cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Lovecraft Country
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lovecraft country
Etymology: From Lovecraft + country. Coined by Keith Herber, later used and popularized by the role-playing games publisher Chaosium.
Senses: examples: text: 2009, Keith Herber, Miskatonic River Press, "New Tales of the Miskatonic Valley", →ISBN
An anthology of six scenarios designed for use with the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game. Set in Lovecraft Country, a fictional area of New England created by horror author H.P. Lovecraft.
text: Ramsay Campbell, who created a version of Lovecraft country in and around Liverpool, and Southern Gothic writer Fred Chappell.
ref: 2013, Charles L. Crow, A Companion to American Gothic, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
text: It also established Miskatonic University and Arkham as key locations in Lovecraft Country
ref: 2014, Paul Roland, The Curious Case of H.P. Lovecraft, Plexus Publishing, →ISBN:
text: Very early, he started to create Lovecraft country; a geography of terror that came to include “witch-haunted Arkham” and “shadowed Innsmouth," places he describes in such minute detail that ingénues in Lovecraft lore, for almost a century now, have often assumed these places could be located on maps of Massachuesetts and set out in search of them.
ref: 2016, W. Scott Poole, In the Mountains of Madness:
text: Lovecraft's writing has inspired games as well: a popular role-playing game, The Call of Cthulhu, is set within Lovecraft country, the blend of fictional and real locales, mostly in New England, in which he set his tales.
ref: 2018, H.P. Lovecraft, Leverett Butts, H.P. Lovecraft, page 1:
text: Horror in Lovecraft Country: 2 Hours of Music for Lovecraftian Gaming
ref: 2019, Graham Plowman, "Horror in Lovecraft Country", ASIN B07X5VPYC6
text: 2020, Golden Goblin Press, "Children of Lovecraft Country", →ISBN
Children of Lovecraft Country: Six Stories of Growing Up in Arkham, Kingsport, Dunwich, and Innsmouth.
qualifier: horror fiction
glosses: The fictionalized universe populated by the supernatural beings of H.P. Lovecraft's horror fiction and that of other authors inspired by Lovecraft's works, especially the fictionalized version of New England.
Related terms: Galaxy Far Far Away
Middle-earth
Neverland
Oz
Wonderland
Lovecraft Country
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lovecraft country
Etymology: From Lovecraft + country. Coined by Keith Herber, later used and popularized by the role-playing games publisher Chaosium.
Senses: examples: text: When Resnais was on a lecture tour of America in 1972, he was enchanted to find himself deep in Lovecraft country, in gloomy Massachusetts.
ref: 1975 Autumn, Frederick Busi, “Alain Resnais' Stavisky: The Beginning of the End”, in The Massachusetts Review, volume 16, number 4:
text: And especially my wife Patricia, who spent weeks tramping with me through Lovecraft country
ref: 1998, Scott Aniolowski, editor, Return to Lovecraft Country, →ISBN:
text: Mahnke lives with his family in the historic North Shore area of Boston, the very heart of Lovecraft Country and the epicenter of the Salem witch trials.
ref: 2018, A Mahnke, The World of Lore, Volume 3: Dreadful Places:
glosses: Eerie small town and countryside settings resembling the locales found in H.P. Lovecraft's fictional universe.
Coordinate terms: Oz
wonderland
unscrunch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unscrunches
form: unscrunching
form: unscrunched
form: unscrunched
Etymology: From un- + scrunch.
Senses: examples: text: The two balls of scrunched paper in the waste bin began, creakingly, to unscrunch.
ref: 2016, Adam Roberts, chapter 1, in The Thing Itself, →ISBN:
glosses: To restore or become restored from a crumpled or squeezed condition.
Culkerton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST9396).
Rodmarton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST9497).
incelosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incelospheres
Etymology: From incel + -o- + sphere.
Senses: examples: text: Almost 1,000 references to dehumanising misogyny or violent action are recorded each day in the “incelosphere” as the toxicity of male supremacist content continues to intensify.
ref: 2022 October 30, Mark Townsend, “Experts fear rising global ‘incel’ culture could provoke terrorism”, in The Guardian, retrieved 03 Dec 2023:
ref: 2023 June, Lewys Brace, Stephane J. Baele, Debbie Ging, “Where do ‘mixed, unclear, and unstable’ ideologies come from? A data-driven answer centred on the incelosphere”, in Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism:
glosses: The online communities where incels communicate.
slow-march
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slow-marches
form: slow-marching
form: slow-marched
form: slow-marched
Senses: examples: text: Half-an-hour later the whistle blew to summon the passengers back to the train, and they then moved on to Tetbury, where a procession was formed and slow-marched into the centre of the town, led by two top-hatted "mourners".
ref: 1960 June, M.G.D. Farr, “Railbus services in the Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 366:
glosses: To perform a slow march.
slow-marched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slow-march
affectiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From affectious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "... tending to the surtie of God's true religion and professors thereof, the welfair of the King's Majesty, and commonwealthe of the haill realme, whereanent we desire you affectiously to give him some credit.— From Stirling, xxi Sept., 1584.“
ref: 1584, Stirling, letter quoted in 1864, Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc, page 472
text: How affectiously the speaches! With what a grace he teacheth! How ioyfully the hart leaps, while it takes the words of eternal life , […]
ref: 1634, Stephanus Luzvic, Henry Hawkins, The Devout Hart:
text: Cusake I demed to be more affected to Desmond than Ormond, White I knew, and all others that knew him thought him to be affectiously devoted to Ormond, as one borne bis follower, and yet both honest.
ref: 1855, Ulster Journal of Archaeology, page 44:
text: ... pairtly married, but specially of this bearer, and requests you maist affectiously to receive him and use him charitably, as ye are bound, both be the law of nature and grace, as also, to contribute your helping hand and assistance, […]
ref: 1870, William Baird, ... Genealogical Collections Concerning the Sir-name of Baird: And the Families of Auchmedden, Newbyth, and Sauchton Hall in Particular. With Copies of Old Letters and Papers Worth Preserving, and Account of Several Transactions in this Country During the Last Two Centuries, page 61:
text: ... you know that before I took bed : I made my testament in such sort as was convenient, the which I have sealed and subscribed with my hand, and closed with stamp, which presently is in Sterling. I beseech you altogether most affectiously ...
ref: 1883, Claude Nau (sieur de la Boisselière), The History of Mary Stewart: From the Murder of Riccio Until Her Flight Into England
glosses: Affectionately; in an affectious way.
Rosemount
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From rose + mount.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Rosemont.
glosses: A locality in the Sunshine Coast Region, Sunshine Coast district, South East Queensland, Australia.
glosses: A district of Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie borough, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
glosses: A city in Dakota County, Minnesota, United States.
glosses: A census-designated place in Clay Township, Scioto County, Ohio, United States.
glosses: A village in County Westmeath, Leinster, Ireland.
glosses: A suburb of Aberdeen, City of Aberdeen council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ9306).
glosses: A suburb of Blairgowrie, Perth and Kinross council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO1843).
self-covered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of a printed publication, having covers made from the same paper as the inside pages, as many comic books.
glosses: Of a button, covered with the same fabric that the garment is made from.
Lexden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Colchester, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL9725).
Parson's Heath
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Colchester, Essex, England (OS grid ref TM0126).
location-agnostic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Not constrained to a particular location.
senatory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: senatories
Etymology: From senator + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Made a Senator, he received the senatory of Aix. Another "Jacobin," the Senator Monge, was given the senatory of Liège. Démeunier exhibited signs of independence; he was given the senatory of Toulouse.
ref: 1910, François-Alphonse Aulard, The French Revolution: A Political History, 1789-1804. Translated from the French of the 3d Ed, page 253:
text: The 1806 private "Agronomic travels in the senatory of Dijon" by Francois de Neufchateau (himself a former minister and president of the Society and hence no ordinary savant) had given way by 1813 to memoirs on cotton cultivation in France ...
ref: 1984, Jean-Claude Perrot, Stuart Joseph Woolf, State and Statistics in France, 1789-1815, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 156:
text: 1994, Eric Anderson Arnold, A Documentary Survey of Napoleonic France, University Press of Amer
On Senatories
1) There will be a Senatory for each district of the Court of Appeals.
2) Each Senatory will be endowed with a house and an annual income, drawn from the national domain, of 20,000 to 25,000 francs.
glosses: The office of, or landed estate granted to, a senator, especially in France under the consulate and First French Empire.
senatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From senator + -y.
Senses: examples: text: […] than their publick good, which inclineth towards an Oligarchy, or the Government of the Richer or Nobler sort, as in Rome towards the […] Aristocracy, or Senatory state,
ref: 1681, Walter Raleigh, Remains of Sir Walter Raleigh; viz. Maxims of State. Advice to his Son, etc, page 5:
text: […] affirmed, that by senatory authority […]
ref: 1793, A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Drayton. Carew. Suckling, page 323:
text: The name is a Latin one, and is often a person of figure at Rome, and of the senatory order, I mentioned by Martial the poet.
ref: 1809, John Gill, An Exposition of the New Testament, etc, page 345
glosses: Senatorial.
Kawthoolei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: proposed independent Karen state in Myanmar
predatory conferences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of predatory conference
predatory journals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of predatory journal
Silbo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish el silbo, from Spanish silbo gomero (literally “Gomeran whistling”), from Spanish silbo (“whistling”) + gomero (“Gomeran; pertaining to Gomero, Canary Islands”).
Senses: examples: text: For a long time, the initiative of teaching Silbo in school remained unique in the world. In 2009, after receiving intense regional and national support, the Spanish whistled form of La Gomera was inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
ref: 2015, Julien Meyer, Whistled Languages: A Worldwide Inquiry on Human Whistled Speech, Springer, →ISBN, page 65:
glosses: A dialect of Spanish, a variant of the Spanish language that is spoken through whistling. This variant originates from La Gomera, Canary Islands, Spain.
Synonyms: Silbo Gomero
Chia-hsien
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 甲仙 (Jiǎxiān), Wade–Giles romanization: Chia³-hsien¹.
Senses: examples: text: A malformed ♂, also alleged to be D. atrosignatus, from "Kosempo" (Chia-hsien, 23.05N, 120.35E, a town in Kaohsiung County), Taiwan, was discussed by Robinson (1920).
ref: 2005, Richard G. Robbins, “The Ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Argasidae, Ixodidae) of Taiwan: A Synonymic Checklist”, in Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, volume 107, number 2, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 250:
glosses: Alternative form of Jiasian.
wikipedia: Army Map Service
anprim
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anprim
form: most anprim
Senses: topics: economics
government
politics
sciences
glosses: Clipping of anarcho-primitivist.
anprim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anprims
Senses: topics: economics
government
politics
sciences
glosses: Clipping of anarcho-primitivist.
topics: economics
government
politics
sciences
glosses: Clipping of anarcho-primitivism.
Related terms: ancap
RDM
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: RDMs
form: RDMing
form: RDMed
form: RDMed
Etymology: Initialism of random deathmatch.
Senses: examples: text: Do not RDM in the lobby.
text: Most servers have limitations on what’s acceptable for wardens and guards to do, but that’s mostly to prevent RDMing
ref: 2017 January 25, John Butler, The Inquisitr:
topics: video-games
glosses: To arbitrarily kill players in a video game, typically players on one's own team when friendly fire is enabled.
Derived terms: RDMer
heartbreakin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of heartbreaking.
Bryanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Bryan + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The political philosophy associated with William Jennings Bryan
Related terms: Bryanite
Bryanize
Bryanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Bryanizes
form: Bryanizing
form: Bryanized
form: Bryanized
Etymology: From Bryan + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make Bryanite.
Related terms: Bryanism
horse scoop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːp
Forms: form: horse scoops
Senses: examples: text: "Men with picks and shovels would still be digging out the desert up to Alice Springs if they hadn't had horse scoops."
ref: 1969, Patsy Adam-Smith, Folklore of the Australian Railwaymen, Melbourne: Macmillan, page 154:
glosses: A large scoop for moving soil, sand, etc., attached to a harness and pulled by a horse.
glosses: A pooper scooper for collecting horse manure.
horse scoops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horse scoop
mea culpas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mea culpa
mea culpae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mea culpa
paludariums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paludarium
robodroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: robodroids
Etymology: From robo- + droid.
Senses: examples: text: The police authorities and the press portray them as modern-day robodroids, programmed to kill their own people—"black-on-black crime ...
ref: 1991, New Unionist:
text: Mona: They've sent to the robodroids to soften us up! Run!
ref: 1999, Mona the Vampire, "The X-Change Student" (season 1, episode 6a)
text: All the robodroids had followed his command and shut themselves down.
ref: 2018, Rhoda Belleza, Blood of a Thousand Stars, Penguin, →ISBN, page 141:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A droid; a robot.
robodroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of robodroid
try on for size
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tries on for size
form: trying on for size
form: tried on for size
form: tried on for size
form: try for size
Senses: glosses: To test an item of clothing by wearing it, to determine if it is the correct size.
glosses: To test something for suitability.
examples: text: "Cool. So obviously that's your outfit's kinda thing, but try this on for size on top of it: I did not forget. I still haven't."
ref: 2023 October 22, HarryBlank, “Waiting to Happen”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 23 May 2024:
glosses: To ponder or consider an idea.
examples: text: Mona: Try this vampire bolt on for size!
ref: 1999, Mona the Vampire, "The X-Change Student" (season 1, episode 6a)
glosses: To receive an imminent attack.
try for size
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tries for size
form: trying for size
form: tried for size
form: tried for size
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of try on for size.
tries for size
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of try for size
trying for size
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of try for size
tried for size
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of try for size
tries on for size
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of try on for size
tried on for size
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of try on for size
trying on for size
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of try on for size
Bourton-on-the-Water
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔːtən ɒn ðə wɔːtə/
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SP1620).
wise beyond one's years
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Mrs. Bryerson: Um, aren't you a little young to be contacting the spirit world, dear?
Mona: I think you'll find I'm wise beyond my years.
ref: 1999, Mona the Vampire, "The Miserable Phantom Dog" (season 1, episode 3a)
glosses: Particularly wise for one's age group; wiser than most others of one's age.
Derived terms: word: beyond one's years
Related terms: old head on young shoulders
Joy plot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Joy plots
form: joy plot
form: joyplot
form: Joyplot
Etymology: Blend of Joy Division + plot, from a plot that was made famous by the band Joy Division, who used the plotting of a signal from pulsar CP1919 as the cover image for their 1979 album Unknown Pleasures.
Senses: examples: text: Joy plot depicting the fuzzification before normalization to 1 obtained by assigning one fuzzy set to each severity category.
ref: 2018, Davide Ciucci, Gabriella Pasi, Barbara Vantaggi, Scalable Uncertainty Management: 12th International Conference, SUM 2018, Milan, Italy, October 3-5, 2018, Proceedings, Springer, →ISBN, page 70:
glosses: A plot of a repetitive signal, by repeatedly plotting each period on a separate line one under another, to create a pseudo-3D image that appears like a mountainous ridge.
wikipedia: CP1919
Joy Division
Unknown Pleasures
Synonyms: ridgeline plot
beyond one's years
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: Back-formation from wise beyond one's years.
Senses: examples: text: I know now after raising a very bright and sensitive son myself, no parents could have handled me better than my own. I was intelligent beyond my years, but emotionally, ...
ref: 1998, William Dales Hartt, Final Legacies, Nova Publishers, →ISBN, page 39:
text: I am beyond my years, but I cannot keep count, as my Abacus runs to computer grail.
ref: 2003, OBanya, Sickles Raised from Dust: And Other Poems:
text: I was always very smart beyond my years. Everyone always said so. Heeeheee.
ref: 2011, Wayne Whicher, A Home With No Roof, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 88:
text: Dear Diary, In some ways I am beyond my years. I mean how many eighteen year olds feel ready to settle down and marry this day and age? Most people my age are going away to college, partying on the weekends, and still trying to figure ...
ref: 2012, Jillian Amodio, Diaries of a Teenage Bride, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:
text: She told me a story of how the doctor who delivered me told her that I was special ...and I was smart beyond my years. He told her my reflexes were not only on target but better than other babies. I loved this story. For an instant I felt special.
ref: 2015, Cheryl Forrester, Carl Sutton, Selective Mutism In Our Own Words: Experiences in Childhood and Adulthood, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 68:
text: Of herself, she has said, “Most people who get to know me would say that I am beyond my years, and I do feel that way. All that I have experienced has aged me mentally.” In the opinion of this professor, that translates to: wiser than her years.
ref: 2016, Don Stannard-Friel, Street Teaching in the Tenderloin: Jumpin’ Down the Rabbit Hole, Springer, →ISBN, page 359:
text: Being intelligent beyond my years I soon put two and two together, and understood it all: she had run into the garden, taking advantage of the absence of my stern parents, to steal in among the raspberry bushes, or to pick herself some ...
ref: 2018, Anton Chekhov, The Chorus Girl and Other Stories, BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, page 142:
glosses: Extraordinary compared to most in one's age group; characteristic of an older person.
joy division
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: joy divisions
Etymology: Calque of German Freudenabteilung. Popularized in the novella House of Dolls (1955), now considered largely fictional by many historians, although brothels did exist in some Nazi concentrations camps.
Senses: examples: text: Here they kept close watch over the girls' bodies to keep them whole, undamaged. Here, when a girl was flogged she was not permitted to return to the Joy Division. She was immediately tossed on the van and—Off to the crematorium!
ref: 1955, Ka-tzetnik 135633 [pseudonym; Yehiel De-Nur], translated by Moshe M. Kohn, House of Dolls, New York: Simon & Schuster, →OCLC, page 174:
text: As the girl, in the present moment, beseeches him to “look,” in a flashback Sol is forced by the commandant to look as various members of the “joy division,” and then specifically his wife, service SS guards.
ref: 2013, Jacqui A. Miller, “The Pawnbroker”, in Carlos E. Cortés, editor, Multicultural America, SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 1686:
qualifier: World War II
glosses: A Nazi concentration camp brothel and its battalion of conscripted sex slaves.
wikipedia: House of Dolls
Derived terms: Joy plot
Related terms: stalag
Bramford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From brōm (“broom shrub”) + ford.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Mid Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM1246).
glosses: An uncommon surname.
outpredict
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outpredicts
form: outpredicting
form: outpredicted
form: outpredicted
Etymology: From out- + predict.
Senses: glosses: To surpass in prediction; to predict better than.
outpredicts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outpredict
outpredicted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outpredict
outpredicting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outpredict
systemiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: systemisers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of systemizer.
systemisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of systemiser
sustentive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sustentive
form: most sustentive
Senses: glosses: Serving to sustain.
Related terms: sustenance
spheroidize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spheroidizes
form: spheroidizing
form: spheroidized
form: spheroidized
Etymology: From spheroid + -ize.
Senses: topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To heat (carbon steel) to form spheroidite.
Related terms: spherize
spheroidizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spheroidize
spheroidized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spheroidize
spheroidite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spheroidites
Etymology: From spheroid + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A soft, ductile form of carbon steel producing by heating under certain conditions, and having a structure of rods or spheres of cementite within the primary structure.
spheroidites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spheroidite
spheroidizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spheroidize
spouty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspaʊti/
rhymes: -aʊti
Forms: form: more spouty
form: most spouty
Senses: examples: text: The soil towards the N. and S. extremity light and sandy; about the middle, of a spouty clay.
ref: 1806, The Gazetteer of Scotland:
text: When a spouty patch was to be dried, a large drain or trench was formed of sufficient depth to reach the channel or bed along which the water filtered before encountering the obstruction which had forced it to the surface; […]
ref: 1846, The Farmer's Magazine, page 400:
glosses: spongy; soggy; waterlogged
Clattercote
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Claydon with Clattercote parish, Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP4549).
squamousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From squamous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being squamous.
stanchable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stanchable
form: most stanchable
Etymology: From stanch + -able.
Senses: antonyms: unstanchable
glosses: Able to be stanched.
standardisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of standardiser
steeplechased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of steeplechase
Claydon with Clattercote
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England.
strabismally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more strabismally
form: most strabismally
Etymology: From strabismal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With strabismus.
stonewashing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stonewash
stonewashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stonewash
stretchless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stretch + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Goodyear Compass Belts give this superior low-cost service on all heavy-duty drives because their patented endless cord construction is the most nearly stretchless and most flexible known.
ref: 1937, Mill & Factory, volume 20, page 239:
glosses: Free from stretching.
submergement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: submergements
Etymology: From submerge + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of submerging.
submergements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of submergement
subterrestrials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subterrestrial
subterritorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + territorial.
Senses: glosses: Belonging or relating to a subterritory.
Usha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯎꯁꯥ (ʼusā).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Usham (“surname of Meitei origin”).
Related terms: Ushamcha
Ushamba
Kanglei
Meetei
Oinam
Usha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit उषा (Uṣā).
Senses: glosses: A legendary princess. Daughter of asura king of Sonitpura Banasura. Wife of Anuiruddha. Grand-daughter-in-law of Krishna.
suburbanities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suburbanity
supercivilised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supercivilised
form: most supercivilised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of supercivilized.
supercivilizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supercivilization
superintellectuals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superintellectual
superincumbently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From superincumbent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a superincumbent manner.
superspectaculars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superspectacular
superserviceably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more superserviceably
form: most superserviceably
Etymology: From superserviceable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a superserviceable manner.
Ardleigh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English personal name *Earda + lēah (“wood, clearing”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Tendring district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TM0529).
Finningham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Mid Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM0669).
medicophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more medicophobic
form: most medicophobic
Etymology: From medico- + -phobic.
Senses: examples: text: The patients, now no longer members of a captive audience, once again become either medico-philic or medico-phobic, depending on whether they are trying to push the whole experience behind them or seek to exploit the situation in the service of dependency needs.
ref: 1961 December, Montague Ullman, “Reactive States Following Strokes”, in The Journal of the Arkansas Medical Society, volume 58, number 7, →PMID, page 270:
text: A possible explanation for the lack of involvement may be the typical training and employment pattern of the psychologist that isolates him from medical psychological concerns. This is due largely to the medico[-]phobic nature of his training.
ref: 1975 May, Michael J. Asken, “Medical Psychology: Psychology's Neglected Child”, in Professional Psychology, volume 6, number 2, →DOI, page 157:
glosses: Relating to, characteristic of, or exhibiting medicophobia.
Synonyms: iatrophobic
Burston and Shimpling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in South Norfolk district, Norfolk, England, which includes the named places.
mommom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mommoms
Senses: examples: text: "My first flyfishing experience was in the early 1960s when my grandmother, Margaret Glidewell, taught me and all of her grandchildren to fish," she says. "My fondest memories are of my youth, when I was five or six, staying at the cabin and fishing next to my Mommom, as we called her."
ref: 2006, Cecilia Kleinkauf, River Girls: Fly Fishing for Young Women, Big Earth Publishing, →ISBN, page 116:
text: In 2005, I was privileged to be at my grandmother's bedside when she went Home to be with Jesus. My “Mommom” had only confirmed with me a year earlier, ...
ref: 2018, Heather DeJesus Yates, All The Wild Pearls: A Guide for Passing Down Redemptive Stories Heather DeJesus Yates, Bridge Logos Inc, →ISBN, page 24:
text: Similar to the generational pattern observed in my mommom's and grandfather's relationship, ...
ref: 2020, Dr. Geri-Lynn Utter PsyD, Mainlining Philly: Survival, Hope, and Resisting Drug Addiction, Literary House Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: Grandmother.
Shimpling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Burston and Shimpling parish, South Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TM1583).
glosses: A small village and civil parish in Babergh district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TL8651).
laraman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laramans
Etymology: From Albanian laraman/ Albanian laramanë.
Senses: glosses: An Albanian crypto-christian during the Ottoman rule of Albania
USFK
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of United States Forces Korea.
Hypernyms: sense: U.S. Forces Korea
word: USINDOPACOM
Related terms: sense: U.S. Forces Korea
word: USF
USINDOPACOM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Abbreviation of United States Indo-Pacific Command.
Synonyms: word: INDOPACOM
english: former name, pre-2018
translation: former name, pre-2018
word: USPACOM
english: former name, pre-2018
translation: former name, pre-2018
word: PACOM
Hyponyms: USFK
USFJ
Related terms: AFRICOM
CENTCOM
EUCOM
INDOPACOM
NORTHCOM
PACOM
SOUTHCOM
SPACECOM
USAFRICOM
USCENTCOM
USEUCOM
USNORTHCOM
USPACOM
USSOUTHCOM
USSPACECOM
SEATO
Aston Abbotts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The name dates from the 11th century, when the land was gifted to the abbots of St Albans.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SP8420).
USFJ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of United States Forces, Japan.
Hypernyms: sense: U.S. Forces Japan
word: USINDOPACOM
Related terms: sense: U.S. Forces Japan
word: USF
USFI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: USF-I
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of United States Forces - Iraq.
Hypernyms: sense: U.S. Forces Iraq
word: USCENTCOM
Related terms: sense: U.S. Forces Iraq
word: USF
spotted nutcrackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spotted nutcracker
Pallas's grasshopper warbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pallas's grasshopper warblers
Senses: glosses: Locustella certhiola, an Old World warbler.
lanceolated warbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lanceolated warblers
Senses: glosses: Locustella lanceolata, an Old World warbler.
river warbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: river warblers
Senses: glosses: An Old World warbler of species Locustella fluviatilis.
Forncett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in South Norfolk district, Norfolk, England, which includes the settlements of Forncett St Mary, Forncett St Peter and Forncett End.
Flordon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TM1897).
Swainsthorpe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG2200).
R95
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: R95s
Etymology: From Initialism of Resistant to oil particles with 95% filtration efficiency in NIOSH air filtration ratings.
Senses: glosses: R95; Ellipsis of NIOSH R95.
R95 standard
glosses: R95; Ellipsis of NIOSH R95.
R95 filter
Coordinate terms: R99
P99
N99 (99% filtration)
R100
P100
N100 (99.97% filtration)
Related terms: english: non-oil-resistant filter standard
translation: non-oil-resistant filter standard
word: N95
english: oil-proof filter standard
translation: oil-proof filter standard
word: P95
R99
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: R99s
Etymology: From Initialism of Resistant to oil particles with 99% filtration efficiency in NIOSH air filtration ratings.
Senses: glosses: R99; Ellipsis of NIOSH R99.
R99 standard
glosses: R99; Ellipsis of NIOSH R99.
R99 filter
Coordinate terms: R100
P100
N100 (99.97% filtration)
Related terms: english: non-oil-resistant filter standard
translation: non-oil-resistant filter standard
word: N99
english: oil-proof filter standard
translation: oil-proof filter standard
word: P99
R100
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: R100s
Etymology: From Initialism of Resistant to oil particles with 100% filtration efficiency in NIOSH air filtration ratings.
Senses: glosses: R100; Ellipsis of NIOSH R100.
R100 standard
glosses: R100; Ellipsis of NIOSH R100.
R100 filter
Related terms: english: non-oil-resistant filter standard
translation: non-oil-resistant filter standard
word: N100
english: oil-proof filter standard
translation: oil-proof filter standard
word: P100
Spellbrook
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Sawbridgeworth parish, East Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL4817).
grandfriends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grandfriend
Jablowski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jablowskis
Etymology: Possibly a corruption of Polish Jabłoński.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Jablowskis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Jablowski
Graveney
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Graveneys
Etymology: From Old English græf (“grave; ditch, trench”) + īeġ (“island”).
Senses: glosses: A village in Graveney with Goodnestone parish, Swale borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR0562).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Goodnestone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Dover district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR2554).
glosses: A village in Graveney with Goodnestone parish, Swale borough, Kent (OS grid ref TR0461).
Kitcher
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
failtastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more failtastic
form: most failtastic
Etymology: From fail + -tastic.
Senses: glosses: Amusing while also a failure.
full stack
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of full-stack.
Maybank
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: Alternative form of May Bank, Newcastle-under-Lyme.
Derived terms: Clifton Maybank
Three Musketeers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the Three Musketeers
form: three musketeers
Etymology: Named after the 1844 historical adventure novel The Three Musketeers, originally published as French Les Trois Mousquetaires, by Alexandre Dumas.
Senses: examples: text: Mona: A fire giant finger toast to the Three Musketeers!
Charley and Lily: Only scarier!
ref: 1999, Mona the Vampire, "Red Moon Monsters" (season 1, episode 6b)
text: We're the Three Musketeers of gardening!
glosses: A group of three people who are very closely associated; a trio.
glosses: plural of Three Musketeer
Related terms: one for all, all for one
Three Musketeer
three musketeers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Three Musketeers.
Three Musketeer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Three Musketeers
Etymology: Formed due to a misinterpretation of Three Musketeers as a compound noun that includes the stem three rather than as a plurale tantum proper noun.
Senses: examples: text: Is d'Artagnan a Three Musketeer?
glosses: Any one of the Three Musketeers in Alexandre Dumas' novel of the same name, i.e. either Athos, Aramis, or Porthos.
Coordinate terms: all for one, one for all
Aramis
Artagnan
Athos
de Winter
Louis
Monte Cristo
musketeer
Porthos
Richelieu
Asian desert warbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Asian desert warblers
Senses: glosses: Sylvia nana, an Old World warbler.
barred warbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barred warblers
Senses: glosses: Sylvia nisoria, an Old World warbler.
lesser whitethroat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lesser whitethroats
Senses: glosses: Curruca curruca (syn. Sylvia curruca), an Old World warbler.
lesser whitethroats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lesser whitethroat
Rüppell's warbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rüppell's warblers
Senses: glosses: Sylvia ruppeli, an Old World warbler.
slut-maker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slut-makers
Senses: examples: text: Every one of the slut makers—without exception—suffered major damage.
ref: 1994, Liberty:
text: 2019, Dan Desmarques, The Evil Within: The Spiritual Battle in Your Mind, 22 Lions Bookstore: 22Lions.com
“If a woman that sleeps with many men is a slut, what is a man that sleeps with many women?” And to which the presenter properly replied: “A slut-maker”.
text: Jonathan, you're a slut-maker! It takes two to tango. Your behavior and the behavior of men like you enables the bad behavior of women.
ref: 2019, Jonathan Roseland, How to Be Cross Eyed: Thriving Despite Your Physical Imperfection, Jonathan Roseland:
text: If everything's about sex then everything's about sluts and slut-makers in the fallen state.
ref: 2022, Karen Kellock, Queen Bee, page 38:
glosses: A promiscuous man.
declaration of will
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: declarations of will
Etymology: Calque of Latin dēclārātiō voluntātis, directly and indirectly from calques of it.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A private outward manifestation of intention which is directly aimed at bringing about a legal effect.
Related terms: declaration of intent
western subalpine warbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: western subalpine warblers
Senses: glosses: Sylvia cantillans, an Old World warbler.
Moltoni's warbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Moltoni's warblers
Etymology: Named after Edgardo Moltoni, who described it.
Senses: glosses: Sylvia subalpina, an Old World warbler.
Sardinian warbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sardinian warblers
Senses: glosses: Sylvia melanocephala, an Old World warbler.
Sardinian warblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sardinian warbler
common whitethroat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common whitethroats
Senses: glosses: Sylvia communis, an Old World warbler, now sometimes Mezophilus communis or Curruca communis.
Synonyms: sense: Sylvia communis
word: greater whitethroat
Mohorovičić
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mohorovicic.
Mohorovicic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Serbo-Croatian Mohorovičić.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Serbo-Croatian.
glosses: A placename
A crater in Moon, named after Andrija Mohorovičić
glosses: A placename
An asteroid in Main Asteroid Belt, Solar System, the 8422nd asteroid registered; named after Andrija Mohorovičić
Synonyms: Mohorovičić
Mohorovicic Crater
Crater Mohorovicic
Derived terms: word: Mohorovicic discontinuity
english: a crater on the Moon
translation: a crater on the Moon
word: Mohorovicic A
english: a crater on the Moon
translation: a crater on the Moon
word: Mohorovicic D
english: a crater on the Moon
translation: a crater on the Moon
word: Mohorovicic F
english: a crater on the Moon
translation: a crater on the Moon
word: Mohorovicic R
english: a crater on the Moon
translation: a crater on the Moon
word: Mohorovicic W
english: a crater on the Moon
translation: a crater on the Moon
word: Mohorovicic Z
short-toed treecreeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short-toed treecreepers
Senses: glosses: Certhia brachydactyla, a species of bird in the family Certhiidae.
green tea cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green tea cakes
form: green-tea cake
Senses: examples: text: Angela: Nothing you can do can put me in a bad mood, Mona, because tomorrow is my birthday! I'm going to have a Japanese lantern party, with sushi, and green tea cake, and a kabuki performance. Of course, I have to limit the guest list to only 100 of my closest friends, so unfortunately you two didn't make the cut.
ref: 1999, Mona the Vampire, "Red Moon Monsters" (season 1, episode 6b)
glosses: A cake flavored with powdered green tea.
green tea cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of green tea cake
Wadsley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wadsleys
form: Wadesleah
form: Wadesleia
form: de Wadsley
form: De Wadsley
form: deWadsley
form: DeWadsley
form: Dewadsley
Etymology: From Old English.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A placename
Wadsley (a district of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom)
glosses: A placename
A former village in Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom.
Derived terms: wadsleyite
Wadsley Bridge
scaly thrush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scaly thrushes
Senses: glosses: Zoothera dauma, an Old World thrush.
Swainson's thrush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Swainson's thrushes
Senses: synonyms: olive-backed thrush
russet-backed thrush
glosses: Catharus ustulatus, a medium-sized thrush of North America.
Kabukicho
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /kəˈbuːkiːˌt͡ʃoʊ/
Forms: form: Kabuki-cho
form: Kabuki-chō
form: Kabuki-Cho
form: Kabuki Cho
Etymology: From Japanese 歌舞伎町 (Kabuki-chō, literally “Kabuki Town”), from being a district developed around what was to be a kabuki theatre (the theatre was never built).
Senses: glosses: A district of Shinjuku, Tokyo, Kantō, Japan; an entertainment, gambling, and red light district.
Synonyms: english: former name
translation: former name
word: Tsunohazu
microcurrency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microcurrencies
form: micro-currency
Etymology: From micro- + currency.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A currency limited to a certain region or context, often intended for very specific commodities.
P95
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: P95s
Etymology: From Initialism of oil-Proof with 95% filtration efficiency in NIOSH air filtration ratings.
Senses: glosses: P95; Ellipsis of NIOSH P95.
P95 standard
glosses: P95; Ellipsis of NIOSH P95.
P95 filter
Coordinate terms: R99
P99
N99 (99% filtration)
R100
P100
N100 (99.97% filtration)
Related terms: english: non-oil-proof filter standard
translation: non-oil-proof filter standard
word: N95
english: oil-resistant filter standard
translation: oil-resistant filter standard
word: R95
P99
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: P99s
Etymology: From Initialism of oil-Proof with 99% filtration efficiency in NIOSH air filtration ratings.
Senses: glosses: P99; Ellipsis of NIOSH P99.
P99 standard
glosses: P99; Ellipsis of NIOSH P99.
P99 filter
Coordinate terms: R100
P100
N100 (99.97% filtration)
Related terms: english: non-oil-proof filter standard
translation: non-oil-proof filter standard
word: N99
english: oil-resistant filter standard
translation: oil-resistant filter standard
word: R99
P100
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: P100s
Etymology: From Initialism of oil-Proof with 100% filtration efficiency in NIOSH air filtration ratings.
Senses: glosses: P100; Ellipsis of NIOSH P100.
P100 standard
glosses: P100; Ellipsis of NIOSH P100.
P100 filter
Related terms: english: non-oil-proof filter standard
translation: non-oil-proof filter standard
word: N100
english: oil-resistant filter standard
translation: oil-resistant filter standard
word: R100
catophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catophiles
Etymology: From cat + -o- + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: Nobody can love Dickens and Thackeray equally well. The catophile will inevitably choose Thackeray, and prefer Baudelaire to either. On a le sens de chat, ou on ne l'a pas.
ref: 1922 September, “The Race of Tom”, in The Atlantic Monthly, page 424:
text: Once someone becomes a confirmed catophile, he can rarely resist the pleasure of owning a cat again.
ref: 1969, Ann Currah, editor, The Cat Compendium, page 65:
text: Wycliffe, an incurable catophile, stooped to stroke the cat but Kemp stopped him.
ref: 1996, W. J. Burley, Wycliffe and the House of Fear, page 28:
glosses: One who is extremely fond of cats.
Synonyms: ailurophile
cataholic
catlover
Hyponyms: cat lady