cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Egus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Uyghur ئەگۈس (egüs).
Senses: examples: text: On 3 April, Abudure Yimu and Aihaiti Alabai, backbone members of the counterrevolutionary armed rebellion in Baren Township, went to Aigusi Township in Yengisar County to buy horses for battle. They offered a price as high as 2,000 yuan to buy a good horse owned by Danixi in San Village. The horse won several champions during races in Yengisar County.
ref: [1990 June 19 [1990 April 23], Shi Jian, Dong Jianshneg, Yusufujiang, Shi Linjie, “Report on the Quelling of the Counterrevolutionary Rebellion in Baren Township”, in Daily Report: China, number 118, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 59, column 2:
text: Memet’s three sons, including the one who had drunk alcohol, were also arrested by authorities in Egus township's No. 4 village, in Yengisar, for the incident between February and June this year, she said.
ref: 2017 November 8, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Xinjiang Authorities Jail Uyghur ‘Religious Extremist’ For Scolding Son For Drinking”, in Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 02 Feburary 2018:
glosses: A township in Yengisar, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
polycentrist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polycentrists
Senses: glosses: A proponent of polycentrism.
polycentrists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polycentrist
polycentrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more polycentrically
form: most polycentrically
Etymology: From polycentric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a polycentric manner.
polycentricity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polycentricities
Senses: glosses: The quality of being polycentric.
Derived terms: metapolycentricity
polycentricities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polycentricity
Ponsonby Rule
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Ponsonby Rule
Etymology: Named after British politician and legislator Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A constitutional convention (which acquired legal force in 2010) dictating that most international treaties had to be laid before Parliament 21 days before ratification.
posigrade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: posigrades
Etymology: From posi- + -grade (“direction”).
Senses: topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A small rocket that gives additional forward thrust.
posigrade
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more posigrade
form: most posigrade
Etymology: From posi- + -grade (“direction”).
Senses: topics: aerospace
astronautics
astronomy
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of prograde.
synonyms: word: prograde
posigrades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of posigrade
positive discrimination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of reverse discrimination.
synonyms: word: reverse discrimination
glosses: Synonym of affirmative action.
synonyms: word: affirmative action
postformal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + formal.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Following the formal operational stage (the last of Jean Piaget's four stages of human cognitive development), and involving more complex forms of thinking such as self-reference, pragmatism, and acceptance of paradoxes.
postsynchronization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of postsynchronisation.
PHF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Potomac horse fever.
Potomac horse fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: PHF
Potomac fever
glosses: An infectious disease of horses, caused by the bacterium Neorickettsia risticii.
Potomac fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: (desire for political power): In reference to the Potomac river running through Washington, D.C., seat of US politics.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Potomac horse fever.
synonyms: word: Potomac horse fever
examples: text: Or maybe he just had a severe case of Potomac fever. It affects most congressmen and senators sooner or later: an atrophy of the sense of humility, a swelling of the glands of arrogance.
ref: 1991, Tom Sehler, When Reason Sleeps, page 4:
text: After years of resisting Potomac fever, was she experiencing the initial symptoms ofthis dreaded disease? Was she capitulating toa base instinct for power?
ref: 2011, Roger Herst, Rabbi Gabrielle's Defiance:
glosses: A desire for political power.
duck curve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duck curves
Etymology: Named for its resemblance to the silhouette of a duck.
Senses: glosses: A graph of power production over the course of a day that shows the timing imbalance between peak demand and renewable energy production.
Engel curve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Engel curves
Etymology: After the statistician Ernst Engel.
Senses: glosses: A theoretical economic curve that describes how household expenditure on a particular good or service varies with household income.
wikipedia: Ernst Engel
Haddiscoe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old Norse Haddr (“a personal name”) + skógr (“wood”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TM4496).
expectations hypothesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The proposition that a long-term interest rate is determined purely by current and future expected short-term rates, so that the expected final value of wealth from investing in a sequence of short-term bonds equals the final value of wealth from investing in long-term bonds.
liquidity smile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liquidity smiles
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A feature of many financial markets whereby the volume (and hence liquidity) is concentrated at the start and particularly the end of the trading day, with relatively thin trading in the middle.
Lorenz curve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lorenz curves
Etymology: Named after American economist Max Lorenz (1876–1959), who developed this in 1905.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A graph that shows the proportion of overall income or wealth of the bottom percentage of people, often used to represent economic inequality.
Related terms: Gini coefficient
Great Gatsby curve
double jobbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dual mandate.
synonyms: word: dual mandate
Rolling Stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rolling Stones
Senses: glosses: Any of the members of the Rolling Stones.
Bardsey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE3643).
examples: text: Y Gegin Fawr (The Big Kitchen) is a low, whitewashed building of stone, now used as a cafe, where medieval pilgrims rested before making the perilous crossing to the holy island of Bardsey.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications, Basingstoke, Hants, page 10:
glosses: Ellipsis of Bardsey Island: an island off the Lleyn Peninsula, included in Aberdaron community, Gwynedd, Wales (OS grid ref SH1121).
Staveley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Staveleys
form: Stavely
Etymology: From Old English stæf (“stave”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to stave + -ley (“lea”).
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A village in Hugill parish, Nether Staveley parish and Over Staveley parish, South Lakeland district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref SD4698).
glosses: A placename:
A town and civil parish with a town council in Chesterfield borough, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK4374).
glosses: A placename:
A village and civil parish (served by Staveley and Copgrove Parish Council) in Harrogate borough, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE3662).
glosses: A placename:
A township in Ashburton district, Canterbury, New Zealand, derived from the surname.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Nether Staveley
Over Staveley
Staveley-in-Cartmel
Chateau Migraine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chateau Migraines
form: Chateaux Migraine
form: Château Migraine
form: château migraine
form: chateau migraine
Etymology: From chateau (“wine-producing estate”) + migraine (“severe headache”). Compare, for example, Château d'Armailhac or numerous other French wineries.
Senses: examples: text: The flesh therefore does not determine the color. What determines the color is the intensity of natural dyes that are present in the grape skin (and in the cheap stuff the added dyes, abundantly present in most "Chateau Migraines").
ref: 2019, Roel Peters, “Rosé”, in RP Vinos:
glosses: Wine or other spirits of low quality, thought to cause headache.
wikipedia: Château d'Armailhac
Château Migraine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Château Migraines
form: Châteaux Migraine
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Chateau Migraine.
Commerce Clause
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A clause in the United States Constitution stating that Congress shall have the power "[t]o regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes."
Dormant Commerce Clause
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A legal doctrine inferred from the Commerce Clause that prohibits states from discriminating against interstate or international commerce.
Synonyms: Negative Commerce Clause
Negative Commerce Clause
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Synonym of Dormant Commerce Clause.
synonyms: word: Dormant Commerce Clause
offer curve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: offer curves
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A theoretical economic curve that shows the quantity of one type of product that an agent will export for each quantity of another type of product that it imports.
Rahn curve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rahn curves
Etymology: After Richard Rahn, who developed this in 1996.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A theoretical economic curve used to illustrate the theory that there is a level of government spending that maximizes economic growth.
wikipedia: Richard Rahn
Related terms: Laffer curve
intermediate scrutiny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A standard for judicial review, according to which a law must have been enacted to further a compelling governmental interest and have been narrowly tailored to achieve that interest.
pelagosaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pelagosaurs
Etymology: From Latin pelagus from Ancient Greek πελαγικός (pelagikós), from πέλαγος (pélagos, “sea”) + -saur.
Senses: examples: text: In still older formations, such as the Lower Oolites and Lias, there were, however, many long-snouted crocodiles, such as the steneosaurs (Steneosaurus) and pelagosaurs (Pelagosaurus), in which the socket of the eye is divided from the lower temporal fossa by a bony bar, as shown in the figure on p. 13.
ref: 1896, Richard Lydekker, Reptiles and fishes, page 32:
text: SINCE, aflap o'er some dim Jurassic prairie, Pterodactyl seized on pelagosaur; In heraldry-book and bestiary Have been limned the beasts of the days of yore.
ref: 1915, Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder, The Century: A Popular Quarterly - Volume 89, page 312:
text: The order Crocodilia comprised, besides terrestrial forms, extinct marine crocodiles such as the genus mystriosaur and the pelagosaur—both lower jurassic forms (one hundred and fifty million years ago).
ref: 1969, Rodolfo Riascos Llinás, Neurobiology of Cerebellar Evolution and Development, page 431:
text: A complication not found in eusuchians occurs in some marine mesosuchians (i.e., mystriosaurs, pelagosaurs), in which the eustachian system may have been connected with the nasal passages, possibly a hydrostatic adaptation for protection of the auditory organs in diving animals (Antunes, 1967b).
ref: 1973, Carl Gans, Thomas Sturges Parsons, Biology of the Reptilia, page 278:
glosses: Any of the extinct crocodile-like animals of genus †Pelagosaurus which lived during the Jurassic period.
pelagosaurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pelagosaur
narrow tailoring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: narrow tailorings
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The legal principle that a law must be written specifically and narrowly only to accomplish the state's intended goals.
rational basis review
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A standard for judicial review, according to which a law must be rationally related to a legitimate state interest.
pellamountain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Moreover nature's liberal hand decketh many of the sea cliffs with wild hyssop, sage, pellamountain, marjoram, rosemary, and suchlike well-savouring herbs.
ref: 1953, Richard Carew, Frank Ernest Halliday, John Norden, The survey of Cornwall &c, page 101:
text: Since he had known her, Metty always drank pellamountain tea in the early morning.
ref: 2013, Brian Aldiss, Helliconia Summer:
glosses: wild thyme (Thymus serpyllum)
pelophilous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pelophilous
form: most pelophilous
Senses: examples: text: The hallophitic communities are divided into those that are psammaphilous, pelophilous, and helophilous, according as the substratum consists respectively of sand, of mud, or of swamp.
ref: 1913, Gerald O. Case, The Use of Vegetation for Reclaiming Tidal Lands, page ii:
text: Pelophilous species burrow in sandy loam and clay soils, and display ecomorphological adaptations to assist with loosening these compacted substrata.
ref: 2007, Bernhard A. Huber, Bradley J. Sinclair, Karl-Heinz Lampe, African Biodiversity, page 43:
text: Thus, two major ecological groupings are evident: the pelophilous group preferring soft sediments with slow current (strongly dominated by L. hoffmeisteri), and the psammophilous group inhabiting harder sediments with faster current (P. barbatus and others).
ref: 2012, Pilar Rodriguez, Piet F.M. Verdonschot, Aquatic Oligochaete Biology VIII, page 225:
text: Over the entrie 5-year period of the present study (1998-2002), the pelophilous macrofauna showed a moderate biomass, similar to that in 1975/76 and 1987-1992.
ref: 2013, Norbert Wolnomiejski, Zbigniew Witek, The Szczecin Lagoon Ecosystem:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Found in muddy environments; mud-dwelling.
mud-dwelling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: muddwelling
Senses: glosses: Living in the mud.
muddwelling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: From 40 cm (AD 1876) on, a muddwelling association dominated the site of core 108.
ref: 1957, Deddy Mulyadi Barmawidjaja, Geologica Ultraiectina - Issue 82, page 105:
text: However, mysids, phytoplankton, amphipods, small fish, muddwelling tunicates, and vegetation have been obtained from bowhead stomachs during fall migration.
ref: 1980, Prudhoe Bay Project: Final Environmental Impact Statement:
text: the hunters and trappers hunting migratory birds and muddwelling fishes, i. e. the tribal Bodo-Kacharies who constitute a considerable part of the population;
ref: 1982, The North Eastern Geographer - Volume 14:
glosses: Alternative form of mud-dwelling.
thaw-drop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thaw-drops
Senses: examples: text: When she gave me one cold parting kiss upon my forehead, like a thaw-drop from the stone porch——it was a very frosty day——I felt so miserable and self-reproachful that I clung to her and told her it was my fault, I knew, that she could say good-bye so easily!
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 3, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
text: Down the steep bank led the narrow pathway, rendered exceeding slippery by the freezing of thaw-drops from the overhanging trees.
ref: 1880, Cecilia Findlay, Cross purposes:
text: From a rhombus of saffron light in the middle distance the notes of a bamboo flute, cool and blue as the thaw-drops on the edge of a glacier, mournful and languishing crotchets, crept toward them on the gently stirring air.
ref: 1928, Sherard Vines, Humours unreconciled: a tale of modern Japan, page 69:
text: I was rewarded at last, upon choosing one, by the sight of what might be described as the dot of an exclamation mark leaving its ordinary position to glide down very fast - a jot faster than the thaw-drop it raced.
ref: 1966, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Quartet, page 75:
glosses: A drop of water formed by melting snow or ice.
pemmicanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pemmicanizes
form: pemmicanizing
form: pemmicanized
form: pemmicanized
form: pemmicanise
Etymology: From pemmican + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: The only modes of preservation of food I am familiar with are drying and pemmicanizing; both of these accompliehsed by the heat of fire or sun, without any salt or ingredient of any kind.
ref: 1887, Canada. Parliament. Senate, Journals of the Senate of Canada, page 387:
text: For coal-tar-dyed hard candies and pemmicanized oranges I gave the jumping Methodists a visit.
ref: 1957, James Laughlin, New Directions in Prose and Poetry - Volume 16, page 226:
text: Driver mentions (elem. 338-40) that most of the northwestern peoples ground "meat or fish" and added grease or berries, in other words, more or less pemmicanized it; which suggests they were not too fond of the mere dry powder.
ref: 1960, Research Studies: Monographic supplement - Issues 1-2, page 121:
glosses: To make pemmican out of; to dry and beat into a paste, possibly combining with fat and berries.
examples: text: His endeavor was to pemmicanize ideas, as the northpole explorers did provisions, that they might be carried about the easier.
ref: 1845 July 12, “The Late thomas Hood”, in The Living Age, volume 6, number 61, page 64:
text: It would therefore be unjust to M. Beer, since deceased, to allow my work to be supposed a full or faithful version of his successful attempt to pemmicanize tragic interest.
ref: 1856, Francis Egerton Earl of Ellesmere, The Pilgrimage: And Other Poems, page 133:
text: There is no better way of achieving this desirable end than by the use of a slogan. The appeal or announcement must be "pemmicanized" into a command, a broad hint or a statement.
ref: 1923, The Washington Newspaper:
text: If David Graham Phillips could have pemmicanized his story of Susan Lenox, he would have produced a pamphlet that would have made revolution.
ref: 1972, Holbrook Jackson, To-day - Volumes 5-6, page 79:
text: I have of course inferred these questions from the surviving remains of very large numbers of thinkers in the early period of Greek philosophy, and 'pemmicanized' them into a tidy list.
ref: 2005, Chris Emlyn-Jones, Plato, Trevor Saunders, Early Socratic Dialogues:
glosses: To condense; to compress into as succinct a form as possible.
Derived terms: pemmicanization
pemmicanizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pemmicanize
pemmicanizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pemmicanize
pemmicanise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pemmicanises
form: pemmicanising
form: pemmicanised
form: pemmicanised
Senses: examples: text: It not only gives beautifully clear maps with a helpful use of colour, but also contains an astonishing mass of new information in geographic terms — that is to say with diagrams and text that pemmicanise most helpful knowledge.
ref: 1965, World's Press News and Advertisers' Review - Volume 73, page 14:
text: Here, in pocket-book size, is the wit and wisdom of Mr. Rudyard Kipling pemmicanised for travel or other odd hours and moments.
ref: 1972, To-day - Volumes 8-10, page 78:
text: people got very good at substituting a pleasant taste of its own to pemmicanised meat.
ref: 1985, Ayumongol Sonakul, Ayumongol's World:
glosses: Alternative form of pemmicanize.
pemmicanises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pemmicanise
pemmicanising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pemmicanise
pemmicanised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pemmicanised
form: most pemmicanised
Senses: examples: text: It is a little too pemmicanised for everybody's taste; the author's limits compel him to a severe economy of detail in the very large field he has taken.
ref: 1922, The Outlook - Volume 49, page 458:
text: But there we were given only the dullest, driest, pemmicanised forms like The Student's Hume, Once I had a hundred pages of The Student's Hume as a holiday task.
ref: 2012, Winston S. Churchill, Martin Gilbert, Churchill: The Power of Words, page 14:
glosses: Alternative form of pemmicanized.
pemmicanised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pemmicanise
OK, boomer
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: OK, Boomer
form: OK boomer
form: OK Boomer
form: ok boomer
Senses: examples: text: People who went to college decades ago might talk about how they were able to pay to go to college by working part-time or working a summer job, even though college was substantially more affordable then.
To that, we would say, “OK boomer, we're just asking for the same opportunities you got, and that students around the world get.”
ref: 2019 November 21, “Editorial: With high college costs, state should give more funding”, in The State News, Michigan State University, page 2:
text: On one level, I understood Parker. She came up in an era when putting up with male misbehavior was just part of the job of being a journalist. Sometimes you could make lemonade out of lemons; maybe she genuinely enjoyed “flirting” with Matthews. But to insinuate that what other women experienced with the host was equally enjoyable, well, OK Boomer. (And I say that as a boomer.)
ref: 2020 March 3, Joan Walsh, “Chris Matthews Is Gone. His Bosses Are Not”, in The Nation:
glosses: Used to sardonically counter or dismiss an older person (typically a baby boomer) as lacking an understanding of the circumstances, priorities, or culture of a younger generation, especially by a millennial or zoomer.
examples: text: When I was growing up (Ok, Boomer) the only office that had a dog was a firehouse.
ref: 2019 December, Scott Grams, “Working Like Dogs”, in The Landscape Contractor, page 5:
text: “OK, Boomer. And what’s your reason not to change?”, BMW tweeted and as you might imagine, that didn’t bode well with a large portion of social media users; no one likes being patronized after all.
ref: 2020 November 17, Michael Karkafiris, “BMW’s Attempt To Patronize Critics Of The New iX With ‘OK, Boomer’ Is A Very Risky Move”, in CarScoops:
glosses: Used to facetiously suggest that someone is old, boring, or out-of-touch.
Coordinate terms: OK, zoomer
Related terms: kthxbye
OK, Boomer
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of OK, boomer.
OK boomer
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of OK, boomer.
OK Boomer
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of OK, boomer.
forever chemical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forever chemicals
Etymology: From forever + chemical. From being a chemical compound which is highly unlikely to break down.
Senses: examples: text: Forever chemicals have infiltrated water across 43 states nationwide, impacting the drinking supply of about 19 million Americans.
ref: 2019 June 7, Jamie Feldman, “Here's Everything We Know About The Forever Chemicals In Food”, in Huffington Post:
text: These are the Keith Richards of chemicals, known as forever chemicals because they can survive for years without really breaking down.
ref: 2020 January 23, Bruce Y. Lee, “Forever Chemicals In Your Drinking Water, It Is Worse Than Previously Thought”, in Forbes:
text: Some of the most commonly used PFAS chemicals, like PFOS and PFOA (perfluorooctanesulfonic acid and perfluorooctanoic acid) have long half-lives, earning them the moniker the forever chemical.
ref: 2020 January 24, Sarah Gibbens, “Toxic forever chemicals more common in tap water than thought, report says.”, in National Geographic:
text: They are called “forever chemicals” because they do not naturally break down and have been found to accumulate in humans.
ref: [2021 May 13, Tom Perkins, “Study finds alarming levels of ‘forever chemicals’ in US mothers’ breast milk”, in The Guardian, retrieved 13 May 2021:
text: U.S. industrial conglomerate 3M Co (MMM.N) on Tuesday set a 2025 deadline to stop producing PFAS, the "forever chemicals" used in anything from cell phones to semiconductors that have been linked to cancers, heart problems and low birth weights.
ref: 2022 December 20, “3M to end 'forever chemicals' output at cost of up to $2.3 bln”, in Reuters:
topics: journalism
media
glosses: Synonym of PFAS (“perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substance”).
synonyms: word: PFAS
extra: perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substance
forever chemicals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forever chemical
PFASs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) have been manufactured since the 1950s for use as surface protectants for textiles and leather treatment, as protection additives in food packaging and paper products, and in firefighting foams.
ref: 2015, “PFASs in the General Population”, in Jamie C. DeWitt, editor, Toxicological Effects of Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances, Humana Press, →ISBN, page 51:
glosses: plural of PFAS
programmed random occurrence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: programmed random occurrences
Etymology: A backronym of proc, which actually originates from procedure (in the computer programming sense).
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: A proc.
megacluster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megaclusters
Etymology: From mega- + cluster.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A group of superclusters
megaclusters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megacluster
meningomyeloradiculitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: meningomyelitis and radiculitis
metabolomically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a metabolomic manner
metaluminous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having an alumina content approximately equal to that of alkaline oxides
Related terms: peraluminous
methomidate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of metomidate.
microadhesion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microadhesions
Etymology: From micro- + adhesion.
Senses: glosses: A microscopic adhesion
microadhesions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microadhesion
microembolisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microembolism
micromanufacture
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: micromanufactures
form: micromanufacturing
form: micromanufactured
form: micromanufactured
Etymology: From micro- + manufacture.
Senses: glosses: To manufacture components or devices on a micro scale, especially by the use of microlithography
micromanufactured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of micromanufacture
Kubrick stare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kubrick stares
Etymology: Named for its frequent use in the films of director Stanley Kubrick.
Senses: examples: text: Analu Cruze-Josephides, librarian and actor exemplifies his rendition of the “Kubrick stare,” a technique synonymous with villainous characters he plays in films.
ref: 2017, Don Perez, "Librarian of horror", The Union (El Camino College), 18 May 2017, page 3 (image caption)
text: […] Vincent D'Onofrio goes off the deep end with a malevolent Kubrick stare.
ref: 2017 June 8, Marty Fugate, “'The Remnant' offers a cure for Vietnam War amnesia”, in Arts + Entertainment, page 9:
text: Ramsay's work is as chilling as it is technically flawless. She's an avid practitioner of the Kubrick Stare […]
ref: 2018 April 26, Chris McCoy, “The Professional”, in Memphis Flyer, page 34:
glosses: The act of looking at the viewer with head tilted downward and eyes peering upward from beneath the eyebrows.
Kubrick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Polish kubryk (“ship's forecastle”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from Kubrick (surname)
word: Kubrickesque
sense: terms derived from Kubrick (surname)
word: Kubrickian
sense: terms derived from Kubrick (surname)
word: Kubrick Mons
sense: terms derived from Kubrick (surname)
word: Kubrickologist
sense: terms derived from Kubrick (surname)
word: Kubrickology
sense: terms derived from Kubrick (surname)
word: Kubrick stare
monochronicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being monochronic
monocolonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of monoclonal.
monofascicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + fascicular.
Senses: glosses: Having a single fascicle
cannabisseur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cannabisseurs
Etymology: Blend of cannabis + connoisseur.
Senses: examples: text: Many cannabisseurs or entrepreneurs noticed the gap in the legislative laws passed in the state of Hawai'i and promptly put their own voice into helping these people in need of medical marijuana.
ref: 2018, Colin Heacock, "Marijuana: Holistic Medicine or Another Blight on Society?", Fresh Perspectives (Hawai'i Pacific University), Fall 2018, page 54
text: Many of them, and many of you, are probably cannabisseurs, or why else would you still be reading this?
ref: 2018, Shelton Hull, "Giving The Gift Of Green", Folio Weekly, 5 December 2018 - 11 December 2018, page 34
text: True cannabisseurs own only glass bongs; plastic won't cut it.
ref: 2019, Marc Luber, Stuff Every Cannabisseur Should Know, page 83:
glosses: A cannabis aficionado.
monointoxication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monointoxications
Etymology: From mono- + intoxication.
Senses: glosses: intoxication by a single substance (typically when present in a mixture)
monointoxications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monointoxication
cannabisseurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cannabisseur
monosaponification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mono- + saponification.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: saponification of a single ester group
monosegment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monosegments
Etymology: From mono- + segment.
Senses: glosses: A single segment of a structure that contains multiple segments
Related terms: monosegmental
morphopopulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morphopopulations
Etymology: From morpho- + population.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A population or organisms that have a common morphology
morphopopulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morphopopulation
multiaperture
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æpə(ɹ)tʃə(ɹ)
-æpə(ɹ)tʃʊə(ɹ)
-æpə(ɹ)tjʊə(ɹ)
Forms: form: multi-aperture
Etymology: From multi- + aperture.
Senses: glosses: Having multiple apertures
multiechelon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + echelon.
Senses: glosses: Having multiple echelons, layers or tiers
multihexamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multihexamers
Etymology: From multi- + hexamer.
Senses: glosses: A polymer composed of multiple hexamers
multihexamers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multihexamer
myotonolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The disruption of muscle tone
Related terms: myotonolytic
myotonolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or causing myotonolysis
liver wing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liver wings
Senses: examples: text: "Then I'll have a bit more stuffing to it. Ay, and the liver wing."
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 19:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: The right wing of a chicken cooked with the chicken's liver nestled into it.
liver wings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liver wing
nadrolone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of nandrolone.
naloxegol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nal- (“opioid receptor antagonist/agonist”) + [Term?] + -ol.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A particular opioid receptor antagonist.
neoconjugate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neoconjugates
Etymology: From neo- + conjugate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any synthetic glycoconjugate
neoconjugates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neoconjugate
neotaphonomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neo- + taphonomic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the taphonomy of relatively new corpses
neuroenergetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + energetic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to neuroenergetics
neurohormonally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From neuro- + hormonally.
Senses: glosses: In a neurohormonal manner
soulmark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soulmarks
Etymology: From soul + mark.
Senses: examples: text: “Unfortunately, it's not defective. Though most people's soulmarks only recognize one other soul, yours seems to recognize two.”
ref: 2011, Angela Corbett, Eternal Starling, unnumbered page:
text: The changes to Darcy's soulmark correspond with her soulmate's state of mind.
ref: 2017, Kinga Kowalska, “Embodied Soulmarks and Social Expectations: The Materialization of Romantic Love in Soulmate AU Fanfiction”, in Anna Malinowska, Michael Gratzke, editors, The Materiality of Love: Essays on Affection and Cultural Practice, unnumbered page:
text: In the fan fiction adaptation, Someone_aka_me uses the same lines to forge a connection between Alec and Magnus, both figuratively (putting both characters in the same scene and having them react to and impact each other) and literally (this particular piece of fan fiction introduces an alternative plotline in which Magnus’s words activate a soulbond between them, as they match a pre-existing soulmark imprinted on Alec’s skin).
ref: 2018, Malin Brus, "'I Don't Think We've Been Formally Introduced?": Re-contextualising a Literary Model for First Meetings through Adaptation Theory and Fan Fiction", dissertation submitted to the University of Gothenburg, page 21
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A mark on a character's body identifying their soulmate(s); the physical manifestation of a character's soulbond.
neuroleptospirosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuroleptospiroses
Etymology: From neuro- + leptospirosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: leptospirosis of the nervous system
neurolocalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + localisation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of neurolocalization.
neurolocalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + localization.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: localization of a disease within the nervous system
Hampton in Arden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP2081).
eggel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eggels
Etymology: Blend of egg + bagel.
Senses: examples: text: Ron Allen and his wife, Libby, were enjoying their favorite breakfast, the eggel, an egg on bagel.
ref: 2015 August 16, E. B. Furgurson III, “Chick and Ruth's Delly: After half a century, it's still about family”, in Capital Gazette:
text: Try out the combo meals or even the eggels.
ref: 2018 March 2, Anastasia Carter, Eve Gross, “Best Restaurants In The 419”, in The Student Prints, Sylvania Northview High School, page 14:
text: Our whole menu is offered all day for those who want a lunch sandwich in the morning or an eggel in the afternoon.
ref: 2018, “No. 1 Sandwich Shop...AGAIN!!”, in Minot Daily News Readers' Choice 2018, page 13:
glosses: A bagel sandwich with an egg filling.
eggwich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eggwiches
Etymology: Blend of egg + sandwich.
Senses: examples: text: Stop in the morning for espresso and the pita eggwich (scrambled eggs, peppers, onions and diced tomatoes with provolone).
ref: 2000, Nancy Woodworth, Richard Woodworth, Getaways for Gourmets in the Northeast, page 266:
text: In Stewart's, waiting for his bagel to toast, Anthony launched into some abbreviated Grunt and Grumble with the other men picking up coffee and eggwiches.
ref: 2007, Jon Katz, Dog Days: Dispatches from Bedlam Farm, page 119:
text: John butted a cigarette in the ashtray, got out of the car with his twenty-four-ounce coffee and sausage eggwich.
ref: 2018, Liam Sweeny, Street Whispers, unnumbered page:
coordinate_terms: cheesewich
crispwich
hamwich
jamwich
glosses: A sandwich with an egg filling or egg patty.
soulmarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soulmark
eggels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eggel
eggwiches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eggwich
White City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the white walls of an exhibition centre and stadium built there c. 1908.
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood around Wood Lane, Shepherd's Bush, borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2380).
glosses: A census-designated place in Jackson County, Oregon, United States.
ladymag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ladymags
Etymology: From lady + mag (“magazine”).
Senses: examples: text: Slowly and mechanically, without really seeing anything, I leafed through the pages of a big fat silky ladymag.
ref: 1972, Jean Shepherd, The Ferrari in the Bedroom, unnumbered page (originally published in Car & Driver)
text: OK, despite a hefty cleavage, the standard cover girl for a trashy ladymag stops short of nipple exposure, but that doesn't mean women's magazines (and, as we saw, even teen magazines) don't heavily 'laddify' their content.
ref: 2014, Holly Baxter, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, Vagenda: A Zero Tolerance Guide to the Media, page 263:
text: Namely, that perhaps the national media was poised to acknowledge en masse the smart, serious work already being published by the ladymags—and that perhaps ladymags might be reinventing themselves for an increasingly savvy audience, sick of pandering.
ref: 2014 May 12, Alexis Sobel Fitts, “The ‘new feminists’ of Joanna Coles’ Cosmopolitan”, in Columbia Journal Review:
coordinate_terms: lad mag
glosses: A magazine which focuses on women's issues and interests.
vagenda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vagendas
Etymology: Blend of vagina + agenda.
Senses: examples: text: Walter Bishop: And I have no idea how to bring our Olivia back. It's all because of that temptress. She tricked my son with her carnal manipulations and he fell right into her vagenda.
Astrid Farnsworth: Vagenda?
Walter Bishop: Like Mata Hari using her feminine wiles to accomplish her evil ends. And I too fell prey. She used my stomach to get through to my heart.
ref: 2010 2 December, Jeff Pinkner & "J. H. Wyman, "Entrada", episode 3-8 of Fringe
text: I love a good jokey punk band—especially if that band is Childbirth and has a serious feminist vagenda.
ref: 2015 May 5, “This Week Ahead”, in Seattle Weekly, page 30:
text: But they have come along just as the campaign is stirring up operatic male angst over being left behind by history, as captured by the viral roadside sign that warned of Hillary Clinton’s “vagenda of manocide.”
ref: 2016 September 13, James Poniewozik, “Sitcom Men, Grappling With a New Reality on TV”, in New York Times:
glosses: An ulterior and often sinister scheme involving female sexuality or feminism.
ladymags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ladymag
Arisaig
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Inverness-shire, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NM6686).
glosses: A small village in Antigonish County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
velvet hippos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of velvet hippo
Kubrick stares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kubrick stare
mompetition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mompetitions
Etymology: Blend of mom + competition.
Senses: examples: text: The beauty of witnessing a mompetition on the Internet is that it's one of the rare times people catch a glimpse of just how far off the deep end their friend has gone since having a baby.
ref: 2013, Blair Koenig, STFU, Parents: The Jaw-Dropping, Self-Indulgent, and Occasionally Rage-Inducing World of Parent Overshare, unnumbered page:
text: I've witnessed the mompetition on the playground and see it every day on my mom Listservs.
ref: 2014, Brigid Schulte, Overwhelmed: Work, Love and Play When No One Has The Time, unnumbered page:
text: Recent research has examined mothers' use of Pinterest and the so-called “mompetition” that can occur on such sites (Griffin, 2014).
ref: 2016, Katherine R. Allen, Angela C. Henderson, Family Theories: Foundations and Applications, unnumbered page:
glosses: Rivalry between mothers wishing to prove that they are better parents and/or have children who are more talented, well-behaved, etc.
Aberdovey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Aberdyfi
Etymology: From Welsh Aberdyfi, from aber (“river mouth”) + Dyfi (“River Dovey”).
Senses: glosses: A coastal village in Gwynedd, Wales (OS grid ref SN6196).
drape off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drapes off
form: draping off
form: draped off
form: draped off
Senses: examples: text: Streams cut through open plains draping off the mountain ridge.
glosses: To extend as if hanging like a drape.
examples: text: The long tail of sales drapes off without dropping off.
glosses: To reduce in amplitude.
niosomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to niosomes
Derived terms: proniosomal
nonintoxicated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + intoxicated.
Senses: glosses: Not intoxicated
nonisothermally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From non- + isothermally.
Senses: glosses: In a nonisothermal manner
nonphotoactive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + photoactive.
Senses: glosses: Not photoactive
DMSs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of DMS
nonpluripotent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + pluripotent.
Senses: glosses: Not pluripotent
doc drops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doc drop
doc drops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of doc drop
doc dropped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of doc drop
doc dropping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of doc drop
dodecabenzocoronenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dodecabenzocoronene
dodecadienals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dodecadienal
dodecenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dodecene
dodecylamines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dodecylamine
dodecyltrimethylammoniums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dodecyltrimethylammonium
dodipoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dodipole
dog flaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dog flap
dog wardens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dog warden
dolichyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dolichyl
nonvasectomized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + vasectomized.
Senses: glosses: Not vasectomized
normobiosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From normo- + -biosis.
Senses: glosses: The normal state of having a range of bacteria in the gut
Related terms: normobiotic
normobiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From normo- + -biotic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to normobiosis
nucleorhabdovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nucleorhabdoviruses
Senses: glosses: Any virus of the genus Nucleorhabdovirus
nucleorhabdoviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nucleorhabdovirus
prophylactic rule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prophylactic rules
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A judge-made rule that overprotects a constitutional right in order to safeguard that right or facilitate detection of violations of it.
prophylactic rules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prophylactic rule
oligogalactofuranoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oligogalactofuranosides
Etymology: From oligo- + galactofuranoside.
Senses: glosses: Any oligomeric galactofuranoside
oligogalactofuranosides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oligogalactofuranoside
ornithophagic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ornitho- + -phagic.
Senses: examples: text: In the primary cycle of WN virus, ornithophagic mosquitoes, such as Cx. pipiens, feed on viremic birds (amplification hosts), become infected, and transmit WN virus to other amplification hosts.
ref: 2001, Dennis J. White, West Nile Virus: Detection, Surveillance, and Control:
glosses: That feeds on birds
Related terms: ornithophage
casinoization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From casino + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: Have we witnessed the "casinoization" of Wall Street with its emphasis on short-term returns on investments?
ref: 1990, Southern Social Studies Journal:
text: But for many less-well-off writers, such fees have moved out of range. It is difficult to know what is lost through this rapid casinoization of the literary marketplace, but I suspect a substantial degree of diversity of voice and perspective has gone missing.
ref: 2006, Rosemary Geisdorfer Feal, Profession 2006, page 200:
text: Rather, the casinoization of gambling debates under New Labour reflected and reinforced a significant reorientation in political economic approach, involving the unabashed celebration of corporate leisure spectacles […]
ref: 2019, Kate Bedford, Bingo Capitalism:
text: The concept of casinoization refers to social, economic, cultural, and political consequences of the booming gambling industry in a specific society.
ref: 2023 July 5, Tang In Lao, Jianhua Xu, “How Casinoization Affects the Police in Macao”, in Asian Journal of Law and Society, volume 11, number 1, page 3:
glosses: The process of turning something into a casino, or introducing elements akin to casino gambling.
ornithophage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ornithophages
Etymology: From ornitho- + -phage.
Senses: glosses: Any organism that eats birds.
Related terms: ornithophagic
ornithophages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ornithophage