time a Targ had two or more wives), what issue would this create with Jon having been made legally a Stark?
ref: 2008 July 9, vecki, “Jon Snow-Stark-Targaryen?”, in alt.fan.grrm (Usenet):
qualifier: ASoIaF/GOT fandom slang
glosses: Any member of House Targaryen.
without a trace
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: without trace
Senses: examples: text: We know where he lives but he's left his apartment without a trace.
ref: 2007, James Saunders, Double Doublecross, page 218:
glosses: Without showing or leaving behind any sign of something; tracelessly.
SWB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of South Wales Borderers, a regiment in the British Army.
SWB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SWBs
Senses: glosses: short wheelbase (of vehicles)
Coordinate terms: LWB
SWB
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: short-wheelbase (of vehicles)
Coordinate terms: LWB
Ploch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Plochs
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Ploch.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
untiredness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From untired + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being untired.
Kairouan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cairouan
form: Cairoan
Etymology: Borrowed from French Kairouan, from Arabic الْقَيْرَوَان (al-qayrawān), definite form of قَيْرَوَان (qayrawān, “caravan”), from Middle Persian kʾlwʾn' (kārawān); see there for more. Doublet of caravan.
Senses: glosses: A city in Tunisia.
Derived terms: Kairouani
cytoimmunity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyto- + immunity.
Senses: glosses: immunity to cytotoxins
haematozoan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haematozoa
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of haematozoon.
haemosporidia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haemosporidian
houndsharks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of houndshark
isodon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isodons
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any flowering plant of the genus Isodon.
lamellipodin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein that promotes the formation of lamellipodia
mannanoligosaccharide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mannanoligosaccharides
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any oligosaccharide derived from mannan
mannanoligosaccharides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mannanoligosaccharide
oscillatary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of oscillatory.
couch a hogshead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: couches a hogshead
form: couching a hogshead
form: couched a hogshead
form: couched a hogshead
Senses: examples: text: I couched a hogshead in a Skypper this darkemans.
ref: 1566, Thomas Harman, A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors, T. Bensley, published 1814, page 66:
text: Ben mort, shall you and I heave a bough, mill a ken, or nip a bung, and then we'll couch a hogshead under the ruffmans, and there you shall wap with me, and I'll niggle with you.
ref: 1611, Thomas Middleton, “The Roaring Girl”, in Arthur Henry Bullen, editor, The Works of Thomas Middleton, volume 4, published 1885, act 5, scene 1, pages 128–129:
text: Mayhap we have been in the same bousing ken or stalling ken at some time. Mayhap we have couched a hogshead at the same house in Southwark.
ref: 1992, Cynthia Morgan, Court of Shadows:
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: To lie down to sleep.
Synonyms: go to bed
couches a hogshead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of couch a hogshead
couching a hogshead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of couch a hogshead
couched a hogshead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of couch a hogshead
baby weights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baby weight
thoracoabdominopelvic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thoraco- + abdomino- + pelvic.
Senses: examples: text: The autonomic system provides input to: the vasculature and fascia throughout the body; the visceral organs of the head and neck; the visceral organs of the thoracoabdominopelvic cavity; thymus, bone marrow, and lymph nodes.
ref: 2004, Alon Marcus, Michael Kuchera, Foundations for Integrative Musculoskeletal Medicine: An East-west Approach, North Atlantic Books, →ISBN, page 134:
text: […] CT scan if hemodynamically stable — CT without IV contrast for head, and with IV contrast for thoracoabdominopelvic studies.
ref: 2010, Richard V. Aghababian, Essentials of Emergency Medicine, Jones & Bartlett Publishers, →ISBN, page 998:
text: This examination should be initiated by a history and physical examination and concluded with a thoracoabdominopelvic CT scan and colonoscopy.
ref: 2010, Susan Gearhart, Nita Ahuja, Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer Series: Colorectal Cancer: Expert Consult, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 212:
text: In routine practice, the imaging workup for screening SDHx mutation carriers should include thoracoabdominopelvic computed tomography, head and neck magnetic angiography, and somatostatin receptor scintigraphy.
ref: 2015, Matthias Schott, Year Book of Endocrinology 2014, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the thorax, abdomen and pelvis.
cervicothoracolumbar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cervico- + thoraco- + lumbar.
Senses: examples: text: Radiographic examination revealed slight cervicothoracolumbar scoliosis and a transitional vertebra at the lumbosacral junction. Both navicular bones were broad and their medial edges were prominent.
ref: 1971, Daniel Bergsma, The First Conference on the Clinical Delineation of Birth Defects: Special lectures:
text: The relative length of the cervical to the thoracolumbar region was calculated by taking the length of each of these regions as a percentage of the total length of the cervicothoracolumbar region.
ref: 1978, Canadian Journal of Zoology:
text: If palpation of the cervicothoracolumbar spine shows any areas of tenderness, appropriate films should be considered before the patient is moved.
ref: 1987, James M. Hurst, Common Problems in Trauma, Year Book Medical Pub:
text: The cervicothoracolumbar vertebrae are mobile, but the sacral and coccygeal segments are often fused to form the sacrum and coccyx. There are 7 cervical, 12 thoracic, 5 lumbar, 5 sacral, and 4 coccygeal (Coc1 to Coc4) vertebrae.
ref: 1995, Marshall B. Allen, Essentials of neurosurgery: a guide to clinical practice, McGraw-Hill Companies:
text: The examiner applies overpressure to the cervical spine to maintain cervicothoracolumbar flexion.
ref: 2010, Lyle J. Micheli, Encyclopedia of Sports Medicine, SAGE, →ISBN, page 963:
text: […]; however, there are case reports of good outcomes with extended laminectomy and surgical debridement of cervicothoracolumbar SEAs.
ref: 2012, Edward C. Benzel, Spine Surgery 2-Vol Set: Techniques, Complication Avoidance, and Management (Expert Consult - Online), Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 1929:
text: In order of decreasing frequency, the reported locations of chordoma are sacrococcygeal (50% to 60%), skull base (25% to 35%), and cervicothoracolumbar vertebral bodies (approximately 15%).
ref: 2012, Efrat Saraf-Lavi, Spine Imaging E-Book: Case Review Series (Expert Consult - Online), Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 129:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar portions of the spine.
cervicothoracolumbosacral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cervico- + thoraco- + lumbo- + sacral.
Senses: examples: text: An orthosis intended to encompass the entire spine would be a cervicothoracolumbosacral orthosis (CTLSO).
ref: 1976, Wilton H. Bunch, Robert D. Keagy, Principles of orthotic treatment, Mosby:
text: 1997, Bertram Goldberg, John D. Hsu, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Atlas of Orthoses and Assistive Devices, Mosby Incorporated
The first effective orthosis for the treatment of spinal deformities was the cervicothoracolumbosacral orthosis (CTLSO), known as the Milwaukee brace, which was developed by Blount and Schmidt in 1948 […]
text: Sacroiliac, lumbosacral, cervicothoracolumbosacral, and thoracolumbosacral orthoses may be used in rigid or flexible forms.
ref: 1998, Alan M. Levine, Spine Trauma, W B Saunders Company, →ISBN:
text: Bracing is advised for small, flexible curves and can be a thoracolumbosacral or cervicothoracolumbosacral orthosis (Milwaukee brace). The brace is continued until the curve has been stable for 2 years.
ref: 2012, Sanjeev Agarwal,, Current Orthopaedic Practice: A concise guide for postgraduate exams, tfm Publishing Limited, →ISBN, page 128:
text: The Milwaukee brace, a cervicothoracolumbosacral orthosis (CTLSO), was initially employed as a postoperative modality but soon found a more important role.
ref: 2012, Michelle M. Lusardi, Milagros Jorge, Millee Jorge, Caroline C. Nielsen, Orthotics and Prosthetics in Rehabilitation, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 385:
text: Most of our patients wear a body brace after neurosurgery, and the surgical team determines when the brace can be safely removed. I ask the specialty registrar to see Mr. P, who is anxious to have his cervicothoracolumbosacral body brace removed.
ref: 2013, Jessi Rodriguez Ohanesian, The Ultimate Guide to the Physician Assistant Profession, McGraw Hill Professional, →ISBN:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the cervical, thoracic, lumbar, and sacral portions of the spine.
workalcoholic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: workalcoholics
Etymology: From work + alcoholic.
Senses: examples: text: The term workalcoholic, continued Carney, is wrongly used in a negative context. Workalcoholics are just as happy as the person who only works 40 hours a week.
ref: 1981, Army Research, Development and Acquisition:
text: Koreans generally work very hard and are often considered to be workalcoholics.
ref: 2005, Melvin Ember, Carol R. Ember, Ian Skoggard, Encyclopedia of Diasporas: Immigrant and Refugee Cultures Around the World. Volume I: Overviews and Topics; Volume II: Diaspora Communities, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 989:
text: A workalcoholic himself, Srinivasan takes genuine interest in getting the right kind of people into the company. Even today, every hiring decision (even blue-collar jobs) has to be okayed by him.
ref: 2009, V.S.P. Rao, V Hari Krishna, Management: Text and Cases, Excel Books India, →ISBN, page 351:
text: Trust me, I've been known to be a workalcoholic. So keeping focus on business shouldn't be a problem.
ref: 2014, Alexandra Medini, From This Day Forward, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:
glosses: Workaholic.
workalcoholic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more workalcoholic
form: most workalcoholic
Etymology: From work + alcoholic.
Senses: examples: text: But the biggest reason we're getting fatter is in our workalcoholic culture where success is akin to godliness and filaments of Puritanism still remain, we use food as one of our few paths to pleasure.
ref: 2003, Marie Beach, Lighten Up! Lose Weight!: A 10 Week Self-Hypnosis Program, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 31:
glosses: Workaholic.
Seaxneat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English *Seaxnēat, via reconstruction.
Senses: glosses: A god or legendary king of the Anglo-Saxons
Related terms: Saxnot
wheel house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheel houses
Senses: examples: text: A machine with two pair of moulds only, will make from fifty to seventy thousand bricks per week. But if the regular market be large, it can, by using a steam machine of 10 horse power, work sixteen moulds, (four on each side of the wheel house,) and make two hundred thousand bricks per week.
ref: 1835 February, “Brick Machine”, in New-York Farmer, and American Gardener’s Magazine, volume III (New Series; volumne VIII overall), number 2, New York, N.Y.: Published by the proprietor, D. K. Minor, […], →OCLC, page 47, column 2:
glosses: Alternative form of wheelhouse.
wheel-houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wheel-house
wheel houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wheel house
crabbings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crabbing
bounge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bounges
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bung (“purse”).
bonge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bonges
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bung (“purse”).
bonges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bonge
bounges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bounge
raise one's voice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: raises one's voice
form: raising one's voice
form: raised one's voice
form: raised one's voice
Senses: examples: text: Don't you raise your voice at me!
glosses: To speak loudly, especially in anger.
rotten to the core
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: literal
glosses: Completely rotten.
examples: text: Ain't talkin' 'bout love / My love is rotten to the core / Ain't talkin' 'bout love / Just like I told you before.
ref: 1978, Van Halen, "Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love", Van Halen, reported in The Little Black Book of Metal Hits (2006), p. 6
qualifier: an organization; or a cultural phenomenon; an organization; or a cultural phenomenon
glosses: Corrupt; evil; immoral.
raw_tags: of a person
sociatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sociative
nonphosphorylating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + phosphorylating.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Not phosphorylating.
CLUTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CLUT
rescriptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rescription
paedophilias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paedophilia
salpingogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salpingograms
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An X-ray image taken during salpingography
salpingography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: X-ray examination of the oviducts
Related terms: hysterosalpingography
salpingogram
sonosalpingography
tomato sauces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tomato sauce
alamoth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew עֲלָמוֹת (‘ălāmōṯ, “women of childbearing age”), feminine plural of עֶלֶם (èlem, “man of marriageable age”).
Senses: examples: 1 Chronicles 15:20 Zechariah, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah and Benaiah were to play the lyres according to alamoth ...
topics: biblical
entertainment
lifestyle
music
religion
glosses: soprano or, possibly, virgin
Azotus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Azōtus, from Ancient Greek Ᾰ̓́ζωτος (Ắzōtos).
Senses: glosses: Ashdod
Ashdod
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and seaport in Israel, on the Mediterranean Sea.
Tefnut
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tefnet
Etymology: Borrowed from Egyptian tfnwt, tfnt (“Tefnut”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A goddess of the Heliopolitan Ennead, commonly taken to be a personification of moisture
anti-agnostic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-agnostics
form: antiagnostic
Etymology: From anti- + agnostic.
Senses: examples: text: The agnostic is open towards atheism and metaphysics. The anti-agnostic selects only one option: either atheism or metaphysics, and is not agnostic about that!
topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
philosophy
religion
sciences
qualifier: metaphysics
glosses: A person who opposes agnosticism.
Related terms: anti-agnosticism
anti-agnostic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: antiagnostic
Etymology: From anti- + agnostic.
Senses: examples: text: A non ambivalent worldview, thus absolute, is always anti-agnostic!
topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
philosophy
religion
sciences
qualifier: metaphysics
glosses: Opposed to agnosticism.
antiagnostic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiagnostics
Etymology: From anti- + agnostic.
Senses: examples: text: The agnostic is open towards atheism and metaphysics. The antiagnostic selects only one option: either atheism or metaphysics, and is not agnostic about that!
topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
philosophy
religion
sciences
qualifier: metaphysics
glosses: Alternative form of anti-agnostic.
Related terms: antiagnosticism
anti-agnosticism
antiagnostic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiagnostic
form: most antiagnostic
Etymology: From anti- + agnostic.
Senses: examples: text: A non ambivalent worldview, thus absolute, is always antiagnostic!
topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
philosophy
religion
sciences
qualifier: metaphysics
glosses: Alternative form of anti-agnostic.
Heliopolitan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Heliopolitan
form: most Heliopolitan
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Heliopolis.
Heliopolitan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Heliopolitans
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Heliopolis.
effective nuclear charge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: effective nuclear charges
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand, many concepts on atomic structure (energy levels, ionization potentials, electronegativity of the elements, and so on) are discussed in terms of effective nuclear charges.
ref: 1999 September, O. Sala, K. Araki, L. K. Noda, “A Procedure to Obtain the Effective Nuclear Charge from the Atomic Spectrum of Sodium”, in Journal of Chemical Education, volume 76, number 9, page 1269:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The net nuclear charge that an electron in an atom experiences, after subtracting the nuclear charge shielded by other electrons.
senior researcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: senior researchers
Senses: hypernyms: researcher
glosses: An academic title for a researcher usually of comparable standing to an associate professor.
chandrabindu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chandrabindus
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of candrabindu.
ice bear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪsˌbɛəɹ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: ice bears
Etymology: From ice + bear. Compare German Eisbär, Dutch ijsbeer, Danish isbjørn.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of polar bear; Ursus maritimus.
synonyms: word: polar bear
extra: Ursus maritimus
Hypernyms: bear
ice bears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ice bear
camia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camias
Etymology: Borrowed from Cebuano camia.
Senses: glosses: Hedychium coronarium; a perennial flowering plant from the ginger family Zingiberaceae.
H. S.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Acronym of high school.
milky disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: When ingested by a foraging beetle grub [the spores] multiply prodigiously in its blood, causing it to turn an abnormally white color, hence the popular name, “milky disease.”
ref: 1962, Rachel Carson, chapter 7, in Silent Spring, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 97:
text: 1972, United States Department of Agriculture, Plant Protection and Quarantine Programs, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, “The Japanese Beetle: How We Fight It,” p. 6,
If possible, biological controls are used. One of these is milky disease, a bacterial disease that infects and kills the grub without causing harm to other animal life.
synonyms: milky spore
glosses: A disease of the white grubs of Japanese beetles, caused by a soil-dwelling bacterium, Paenibacillus popilliae.
glosses: Synonym of grasserie (“disease of silkworms”).
synonyms: word: grasserie
extra: disease of silkworms
milky spore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A disease of the white grubs of Japanese beetles, caused by a soil-dwelling bacterium, Paenibacillus popilliae.
Synonyms: milky disease
digital humanities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The volume brings together a global team of authors who are pioneers of innovative research in the digital humanities.
ref: 2016, Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth, editors, A New Companion to Digital Humanities, →ISBN:
text: “There is a lot of interest in digital humanities, but there is not a lot of money,” says Ilan Shimshoni, professor of computer vision and machine learning at the University of Haifa in Israel, where he works on archaeological projects that include reassembling artefacts from photos of fragments. “If you want to do an analysis of Facebook you’ll get much more money than if you want to look at ancient Greek artefacts.”
ref: 2020 July 1, Carly Minsky, quoting Ilan Shimshoni, “How AI helps historians solve ancient puzzles”, in Financial Times, retrieved 12 Apr 2021:
synonyms: DH
glosses: An academic field concerned with the application of computational tools and methods to traditional humanities disciplines such as literature, history, and philosophy.
reaction wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːl
Forms: form: reaction wheels
Senses: glosses: A type of flywheel used by spacecraft to adjust their attitude without using fuel for rockets.
reaction wheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reaction wheel
Zumarraga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Samar, Philippines.
Collantes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Collanteses
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Collantes. This surname is mostly found in Peru and the Philippines.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
least said, soonest mended
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛndɪd
Senses: glosses: Hurt feelings are most quickly healed by not discussing (revisiting) the event giving rise to the hurt; keeping silent about something can avoid the problems that could be caused by mentioning it.
erythemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From erythema + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Scores were totaled for treatment groups of 4-8 pigs at each grading period and the percent of maximum erythemic response determined or the average erythemic score was determined.
ref: 1977, Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pharmacological and biochemical properties of drug substances:
text: Skin may be erythemic, lacerated, or bleeding, and encrustations may be seen on the skin, stoma, or old appliance (white sandpaper-textured particles).
ref: 1998, Bonny L. Johnson, Jody Gross, Handbook of Oncology Nursing, Jones & Bartlett Learning, →ISBN, page 537:
text: 2008, Mary Ann Hogan (MSN.), Debra S. McKinney, Comprehensive Review for NCLEX-PN: Reviews & Rationales, Prentice Hall
As tumor grows, color may change and appear erythemic and sore, and may even bleed if touched.
text: If pressure continues, the area remains erythemic and will not blanch. Eventually, the skin may appear pale due to the extended ischemia.
ref: 2010, Barbara Gladson, Pharmacology for Rehabilitation Professionals, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 443:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Erythematous.
fang job
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fang jobs
Etymology: Blend of fang + blowjob
Senses: examples: text: Damian took Mara's hand and pulled it to his lips to give her a fang job. Never let it be said that he wasn't an equal opportunity letch. “Damian Sabatini, Mrs. MacTavish.” “You fang me again, demon, and I'll knock your choppers down your throat.” She jerked her hand back to her side.
ref: 2008, Gerry Bartlett, Real Vampires Have Curves, page 113:
text: "On prom night, on the stage of the not especially private gazebo in the public gardens, he teeters right on the brink of a fang job, and then brings all of her trembling to a dead standstill.” So many followers of the stories were eager to see Bella and Edward consummate their marriage […]
ref: 2012, Roger Ebert, Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition, Andrews McMeel Publishing, page 715 (quoting himself)
text: “Give each other fang jobs?” “Yes.” “All the time,” he said, nodding.
ref: 2020, Sophie Stern, Vampire Kiss:
glosses: A sexual envelopment (of someone's neck, hand, etc) into the mouth of someone with fangs.
this-worldliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From this-worldly + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: While dealing with this world, one must cultivate a penetrating, clear and unsullied this-worldliness.
ref: 2015, Tridip Suhrud, translating Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi, Sarasvatichandra I, Orient BlackSwan 2015, p. 291
glosses: Concern with the things of this world; specifically, devotion to worldly things, as opposed to spiritual pursuits.
katha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kathas
Etymology: From Sanskrit कथा (kathā).
Senses: examples: text: A list of the common themes narrated in a katha would comprise of the kidnapping of a girl, battle, separation and epic and puranic events.
ref: 2013, Deepa Sreenivas, Sculpting a Middle Class, page 50:
text: She and her group did not disperse even after the katha had commenced. Their chatter disturbed the listeners.
ref: 2015, Tridip Suhrud, translating Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi, Sarasvatichandra I, Orient BlackSwan 2015, p. 300
glosses: The recitation of a Hindu religious story.
glosses: Such storytelling considered as a genre.
katha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kathas
form: cottah
form: kattha
Etymology: From Hindi कट्ठा (kaṭṭhā) or Bengali কাঠা (kaṭha).
Senses: glosses: A unit of area used mostly for land measure in Eastern India, Nepal, and Bangladesh, varying widely from place to place.
cromesquis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cromesqui
knocked over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of knock over
spawning bed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spawning beds
Senses: glosses: The underwater solid ground on which fish spawn.
rGyalrong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rgyalrong
form: Gyalrong
form: rGyalrung
form: Rgyalrung
form: Gyalrung
form: rGyarong
form: Rgyarong
form: Gyarong
form: Jiarong
form: Jyarung
Etymology: From the capitalised variant of the Wylie transliteration of Tibetan རྒྱལ་རོང (rgyal rong), the Tibetan name for the speakers of these languages.
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of rGyalrongic languages in the Sino-Tibetan language family, spoken in western Sichuan, China.
wikipedia: Wylie transliteration
Derived terms: rGyalrongic
rGyalronic
Cuban Keys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Cuban Keys
Etymology: From Cuba + key (“cay”).
Senses: glosses: A placename; the offshore barrier islands, cays, around the island of Cuba.
Related terms: Florida Keys
Matsya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit मत्स्य (mátsya, “fish”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mátsyas.
Senses: qualifier: Hindu mythology
glosses: The first of ten successive avatars of the god Vishnu, who saved the first man Manu from a great flood in the form of a fish.
correspondence principle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the correspondence principle
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The principle that classical physics is the limit of quantum physics as quantum numbers approach infinity.
Related terms: Not to be confused with law of correspondence
Wishart distribution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wishart distributions
Etymology: Named in honour of Scottish mathematician John Wishart, who formulated the distribution in 1928.
Senses: examples: text: The novelty of this work lies in its incorporation of a general conjugate prior distribution for the covariance matrix, namely a generalized inverted Wishart distribution (GIW). As its name suggests, this distribution, discovered by Brown et al. (1994b) generalizes the well-known inverted Wishart distribution.
ref: 2006, Nhu D. Le, James V. Zidek, Statistical Analysis of Environmental Space-Time Processes, Springer, page 142:
text: The basic properties of Wishart distributions are studied in Section 7.3.
ref: 2008, Martin Bilodeau, David Brenner, Theory of Multivariate Statistics, Springer, page 85:
text: Recall from Appendix B that the Wishart distribution W#95;d(#92;Sigma,n) is characterized by a positive definite matrix #92;Sigma and the degrees of freedom n.
ref: 2015, Sudharman K. Jayaweera, Signal Processing for Cognitive Radios, Wiley, page 459:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A generalisation of the chi-square distribution to an arbitrary (integer) number of dimensions, or of the gamma distribution to a non-integer number of degrees of freedom.
wikipedia: John Wishart
Wishart distributions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wishart distribution
red in the face
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪs
Forms: form: more red in the face
form: most red in the face
Etymology: A reference to one's face flushing from embarrassment.
Senses: glosses: embarrassed
examples: text: On air on Tuesday, [Tucker] Carlson claimed Democrats had shown “hysteria, overstatement, crazed hyperbole, red-in-the-face anger” over his use of the January 6 footage. It was “not outrage”, he said, but “fear. It’s panic.”
ref: 2023 March 8, Martin Pengelly, “Tucker Carlson, who ‘passionately hates’ Trump, shows more Capitol footage”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: excited, outraged
call the tune
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: calls the tune
form: calling the tune
form: called the tune
form: called the tune
Etymology: From who pays the piper calls the tune.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of call the shots.
synonyms: word: call the shots
exceedence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exceedences
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of exceedance.
exceedences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exceedence
Montferrat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɒntfəˈɹat/
enpr: mŏnt'fə-rătʹ
ipa: /ˌmɑntfəˈɹɑt/
enpr: mŏnt'fə-räʹt
rhymes: -æt
rhymes: -ɑːt
Etymology: Adapted from French Montferrat, seemingly from Latin Mōns Ferrātus (literally “mountain with iron”).
Senses: glosses: A historical region of Piedmont, Italy, comprising parts of Asti and Alessandria.
Coordinate terms: Langhe
Roero
unacquires
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unacquire
unacquiring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unacquire
uncare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uncares
form: uncaring
form: uncared
form: uncared
Etymology: From un- + care.
Senses: examples: text: A shattering thought struck her. She had allowed it to happen, after all! Permitted herself to care about her companions! And it was too late now to uncare!
ref: 2007, Sally Watson, The Ivory Cat:
glosses: To cease from caring
uncare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + care.
Senses: examples: text: And gone the Godless destiny of death and desperation, and gone the madness of a life committed to uncare, and gone the tears and terror of the brutal days and endless nights where time alone would rule.
ref: 1998, Ken Wilber, The Essential Ken Wilber:
glosses: Lack or absence of care
miscare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mis- + care.
Senses: examples: text: […] organising national and regional workshops on the miscare of the elderly […]
ref: 1989, Gillian Crosby, Centre for Policy on Ageing, CPA world directory of old age (page 113)
glosses: Faulty or improper care.
Massacre Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named by La Perouse after an attack that took place there in 1789.
Senses: glosses: American Samoa
hoboish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hoboish
form: most hoboish
Etymology: From hobo + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a hobo.
dahntahn
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of downtown, representing Pittsburgh English.
Palamites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Palamite
SNESes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SNES
Wijchen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Wijchen.
Senses: glosses: A village in Gelderland, Netherlands.
glosses: A municipality of Gelderland, Netherlands.
vivifieth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: vivify + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vivify
Lansbury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
roof riding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Roof-riding is now only possible on local buses between outlying villages.
ref: 2007, Lonely Planet Publication, India: A Travel Survival Kit:
glosses: Riding illegally on the roof of a train (or car, bus, etc) for the thrills.
examples: text: Their favorite activity was roof riding, climbing the house's many steep gables.
ref: 2008, Elizabeth Hickey, The Wayward Muse: A Novel:
glosses: Sliding down the roof for fun.
furzelings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of furzeling
rootin' tootin'
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuːʔn̩ ˈtuːʔn̩/
ipa: /ˈɹutn̩ ˈtutn̩/
ipa: /ˈɹʊt-/
ipa: [ˈɹuɾn̩ ˈtuɾn̩]
Etymology: Probably from rooting (“of a pig: that digs or turns up with its snout; that rummages or searches”, adjective), reduplicated with a change of the initial consonant; compare also toot (“to see; to spy”).
Senses: examples: text: ROOTIN’, […] meddlesome, inquisitive. / He’s a rootin’''' tootin’ sort of a chap.
ref: [1881 (date recorded), John H[oward] Nodal, George Milner, “ROOTIN’”, in A Glossary of the Lancashire Dialect (Publications of the Manchester Literary Club), part II (F–Z), Manchester: […] [F]or the [Manchester] Literary Club by Alexander Ireland & Co., […]; London: Trübner & Co., […], published April 1882, →OCLC, page 228:
synonyms: meddlesome
prying
qualifier: Lancashire
glosses: Overly inquisitive about other's affairs; interfering, nosy.
enolize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enolizes
form: enolizing
form: enolized
form: enolized
form: enolise
Etymology: From enol + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: As in base-catalyzed reactions, crossed reactions between two carbonyl compounds each of which can enolize are likely to result in a mixture of four products.
ref: 1993, Richard O.C. Norman, James M. Coxon, Principles of Organic Synthesis, 3rd Edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 258:
text: These differences have been attributed to the ability of free saccharides to enolize in basic media and to the resistance of hydrazones to do so, as detailed next.
ref: 2000, Derek Horton, Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry, Gulf Professional Publishing, →ISBN, page 185:
text: The phosphorus tribromide is then formed in situ. Carboxylic acids that enolize easily will also react without a catalyst present.
ref: 2005, Thomas Laue, Andreas Plagens, Named Organic Reactions, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 160:
text: If we condense two species where one cannot enolize, then this principle reduces our number of primary products to two.
ref: 2014, Penny Chaloner, Organic Chemistry: A Mechanistic Approach, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 798:
text: Pyruvate is known to enolize rapidly under the conditions employed by Oshima and Tamiya; in contrast, the a-keto analogs of a number of other amino acids enolize at much slower rates.
ref: 2016, Paul D. Boyer, Henry Lardy, Karl Myrbäck, Group Transfer Syntheses Coupled to ATP Cleavage, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 217:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: To become an enol or enolate, often through isomerization.
examples: text: It was thus proposed that the matched pK values of the dienolate and of Tyr-14 permitted the hydrogen bond between them to become a very strong one, thus providing the energy to enolize the substrate and form the unstable intermediate.
ref: 1999, Enzyme Kinetics and Mechanisms, Part E, Energetics of Enzyme Catalysis, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 23:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: To convert into an enol or enolate.
Derived terms: enolization
enolizable
Gispert
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gisperts
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Gispert.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
origyne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: origynes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of origin.
origynes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of origyne
pericambial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the pericambium.
bloak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊk
Forms: form: bloaks
Senses: examples: text: He accordingly opened it [a letter], and read as follows:– / "Tim put on the tats yesterday and went out a durry-nakin on the shadows, gadding a hoof. He buzzed a bloak and a shakester of a yack and a skin. [..."] [W]e will lay before our readers a translation of the slang document:– / "Tim dressed himself in rags yesterday, and went out disguised as a beggar half-naked and without shoes or stockings. He robbed a gentleman and a lady of a watch and a purse. [..."]
ref: 1847, George W[illiam] M[acArthur] Reynolds, “Old Death”, in The Mysteries of London, volume III (volume I, Second Series), London: G. Vickers, […], →OCLC, page 66, column 1:
text: It might do for some bloaks as come there and was too miserable to look arter their a'pence, but he'd see 'em all—first before they fiddled him out of a farden.
ref: 1874, James Greeenwood, The Wilds of London, page 129:
text: Now I tell yer straight, I don't call it square for two big bloaks like us to tackle [i.e., steal from] one poor woman, and she a widder, and p'raps as 'ard up as us; it isn't English.
ref: 1892, John Pennington Marsden, “A Professional Secret”, in Job Lot: Sketches and Stories, Philadelphia, Pa.: Hallowell & Co., […], →OCLC, page 177:
text: Mr Clevver comes up then. Hes stanning there waching the salting bloak' and hes hummering to his self a littl.
ref: 2012, Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker, page 57:
glosses: Archaic spelling of bloke.
bloaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bloak
imamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From imam + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to an imam.
overstater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overstaters
Etymology: From overstate + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who overstates.
overstaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overstater
multialphabetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + alphabetic.
Senses: glosses: Comprising or relating to more than one alphabet.
exomewide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: exome
form: wide
Etymology: From exome + -wide.
Senses: examples: text: Therefore, implementation for a larger number of assays for these genes is challenging for laboratories that seek to offer comprehensive exomewide sequencing, including genes with homology.
ref: 2014 November, Diana Mandelker, “Comprehensive Diagnostic Testing for Stereocilin: An Approach for Analyzing Medically Important Genes with High Homology”, in The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics, volume 16, number 6, page 639:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Throughout an exome.
microretrognathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Having, or characterised by microretrognathia.
glossoptotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, or affected by glossoptosis.