cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
inbroke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of inbreak
prisoner's base
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We were both of us quick-footed, and at Prisoner's Base used occasionally to hide together.
ref: 1923, Walter de la Mare, Seaton's Aunt:
glosses: Alternative form of prisoners' bars (“the game”).
spyce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪs
Forms: form: spyces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of spice.
spyces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spyce
spyced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of spiced.
spycatcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spycatchers
Etymology: From spy + catcher.
Senses: glosses: A person involved in counterespionage.
spycatchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spycatcher
what you gain on the swings you lose on the roundabouts
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of what you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts.
what you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: what you gain on the swings you lose on the roundabouts
Senses: glosses: There are both gains and losses in life; you win some, you lose some.
Related terms: swings and roundabouts
gynosexuals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gynosexual
gynesexuals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gynesexual
androsexuals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of androsexual
Gasconism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gasconisms
Etymology: From Gascon + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Bragging; boastfulness.
examples: text: So that the Latinisms — as again the Gasconisms that betray his origin, — are assimilated into the substance of his writing rather than appended as foreign elements.
ref: 1898, Mary E. Lowndes, Michel de Montaigne: A Biographical Study, page 159:
glosses: A Gascon idiom or expression.
Gasconisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gasconism
creativise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: creativises
form: creativising
form: creativised
form: creativised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of creativize.
creativises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of creativise
IEP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IEPs
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of isoelectric point.
examples: text: IEP child
text: Lanya (Lane) McKittrick, a Seattle-based mother who has IEPs for three of four children, understands this fundamentally. Two of her IEP children are deaf and blind; the youngest also suffers from anxiety and ADHD, and the third has severe learning disabilities and ADHD.
ref: 2020 September 24, Matt Vilano, “Students with special needs face virtual learning challenges”, in CNN:
topics: education
glosses: Initialism of Individualized Education Program.
IEP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Using these figures, the IEP then calculated the relative threats of population growth, water stress, food insecurity, droughts, floods, cyclones, and rising temperature and sea levels.
ref: 2020 September 10, Jessie Yeung, “Climate crisis could displace 1.2 billion people by 2050, report warns”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of Institute for Economics and Peace.
IEP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish IEP (“Instituto de Estudios Peruanos”).
Senses: examples: text: In the IEP poll, 65% of participants said they did not feel represented by any of Peru’s current political parties.
ref: 2020 November 23, Claudia Rebaza, “‘They messed with the wrong generation’: How young people shook up politics in Peru”, in CNN:
glosses: The Institute of Peruvian Studies.
creativising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of creativise
creativised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of creativise
lightpole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lightpoles
Etymology: From light + pole.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of streetlight (“any large outdoor light used to illuminate a public area”).
synonyms: word: streetlight
extra: any large outdoor light used to illuminate a public area
lightpoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lightpole
heptaphyllous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having seven leaves.
Gaikwar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gaikwars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Gaekwad.
Gaikwars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gaikwar
heterauxetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or relating to heterauxesis.
Parmazan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of parmesan (a kind of cheese).
internerd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: internerds
Etymology: Blend of Internet + nerd
Senses: glosses: An obsessive user of the Internet.
internerds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of internerd
frigorifical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more frigorifical
form: most frigorifical
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of frigorific.
monopolisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monopoliser
what can I do you for
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: What can I do for you?
counterbase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of contrabass.
diallagoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more diallagoid
form: most diallagoid
Etymology: From diallage + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Resembling the mineral diallage.
diallagic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more diallagic
form: most diallagic
Etymology: From diallage + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the mineral diallage.
dime museum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dime museums
Senses: glosses: A cheap show similar to a carnival.
Related terms: dime novel
dime museums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dime museum
Adhiv
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Adiv.
yellow goat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellow goats
Senses: glosses: The dzeren or Mongolian gazelle.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see yellow, goat.
yellow goats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yellow goat
sarcoblastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sarcoblast + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the sarcoblast.
phytographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytographers
Senses: glosses: One who studies phytography.
phytographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phytographer
buccinatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the buccinator muscle.
Noachic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Noachic
form: most Noachic
Senses: glosses: Noachian; relating to Noah.
mischallenges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mischallenge
coöp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of co-op.
name-bearing type
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: name-bearing types
Senses: examples: text: A nominal species and its nominotypical subspecies have the same name-bearing type [Arts. 47a, 61b].
ref: 1995, International Code of Zoological Nomenclature: Draft, International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, page 72:
text: Lectotype designation is justified under article 74.1.1 of the ICZN (1999) in order to fix the status of this specimen as the sole name-bearing type of this species.
ref: 2000, Scientific Papers, Natural History Museum, University of Kansas, page 27:
text: In principle, the answer should be straightforward: examine the name-bearing type, and confirm its protoconch type.
ref: 2010, Philippe Bouchet, Ellen E. Strong, “Chapter 6: Historical Name-Bearing Types in Marine Molluscs: An Impediment to Biodiversity Studies?”, in Andrew Polaszek, editor, Systema Naturae 250 - The Linnaean Ark, Taylor & Francis (CRC Press), page 65:
text: Principle III: The application of names of taxa is determined by means of name-bearing types (hereafter referred to as types), although this principle does not apply to certain names at suprafamilial ranks.
ref: 2012, Bharati Bhattacharyya, “2: Plant Nomenclature: an Overview”, in Rajni Gupta, editor, Plant Taxonomy: Past, Present, and Future: Dr Prithipalsingh Festschrift, TERI, page 51:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: For a species or lower-order taxon, a type (specimen or illustration) that determines the application of the species name; for a genus, the type species; for a family, the type genus.
raw_tags: of a taxon
name-bearing types
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of name-bearing type
filmy ferns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filmy fern
cattlesheds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cattleshed
maskilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From maskil + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or related to the maskilim.
zongdu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dzʊŋˈduː/
Forms: form: zongdu
form: zongdus
form: tsungtu
form: tsungtuh
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 總督 /总督 (zǒngdū).
Senses: glosses: A governor of one or more provinces of China during the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Synonyms: governor-general
viceroy
zongdus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zongdu
some time yet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: ...the want of disposition to do justice is the source of the national embarrassments; for whatever guise or colorings are given to them, this I apprehend is the origin of the evils we now feel, and probably shall labour under for some time yet.
ref: 1786, George Washington, a letter to John Jay of 18 May 1786:
glosses: A period of time from the present stretching to an indefinite point in the future.
some time yet
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Occurring in duration until an indefinite time in the future.
euryxenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a broad range of hosts
raw_tags: of a parasite
exstrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or exhibiting exstrophy
unlicense
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unlicenses
form: unlicensing
form: unlicensed
form: unlicensed
Etymology: From un- + license.
Senses: glosses: To cause no longer to be licensed; to annul the licensing of.
unlicensing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unlicense
unlicenses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unlicense
tgirl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tgirls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of t-girl.
tgirls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tgirl
bioboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioboys
Etymology: Blend of biological + boy.
Senses: examples: text: "I'm afraid I'll disappoint her by not being enough like a bioboy." Raymond was not talking about sex. He was finding it difficult to navigate issues such as, "Is she expecting me to hold the door for her?"
ref: 2007, Reid Vanderburgh, Transition and Beyond: Observations on Gender Identity, →ISBN, page 143:
glosses: A cisgender boy or man.
Related terms: biogirl
biogirl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biogirls
Etymology: Blend of biological + girl.
Senses: glosses: A cisgender girl or woman.
Related terms: bioboy
bioboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioboy
biogirls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biogirl
bell cow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bell cows
form: bellcow
Senses: examples: text: [he] also keeps a number of cows, one of which has a bell hung round its neck, which keeps ringing with every motion of the cow. The other cows follow the “bell cow,” and thus their whereabouts in the forest are readily got at.
ref: 1882, James Aitken, chapter 2, in From the Clyde to California, Greenock: William Johnston, pages 27–28:
text: The mornings were rosy, the noontide shone with a deeper red, but the evenings came, serenely stealing, it seemed, out of the heavily-wooded land, spreading over the fields and creeping along the hill-sides where the bell-cow rang her melancholy curfew.
ref: 1888, Opie Read, chapter 4, in Up Terrapin River, Chicago: Rand McNally, page 60:
glosses: The lead cow in a herd.
examples: text: When Carlos Hyde was selected in the second round of the 2014 NFL Draft, it was presumed he would eventually take over Frank Gore's role as lead back for the Niners. Now that Gore signed in Indianapolis, the door is wide open for Hyde to seize that opportunity. "He looks the part as far as a bellcow running back," Bleacher Report NFL analyst Chris Simms said of Hyde.
ref: 2015 August 13, “Chris Simms: ‘Carlos Hyde can be a stud in the NFL’”, in FOX Sports:
text: Goldman is used to taking the lead. In fact, The Wall Street Journal’s Susanne Craig reported that other firms were standing by on a “Lloyd watch,” waiting to see what precedent would be set by Wall Street’s traditional bell-cow. As those firms now make their own inevitable bonus decisions, they will have to settle for “me-too” stories.
ref: 2008 November 17, Jack Flack, “How Goldman Spun the Inevitable Into Big News”, in The New York Times:
text: When the issue is a political one, reporters tend to watch for the reactions of certain “bell cow” journalists.
ref: 1986, Peter Hannaford, Talking Back to the Media, New York: Facts On File, page 29:
glosses: A leader; an influencer.
bell cows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bell cow
goitered gazelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goitered gazelles
Senses: synonyms: ahu
black-tailed gazelle
glosses: A gazelle species found in Central Asia and the Near East (Gazella subgutturosa).
widderer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: widderers
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of widower.
refugitive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refugitives
Etymology: Blend of refugee + fugitive
Senses: examples: text: Defeated in 1836, a rebel and a refugitive in 1837, an exile struggling with misfortune and, at the best, uncongenial conditions for a long term of years, Mackenzie was not only restored to Canada, but again had a constituency at his back and ...
ref: 1979, William Lesueur & McKillop, William Lyon Mackenzie, →ISBN, page 366:
text: 'I don't want him for any good reason except to grab a cheque of twenty five^([sic]) millions^([sic]) dollar^([sic]) from president Bush's award as refugitive wanted by him for raising a Jihad against the american^([sic]) interest for oil in Middle East ?',said he and added further , 'do you know Monsieur Duval and I don't agree with their policy of violent and warmongering in an escalation instead of diplomacy and peaceful resorts for compromise as I had mentioned with Monsieur general Alexis and Mushraff also ?'.
ref: 2011, Mohammad Rafique-Al-Quraish, Dr. Bin Ladin, →ISBN, page 210:
text: She then continues with her own private reveries about being mistaken for African when she was in Canada and “them old slaves refugitives and them new African refugees” (34).
ref: 2016, L. King, Linda F. Selzer, New Essays on the African American Novel, →ISBN:
glosses: A fugitive who seeks refuge in another state or country.
refugitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more refugitive
form: most refugitive
Etymology: From refuge + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: The settlements of a refugitive nature (2a) are hard to be determined. First of all they were conditioned by the occasional refugitive needs of the people and their property.
ref: 1988, Balcanica - Volumes 18-19, page 197:
text: There, in their several worlds, they find the harmony which they so sorely miss in the midst of mankind. Poetry, which embodies such refugitive attitude, is called the poetry of refuge.
ref: 2002, Syed Abdul Latif, Ghalib: a critical appreciation of his life & Urdu poetry, page 83:
text: Such refugitive Sounds were created and heard in juke joints and sharecropping fields—and in the fields of antebellum slavery well before white folklorists and record industry scouts “discovered” black culture.
ref: 2005, Dennis Ray Childs, Formation of Neoslavery:
glosses: Pertaining to refuge.
Ozzy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: ŏ'-zi
ipa: /ˈɒzi/
enpr: ô'-zi
ipa: /ˈɔzi/
homophone: Aussie
Forms: form: Ozzys
form: Ozzies
form: Ozzie
Etymology: Clippings + -y
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
glosses: A male given name.
A diminutive of the male given names Oswald or Oscar.
examples: text: Sharon recalled that from the start of their relationship, her husband wanted to understand antisemitism. “Why don’t people like Jews?” was a question Ozzy asked her “since the day we met,” she told Jewish News in December 2023, noting that the rocker remained “so confused” by today’s rise in Jew-hatred.
ref: 2025 July 22, “Was Ozzy Osbourne Jewish, or ‘half a heeb’?”, in The Jerusalem Post:
glosses: A nickname of someone with the surname Osbourne, Osgood.
Coordinate terms: Oz
something something
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: something somethings
Senses: examples: text: The bloody something somethings.
ref: 1948, Jocelyn Pereira, A Distant Drum:
text: 'You big blanks,' Maidie yelled defiantly. 'You something somethings. I wasn't doing anything."
ref: 1962, John Lehmann, Alan Ross, London Magazine - Volume 2, page 30:
text: Gaby and Marcus whispered sweet something somethings in each other's ear, and kissed throughout the song.
ref: 2007, Janice Sims, Kim Louise, Natalie Dunbar, Can I Get an Amen Again, →ISBN, page 503:
text: "Well, DeDe, we kinda had a um — a um — you know. . . a little something something going on on the side."
ref: 2008, Toriano Porter, The Pride of Park Avenue, →ISBN, page 106:
text: He could have at least broke a sister off a little something something.
ref: 2010, Makayla Messam, Life After Death, →ISBN, page 8:
text: I don't really pay rent, but I always leave a little 'something something' on Fridays just to let her know I care.
ref: 2011, Lurea C. McFadden, Men Don't Leave: (they Get Put Out), →ISBN:
text: No need to get dressed. Since I'm here, we can do a little something something.”
ref: 2014, Shelia M. Goss, The Joneses, →ISBN, page 77:
text: Thank you to Cody Anderson who gave me the opportunity to do my own talk radio program. I had tried a little something something a few years earlier, and I also co-hosted the Matah Program along with Anthony Phillips and Norm Bond, before Cody gave me the green light to do my own thing.
ref: 2014, Yvonne "YC" Coates, It Was Written All Over Their Faces: Ask Y, She Cried Uncle, →ISBN:
text: He wanted me to go so we could spend some downtime with each other, instead of trying to at school, but I told him I couldn't because I had a test to study for. Of course I was lying. I wanted to surprise him with a little something something.
ref: 2014, Tia Ramirez, Mad Love: A Short Story, →ISBN, page 35:
text: "Yeah, well. That's the first time I've crossed a border with someone who might not be legally allowed to enter the country and the first time I did so not knowing if my travel companion had maybe packed a little something something in his bags.
ref: 2015, C.K. Carr, Something Worth Having, page 12:
glosses: Alternative form of something-something.
pulsar clocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pulsar clock
neuralgics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuralgic
something-something
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: something something
form: something, something
Senses: examples: text: – How does that work?
– Something something motors, something something tension.
glosses: Replaces parts of a sentence a speaker either does not know or deems unimportant; blah blah blah.
Jpn.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: J. Phys. Soc. Jpn.
glosses: Abbreviation of Japan.
examples: text: Jpn. J. Appl. Phys.
glosses: Abbreviation of Japanese.
something, something
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: something, somethings
Senses: examples: text: Check this my sisters; let me break you off a little something, something.
ref: 2000, Earl Roberts, I Beg Your Damn Pardon - Was It Something I Said?, →ISBN:
text: He already got paid (or perhaps in your case, he already got himself a little something, something), so what's the point of him applying anymore of his best effort or care?
ref: 2005, Kevin Sussman, All Men Are Not Pigs!, →ISBN, page 184:
text: “Sorry, man, I got a little carried away for a second there,” Big apologized, “these women sure can freak” Big continued, “I'm going to get into a little something, something, myself, when we finish our business here,” he said, not taking his eyes off the involved women.
ref: 2008, Mojo -, Detroit Cracked and Midnight Sex in Detroit, →ISBN, page 64:
text: At first it starts with someone just paying attention to the minor details that you have overlooked. We all must count the costs. What is this attention going to cost me in the end? “It's just a little something, something!
ref: 2010, Nicole Cleveland, Ginger Marks, So He Cheated, Now What?: Do I Stay Or Walk Away?, →ISBN, page 24:
text: Ready to hit the club, find a little something, something.
ref: 2012, Edd Mcnair, Black Reign Saga, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of something-something.
dead drunk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Drunk to the point of unconsciousness.
Synonyms: drunk
scientific researches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scientific research
go slap off on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes slap off on
form: going slap off on
form: went slap off on
form: gone slap off on
Senses: examples: text: My parents would go slap off on me if I didn't do my homework.
glosses: To go off on; to raise hell at.
regular black hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regular black holes
Etymology: From regular (“continuous”) + black hole (“region enclosed by an event horizon”). From having a spacetime formulation that is without discontinuities, that is, regular.
Senses: topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: A mathematical formulation for a black hole which does not contain a singularity. The environment outside the event horizon is the same as other formulations for black holes.
Hypernyms: black hole
maki-e
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maki-e
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 蒔絵 (maki e, literally “sown picture; scatter picture”).
Senses: examples: text: Although indigenous to Japan as a technique, early maki-e retained a T'ang Chinese influence in design. Maki-e is achieved by spreading and scattering gold or silver dust, flakes, nuggets, and leaf on a drawing done in sticky lacquer, which is applied over the hardened lacquer foundation.
ref: 1975, Patricia Salmon, A Guide to Japanese Antiques, page 22:
text: […] and that was a puzzle until Orson remembered that he’d recounted without seeming upset (this disputed by Greg) that the boy he’d recently gotten rid of had stolen it, along with four of the maki-e lacquer boxes, as if these were objects as easy to sell on the street as a TV or a stereo.
ref: 1986 November 24, Susan Sontag, “The Way We Live Now”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: A style of Japanese lacquerware made with gold or silver sprinkled on wet lacquer.
glosses: An object decorated with this style of lacquer.
congressjerk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: congressjerks
Etymology: From congress + jerk.
Senses: glosses: A congressperson.
social standing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Synonym of social status: one's position within a social hierarchy, one's value relative to society.
synonyms: word: social status
extra: one's position within a social hierarchy, one's value relative to society
Raupian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Raup + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the work of American paleontologist David Raup, particularly his parameterized morphospace for mollusk shells.
clartier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of clarty: more clarty
shmata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shmatas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shmatte.
cimicic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A foul-smelling unsaturated fatty acid, C₁₅H₂₈O₂, obtained from bed bugs of the family Cimicidae.
shmatas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shmata
faciomuscular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʌskjʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From facio- + muscular.
Senses: examples: text: Then a temporalis faciomuscular flap is used over the bone grafts to contour them and produce the needed cushion effect to accept the prosthesis, so all bone chip edges are softened […]
ref: 1987 December, “Aesthetic considerations in the reconstruction of the anophthalmic orbit”, in Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, volume 11, number 1, page 229:
text: For example, electromyographic measurement of faciomuscular contraction whilst participants view images of happy and angry faces demonstrates greater muscular activity in the left than right hemiface.
ref: 2019 January 16, Victoria Heywood-Smith, “Facing the truth: are there hemifacial differences in the communication of trustworthiness?”, in Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the muscles of the face.
Secondspace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Secondspaces
form: secondspace
Etymology: Coined by E.W. Soja as second + space
Senses: examples: text: Although there is an epistemology to the study of Firstspace, it is in Secondspace that epistemological discourse receives the greatest attention. In the long history of geographic thought, Secondspace approaches have been turned to most often when mainstream Firstspace approaches have become too rigidly materialist and "scientistic," as with the various critiques that emerged in response to the epistemological closures of positivist human geography.
ref: 2002, Alan Read, Architecturally Speaking, →ISBN, page 19:
text: Thus, “Wall Street” refers both to the street and to the businesses; metaphorically (and metaphor operates as a type of Secondspace) the name of the street has come to mean the type of investment activity.
ref: 2016, Gabriella Gelardini, Harold Attridge, Hebrews in Contexts, →ISBN, page 184:
text: The danger of Secondspace is that taken on its own it might be seen as a complete survey of spatial practices and representations; however, it is neither complete nor closed off.
ref: 2017, Mimi Levy Lipis, Symbolic Houses in Judaism, →ISBN:
glosses: Space as it is conceived, as opposed to space that is directly perceived. For example, the conception of a space based on a map or description.
Related terms: Firstspace
Thirdspace
secondspace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secondspaces
Senses: examples: text: Conceived space, secondspace, also described as representations of space, is the domain in which the meanings or ways of imagining space are identified and discursively set 'via control over knowledge, signs and codes' (1 996, p 67).
ref: 2006, Sarah Neal, Julian Agyeman, The New Countryside?:, →ISBN, page 5:
text: Whereas Soja, looking at the history of spatial thinking, assigns secondspace epistemologies to the subjective imaginaries of the creative artist, the artful architect, the utopian urbanist and the philosophical geographer, among others, when turning to entrepreneurial cities one thinks of the 'urban spin-doctoring' figuring so prominently in the literature of urban entrepreneurialism.
ref: 2008, Chris Steyaert, Daniel Hjorth, Entrepreneurship As Social Change, →ISBN:
text: Tourists visit this place because of what it signifies, which is the secondspace.
ref: 2016, Peter Claver Ajer, The Death of Jesus and the Politics of Place in the Gospel of John, →ISBN, page 66:
glosses: Alternative form of Secondspace.
Firstspace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Firstspaces
form: firstspace
Etymology: Coined by E.W. Soja as first + space
Senses: examples: text: Although there is an epistemology to the study of Firstspace, it is in Secondspace that epistemological discourse receives the greatest attention. In the long history of geographic thought, Secondspace approaches have been turned to most often when mainstream Firstspace approaches have become too rigidly materialist and "scientistic," as with the various critiques that emerged in response to the epistemological closures of positivist human geography.
ref: 2002, Alan Read, Architecturally Speaking, →ISBN, page 19:
text: For scholars of the ancient world, access to Firstspace is almost non-existent.
ref: 2016, Gabriella Gelardini, Harold Attridge, Hebrews in Contexts, →ISBN, page 184:
text: Aspects of Firstspace and Secondspace are selectively and creatively combined in Thirdspace, a fully lived space.
ref: 2017, Mimi Levy Lipis, Symbolic Houses in Judaism, →ISBN:
glosses: Space as it is directly perceived by the senses.
Related terms: Secondspace
Thirdspace
firstspace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firstspaces
Senses: examples: text: In thinking the countryside into Soja's trialectics of spatiality it is possible to undersand the countryside in firstspace or perceived space terms. It has a materiality and 'realness' that is, while evolving and shifting, nevertheless concrete and mappable.
ref: 2006, Sarah Neal, Julian Agyeman, The New Countryside?:, →ISBN, page 5:
text: In other words, we have marginalized 'counterspaces', resisting dominant (firstspace or secondspace) orders - thirdspace, the space of radical openness, of creativity, of activism, of social struggle (Soja, 1996).
ref: 2008, Chris Steyaert, Daniel Hjorth, Entrepreneurship As Social Change, →ISBN:
text: Both the Greeks and Philip are "out of place" in Jerusalem -- their firstspace location -- but "in their place" by being in Jesus' space. Jesus' firstspace location resturctures the followers' location. His firstspace location will continue to restructure the believers' space, climaxing at the cross as the thirdspace location of liberation.
ref: 2016, Peter Claver Ajer, The Death of Jesus and the Politics of Place in the Gospel of John, →ISBN, page 109:
glosses: Alternative form of Firstspace.
Thirdspace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Thirdspaces
form: thirdspace
Etymology: Coined by E.W. Soja as third + space
Senses: examples: text: Over the past decade, the most creative explorations of Thirdspace, and hence the most accomplished expansions in the scope of the geographical imagination, have come from the broadly defined field of critical cultural studies.
ref: 2002, Alan Read, Architecturally Speaking, →ISBN, page 22:
text: The Occupy movement existed as a Thirdspace phenomenon -- even though its practitioners created their own Firstspace configurations of objects and their own Secondspace meanings and representations.
ref: 2016, Gabriella Gelardini, Harold Attridge, Hebrews in Contexts, →ISBN, page 184:
text: Aspects of Firstspace and Secondspace are selectively and creatively combined in Thirdspace, a fully lived space. The spatial specificity of urbanism is of special interest to him and is realized as Thirdspace, which forms simultaneities of the real and the imagined, of the actual and the virtual, and of the locus of individual and collective experience and agency.
ref: 2017, Mimi Levy Lipis, Symbolic Houses in Judaism, →ISBN:
glosses: Space as both a perceived and conceptualized phenomenon, both a physical locality and its meaning.
Related terms: Firstspace
Secondspace
thirdspace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thirdspaces
Senses: examples: text: The different pulls on what rural spaces represent and the legitimacies and illegitimacies of presences within rural landscapes brings us back to the key notion of a socially produced space and Soja's 'perils and possibilities' of real-and-imaginary lived thirdspace.
ref: 2006, Sarah Neal, Julian Agyeman, The New Countryside?:, →ISBN, page 14:
text: In other words, we have marginalized 'counterspaces', resisting dominant (firstspace or secondspace) orders - thirdspace, the space of radical openness, of creativity, of activism, of social struggle (Soja, 1996).
ref: 2008, Chris Steyaert, Daniel Hjorth, Entrepreneurship As Social Change, →ISBN:
text: Both the Greeks and Philip are "out of place" in Jerusalem -- their firstspace location -- but "in their place" by being in Jesus' space. Jesus' firstspace location resturctures the followers' location. His firstspace location will continue to restructure the believers' space, climaxing at the cross as the thirdspace location of liberation.
ref: 2016, Peter Claver Ajer, The Death of Jesus and the Politics of Place in the Gospel of John, →ISBN, page 109:
glosses: Alternative form of Thirdspace.
intrinsic values
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intrinsic value
Macoute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Macoutes
Etymology: Short for Tonton Macoute.
Senses: examples: text: Every Macoute received a card that afforded him many privileges, like free merchandise from any store he entered, entitlement to coerced sex, and fear and respect from people in general.
ref: 2011 March 22, Kim Ives, The Guardian:
text: Fred also wanted to make sure I knew which macoutes were the worst ones.
ref: 2013, Amy Wilentz, Farewell, Fred Voodoo, Simon & Schuster, page 11:
glosses: A member of the Tonton Macoutes in Haiti; by extension, a thug or criminal.
Macoutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Macoute
petrificious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: petrific + -ious
Senses: examples: text: The question is certainly destinal: how to get out of those petrificious systems?
ref: 1983, Boris Katich, So Speak Croatian Dissidents:
glosses: Causing petrification
Synonyms: petrific
petrifactive
gastrocnemious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: relating to the gastrocnemius
not be able to hit the broad side of a barn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cannot hit the broad side of a barn
form: could not hit the broad side of a barn
Senses: examples: text: No, I am really not good at batting in baseball. I cannot hit the broad side of a barn, really.
text: The new recruit is absolutely worthless with a rifle. Blimey, she wouldn't be able to hit the broad side of a barn if I asked her to.
glosses: To have very poor aim, such as while using firearms or in sports.
Synonyms: not hit a cow's arse with a banjo
Related terms: barn door
eradicationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eradication + -ism. Coined around 1900 by people from the circle of Dwight L. Moody.
Senses: glosses: The belief that something (often disease or a cultural trait) must be eliminated.
examples: text: The root error of eradicationism of the flesh has room to grow only in the false conception of "flesh," as a mere tendency to evil quite apart from the natural body.
ref: 1901 October, Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, “Biblical Notes and Queries”, in Record of Christian Work, volume 20, page 832:
topics: Christianity
Protestantism
antonyms: Keswickism
suppressionism
glosses: Strict holiness; a radical, Wesleyan holiness teaching that considers that sin is or will be completely eliminated from true believers (originally used only by opponents)
cosmic singularity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cosmic singularities
Etymology: From cosmic (“outer space”) + singularity (“discontinuity”).
Senses: glosses: A point of infinite positive spacetime curvature because of an infinite gravitational field
Synonyms: spacetime singularity
space-time singularity
gravitational singularity
Hypernyms: singularity
cosmic topological defect
Coordinate terms: black hole
cosmic string
domain wall
white hole
worm hole
Related terms: word: Big Bang Singularity
english: generic
translation: generic
word: big bang singularity
word: Big Crunch Singularity
english: generic
translation: generic
word: big crunch singularity
word: final singularity
word: initial singularity
word: naked singularity
word: event horizon
gynecomast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gynecomasts
form: gynaecomast
form: gynæcomast
Senses: glosses: A man with gynecomastia.
over-industrious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: overindustrious
Etymology: From over + industrious.
Senses: glosses: Excessively industrious.
overindustrious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From over- + industrious.
Senses: examples: text: There are lizards and snakes, frogs and crabs, tarantulas and spiders, hornets and beetles, and the greatest nuisance of all is the swarming and overindustrious ant. Overindustrious creatures are always a nuisance.
ref: 1898, Amos Kidder Fiske, The Story of the Philippines: A Popular Account of the Islands from Their Discovery by Magellan to the Capture by Dewey, page 25:
text: It may be that there is no time when one could not be doing something for a child or the well-being of the Acme Bolt Company or the local Democratic party; although a wise person will not be overindustrious.
ref: 1995, Joel J. Kupperman, Character, page 10:
text: Instead, he saw himself as running away from an overindustrious past and getting free of any steady employment—getting free to ramble in a way that no black person could safely do.
ref: 2011, Donald Worster, A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir, Oxford University Press, page 128:
glosses: Alternative form of over-industrious.
warshboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warshboards
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of washboard.
lost highway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lost highways
Etymology: Possibly from the title of the song "Lost Highway", which uses it as a metaphor, or previous uses as a metaphor.
Senses: glosses: A habitually evil state of living, especially one that goes against Christian morals.
unlenited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + lenited.
Senses: glosses: Lacking lenition
Westernism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Western + -ism. The Russian ideology is a calque of Russian за́падничество (západničestvo).
Senses: synonyms: Occidentalism
glosses: The ideology and culture of the West.
examples: text: Slavophilism and Westernism were indeed the two sides of the same set of aspirations and sentiments, one facing an image of the past, and the other that of the future.
ref: 1992, Liah Greenfield, “The Scythian Rome: Russia”, in Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity, revised edition, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 265:
text: In the coming decades, the tumult of revolution and war together with the mistakes, compromises, and ambitions of the country's new leaders would bring Russia's "Asiatic" heritage to the fore and sweep away a still-fragile Westernism.
ref: 2000, Robert English, “The Origins and Nature of Old Thinking”, in Russia and the Idea of the West: Gorbachev, Intellectuals, and the End of the Cold War, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 25:
text: This description of a typical serious circle exposes the limitation which was so fundamental to Russian Westernism after the failure of the Decembrist revolt—the absence of any relation between thought and practice.
ref: 2010, Bruce K. Ward, Dostoyevsky’s Critique of the West: The Quest for the Earthly Paradise, revised edition, Wilfrid Lautier University Press, →ISBN, page 23:
coordinate_terms: Slavophilism
glosses: An 19th-century intellectual ideology which saw Russia's development as dependent upon the adoption of Western European technology and liberal government.
extrinsic value
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extrinsic values
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
antonyms: intrinsic value
glosses: Value which is derived relationally or instrumentally, from something’s relations to other things, or for its value as a means to reaching some other end.
forhaled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forhale
forhales
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forhale
Mijares
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mijareses
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Mijares. This surname is mostly found on Venezuelans and Filipinos.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Heideggerians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Heideggerian
advertising agency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: advertising agencies
Senses: glosses: a business enterprise dedicated to creating, planning and handling advertising on behalf of its client companies.
advance directive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: advance directives
Senses: examples: text: The use of a generalized standard, as well as the frequent imprecision of advance directive terminology, underlines the importance of consultation between a declarant and those persons (including health-care agents and medical professionals) likely to be involved in administration of an advance directive.
ref: 1993, Norman L. Cantor, Advance Directives and the Pursuit of Death with Dignity, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 73:
text: Collapsology has been likened to the cultural equivalent of an advance directive in the medical world, whereby you specify what actions should be taken for your health if you are no longer able to make decisions[…]
ref: 2023, Robert R. Janes, Museums and Societal Collapse: The Museum as Lifeboat, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:
synonyms: advance healthcare directive
living will
qualifier: medical law
glosses: A legal document outlining a person's end-of-life medical and healthcare wishes.
advertising agencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of advertising agency
personal identity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It was largely in order to defend the justice of divine rewards and punishments in the face of his own relative agnosticism about substantial souls that Locke offered his reductive empiricist analysis of personal identity in terms of consciousness and memory.
ref: 2002, Don Garrett, Cognition and Commitment in Hume's Philosophy, page 163:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The criteria for the persistence of persons over time (i.e. what makes one the same person as one was yesterday, or ten years ago), and the criteria for the individuation of persons from others.
a good many
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: examples: text: The government has enacted a good many reforms.
text: He declared that these drastic steps would undoubtedly inconvenience a good many people, but the alternative was bankruptcy of the Ulster Transport Authority and the breakdown of public transport services.
ref: 1956 May, “Transport in Ulster”, in Railway Magazine, page 279:
glosses: A substantial number of
Related terms: a good few
a great many
many a
a good few
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: examples: text: The government has enacted a good few important reforms.
glosses: A number of, more than a bare few.
Related terms: a good many
apportionate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: apportionates
form: apportionating
form: apportionated
form: apportionated
Senses: glosses: to apportion shares
apportionate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of proportional, Synonym of apportioned.
synonyms: word: proportional
word: Synonym of apportioned
Derived terms: apportionateness
Smurfette principle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the Smurfette principle
Etymology: Named after the character Smurfette, the only major female character in The Smurfs. Coined by Katha Pollitt in 1991.
Senses: glosses: The practice in fiction, such as in film and television series, of including only one woman in an otherwise male ensemble.
wikipedia: Smurfette
The Smurfs
Related terms: smurf
Bechdel test
haustral contraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haustral contractions
Senses: glosses: An involuntary movement of the haustrum in the colon that aids in digestion.
nonidentity problem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The articulation of the problem is credited to Derek Parfit in his work Reasons and Persons.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: the philosophical problem involving our ethical obligations to future persons which derives from the observation that different courses of action will result in entirely different, or nonidentical, persons coming to be.
wikipedia: Derek Parfit
haustral contractions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haustral contraction
wisdom of Silenus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: 1869 AD, Friedrich Nietzsche The Birth of Tragedy
"There is an old legend that king Midas for a long time hunted the wise Silenus, the companion of Dionysus, in the forests, without catching him. When Silenus finally fell into the king’s hands, the king asked what was the best thing of all for men, the very finest. The daemon remained silent, motionless and inflexible, until, compelled by the king, he finally broke out into shrill laughter and said these words, “Suffering creature, born for a day, child of accident and toil, why are you forcing me to say what would give you the greatest pleasure not to hear? The very best thing for you is totally unreachable: not to have been born, not to exist, to be nothing. The second best thing for you, however, is this — to die soon.” What is the relationship between the Olympian world of the gods and this popular wisdom? It is like the relationship of the entrancing vision of the tortured martyr to his torments. Now, as it were, the Olympic magic mountain reveals itself and shows us its roots. The Greek knew and felt the terror and horrors of existence: in order to be able to live at all, he must have placed in front of him the gleaming dream birth of the Olympians...In this way, the gods justify the lives of men, because they themselves live it — that is the only satisfactory theodicy! Existence under the bright sunshine of such gods is experienced as worth striving for in itself, and the essential pain of the Homeric men refers to separation from that sunlight, above all in the fact that such separation is coming soon, so that people could now say of them, with a reversal of the wisdom of Silenus, “The very worst thing for them was to die soon; the second worst was to die at all.” When the laments resound now, they tell once more of short-lived Achilles, of the changes in the race of men, transformed like leaves, of the destruction of the heroic age. It is not unworthy of the greatest hero to long to live on, even as a day labourer. Thus, in the Apollonian stage, the “Will” spontaneously demands to keep on living, the Homeric man feels himself so at one with living, that even his lament becomes a song of praise."
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The idea that it is wisest for humans to have never been born, and having been born, it is wisest that they die soon.