cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
forestanding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more forestanding
form: most forestanding
Etymology: From fore- + standing.
Senses: examples: text: Many existing textual models take for granted assumptions made by Ricœur who is one of the forestanding figures of a contemporary field referred to as hermeneutics (involved with a study of the theory and practice of texts).
ref: 2003, Zachàr Alexander Laskewicz, Music as Episteme, Text, Sign & Tool: Comparative approaches to musicality as performance, chapter two: “The Musical Text”, § 2.10: ‘Conclusion: the importance of a new approach to text’
glosses: Standing out in the forefront; prominent.
Synonyms: eminent
noteworthy
notable
forepack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forepacks
Etymology: From fore- + pack, modelled on backpack.
Senses: examples: text: The hulls are subdivided by five steel and one wooden watertight bulkheads. In the forepack is a storeroom for provisions, etc.; also gasoline tanks, behind which is a crew space, with ample accommodation for eight men, while aft are smaller but more comfortable quarters for two officers.
ref: 1917, Canada Lumberman and Woodworker, volume 37, page 41:
text: A forepack carried over the saddlebags contained a gas mask, hand spade, food bag, field flask and cooking utensils.
ref: 1991, Alex Buchner, The German infantry handbook, 1939-1945:
text: This could not be applied to the forepack ballast tank but this will be generally operated at a fixed level.
ref: 1993, Proceedings - Offshore Technology Conference:
text: And now there are not only backpacks but forepacks, bulky knapsacks hanging under the chin and alleged by their manufacturers to be an essential security precaution.
ref: 1996, Dervla Murphy, The Ukimwi Road: From Kenya to Zimbabwe:
glosses: A pack or container carried or located on the front or forward side.
foretest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foretests
Etymology: From fore- + test.
Senses: examples: text: This procedure provided a foretest, inspection period, and aftertest, and each 5 underwent one such trial series.
ref: 1964, Perceptual and Motor Skills:
text: Even if he had found positive transfer effects, one could have attributed the gain to the practice effect during the foretest rather than to the improvement of memory per se.
ref: 1972, Morris E. Eson, Psychological foundations of education:
text: The children who made very low ascendancy scores in the foretest were then trained by the experimenter till they had complete mastery of certain play materials—blocks for building certain designs, a jigsaw puzzle, a picture book with its story—[…]
ref: 2014, Robert S. Woodworth, Donald G. Marquis, Psychology (Psychology Revivals): A Study of Mental Life:
glosses: A test conducted or given beforehand; a preliminary test conducted before the inception of an experiment or evaluation.
foretest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foretests
form: foretesting
form: foretested
form: foretested
Etymology: From fore- + test.
Senses: examples: text: The instrument used in this study would be helpful to foretest advisees and hence would facilitate advisor's work in the direction of detecting maladjustments.
ref: 1977, Research Journal of the Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Women's University
glosses: To test beforehand or in advance.
examples: text: This indicates that probably Muslims foretested a greater importance in the diplomatic corps than the modern western states.
ref: 1988, Indian Journal of Politics
glosses: To give evidence for beforehand or in advance.
aftertest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aftertests
Etymology: From after- + test.
Senses: examples: text: In considering the data in terms of gains, it will be remembered that three sets of gains must be kept in mind, the gains made from pretest to aftertest, those made from aftertest to recall test, and those made from pretest to recall test.
ref: 1934, University of Iowa Studies in Education
glosses: A test given or conducted at the conclusion of an experiment or trial.
motherdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mother + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: Lastly, religion is represented as fostering the cause of women, chiefly through its mysteries assigning a divine character, as it were, to motherdom as compared with fatherdom.
ref: 1886, John Ferguson McLennan, Studies in ancient history:
text: That the Aeschylean Oresteia turns on the conflict between motherdom and fatherdom is notorious.
ref: 1906, The Classical Review:
text: Bachofen, the protagonist of the "mother-right" theory in the last century, observed that "motherdom is related to the idea of the day-bearing night, as fatherdom is to light sprung from the union of the sun with mother night."
ref: 1908, Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener, Karl M. Dallenbach, The American Journal of Psychology:
glosses: The world, sphere, or unity of mothers; mothers collectively.
foredoor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foredoors
Etymology: From fore- + door. Cognate with Scots foredoor.
Senses: examples: text: This morning the great foredoor quite open, dancing backwards and forwards with all its weight upon the lower hinge, which must have been broken if the dean had not accidentally come and relieved it.
ref: 1768, Jonathan Swift, The Works of J. Swift:
text: All the pewter is thrown about the kitchen.” But when they looked, all the pewter stood in its place. There then was a loud knocking at the back-door. My father opened it, but saw nothing. It was then at the foredoor. He opened that : but it was still lost labour.
ref: 1825, Horace WELBY (pseud. [i.e. John Timbs.]), Signs before Death:
text: I begged, prayed, would have kneeled to him: But all was in vain: The tyger-hearted man, as Mr. Greville had truly called him, muffled me up in it, and by force carried me thro' a long entry to the foredoor.
ref: 2014, Samuel Richardson, Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Richardson (Illustrated):
glosses: A door located at the fore part of a house or dwelling; front door.
deedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more deedly
form: most deedly
Etymology: From deed + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: You are demon-destroyer and queller of the evil effect of a deedly deed performed to damage me.
ref: 2006, Dr. Rajbali Pandey, Yajurveda:
glosses: Of, befitting, or pertaining to an act or deed; actual.
Related terms: deedful
deedsome
deedly ball
pitstops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pitstop
DCD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: D.C.D.
form: D. C. D.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of (organ) donation after cardiac/circulatory death.
topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Initialism of developmental coordination disorder.
glosses: Abbreviation of dicyandiamide.
glosses: Abbreviation of dermcidin.
Ellipsis of DCD gene (“the gene encoding for the dermcidin protein”).
glosses: Abbreviation of dermcidin.
Ellipsis of DCD protein (“the protein encoded by the DCD gene”).
Coordinate terms: sense: organ donation
word: DBD
sense: organ donation
word: ECD
sense: organ donation
word: SCD
txalapartas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of txalaparta
sexplorer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sexplorers
Etymology: Blend of sex + explorer
Senses: glosses: Someone who engages in sexploration.
sexplorers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sexplorer
Potter Stewart test
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: After Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, who said "I know it when I see it" in regard to hardcore pornography.
Senses: examples: 2001 Bridges and Boundaries: Historians, Political Scientists, and the Study of International Relations
It may not be easy to give a precise, categorical, practical definition of "doing justice to the past," but the concept passes the Potter Stewart test on pornography — we recognize it when we see it or fail to see it, or at least are convinced that we do.
2007 American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation
While I continue to believe more in the Potter Stewart test, I thing Professor Feldman is to be commended for trying to impose some order on the chaos of religion and government, and I am grateful to him for discussing these issues with me
2012 The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe
For example, astrology and phrenology were once considered sciences and only later were cast out as pseudoscientific, so they clearly at one time passed the Potter Stewart test.
glosses: The informal test of identifying something based on whether one intuitively feels it belongs to a certain category.
wikipedia: I know it when I see it
Potter Stewart
Synonyms: Potter Stewart standard
Related terms: IKIWISI
screnches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scrench
ryas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rya
Hintikka sets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hintikka set
Five-Percenters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Five-Percenter
takfired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of takfir
takfirs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of takfir
muadhin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muadhins
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of muezzin.
muadhins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muadhin
ay up me duck
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: A generic greeting.
smart-arse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smart-arses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of smart arse.
smart-arsed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: smart-assed
Senses: glosses: having the irritating qualities of a smart arse, with a know-it-all attitude.
English sparrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: English sparrows
Senses: glosses: A very common small bird of the species Passer domesticus.
Synonyms: sense: Passer domesticus
word: house sparrow
sense: Passer domesticus
word: Indian sparrow
sense: Passer domesticus
word: Indian house sparrow
sense: Passer domesticus
word: sparr
sense: Passer domesticus
word: sparrer
sense: Passer domesticus
word: spadger
sense: Passer domesticus
word: spadgick
sense: Passer domesticus
word: philip
sense: Passer domesticus
word: spuggy
sense: Passer domesticus
word: spur
sense: Passer domesticus
word: sprig
sense: Passer domesticus
word: spatzie
sense: Passer domesticus
word: spotsie
reacquirement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reacquirements
Etymology: From re- + acquirement.
Senses: glosses: action of acquiring again or reacquiring
reacquirer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reacquirers
Etymology: From reacquire + -er.
Senses: glosses: one who acquires again or reacquires
Syrianist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Syrianists
Etymology: From Syrian + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of Syrian culture
Syrianists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Syrianist
endsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more endsome
form: most endsome
form: end-some
Etymology: From end + -some.
Senses: examples: text: I was so naughty, drivin a gold Audi
All we did was throw parties
And show up with Gold Gotti
Handsome, endsome, I'm the one you ran from […]
ref: 1999, Dr. Dre, 2001: Xxplosive:
text: His massive 'The Aldridge-Grainger-Ström Saga', written in 1933–34 while aboard a sailing boat between Europe and Australia, was intended as a gathering of recollections 'before beginning the real end-some [final] form of the book telling the life-story of his mother, himself, his friends, his art, his business- paths',4 but that 'end-some form' eluded him.
ref: 2006, Malcolm Gillies, David Pear, Mark Carroll, Self-Portrait of Percy Grainger:
text: [...] around such night flight the truth flow resides, the jarring notion of endsome furtherance, the man of God, you regret, you reflect, and surrender in your head, your mind, your understanding dance; dancing lightly upon these words wonders [...]
ref: 2012, David Marx, The Salvation Shuffle:
glosses: Pertaining to, indicating, or characterising the end; endly; terminal.
e-payroll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From e- + payroll.
Senses: glosses: The use of computer technology for a payroll.
e-bulletin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-bulletins
Etymology: From e- + bulletin.
Senses: glosses: A bulletin published in electronic format to be read on a computer or similar device.
e-periodical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-periodicals
Etymology: From e- + periodical.
Senses: glosses: A periodical published in electronic format to be read on a computer or similar device.
e-bulletins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-bulletin
e-periodicals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-periodical
home countries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of home country
shoe brushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoe brush
shoebrushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoebrush
transrecursive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪv
Etymology: From trans- + recursive.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Being or relating to a type of operator used in hypercomputation.
courts of last resort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of court of last resort
sphenocorona
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of sphenoid + corona or from spheno- + corona. Coined by Norman W. Johnson in 1969.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polyhedron, one of the Johnson solids, whose faces are composed of 12 equilateral triangles and 2 squares.
Derived terms: augmented sphenocorona
Related terms: sphenomegacorona
hebesphenomegacorona
short-tailed weasels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of short-tailed weasel
half-years
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half-year
sphenomegacorona
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spheno- + mega- + corona. Coined by Norman W. Johnson in 1969.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polyhedron, one of the Johnson solids, whose faces are composed of 16 triangles and 2 squares.
Related terms: sphenocorona
augmented sphenocorona
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Norman W. Johnson in 1969.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polyhedron, one of the Johnson solids, whose faces are composed of 16 equilateral triangles and one square.
Related terms: sphenocorona
half-hours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half-hour
Zala
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A county of Hungary.
triangular hebesphenorotunda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polyhedron, one of the Johnson solids, whose faces are composed of 13 triangles, 3 squares, 3 pentagons, and 1 hexagon.
Related terms: hebesphenomegacorona
sphenocorona
bouvier des Flandres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bouviers des Flandres
Etymology: Borrowed from French bouvier des Flandres (“cattle-dog of Flanders”).
Senses: glosses: A breed of very large black dog with terrier-like appearance.
Morse keys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Morse key
hard discs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hard disc
ring spanners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ring spanner
currant buns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of currant bun
caretaker governments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caretaker government
round herring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: round herrings
form: round herring
Senses: glosses: Any of the family Dussumieriidae of clupeiform fish.
clupeiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Belonging or relating to the order Clupeiformes of ray-finned fish, including herrings and anchovies
clupeiform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clupeiforms
Senses: glosses: Any fish of the order Clupeiformes
gift vouchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gift voucher
unsycophantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsycophantic
form: most unsycophantic
Etymology: From un- + sycophantic.
Senses: glosses: Not sycophantic.
low bridges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of low bridge
moisturising creams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moisturising cream
workfarce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: workfarces
Etymology: Blend of workforce + farce
Senses: glosses: An absurdly inefficient or incompetent workforce.
moisturizing creams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moisturizing cream
south-easterlies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of south-easterly
towniest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of towny: most towny
townier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of towny: more towny
tractor units
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tractor unit
wagon trains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wagon train
workfarces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of workfarce
day-scholar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: day-scholars
form: day scholar
Senses: glosses: A pupil who attends a day school.
examples: text: My intimacy with these sisters goes back as far as my school days at Madame Chegaray's, where Frances Kellogg was a boarding pupil and in a class higher than mine when I was a day-scholar.
ref: 1911, Marian Campbell Gouverneur, As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century, D. Appleton, page 216:
glosses: A pupil who attends a boarding school during the day, but lives at home.
freight cars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freight car
satellite towns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of satellite town
dinkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪŋki/
rhymes: -ɪŋki
Forms: form: dinkeys
Etymology: 1840-50; noun use of dinky; see -ey.
Senses: glosses: A small locomotive, especially with a switch engine.
dinkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dinkey
live rails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of live rail
nontainted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + tainted.
Senses: glosses: Not tainted.
civic centres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of civic centre
forefield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forefields
Etymology: From fore- + field.
Senses: glosses: The nearest part of a field (as of view or of combat).
topics: business
mining
glosses: The face of a mine working.
Synonyms: sense: face of mine working
word: forebreast
forefields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forefield
forebreast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forebreasts
Etymology: From Middle English forebrest, equivalent to fore- + breast. Cognate with Scots forebreist.
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: forefield
glosses: the anterior part of the chest especially of a quadruped
forebreasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forebreast
tummy buttons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tummy button
trunk roads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trunk road
civic center
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: civic centers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of civic centre.
civic centers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of civic center
woolly hats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woolly hat
red carpets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red carpet
sawn-off shotguns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sawn-off shotgun
convention center
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: convention centers
form: convention centre
Senses: glosses: A building or group of buildings, consisting of exhibit halls and often auditoriums, used for hosting conventions, exhibitions and other events.
Synonyms: conference center
exhibition hall
junk jobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of junk job
brake fluids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brake fluid
convention centre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: convention centres
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of convention center.
convention centres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of convention centre
convention centers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of convention center
chakravartin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chakravartins
form: cakravartin
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit चक्रवर्तिन् (cakravartin).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
synonyms: sarvabhauma
glosses: An ideal universal ruler, who rules ethically and benevolently over the entire world.
Related terms: Chuckerbutty
chakravartins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chakravartin
sanding sheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sanding sheet
Chavism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Chavez (“Hugo Chávez”) + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Chavismo; the left-wing populist ideology of Venezuela's Hugo Chávez.
wikipedia: en:Hugo Chávez
roller beds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roller bed
Bolivarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Simón Bolívar, the 19th-century Venezuelan general and liberator who led the struggle for independence throughout much of South America. See -ian and -ism.
Senses: glosses: Any of various sets of political doctrines in parts of South America, especially Venezuela.
wikipedia: Simón Bolívar
Bolivarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bolivarian
dash cam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dash cams
Senses: examples: text: Proliferating as well are personal monitoring devices—dash cams, cyclist helmet cameras to record collisions, doorbells equipped with lenses to catch package thieves—that are fast becoming a part of many a city dweller’s everyday arsenal.
ref: 2018 February, Robert Draper, “They are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet: Technology and Our Increasing Demand for Security have Put Us All under Surveillance. Is Privacy Becoming just a Memory?”, in National Geographic, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2018:
glosses: Alternative form of dashcam.
racing cars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of racing car
destain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: destains
form: destaining
form: destained
form: destained
Etymology: From Old French destaindre (Modern French déteindre, Spanish desteñir). At some point possibly reanalysed as de-/dis- + stain (which is etymologically unrelated).
Senses: glosses: To remove a chemical stain from.
glosses: To lose a chemical stain.
destains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of destain
destainings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of destaining
rental cars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rental car
dash cams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dash cam
autoracks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autorack
ruling gradients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ruling gradient
inland seas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inland sea
minority groups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minority group
rutting seasons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rutting season
smart-arses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smart-arse
under-represents
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of under-represent
under-representing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of under-represent
multiperpetrator
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + perpetrator.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or carried out by, more than one perpetrator.
under-represented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underrepresented
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of under-represent
under-represented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: underrepresented
Senses: glosses: having inadequate representation.
abobioside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An organic compound found in Adenium boehmianum.
echubioside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An organic compound found in Adenium boehmianum.
hongheloside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honghelosides
Senses: glosses: A particular cardenolide glycoside.
Mendlesham chair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mendlesham chairs
Etymology: Named after a village in Suffolk, England.
Senses: glosses: A kind of traditional wooden armchair.
Mendlesham chairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mendlesham chair
mesometrial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meso- + metrial.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the mesometrium
Derived terms: antimesometrial
mesometrially
Gall-Peters projection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gall-Peters projections
Etymology: Named after James Gall and Arno Peters.
Senses: glosses: A form of cylindric equal-area map projection.
perichaetine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Perichaeta + -ine
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having many setae per segment, like earthworms of the genus Perichaeta.
Related terms: lumbricine
proseminars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proseminar
round files
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of round file
crush syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A medical condition characterized by major shock and renal failure after a crushing injury to skeletal muscle.
Synonyms: Bywaters' syndrome
traumatic rhabdomyolysis
myorenal syndrome
Bywaters' syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: It was described by British physician Eric Bywaters in patients during the 1941 London Blitz.
Senses: glosses: crush syndrome
proctosigmoidoscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Etymology: From proctosigmoidoscopy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to proctosigmoidoscopy.
proctosigmoidoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proctosigmoidoscopes
Senses: glosses: The instrument used in proctosigmoidoscopy.
proctosigmoidoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proctosigmoidoscope
taste of one's own poison
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of taste of one's own medicine.
synonyms: word: taste of one's own medicine
smiling death
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The situation in which a patient with crush syndrome is cheerful before extrication, but dies shortly thereafter when the crushing pressure is suddenly released.
melographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From melo- + graphic.
Senses: glosses: Capable of producing a written transcription of any music played upon it.
raw_tags: of a musical instrument
Medicaid mill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Medicaid mills
Senses: glosses: A fraudulent practice that charges the Medicaid system for unnecessary patient visits.
Medicaid mills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Medicaid mill
medullosalean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medullosaleans
Etymology: Medullosales + -an
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the order Medullosales of pteridospermous seed plants characterised by large radiospermic ovules with a vascularised nucellus, complex pollen-organs, stems and rachises with a dissected stele, and frond-like leaves.
medullosaleans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of medullosalean
lyginopteridalean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lyginopteridaleans
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the order Lyginopteridales of archetypal pteridosperms.
lyginopteridaleans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lyginopteridalean
semidemisemiquavers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semidemisemiquaver
procyclically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From procyclical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a procyclical fashion.
roomsets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roomset
midteen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + teen.
Senses: glosses: In the middle of the teenage years.
robocop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: robocops
Etymology: From robo- + cop, after the film RoboCop (1987).
Senses: examples: text: 1990, Library and Information Technology Association (U.S.). National Conference, Michael Gorman, Convergence: Proceedings of the Second National Conference...
As the World Wars were succeeded by the Korean War, which melded into the Vietnam War, science fiction pictured numerous dystopias controlled by means of ever-watchful computer and robocops.
text: Opposite of natural monsters there are technological monsters such as terminators, cyborgs, and robocops—all of which undermine dichotomies between the artificial and the organic, the prosthetic and the natural.
ref: 2010, Tyson E. Lewis, Richard Kahn, Education Out of Bounds, page 1:
text: Robocops, touted by state media as a way of beefing up Shenzhen’s security apparatus, are nowhere to be seen.
ref: 2025 April 21, Amy Hawkins, “Humanoid workers and surveillance buggies: ‘embodied AI’ is reshaping daily life in China”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A cyborg police officer.
wikipedia: RoboCop
robocops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of robocop
ring oscillator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ring oscillators
Senses: glosses: A device composed of an odd number of NOT gates whose output oscillates between two voltage levels, representing true and false. The NOT gates, or inverters, are attached in a chain; the output of the last inverter is fed back into the first.
ring chromosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ring chromosomes
Senses: glosses: A chromosome whose arms have fused together to form a ring.
ring gauge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ring gauges
form: ring gage
Senses: glosses: A cylindrical ring of a thermally stable material, often steel, whose inside diameter is finished to gauge tolerance and is used for checking the external diameter of a cylindrical object.
rock and rye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Rye whiskey sweetened with rock candy, formerly used medicinally.
Meerwein's salt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: After its discoverer, Hans Meerwein.
Senses: glosses: Trimethyloxonium tetrafluoroborate, a strong methylating agent.
wikipedia: Hans Meerwein
rhetoricity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhetoricities
Etymology: From rhetoric + -ity.
Senses: glosses: Quality or degree of being rhetorical.
telecottaging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From telecottage + -ing.
Senses: glosses: teleworking
Related terms: telecottage
boozeroo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boozeroos
Etymology: From booze + -eroo.
Senses: glosses: A session of alcohol drinking.
examples: text: […] until next time my words find their way to The Land Down Under, off to the boozeroo with you — but watch out for the technicolour yawns […]
ref: 2005, Elrod Stanton, Resurrection and Reclamation, page 425:
glosses: A place for drinking; a public house.
boozeroos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boozeroo
baby wipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baby wipes
Senses: glosses: A large wet wipe intended for cleaning a baby after changing their diaper.
sleuthwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sleuth + work.
Senses: glosses: detective work
detective work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We did some detective work and found out that the water was getting in through a cracked pipe.
glosses: investigative research
Synonyms: sleuthwork
uncreativity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + creativity.
Senses: examples: text: The problem of uncreativity may be that people become trapped in constructed ideas that lead to the premature rejection of new faint voices that do not fit in with the constructions that they have become comfortable with.
ref: 2013, Rupert Wegerif, Dialogic: Education for the Internet Age, Routledge, →ISBN, page 79:
synonyms: uncreativeness
glosses: The quality of being uncreative.
dragonlord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dragonlords
Etymology: From dragon + lord.
Senses: examples: text: "One whom the dragons will speak with," he said, "that is a dragonlord, or at least that is the center of the matter. It's not a trick of mastering the dragons, as most people think. Dragons have no masters. The question is always the same, with a dragon: will he talk to you or will he eat you? If you can count upon his doing the former, and not doing the latter, why then you're a dragonlord."
ref: 1970, Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan:
topics: fantasy
glosses: One who has power over dragons.
dragonlords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dragonlord
genocidable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From genocide + -able.
Senses: examples: text: To what extent can we stop making the culture of the Other so dehumanized and Satanized as to make the Other fit to be genocidable?
ref: 1999, Ursula E. Beitter, The New Europe at the Crossroads, page 129:
glosses: Capable of being genocided.
examples: text: There had been the argument in the past that removing all the genocidable monsters would increase the generation rate of the more dangerous non-genocidable monsters.
ref: 2012 January 6, Janis, “A prelimary review of UnNethack”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet):
topics: roguelikes
video-games
glosses: Capable of being completely eliminated from the game by means of magic.
raw_tags: of a class of monsters
genociding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of genocide
genocided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of genocide
ejidos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ejido
vaporsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vaporsome
form: most vaporsome
Etymology: From vapor + -some.
Senses: glosses: Full of vapor; steamy, vaporous.
glosses: Without substance; empty, shallow.
petalsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more petalsome
form: most petalsome
Etymology: From petal + -some.
Senses: glosses: Full of petals.
Synonyms: petalous
gazongas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gazonga
worst for wear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: form only
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of worse for wear.
worse for ware
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of worse for wear.
geekazoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geekazoid
gynesexual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gynesexual
form: most gynesexual
form: gynosexual
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γυνή (gunḗ, “woman”) + -sexual.
Senses: glosses: Sexually attracted to girls, women or females.
gynesexual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gynesexuals
form: gynosexual
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γυνή (gunḗ, “woman”) + -sexual.
Senses: glosses: A gynesexual person or organism.
matrisexual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From matri- + sexual.
Senses: examples: text: Although Chodorow acknowledges the contributions of biology to the infant's matrisexual experience and subsequent maternal symbiosis, she maintains that the oedipal crisis is culturally specific.
ref: 1988, Madeleine R. Grumet, Bitter Milk: Women and Teaching, page 17:
glosses: sexually attracted to one's mother
Derived terms: matrisexuality
patrisexual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From patri- + sexual.
Senses: glosses: sexually attracted to one's father
androsexual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæn.dɹəʊˈsɛk.ʃuː.əl/
ipa: /ˌæn.dɹoʊˈsɛk.ʃu.əl/
ipa: /ˌæn.dɹəˈsɛk.ʃu.əl/
rhymes: -ɛkʃuəl
rhymes: -ɛkʃuːəl
Forms: form: more androsexual
form: most androsexual
Etymology: From andro- + -sexual.
Senses: glosses: Sexually attracted to boys, men or males.
androsexual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæn.dɹəʊˈsɛk.ʃuː.əl/
ipa: /ˌæn.dɹoʊˈsɛk.ʃu.əl/
ipa: /ˌæn.dɹəˈsɛk.ʃu.əl/
rhymes: -ɛkʃuəl
rhymes: -ɛkʃuːəl
Forms: form: androsexuals
Etymology: From andro- + -sexual.
Senses: glosses: An androsexual person, or other androsexual organism.
personish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more personish
form: most personish
Etymology: From person + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: But a disciple of Spinoza will claim that a person is a mode of the one substance; Nature, as it were, is "personish here-about".
ref: 2002, William P. Alston, Realism and Antirealism:
text: By adding some recognisable ghostly voice coming out of nowhere and commenting on the deeds, the scenario certainly gets more “personish” (and scary), but it nevertheless won't be a candidate for serious consideration, because we would still lack the means for establishing a reliable connection […]
ref: 2007, Reinhard Merkel, F. Wuetscher, G. Boer, Intervening in the Brain: Changing Psyche and Society:
glosses: Like or characteristic of a person; somewhat personlike.
matriarchist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From matriarchy + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to matriarchy.
matriarchist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matriarchists
Etymology: From matriarchy + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent or supporter of matriarchy.
Czecholand
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: the homeland of Czechs
spinely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈspaɪnli/
Forms: form: more spinely
form: most spinely
Etymology: From spine + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Some say the mountains grew from a molehill: a tiny little bump in the road that at one time could have been removed easily. But the molehill grew, nearly overnight, and became a spooky and spinely, foreboding range known as the Belgies.
ref: 2010, Phil Drake, Fat Chance:
glosses: Like or resembling a spine; spinal.
Latinophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latino- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: California is a state that generates a lot of tension around educational reform — a tension that can be traced largely to Latinophobia.
ref: 2002, Lourdes Diaz Soto, Making a Difference in the Lives of Bilingual/bicultural Children:
text: Whereas the glamour media adore their royal family of "Hispanic" luminaries, popular news outlets are, as ever, feverishly stoking anti-immigrant sentiment and Latinophobia.
ref: 2005, Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, John M. Nieto-Phillips, Interpreting Spanish Colonialism: Empires, Nations, and Legends, UNM Press, →ISBN, page 253:
text: In response to the Latinophobia overtaking the country, Latino/a immigrants and citizens marched on April 10, 2006, in cities all around the country in defense of immigrants' rights.
ref: 2010, Harold Joseph Recinos, Hugo Magallanes, Jesus in the Hispanic Community: Images of Christ from Theology to Popular Religion, Westminster John Knox Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Fear or hatred of Latinos.
Derived terms: Latinophobe
Latinophobic
Latinophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin + -o- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: [...] Latin is no longer necessary to the higher culture of our race. The best medicine for this phase of Latinophobia is a little Sunday School lesson in St. Paul, 1 Cor. XV. 35, where the great apostle and scholar illustrates the difference between [...]
ref: 1919, The Alumni Bulletin of the University of Virginia, page 227:
glosses: Fear or hatred of Latin.
unclefucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unclefuckers
Etymology: From uncle + fucker.
Senses: examples: text: Shut your fucking face, uncle fucker!
ref: 1999, Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Pam Brady, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut:
text: Why do you have to be a down low motherfucker? My bad, I meant to say unclefucker. You nasty, dick-in-the-booty motherfuckers make me sick!
ref: 2013, Unpretty Secrets, page 220:
text: Uncle fucker! It took Edwin about twenty seconds to finally begin to move again, and he seemed to be ok.
ref: 2017, Psychotic Logician, The Philosophy of Mind Travel:
text: And unless this unclefucker waived it, it would slowly deplete all the cash he had so fiercely preserved throughout his smack-down talks with now-former investors, employees, and creditors!
ref: 2017, Rob Reid, After On:
text: Mutherfucker.^([sic]) Why not fatherfucker? Or unclefucker? Or grandfatherfucker. I mean, men are the bastards, am I right, Oz?
ref: 2020, Joe Clifford, Occam's Razor:
glosses: A term of abuse, variant of motherfucker.
glosses: One who engages in incest with their uncle.
glosses: One who engages in sex with an uncle.
Coordinate terms: aunt fucker
Palestinkian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of Palestinian + stink.
Senses: examples: text: maybe the palestinkian pole vaulting champion will become kike pole vaulting hero
with special vest already
ref: 2004 August 26, BTov, “Congratulations Gali ! - Israel wins gold!!!”, in soc.culture.israel (Usenet):
text: I agree. I am convince that over time, a nice palestinkian local would
have asked the man to hand over his AK-47, then proceeded to make a
citizens arrest and hand the alleged terrorist over to the Israeli
authorities.
ref: 2006 March 28, drda...@yahoo.com, “Jenin: IDF kills wanted Palestinian”, in talk.politics.mideast (Usenet):
text: So long as Palestinkian Arabs continue institutionalised anti-Jew
indoctrination (the Protocols of the Elders of Zion are a literal
historical document to these monkeys) I hope they continue to eat the
dust of whatever shithole they inhabit, no different to every other
part of the Middle East....Except Israel.
ref: 2008 January 2, cannon_fodder, “Tilly, a fair go?”, in nz.general (Usenet):
glosses: Palestinian.
Palestinkian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Palestinkians
Etymology: Blend of Palestinian + stink.
Senses: examples: text: Like the Palestinkians and their inability to recognize a good deal when
they were offered one, the Repubs never miss an opportunity to miss an
opportunity.
ref: 2003 March 18, Petey Blue, “Informal Poll (Where's Zabe when you need her?)”, in alt.tv.homicide (Usenet):
text: THIS ISLAMIC SAVAGE LERNER DID NOT MENTION THAT THOSE PALESTINKIANS THAT GOT
KILLED WERE IN A BATTLE ZONE. ISRAELIS WERE SHOOTING AT ARMED TERRORISTS.
THE ISRAELIS THAT WERE KILLED IN THE BUS WERE NOT ARMED.
ref: 2004 January 31, Peter, “Rabbi Michael Lerner: Terror In Jerusalem”, in aus.religion.islam (Usenet):
text: Wrong liberal jerk, it was really written by a palestinkian. Watch tv
and see the homocide mentality of these folk due to islam, I have been
there and seen it myself, even little kids dressing in fake bomb
outfits and pretending to blow up jew and others.
ref: 2005 July 4, nospamwanted, “OT from a palestinian writer”, in alt.guitar.amps (Usenet):
text: You should be thankful people like me don't run Israel, my justice on these
vermin palestinkians would be very harsh indeed.
ref: 2006 June 30, halle, “Israel breaches international law”, in uk.politics.misc (Usenet):
text: I publicly favor the expulsion of all Palestinkians from Israel. That is
reasonable, fair and equitable.
ref: 2011 October 11, Tony Owens, “Re: Public Narrowly Favors A Palestinian State — But Not U.N. Membership - Undeserving due to kill all the Jews, Infidels, 12 Imam/Madhi Anti-Christ thing”, in soc.culture.palestine (Usenet):
glosses: A Palestinian.
foremake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foremakes
form: foremaking
form: foremade
form: foremade
Etymology: From fore- + make.
Senses: examples: text: [...] that the uncomposed song (“ inconditum carmen”) sung by the Persians, was unpleasing to the ears of strangers: thus distinguishing between that and the condita carmina (foremade songs) which he or the Grecians had commonly heard.
ref: 1832, The Gentleman's Magazine:
text: That blessed mate he found for him, foremade, In the recesses of the wilderness.
ref: 1859, James Scott, The Guardian Angel: A Poem in Three Books:
text: Thus, while each fateful only is to himself, We can foretell our future; we foremake.
ref: 1877, Philip James Bailey, Festus, a Poem:
text: [...] but, rising abruptly northward, they prevented the passage of armies except at the far north, and subordinate ranges curtained and defended the intervening valleys as foremade runways for invasive operations northward, while opening into supply sections to the south.
ref: 1914, Francis Marshal Pierce, The battle of Gettysburg:
text: It proposed to abolish anything definite and categorical and put in its place that which is no more than situational, contextual, and ephemeral. It foremakes objective factuality for relativized subjectivity.
ref: 2012, Nicholas Rescher, Pragmatism: The Restoration of Its Scientific Roots:
glosses: To make beforehand; make or create in advance; premake.
Derived terms: foremade
foremade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From foremake.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of foremake
foremade
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more foremade
form: most foremade
Etymology: From foremake.
Senses: glosses: Made previously, beforehand, or in advance; premade.
foreclaim
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foreclaims
form: foreclaiming
form: foreclaimed
form: foreclaimed
Etymology: From fore- + claim.
Senses: examples: text: And then at last Callirhoe, the child Of Achelous, for her infant sons Shall beg those years“ from Jove on bended knee, To speed their vengeance for the victor's death. And, at her suit, Jove shall foreclaim that gift Of his stepdaughter,“ and her sons shall be Transformed to manhood from their infancy.'
ref: 1998, A. D. Melville, Metamorphoses:
glosses: To claim in advance; claim beforehand.
foreclaim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foreclaims
Etymology: From fore- + claim.
Senses: glosses: A claim made beforehand or in advance; a prior claim.