cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
macrovertebrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrovertebrates
Etymology: From macro- + vertebrate.
Senses: glosses: A relatively large vertebrate
Related terms: microvertebrate
malacosteine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malacosteines
Senses: glosses: Any loosejaw of the genus Malacosteus.
maxillolacrimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ækɹɪməl
Etymology: From maxillo- + lacrimal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to, or connecting the maxilla and the lacrimal bone
diplochory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dispersal of seeds that takes place in more than one stage, generally by different methods.
nasopremaxillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From naso- + premaxillary.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the nose and the premaxillae
occipitoventral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From occipito- + ventral.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: occipital and ventral
oreinirostral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὀρεινός (oreinós, “mountainous”) + rostral.
Senses: glosses: Having a tall, domed beak or snout.
osteodermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From osteo- + dermal or osteoderm + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to osteoderms
New Thoughtist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: New Thoughtists
Etymology: From New Thought + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person with New Thought beliefs
New Thoughtists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of New Thoughtist
gold-plating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gold-plate
ganophyllites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ganophyllite
OSASCOMP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Order of adjectives: opinion, size, age, shape, colour, origin, material, purpose
chemoperfusions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemoperfusion
Lydian stones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lydian stone
DWEMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of DWEM
Khaters
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Khater
Khater
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Arabic خَاطِر (ḵāṭir).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
palpebrals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palpebral
Rowling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈraʊlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈroʊlɪŋ/
homophone: rolling
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: J. K. Rowling, author of Harry Potter.
Derived terms: JKR
Rowldemort
Rowlingesque
Rowlingian
paramacellodid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paramacellodids
Etymology: Clipping of translingual Paramacellodidae
Senses: glosses: Any extinct scincomorph lizard of the family Paramacellodidae
Hypernyms: scincomorph
paryphoplasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paryphoplasms
Etymology: From Ancient Greek παρυφή (paruphḗ, “border on a robe”) + -plasm
Senses: glosses: A peripheral ribosome-free region of a planctomycete cell
Related terms: paryphoplasmic
alt left
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The election has now come and gone, full of sound and fury, signifying how much more than nothing, no one is yet sure as recounts are done while the fractured mainstream media (MSM) pontificates, and the alt left and right variants mutter in the Internet shadows.
ref: 2016, Ted Denmark, Winged Messengers: A Contactee Memoir, →ISBN:
text: But when you have a radical alt left fool appointing radical alt left judges who put radical political agendas above the law, this is what you get.
ref: 2016 December 6, Deplorable Mark, “Alt left radical judge forces Michigan to recount, costing state tens of millions, violating state law”, in Political Euwetopia (Usenet):
text: We heard about it from Rush, and Fox, not from the alt left fake news purveyors, who chose to ignore and cover-up.
ref: 2017 February 18, Kamakazee, “Alt left fake news having hissy fit for being called out by the duly elected president. Constitutional crisis and all that”, in PoliticalForum (Usenet):
glosses: Alternative form of alt-left.
penaeidean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penaeideans
Senses: glosses: Any marine crustacean of the family Penaeidae
in foro conscientiae
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: in foro conscientiæ
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin in forō conscientiae (“in the court of conscience”).
Senses: examples: text: Those human laws, that annex a punishment to it, do not at all increase it’s moral guilt, or superadd any fresh obligation in foro conscientiae to abstain from it’s perpetration.
ref: 176, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, book, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC, pages 42-43:
text: The principle of the censorship is still uncompromisingly maintained by the Roman Catholic Church; and this, though in general binding only in foro conscientiae, has necessarily had considerable importance in states which recognize the papacy as an independent power relations with which are established by concordat.
ref: 1911, Press Laws, entry in Encyclopædia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, vol. 22, p. 300
glosses: morally, but not necessarily legally.
platyrostral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒstɹəl
Etymology: From platy- + rostral.
Senses: glosses: Having a flat, wide beak
praeacetabular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of preacetabular.
in foro conscientiæ
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of in foro conscientiae.
premaxillomaxillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪləɹi
-æksɪlɛəɹi
Etymology: From pre- + maxillo- + maxillary.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or connecting a premaxilla and a maxilla
fillet weld
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fillet welds
Senses: glosses: A weld of two pieces of metal at an angle.
pseudocaniniform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + caniniform.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of a pseudocanine tooth
pseudoziphodonty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being pseudoziphodont
fuggin'
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of fucking.
fuggin'
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of fucking.
fugging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fug
glosses: present participle and gerund of fugg
fugging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: We didn't have all these fugging nets and seashells around.
ref: 2009, Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle: A Novel, →ISBN, page 26:
text: I'm so fugging soh ... rry. Jesus. God. I'm so sorry. I'm so fugging sorry.
ref: 2012, Drew Campbell, Dead Letter House, →ISBN:
text: I'm going to cut your fugging ears off.”
ref: 2013, George Dawes Green, The Caveman's Valentine, →ISBN:
text: 'You know, you look fugging fabulous still. Fugging fabulous.
ref: 2015, Rosa Fedele, The Red Door:
synonyms: flipping
flogging
freaking
fricking
frigging
glosses: Euphemistic form of fucking.
fugging
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Euphemistic form of fucking.
bipolarism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bipolarisms
Etymology: From bipolar + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Political scientists and international observers debated whether the international system had become unipolar (with the United States as the sole superpower) or multipolar (with competing economic and military powers represented by the United States, China, Europe, and perhaps other countries and regions, depending on the political scientist consulted) in the aftermath of bipolarism.
ref: 2004, Ellen Grigsby, Analyzing Politics, →ISBN, page 250:
text: East–West bipolarism is also associated with the “zero-sum” game (“my gain your loss”) of political-military rebalancing through military interventions or subversions in any Third World area where the adversary makes fresh inroads.
ref: 2009, Marco Rimanelli, The A to Z of NATO and Other International Security Organizations, →ISBN:
text: To give credibility to its separation from the PD, the ApI had to declare bipolarism a failure and once again stress the usefulness, in the present situation in Italy, of a centrist, reforming party—one whose strength relies on concrete proposals and not on ideological radicalism.
ref: 2011, Elisabetta Gualmini, Eleonora Pasotti, Much Ado About Nothing?, →ISBN, page 106:
text: One of the most prominent features of Cypriot party politics is the one which is also systemic at the party system level: bipolarism – the deep social, ideological and political division between right and left.
ref: 2014, James Ker-Lindsay, Resolving Cyprus: New Approaches to Conflict Resolution, →ISBN, page 52:
text: Born after the end of the First Republic (1948–92), bipolarism had gone through different phases, but never faded away.
ref: 2016, Susannah Verney, Anna Bosco, Protest Elections and Challenger Parties, →ISBN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The characterization and practice of politics as the struggle and balance between left-wing and right-wing powers or ideologies.
bipolarisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bipolarism
bipolarist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bipolarist
form: most bipolarist
Etymology: From bipolar + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: In retrospect, what seems principally to have been lacking at this time was any real understanding, or perhaps rather acceptance, among the ENDC nuclear powers of the actual gait of proliferation, and of its relationship to what the still prevailing bipolarist philosophy considered to be the 'central strategic balance'.
ref: 1969, Adelphi Papers - Issues 56-73:
text: There are two unavoidable conclusions from this examination of the world's experience of arms control in the nuclear age: what has been achieved has been ineffective and insufficient, and it has been bipolarist in the sense that it has been devised and carried through into international treaties almost entirely by the joint and exclusive efforts of the United States and the Soviet Union.
ref: 1971, Elizabeth Young, Ritchie Calder, Pacem in Maribus - Volumes 1-3, page 29:
text: The bipolarist trend tends to reduce all regional conflicts to the matrix of East-West relations, while the regionalist highlights the essentially regional thrusts of conflicts that impose limits to superpower hegemonism.
ref: 1988, Journal of Defense & Diplomacy - Volume 6, page 102:
text: The incipient bipolarist undertone of this document also owed much to Hansen's view of the economic factors.
ref: 1992, Carlo Maria Santoro, Diffidence and ambition: the intellectual sources of U.S. foreign policy:
glosses: Pertaining to bipolarism.
bipolarist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bipolarists
Etymology: From bipolar + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Plato was a bipolarist in his exposition of the "unity of opposites" in such seeming bifurcations as the One and Many, Identity and Difference, Same and Other, True and False, Being and Non- Being, Rest and Motion, Permanence and Change.
ref: 1955, James McKeen Cattell, Will Carson Ryan, Raymond Walters, School & Society - Volumes 81-82, page 178:
text: The basic critical vision is sensible and comprehensive: Melville is seen not as a formulator of rigid antinomies but as an habitual bipolarist, both attracted to and repelled by opposed ideas.
ref: 1962, Clarence Louis Frank Gohdes, American Literature:
text: The bipolarist says: A poem is a poem, and not another thing. The making and responding occur within the cultural envelope of society.
ref: 1990, New Quest - Issue 80, page 94:
glosses: One who views something in terms of two exclusive categories.
bipolarists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bipolarist
Burmic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)mɪk
Senses: examples: text: Some scholars believe the Tibetic and Burmic divisions to be premature and that for the present their subdivisions (such as Bodish, Himalayish, Kirantish, Burmish, Kachinish, Kukish) should be considered as the classificatory peaks around which the Sino-Tibetan languages group themselves as members or more or less distant relatives.
ref: 1991, The New Encyclopaedia Britannica: Marcopædia, page 723:
text: The Muji cluster is a newly defined series of Burmic languages affiliated with Phula and spoken in the Sino-Victnam borderlands.
ref: 2007, Philip N. Jenner, Mon-Khmer Studies - Volume 37, page 179:
text: The Burmic languages comprise the Burmish languages, including Burmese, the Gong language and the Loloish, Yi Branch or Ngwi languages, which can be further subclassified into Northern, Central, Southern and Southeastern.
ref: 2008, Christopher Moseley, Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, →ISBN:
text: As discussed in §2.8, as long as a group of languages can be shown to share broad genetic affiliation at an upper level, e.g., Ngwi, Burmic, etc., internal tone system innovations provide a potential lode of robust, paradigm-like criteria for identifying exclusive internal subgroupings.
ref: 2011, Jamin R. Pelkey, Dialectology as Dialectic: Interpreting Phula Variation, →ISBN, page 272:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A branch of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages distantly related to Tibetan and spoken in East Asia over the borders of Burma, including dialects of the Burmese-Lolo (Burmish) subgroup (including Burmese) and the Kachin subgroup.
statuehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From statue + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being a statue.
preventative maintenance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Maintenance done to keep something in working order rather than to repair damage that has already happened.
TMAI
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of tell me about it.
stoneseeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stoneseed
Apollonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Apollonian
kenyaites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kenyaite
comigrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comigration
verticalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verticalism
runs deep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of run deep
running deep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of run deep
ran deep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of run deep
riboplasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riboplasms
Etymology: From ribo- + -plasm.
Senses: glosses: The part of an anammox bacterium that holds the chromosome, ribosomes and anammoxosome; it is surrounded by the paryphoplasm that is analogous to the periplasm that surrounds the cytoplasm in Gram-negative bacteria
anammoxosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anammoxosomes
Senses: glosses: The organelle, in anammox bacteria, in which catabolism takes place
Rosenblatt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
stomiatoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or characteristic of fish of the family Stomiatidae
theriologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: theriological
Etymology: From theriology + -ic or therio- + -logic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to beasts (wild animals)
secret agentry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From secret agent + -ry.
Senses: glosses: The position of being a secret agent.
double agentry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The position of being a double agent.
provisionment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: provisionments
Etymology: From provision + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: But the Spanish Fathers […] came into a hostile country, carrying little provisionment but their breviary and crucifix.
ref: 1927, Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop, Book IX, section 4, page 278-279:
text: Those were wartime provisionments, with Michel being granted "economy" (i.e., commission) contract arrangements; the navy thereby consented to bear much of the risk and cost, including costs engendered by long delays en route, as in 1747-1748, when six cargoes of Michel's masts were tied up in Holland at one time, the carrier being unable to proceed to France.
ref: 1988, Paul Walden Bamford, Privilege and Profit: A Business Family in Eighteenth-Century France:
glosses: The supplying of provisions.
Fanta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæn.tə/
ipa: /ˈfɑn.tə/
ipa: /ˈfɒn.tə/
ipa: /ˈfeɪn.tə/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈfæɳʈaː/
Etymology: Marketing coinage, derived from German Fantasie (“imagination”), which employees were exhorted to use in inventing a name for the new drink.
Senses: examples: text: An hour later we were stuffed with smoked fish, grilled maize-on-the-cob, barbecued beef, fried plantains, and Fanta.
ref: 1996, Neil Peart, “People on the Bus”, in The Masked Rider: Cycling in West Africa, Lawrencetown Beach, N.S.: Pottersfield Press, published 1999, →ISBN, part 2 (Epiphanies and Apostasies), page 179:
glosses: A brand of fruit-flavoured carbonated drink produced by the Coca-Cola Company.
Derived terms: Fanta cake
Fanta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæn.tə/
ipa: /ˈfɑn.tə/
ipa: /ˈfɒn.tə/
ipa: /ˈfeɪn.tə/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈfæɳʈaː/
Forms: form: Fantas
Etymology: Marketing coinage, derived from German Fantasie (“imagination”), which employees were exhorted to use in inventing a name for the new drink.
Senses: glosses: A serving of this drink.
Fanta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæn.tə/
ipa: /ˈfɑn.tə/
ipa: /ˈfɒn.tə/
ipa: /ˈfeɪn.tə/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈfæɳʈaː/
Forms: form: Fantas
Etymology: Two main origins:
* Borrowed from Czech Fanta, from the phrase fantit se (“to go crazy”), from fant (“crazy, eccentric person”), probably borrowed from German Fant (“dandy, inexperienced person”).
* Borrowed from Amharic ፋንታ (fanta).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
unjokingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unjokingly
form: most unjokingly
Etymology: From un- + jokingly.
Senses: synonyms: literally
seriously
unkiddingly
glosses: Without joking; not in jest; seriously.
unfiguratively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unfiguratively
form: most unfiguratively
Senses: glosses: In a way that is not figurative; literally.
Israhel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Israel.
cockweasels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cockweasel
catamnestic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to catamnesis
uneducation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + education.
Senses: examples: text: Nearly six years of age was Manders now, but he still knew very well the gross folly of being much disturbed by such irrational things as death and the hodge-podge of mortal uneducation.
ref: 1899, Elwyn Alfred Barron, Manders: A Tale of Paris, page 8:
text: The sight of a sheepskin coat from Zakopane led me to a discussion of Polish peasant industries, and the high percentage of artistic achievement in spite of wretched poverty and uneducation.
ref: 1911, Alfred Richard Orage, Arthur Moore, The New Age: A Weekly Review of Politics, Literature and Art:
text: But most school magazines I have seen are devastating examples of uneducation.
ref: 1964, New Society, volume 4, page 25:
glosses: Lack of education; ignorance.
Related terms: uneducated
egall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more egall
form: most egall
Senses: examples: text: Wherefore (O kyng) I speake as one for all, / Sithe all as one do beare you egall faith:
ref: 1561, Thomas Norton, Thomas Sackville, Gorboduc; or, Ferrex and Porrex, Smith, Lucy Toulmin, editor, Heilbronn, published 1883, act 1, scene 2, page 13:
glosses: Alternative spelling of egal.
burn-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
glosses: The process by which components of a system are exercised prior to being placed in service (and sometimes before assembly), forcing certain failures to occur under supervised conditions.
examples: text: A huge personal investment results in a huge ‘burn-in’. This is probably the first state that needs to be dealt with, before switching to ‘burn-out’. Indeed discussion about the important interaction between the two could lead to the avoidance of ‘burn-out’ through understanding ‘burn-in’. Interestingly, a large body of literature has shown that professionals in the mental heath^([sic]) services seem to be more vulnerable to the ‘burn-in’—‘burn-out’ process.
ref: 2005, Thomas Hyphantis, Venetsanos Mavreas, “‘Burning In’ – ‘Burning Out’ in Public: Aspects of the Burnout Process in Community-Based Psychiatric Services”, in Alexander-Stamatios G. Antoniou, Cary L. Cooper, editors, Research Companion to Organizational Health Psychology, page 538:
glosses: The phase preceding a burn-out in which a worker's productivity and engagement with their work declines.
Hyponyms: topics: manufacturing
business
word: heat soaking
Related terms: sense: At work
word: burn-out
ice shove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice shoves
Etymology: From ice + shove, in reference to ice being shoved onto shore, and shoving items on shore further inland.
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
synonyms: ice tsunami
glosses: A phenomenon which occurs at the interface of land and water, when partially frozen-over bodies of water with broken ice encounter a constant wind that blows onto shore, blowing the pieces of ice onto shore, which pile up and drive further inland, potentially crushing shoreside buildings or pushing them off their foundations.
ice tsunami
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice tsunamis
Etymology: From being like an incoming tsunami-like tide of ice, inexorably coming onto shore and inland, razing everything before it.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ice shove.
synonyms: word: ice shove
Coordinate terms: ice circle
icedam
ice dam
pressure ridge
Related terms: megatsunami
meteotsunami
tsunami
lava bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lava bombs
Etymology: From lava + bomb. From being formed out of lava ejected into the air, and landing like a bomb.
Senses: glosses: A volcanic bomb that is airborne, or has recently landed.
glosses: Synonym of volcanic bomb.
synonyms: word: volcanic bomb
gets up to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get up to
gotten up to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of get up to
getting up to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of get up to
got up to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of get up to
moonsickle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmuːnˌsɪkl̩/
Forms: form: moonsickles
form: moon sickle
form: moon-sickle
Etymology: From moon + sickle.
Senses: examples: text: It was a beautiful contrast to see her beside her mistress, like a glittering star in attendance upon the pale and almost vanishing moonsickle.
ref: 1843, L[ydia] M[aria] Child, “Slavery’s Pleasant Homes. A Faithful Sketch.”, in [Maria Weston Chapman], editor, The Liberty Bell, Boston, Mass.: Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Fair, →OCLC, page 148:
text: I felt tranquilized while looking at it, as I do when the rosy clouds are fading into gray twilight, and the pale moon-sickle descends slowly behind the dim woods.
ref: 1861 January, L[ydia] Maria Child, “Harriet E. Hosmer. A Biographical Sketch.”, in D[avis] W[asgatt] Clark, editor, The Ladies’ Repository: A Monthly Periodical, Devoted to Literature and Religion, volume XXI, Cincinnati, Oh.: Poe & Hitchcock [et al.], →OCLC, page 4:
text: Long after dark, when the moonsickle was near setting, two wagons full of old acquaintances from around the little water-front drug store, a few workers at the warehouses and some vets of old Company G like Clyde Winston gathered to charivari the new couple before the wedding tour up to Niagara Falls that the newspaper told about.
ref: 1947, Mari Sandoz, “Skyuglers”, in The Tom-Walker: A New Novel, New York, N.Y.: Dial Press, →OCLC; reprinted as The Tom-Walker: A Novel (Bison Book), Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, August 1984, page 17
text: The Jewish month was a lunar month having no less than twenty-nine and no more than thirty days. The first day of the month was determined from the new moon. Of course, the new moon is not visible, but one or two days after the new moon, a faintly glowing moon sickle appears.
ref: 1981, Harold W[alter] Hoehner, “The Day of Christ’s Crucifixion”, in Chronological Aspects of the Life of Christ (Contemporary Evangelical Perspectives), Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan Publishing House, →ISBN, page 99:
text: But the woman of leaves and flowers, clad in the shimmering cloak of forest-green, with the silver moonsickle brooch at her shoulder, was no longer with them.
ref: 1985, Moyra Caldecott, The Tower and the Emerald, London: Arrow Books, →ISBN:
text: So Simeon ben Gamaliel did not fear that a Jew would worship an image of the sun or a moon-sickle on a common object like a water pot, but saw danger in a golden or silver moon-sickle which might be worn as a talisman, as he is quoted in self-explanation in the Gemara.
ref: 1992, Erwin R[amsdell] Goodenough, “Pagan Symbols in Judaism: Astronomical Symbols”, in Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period (Bollingen Series; Mythos), abridged edition, Princeton, N.J.; Oxford: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 153:
glosses: A thin crescent of the moon.
Synonyms: crescent moon
sickle moon
moonsickles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moon sickles
form: moon-sickles
Senses: glosses: plural of moonsickle.
moon sickle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moon sickles
Senses: examples: text: The Jewish month was a lunar month having no less than twenty-nine and no more than thirty days. The first day of the month was determined from the new moon. Of course, the new moon is not visible, but one or two days after the new moon, a faintly glowing moon sickle appears.
ref: 1981, Harold W[alter] Hoehner, “The Day of Christ’s Crucifixion”, in Chronological Aspects of the Life of Christ (Contemporary Evangelical Perspectives), Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan Publishing House, →ISBN, page 99:
glosses: Alternative form of moonsickle.
tightbeam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tightbeams
form: tight-beam
form: tight beam
Etymology: From tight + beam.
Senses: examples: text: “Do I have those tightbeams yet?” “We're acknowledged and pending, sir,” Chen said. “They know we want to talk.”
ref: 2013, James S. A. Corey, Abaddon's Gate:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A focused beam of energy (such as a laser) that contains and transmits information.
stepsisterly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stepsisterly
form: most stepsisterly
Etymology: From stepsister + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Of, or befitting, a stepsister.
stepbrotherly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stepbrotherly
form: most stepbrotherly
Etymology: From stepbrother + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Of, or befitting, a stepbrother.
lava bombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lava bomb
dude food
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Junk food prepared with simple ingredients and with an emphasis on meat.
polystyrene worm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polystyrene worms
Etymology: From its shape.
Senses: glosses: A small polystyrene granule used in packaging.
polystyrene worms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polystyrene worm
smick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smicks
Senses: glosses: A chav; a spide.
smicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smick
sleeve gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sleeve guns
Senses: glosses: A device wrapped around a person's forearm, used to conceal a small firearm under a long-sleeved coat, with a mechanism that allows it to be rapidly extended for use.
glosses: An experimental device developed for the British Army during World War II, essentially a noise-suppressed Welrod pistol minus the pistol grip.
sleeve guns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sleeve gun
Welrod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Welrods
Etymology: All clandestine equipment devised at Station IX in Welwyn Garden City had names starting with Wel, e.g. Welbike, Welman.
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A British bolt-action, magazine-fed suppressed pistol devised during World War II.
Welrods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Welrod
Welbike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Welbikes
Etymology: All clandestine equipment devised at Station IX in Welwyn Garden City had names starting with Wel, e.g. Welman, Welrod. See bike.
Senses: glosses: A British single-seat motorcycle produced during World War II for military use.
Welbikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Welbike
Welman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Welmans
Etymology: All clandestine equipment devised at Station IX in Welwyn Garden City had names starting with Wel, e.g. Welbike, Welrod.
Senses: glosses: A one-man British midget submarine developed for use in World War II, though barely used.
Welmans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Welman
Torpex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Short for torpedo explosive, since it was originally developed for use in torpedoes.
Senses: glosses: A secondary explosive made from RDX, TNT, and powdered aluminium, used in World War II.
pressure hull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌl
Forms: form: pressure hulls
Senses: glosses: A secondary hull in a submarine, inside the main outer hull, that withstands the outside pressure and has normal atmospheric pressure inside.
pressure hulls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pressure hull
wombman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwuːmˌmən/
ipa: /ˈwumˌmən/
Forms: form: wombmen
Etymology: From womb (“uterus”) + man, modelled after woman.
Senses: glosses: A woman.
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Related terms: Rastaman
rastaman
downpressions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of downpression
wombmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wombman
Anglicanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Anglicanizes
form: Anglicanizing
form: Anglicanized
form: Anglicanized
form: Anglicanise
form: anglicanise
form: anglicanize
Etymology: From Anglican + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: The Count resumed by observing that the Committee had done, and might still do, great good, but that we must not attempt to Anglicanize Greece. I replied that we rather wished to Americanize her.
ref: 1823 October 13, Leicester Stanhope, Greece, in 1823 and 1824; Being a Series of Letters and Other Documents on the Greek Revolution, Written During a Visit to That Country, new edition, London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, published 1825, page 12:
text: Although in remote lineage he may have been Scotch, he had become thoroughly Anglicanized, and he disclosed English rather than Scottish traits.
ref: 1904, Lewis O. Brastow, Representative Modern Preachers, New York: Hodder & Stoughton, page 50:
glosses: To anglicize.
examples: text: A report which we strongly suspect has been manufactured by a mock-Orthodox Editor in New-York […] is going the rounds of the Calvinistic prints in town and country. The amount of it is, that about four hundred of the French Clergy have separated themselves from the Roman Catholic Church, and have determined to anglicanize themselves, by taking wives and thus living rather in imitation of a mis-named Reformation, than of the Apostles and their legitimate successors.
ref: 1831 March 19, The Jesuit, volume 2, number 29, page 229:
text: In your attitude towards High Churchmen you are ignoring the breadth and comprehensiveness of the Church of England. […] The Church of England is neither Catholic merely nor Protestant merely, it is both. Some who greatly value the Catholic heritage of this Church, and who do not so value its Protestant heritage, are tempted, we may say, to over-Anglicanize. Others, who greatly value the Protestant heritage, of the Church, and who do not so value its Catholic heritage, are tempted, we may say, to under-Anglicanize.
ref: 1911, S. H. Blake, quoting E. C. Cayley, Synod of the Diocese of Toronto, 1911: A Promise Fulfilled, [Ontario?], page 22:
text: But events were about to happen which were destined to interrupt for some years James’ policy of seeking to strengthen his position by Anglicanising the Scottish Church.
ref: 1919, Ninian Hill, The Story of the Scottish Church from the Earliest Times, Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, →LCCN, page 143:
glosses: To make Anglican.
Related terms: Anglicanization
Anglicanizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Anglicanize
Anglicanizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Anglicanize
Anglicanizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Anglicanization
Anglicanized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Anglicanize
everlasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of everlast
grotbag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grotbags
Etymology: From grot + bag.
Senses: glosses: A dirty or unhygienic person.
grotbags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grotbag
craneman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cranemen
Etymology: From crane + -man.
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A crane operator.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A boy employed to hoist the corves of coals on to the rolleys with the crane.
cranemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of craneman
rolley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rolleys
form: rolly
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A horse-drawn wheeled vehicle used in a mine.
rolleys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rolley
flat lad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flat lads
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A craneman working with tubs and flats.
flat lads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flat lad
fore-overman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fore-overmen
Etymology: From fore- + overman.
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A supervisor in charge of overmen.
fore-overmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fore-overman
interformational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + formational.
Senses: glosses: Between formations.
helper-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helpers-up
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A boy employed to assist the barrowman out of a dip place.
helpers-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of helper-up
hod boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hod boys
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A boy employed to convey coal to wagons in the working place.
hod boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hod boy
hooker-on
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hookers-on
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A hanger-on, or onsetter.
hookers-on
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hooker-on
horsekeeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horsekeepers
Etymology: From horse + keeper.
Senses: synonyms: word: fettler
word: groom
word: ostler
word: sais
word: gorawallah
word: pony boy
glosses: A person who looks after horses, for example in a coal mine.
horsekeepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horsekeeper
unexaggeratedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unexaggeratedly
form: most unexaggeratedly
Etymology: From unexaggerated + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The difference in Dr. Allen's own appearance, when his improvements are in and out, is simply and unexaggeratedly wonderful.
ref: 1861, Hall's Journal of Health, volume 8, page 210:
glosses: Without exaggeration; literally.
reparagraph
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reparagraphs
form: reparagraphing
form: reparagraphed
form: reparagraphed
Etymology: From re- + paragraph.
Senses: glosses: To arrange (text) differently in terms of paragraphs.
reparagraphed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reparagraph
reparagraphs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reparagraph
reparagraphing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reparagraph
forecover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forecovers
Etymology: From fore- + cover.
Senses: examples: text: 2 vols., 4to, contemporary English straight-grained red morocco, borders on side, with English Arms and Crest in gold on forecovers, gilt edges.
ref: 1902, Catalogue of Illustrated Works and First Editions in the Library of Charles
text: On the forecover of the Fine Binding is the Crown of England in Mosaic, a large Shield of Red levant containing the “White Rose of York” and a White Shield with the “Red Rose of Lancaster,” each surmounted by a Heraldic Lion.
ref: 1918, Rare English Books in Fine Bindings - Page 141
text: Oblong, 8vo, new full lilac crushed levant morocco extra, with the Imperial Eagle embossed in gold on green levant on the forecover, the back tooled with the initial H and Crown.
ref: 1923 originally 1821, Sale - Volumes 1699-1722 - Page 92
text: The middle member of the series is in two styles of binding, one, called “Ivorine,” having an ivory-like panel on the forecover imprinted with birds in red.
ref: 1986, The Literary World: A Monthly Review of Current Literature
glosses: A cover of covering located at or near the front of an object.
widge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪdʒ
Forms: form: widges
Etymology: From Middle English wig, *wigge, from Old English wiċġ, from Proto-West Germanic *wigi, from Proto-Germanic *wigją, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to carry; move; transport; ride”).
Senses: examples: text: But what liuinges ſoeuer he had, or hauing liuinges, how beastly ſoeuer he ſpared his money, and rode thether on his widge beaste.
ref: 1587, John Bridges, A Defence of the Government Established in the Church of Englande for Ecclesiasticall Matters.:
text: [addressing the narrator, named Widge] "I'm only going to see that he learns a lesson," said Nick innocently. "Now then. Widge, is it? You know what a widge is where I come from?"
My throat felt too tight to speak. I shook my head.
"A horse. I think I'll call you Horse, although I think you look more like an ass to me. […]"
ref: 1998, Gary Blackwood, The Shakespeare Stealer:
glosses: A horse.
childfreeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From childfree + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being child-free; having no children by choice.
Synonyms: childlessness
Zealandian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Zealandian
form: most Zealandian
Etymology: From Zealand + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Zealandia.
JCC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Jewish Community Center.
Derived terms: JCC Association
JCC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: JCCs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Jewish community center.
glosses: Initialism of Jewish community centre.
moonlight requisitioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of moonlight requisition
moonlight requisitioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of moonlight requisition
AMK
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: What are the iconic features of AMK? What are some of the must try food places in AMK?
ref: 2013, Keng Onn, “Ang Mo Kio GRC & Sengkang West SMC Heritage & Food Trail”, in kebun-baru-youth-club (Usenet):
glosses: Initialism of Ang Mo Kio.
balitaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balitaws
form: balitao
Senses: glosses: A Filipino form of poetic debate with courtship undertones, sung and danced simultaneously by a man and a woman using improvised steps and verses.
callistemon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: callistemons
Senses: glosses: Any plant of the genus Callistemon.
stem group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stem groups
Senses: qualifier: phylogenetics
glosses: A paraphyletic group consisting of an ancestor and all its descendants, excluding the living representatives of a collection of species.
Related terms: crown group
scraighting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scraight
scraights
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scraight
scraighted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scraight
waits upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wait upon
waiting upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wait upon
waited upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wait upon
tubsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tubful
pastrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin pāstrīx. By surface analysis, pastor + -trix.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pastoress.
synonyms: word: pastoress
Eurasian Union
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Eurasian + union
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Eurasian Economic Union.
synonyms: word: Eurasian Economic Union
EAEU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Eurasian Economic Union.
Cupid's dart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: Cupid's darts
Senses: glosses: A blue daisy (Catananche caerulea).
banana bus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banana buses
Etymology: From the bend in the mid section, like a banana.
Senses: glosses: an articulated bus
sulfacetic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The sulfonic acid analogous to acetic acid CH₃SO₂OH
Synonyms: methanesulfonic acid
methylsulfonic acid
sulfacetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to sulfacetic acid or its derivatives
ninas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nina
Ligaya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Aglipay, Quirino, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Mabini, Batangas, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Pagudpud, Ilocos Norte, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Rosario, Northern Samar, Philippines.
Bayani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Naujan, Oriental Mindoro, Philippines.
Luzviminda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of the city of Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines.
villageman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: villagemen
Etymology: From village + -man.
Senses: glosses: an adult male villager
hundredman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hundredmen
Etymology: From Old English hundredmann, equivalent to hundred + -man.
Senses: examples: text: “By your command, Lord Bornhald.” The hundredman sounded only a little disappointed. Touching gauntleted fist to heart, he wheeled away toward the Tuatha’an encampment.
ref: 1992, Robert Jordan, “Chapter 31: Assurances”, in The Shadow Rising (The Wheel of Time; 4), London: Orbit Books, published 2021, →ISBN, page 496:
glosses: A person overseeing a hundred.
Synonyms: bailiff
hundreder
hundredary
centenary
centgrave
porphyrogene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌpɔɹfəˈɹɑd͡ʒəni/
/ˌpɔɹfəˈɹɑd͡ʒɪni/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra, “purple, purple dye”) + -gene.
Senses: examples: text: Round about a throne, where sitting/ (Porphyrogene!)/ In state his glory well befitting/ The ruler of the realm was seen.
ref: 1839 September, Edgar Allan Poe, “The Fall Of The House Of Usher”, in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, volume V, page 148:
glosses: Born into the purple (royalty or the ruling class)
porphyrogene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌpɔɹfəˈɹɑd͡ʒəni/
/ˌpɔɹfəˈɹɑd͡ʒɪni/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra, “purple, purple dye”) + -gene.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of porphyrogenite.
synonyms: word: porphyrogenite
Related terms: Porphyrogenes
vanguardian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the vanguard.
whoze
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of whose.
whoze
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of who’s.
whoze
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of whose.
unwantingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unwantingly
form: most unwantingly
Senses: examples: text: Her thoughts unwantingly turned to those piercing blue eyes and strong embracing arms.
ref: 2004, Golden Gulli Henning, Song of Promise, page 26:
glosses: Without will or desire; not wantingly.
oldie but goodie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oldies but goodies
Senses: synonyms: golden oldie
glosses: Something that is old, but good.
everfleeing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more everfleeing
form: most everfleeing
Etymology: From ever + fleeing.
Senses: glosses: which flees unceasingly
Dunkelberger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
irrisistible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of irresistible.
cave cricket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cave crickets
Senses: glosses: Any cricket of the family Rhaphidophoridae.
Synonyms: word: rhaphidophorid
word: camel cricket
word: spider cricket
word: camelback cricket
word: sand treader
word: crider
word: spricket
word: land shrimp
Hyponyms: sense: cricket in Paphidophoridae
word: cave weta
cave crickets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cave cricket
backuped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misconstruction of backed up.