cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Hydruntum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Hydruntum, from Ancient Greek Ὑδροῦς (Hudroûs), from the combining form of ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”) + -οῦς (-oûs, “-ous, -ful”). Doublet of Otranto and hydrous.
Senses: glosses: Former name of Otranto: a city in Apulia, in southeastern Italy.
Homo superior
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhəʊməʊ suːˈpɪəɹi.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˌhoʊmoʊ suːˈpɪɹiɚ/
rhymes: -ɪəɹiə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Homo Superior
form: Homo superioris
Etymology: From Latin homo superior (literally “superior human”), modeled after New Latin Homo sapiens (literally “wise human”). Coined by Olaf Stapledon in his novel Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest (1935).
Senses: examples: text: If this was the way of Homo superior, I said, thank God I was another species.
ref: 1935, Olaf Stapledon, Odd John, Gollancz, published 2012, page 159:
text: Magneto: "The first phase of my plan shall be to show my power... to make Homo sapiens bow to Homo superior!"
ref: 1963 September 10, Stan Lee, “X-Men”, in The X-Men, volume 1, number 1, page 11:
text: You gotta make way¶ for the Homo Superior
ref: 1971, “Oh! You Pretty Things”, in Hunky Dory, performed by David Bowie:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
synonyms: Homo novus
glosses: A species of man more advanced than Homo sapiens; a superhuman.
wikipedia: Olaf Stapledon
Hypernyms: sense: species
english: order
translation: order
word: Primates
sense: species
english: suborder
translation: suborder
word: Haplorhini
sense: species
english: infraorder
translation: infraorder
word: Simiiformes
sense: species
english: parvorder
translation: parvorder
word: Catarrhini
sense: species
english: superfamily
translation: superfamily
word: Hominoidea
sense: species
english: family
translation: family
word: Hominidae
sense: species
english: subfamily
translation: subfamily
word: Homininae
sense: species
english: tribe
translation: tribe
word: Hominini
sense: species
english: subtribe
translation: subtribe
word: Hominina
sense: species
english: genus
translation: genus
word: Homo
Related terms: Homo economicus
Homo idioticus
Homo reciprocans
slan
mutant
superman
overman
übermensch
brevirostrine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Likewise, a close relationship was stated between both taxa [31 ], based on the spiral enamel bands on the upper tusks and brevirostrine mandibles, although the authors did not perform a formal cladistic analysis to test this hypothesis.
ref: 2016 January 13, “The Dance of Tusks: Rediscovery of Lower Incisors in the Pan-American Proboscidean Cuvieronius hyodon Revises Incisor Evolution in Elephantimorpha”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Synonym of brevirostral.
synonyms: word: brevirostral
brevirostry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, the emergence of brevirostry in Clade B appears to be related to a more open environment, the Savanna (Fig 3 ), which is in accordance with previous studies [6 ].
ref: 2016 January 13, “The Dance of Tusks: Rediscovery of Lower Incisors in the Pan-American Proboscidean Cuvieronius hyodon Revises Incisor Evolution in Elephantimorpha”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The condition of being brevirostral
coccidophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From coccido- + -phagous.
Senses: examples: text: Absence of interference competition at high prey densities has also been reported for the coccidophagous ladybirds Chilocorus bipustulatus L., C.
ref: 2016 January 13, “Does Mutual Interference Affect the Feeding Rate of Aphidophagous Coccinellids? A Modeling Perspective”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That feeds on scales.
Related terms: coccid
dibelodont
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Black bars represent tetralophodont proboscideans; green bars represent dibelodont proboscideans and yellow bar represents tetrabelodont proboscideans (reversion/atavism).
ref: 2016 January 13, “The Dance of Tusks: Rediscovery of Lower Incisors in the Pan-American Proboscidean Cuvieronius hyodon Revises Incisor Evolution in Elephantimorpha”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Having two lower incisors missing
equiproportional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From equi- + proportional.
Senses: glosses: equally proportional (to two or more other things)
Derived terms: equiproportionality
equiproportionality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From equi- + proportionality.
Senses: examples: text: Data were tested for equiproportionality and Chi-square test associated p-value is reported when the difference is statistically significant.
ref: 2016 January 13, “USP2-45 Is a Circadian Clock Output Effector Regulating Calcium Absorption at the Post-Translational Level”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The condition of being equiproportional
immunoprivileged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From immuno- + privileged.
Senses: examples: text: We hypothesized that preengrafting SC would allow one to develop a vascularized immunoprivileged ectopic site that provides protection for mouse islet allografts.
ref: 2002 September 1, Tatsuya Kin, “Development of an Immunoprivileged Site to Prolong Islet Allograft Survival”, in Cell Transplantation, volume 11, number 6:
text: Co-transplantation of autologous MSCs delays islet allograft rejection and generates a local immunoprivileged site for graft survival.
ref: 2016 January 13, “Insulin-Producing Cells Differentiated from Human Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells In Vitro Ameliorate Streptozotocin-Induced Diabetic Hyperglycemia”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Able to tolerate the introduction of antigens without eliciting an immune response.
Related terms: immunoprivilege
intrasphenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + sphenoid.
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, to provide sufficient exposure and maneuverability, the posterior nasal septum and middle turbinate were removed so that the classic intrasphenoid landmarks could be identified (A) involving the planum sphenoidale: OC, optic canal; mOCR, medial optico-carotid recesses; ICA, internal carotid artery; ST, sella turcica; and clivus.
ref: 2016 January 13, “A Novel Augmented Reality Navigation System for Endoscopic Sinus and Skull Base Surgery: A Feasibility Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Within a sphenoid bone
flatter to deceive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flatters to deceive
form: flattering to deceive
form: flattered to deceive
form: flattered to deceive
Senses: glosses: To appear better than is actually the case.
Homo superioris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin homo (“human being, man, person”) and superioris (“of the higher, superior”), genitive of superior (“higher, superior”), or superior (“higher, superior”) + -is (“suffix to form adjectives”).
Senses: examples: text: What is Homo superioris, evolution's Man of to-morrow, to be?
ref: 1912, Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Beyond War, Henry Holt & Company, page 150:
text: What chance has the species "homo superioris," of the poets and eugenists, of being born from racial stocks depleted mentally and physically by the environment of violence?
ref: 1924 July 24, “The Aftermath of Violence”, in The World Tomorrow, volume 7:
text: Homo superioris, in fact. We are the humans' remote descendants, as far removed from them in time and evolution as they are from early Homo erectus.
ref: 1998, Peter Jurasik, William H. Keith, Diplomatic Act, Baen Books, →ISBN, page 358:
glosses: Alternative form of Homo superior (“The hypothetical next evolutionary step beyond Homo sapiens.”).
nonsuperradiant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + superradiant.
Senses: examples: text: The corresponding leading order entropy of the nonsuperradiant modes is found to be proportional to the area of the horizon and is logarithmically divergent.
ref: 2016, Kaushik Ghosh, “Near-Horizon Geometry and the Entropy of a Minimally Coupled Scalar Field in the Kerr Black Hole”, in arXiv:
glosses: Not superradiant.
birthday-suited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: birthday suited
Etymology: From birthday suit + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Unclothed.
mimsiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of mimsy: most mimsy
disuniates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disuniate
disuniat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disuniats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of disuniate.
disuniats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disuniat
superstabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superstability
premoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒɹəl
Etymology: From pre- + moral.
Senses: glosses: Before the development of a sense of morality.
postmoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + moral.
Senses: glosses: After the decline of morality.
condrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: condrins
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of candareen.
candarin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: candarins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of candareen.
condrins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of condrin
candarins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of candarin
superstabilizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + stabilizing.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of a distributed algorithm: able to be started in any arbitrary state and then to converge to a legitimate state, and additionally to recover rapidly from changes in the network topology.
Related terms: superstabilization
superstabilizer
superstabilization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From super- + stabilization.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The self-correcting behaviour of a superstabilizing algorithm.
on blast
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: A back-formation from put someone on blast.
Senses: examples: text: “I really did want someone who also has to be on blast and be judged in the public forum of writing lyrics and has to sing and has to play instruments,” Bridwell continues, “someone that understands the weight that carries around with it. And someone who knows the industry side of it. That was the main lightning rod. This guy is going to get it more than anyone else could. He has been on both sides of the damn desk. At least I’ll have a good ear to bend if shit goes wrong.”
ref: 2016 June 21, Matt Fink, “Band of Horses: The Art of Contradiction”, in Paste Magazine:
text: Jim Murphy is on blast... for being dismissive of the England football team.
ref: 2014 March 9, “So much for Better Together... Jim Murphy insults English team”, in Express (UK):
text: The Cleveland Animal Shelter is on blast this week as hundreds of community members push for changes in the way it operates.
ref: 2012 June 26, “Adopted dog killed before pickup, Cleveland shelter on blast”, in WRCB-TV:
glosses: In an embarrassing position from having been publicly denounced or exposed, especially from being shamed on social media.
glosses: Of a device, set to a very high volume.
put someone on blast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts someone on blast
form: putting someone on blast
form: put someone on blast
form: put someone on blast
Senses: examples: text: For one, putting Sapp on blast like that without knowing his circumstances isn't very classy nor professional and two who's to say the waitress didn't supply good service which is a very popular reason as to why some people don't tip.
ref: 2014 July 2, EJ, “Lawd Geeeeeezus: Waitress Puts Warren Sapp's 'No Tip' Ticket On Blast”, in Design & Trend:
text: Mia Khalifa has no problem calling people out for constantly sliding into her DM’s. Buffalo Bills safety Duke Williams learned that the hard way when the porn star put him on blast for doing just that via Twitter.
ref: 2015 July 13, Michelle Phi, “Duke Williams: Mia Khalifa Puts NFL Player On Blast For Multiple Twitter Messages”, in Hollywood Life:
text: But then it was time to put Jonathan on blast—poor, sweet, foul-mouthed Jonathan who merely wanted someone to let him hit.
ref: 2015 October 6, Ashley Feinberg, “Anderson Cooper Narced on a Bunch of Teens Last Night”, in Gawker:
text: Like with last episode's Living Single joke, I felt both immediately put on blast and very deserving of it, which is exactly what good satire should do.
ref: 2016 April 21, Allie Page, “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Recap: The Freshmaker”, in Vulture:
glosses: To embarrass by publicly denouncing or exposing, especially by using social media.
puts someone on blast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of put someone on blast
putting someone on blast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of put someone on blast
ngay
Language: English
Part of speech: particle
Etymology: Borrowed from Ilocano ngay.
Senses: examples: text: You ngay?
translation: What about you?
english: What about you?
bold_translation_offsets: 0
10
glosses: Used to question the listener
for a response or affirmation
examples: text: Where are you ngay?
translation: Where are you? [I have been waiting for so long!]
english: Where are you? [I have been waiting for so long!]
bold_translation_offsets: 16
48
glosses: Used to question the listener
that implies impatience.
examples: text: What ngay is that?
translation: What the heck is that?
english: What the heck is that?
bold_translation_offsets: 5
13
glosses: Used to question the listener
that implies dismay or disgust.
examples: text: Yes ngay.
translation: Yes, [I agree with you].
english: Yes, [I agree with you].
bold_translation_offsets: 6
22
glosses: Used to agree with what the listener has said.
examples: text: I couldn't do anything ngay.
translation: I wasn't really able to do anything.
english: I wasn't really able to do anything.
bold_translation_offsets: 9
15
glosses: Used for emphasis
examples: text: I couldn't do anything ngay.
translation: [I'm sorry], I wasn't able to do anything.
english: [I'm sorry], I wasn't able to do anything.
bold_translation_offsets: 1
10
glosses: Used to solicit pity from the listener
IDB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IDBs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of illicit diamond buyer.
glosses: Initialism of illicit diamond buying.
IDBs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of IDB
road rager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: road ragers
form: road-rager
Etymology: From road rage + -er.
Senses: examples: text: When I told Jon I thought that he was a road rager, he replied, 'I'm not a road rager. Road ragers take an interest in their victims on the road. I don't!'
ref: 2002, Krystal Love, Blind to the Molesting Hands:
glosses: Someone who exhibits road rage.
road ragers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of road rager
one-and-one
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one-and-ones
Senses: examples: text: State begins fouling and UCLA misses a couple of front-end free throws on one-and-ones.
ref: 2009, Brandon Lang, Stanley Cohen, Beating the Odds: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Sports Handicapper, →ISBN:
text: Twice we got fouled and missed the front end of one-and-ones that could have pretty much cinched it for us.
ref: 2011, Clyde Drexler, Kerry Eggers, Jim Nantz, Clyde the Glide: My Life in Basketball, →ISBN, page 99:
text: UConn had chances to increase its lead, but Ryan Boatright and Terrence Samuel each missed the front ends of one-and-ones, giving Terp star Dez Wells two chances to give Maryland its first lead of the game in the final 13 seconds.
ref: 2015, David Borges, Rebound!: The Incredible Story of UConn Basketball's Comeback from Defeat to Dominance, →ISBN:
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A double foul shot, where the first shot must succeed in order to get the second shot.
examples: text: If Durant signed a one-and-one and then signed a five-year max next summer, he'd make over $235 million over the next six years. If he signed a one-and-one and then signed a four-year max using those Non-Bird Rights, he'd make a little over $168 million over the next five years.
ref: 2016 June 6, Jake Whitacre, “Why a one-and-one contract wouldn't work for Kevin Durant in Washington”, in SB Nation:
text: For financial and competitive reasons, Durant’s best move is to stay in Oklahoma City. With the cap jumping $20 million this summer and another $15 million in 2017, Durant can make an extra $40 million by signing a one-and-one contract with the Thunder in July, then opt out and sign a long-term deal in 2017.
ref: 2016 May 31, “Which teams have the best odds to sign Kevin Durant?”, in Comcast SportsNet Chicago:
text: Is it possible to have a few one-and-one guys while building the majority of the roster around guys who want to be at Kansas for longer than just one year?
ref: 2015 March 23, Neal Jones, “Has 'one-and-done' recruiting hurt Kansas basketball?,”, in KCTV Kansas City:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A contract in which the player signs on for one year with an option to stay for a second year.
one-and-ones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of one-and-one
sign-ons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sign-on
hydrolock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrolocks
Etymology: Blend of hydrostatic + lock
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of hydrostatic lock (a condition affecting a compression device that compresses gases, having been infiltrated by an unsustainable amount of incompressible liquid, or, being unable to further compress gases, locking the device in place).
Derived terms: english: having the condition
translation: having the condition
word: hydrolocked
hydrolock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hydrolocks
form: hydrolocking
form: hydrolocked
form: hydrolocked
Etymology: Blend of hydrostatic + lock
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of hydrostatic lock (to enter a hydrolock).
Derived terms: english: the action of hydrolock
translation: the action of hydrolock
alt: n.
word: hydrolocking
Related terms: air lock
vapor lock
vapour lock
hydrolocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrolock
hydrolocks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hydrolock
hydrolocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hydrolock
hydrolocking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hydrostatic lock.
synonyms: word: hydrostatic lock
hydrolocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: having the hydrolock condition
hydrolocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of hydrolock
porcelain skin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porcelain skins
Senses: glosses: smooth skin
Blue Lagoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Blue Lagoons
Senses: glosses: A cocktail made with blue curaçao.
Blue Lagoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Blue Lagoon
bandolierwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˌbændəˈlɪə(ɹ)waɪz/
Etymology: From bandolier + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: 1612, attributed to Thomas Dekker, "O Per Se O" in A. B. Judges (ed.), The Elizabethan Underworld - a Collection of Tudor and Early Stuart Tracts and Ballads, Routledge, 1930, reprinted 2002, p. 371, https://books.google.ca/books?id=3e77AQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
The abram cove is a lusty strong rogue, who walketh with a slade about his quarroms trining to his hams, bandolierwise, for all the world as cutpurses and thieves wear their sheets to the gallows, in which their trulls are to bury them.
text: The young figure of then is seen, precociously manly, walking on a nipping morning from the old house in Clambrassil street to the high school, his booksatchel on him bandolierwise, and in it a goodly hunk of wheaten loaf, a mother's thought.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: I remember very vividly the torchlit scene—the uproar and excitement, the red flags flapping in the torchlight, the massed ranks of militiamen with their knapsacks on their backs and their rolled blankets worn bandolier-wise across the shoulder […]
ref: 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter I, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:
glosses: In the manner of a bandolier, looped over the shoulder on one side and under the arm on the other.
one shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one shots
Senses: examples: text: When composing a one shot, the subject should usually be centered in the frame.
ref: 1998, Jerry Martin, Active Video: A Teaching Tool for Every Classroom, →ISBN, page 19:
text: Close ups are often one shots, which means that close-up one shots often come at the high points of scenes.
ref: 2011, Dennis J. Packard, The Film Novelist: Writing a Screenplay and Short Novel in 15 Weeks, →ISBN, page 19:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A camera shot that focuses on a single subject.
one shots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of one shot
are you a man or a mouse
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Are you a courageous man or a coward?
CIDT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of cluster independent data collection tree: the cluster and tree topology-based routing protocol for MWSN.
VELCT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of Velocity Energy-efficient and Link-aware Cluster-Tree, a cluster and tree based topology management protocol for mobile wireless sensor networks (MWSNs).
incher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inchers
Etymology: From inch + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Which computer monitor did you buy? I bought the 24-incher!
text: About the makeshift knives, one law-enforcement source said, “They found a four-incher and a six-incher, in his cell, under his legal papers.”
ref: 2007 May 10, Denise Buffa, “JAIL-KNIFE RAP VS. NIXZMARY DAD”, in New York Post:
text: Our recommended screen is about $190 for a 100 incher, last time I checked, so it’s still much cheaper.
ref: 2017 May 17, Damon Darlin, “How a Projector Can Substitute for a Television Set”, in The New York Times:
text: New York State is a epicenter of American hotdoggery, home to beloved hyperlocal wieners like Syracuse’s Snappy Grillers, micro-regional variants like the three-inchers of Troy, and destination footlongs like those grilled over coals at Ted’s in Buffalo.
ref: 2023 August 14, J. J. Goode, “A Field Guide to the Great Hot Dogs of America”, in The New York Times:
glosses: An object having a dimension of so many inches.
raw_tags: with a number
get behind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets behind
form: getting behind
form: got behind
form: got behind
form: gotten behind
Senses: examples: text: I can't get behind the idea that all homeless people are just too lazy to work.
synonyms: endorse
glosses: To come to believe or support something.
glosses: To support, to cheer on.
examples: text: I could definitely get behind a fun restaurant in this town.
glosses: To appreciate, to enjoy.
qualifier: narcotics
glosses: To have a trip or any pleasurable experience with drugs.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To nag or pressure (somebody).
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, behind.
potwalloper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potwallopers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pot-walloper.
DCT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DCTs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of data collection tree.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Initialism of dual clutch transmission.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of discrete cosine transform.
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: Abbreviation of digital component tape.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Abbreviation of division(al) combat team.
Related terms: english: multi-clutch transmission
translation: multi-clutch transmission
word: MCT
english: continuously variable transmission
translation: continuously variable transmission
word: CVT
english: discrete Fourier transform
translation: discrete Fourier transform
word: DFT
english: digital compact cassette
translation: digital compact cassette
word: DCC
english: digital audio tape
translation: digital audio tape
word: DAT
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: BCT
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: CCT
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: CT
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: PCT
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: RCT
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: SCT
non-target-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + target + -like.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of a linguistic feature produced by a language learner: unlike that linguistic feature as it occurs in the target language.
oneshot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: oneshots
form: oneshotting
form: oneshotted
form: oneshotted
Senses: examples: text: Can't wait for people to say "Finally, he is basically designed to be a jungler with his W and R anyways" followed by "Pantheon jng is so toxic and uninteractive with global ganks and point and click stun while oneshotting me and being immune to damage, 200 years rito".
ref: 2022 July 18, u/CrystalizedSeraphine, “Pantheon PBE buff: Q monster damage increased from 70% to 120%”, in Reddit, r/leagueoflegends, archived from the original on 18 Oct 2025:
topics: video-games
synonyms: one-hit kill
OHK
one-tap
glosses: To kill or destroy with a single hit; to instakill.
examples: text: The CIA couldn't have dreamed up a oneshotting as effective as sending thousands of American girls to RedNote
ref: 2025 January 18, @venturetwins, Twitter, archived from the original on 20 Mar 2025:
text: who would win: hard righties' aversion to race-mixing, or a mild-mannered actress/model from Hokkaido whose pic is currently oneshotting dudes like she's an ayahuasca trip
ref: 2025 July 26, @hradzka, Twitter, archived from the original on 27 Jul 2025:
text: Furry is a dangerous thing because you either find a group of friends who are well-adjusted and generally beneficial to your life as a whole or you get socially oneshotted by creeps and become an evil sex pervert forever
ref: 2025 August 31, @SavosAndSavos, Twitter, archived from the original on 18 Oct 2025:
text: This whole thread is a goldmine of women who have been oneshotted by parasocial relationships. Yap hands in abundance.
ref: 2025 October 6, u/BadgerInABun, “The Daily Moby - 06 10 2025 - The News Megathread”, in Reddit, r/badunitedkingdom, archived from the original on 18 Oct 2025:
glosses: To rapidly overwhelm and gain influence over (someone).
examples: text: Demo oneshotting a multiplayer Pong in Go ↓
ref: 2025 September 8, @rauchg, Twitter, archived from the original on 18 Oct 2025:
text: It's one thing for an AI to oneshot a 2D Javascript game like a frogger or tetris clone, it's another for an AI to do all of the work that goes into designing and making a full scale indie RPG or more complex game on the scale of Stardew Valley or Rimworld, or even a decent visual novel.
ref: 2025 September 17, u/MachinationMachine, “TheInformation - OpenAI's Models Are Getting Too Smart For Their Human Teachers”, in Reddit, r/singularity, archived from the original on 18 Oct 2025:
glosses: To successfully complete a task in a single try.
raw_tags: of genAI
oneshot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Thus, to generalise wildly for much larger regions on the basis of oneshot research is, to put it mildly, quite foolhardy.
ref: 2012, Yehuda Gradus, Desert Development: Man and Technology in Sparselands, →ISBN, page 18:
text: Alger refrains from making explicit evaluations of the stat of the discipline, but his summary of major findings culled from the surveyed publications clearly demonstrates the low level of theoretical achievement: Unrelated oneshot generalizations and bivariate propositions abound, but little effort is spent on pin-pointing their theoretical relevance.
ref: 2012, V. Rittberger, Evolution and International Organization, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of one-shot.
oneshot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oneshots
Senses: examples: text: We supply occasional suggestions, write continuities, or put in backgrounds, when he is crowded with work, which sometimes occurs when oneshots coincide with regular deadlines
ref: 1942, Paul Henry Cassidy, An Approach to the Profession of the Comic Strip Cartooning Based Upon an Analytical Survey of Current Trends and Personal Experiences:
text: It is well-known that we cannot carry this surplus over. Therefore, he is giving these oneshots to some of these institutions. Now why does he not give the public a break?
ref: 1965, Legislative Record, page 578:
text: The maximum response frequency of the Gibbs is limited with a oneshot to block the registration of postresponse contact bounces or "false responses," which would otherwise inflate the response rate. In investigations with 7- to 12-cm goldfish, for example, we set the response oneshot at 400 msec.
ref: 1971, R.E. Davis, R.B. Kenyon, “Registration of operant responses in fish”, in Mental Health Research Institute Staff Publications - Part 1:
text: This kit is complete with its own 80v power supply, features onboard timing independent of the CPU clocks and contains its own microprogram for read and write control. No oneshots are used.
ref: 1977, Dr. Dobb's Journal of Software Tools for the Professional Programmer, →ISBN:
text: Do you find that you prefer oneshots or multi-parters?
ref: 1995, Topps Comics, The X-Files Collection, page 1:
text: On the other hand, think of a cymbal crash recorded alone. Or a snare hit. If you repeated those over and over, it'd be nothing but annoying! So developers put these types of sounds into oneshot files. You can think of oneshots as building blocks.
ref: 2008, Buster Fayte, The Complete Home Music Recording Starter Kit, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of one-shot.
nyaope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: whoonga
nyaopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nyaope
microanimal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microanimals
Etymology: From micro- + animal.
Senses: glosses: A microscopic animal; an animalcule.
Homo superiors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Your children’s children will see the day. They will be the dominant majority. I shall be conquered not by homo sapiens, but by homo superiors.
ref: 1947 April 24, Henry Kuttner, Catherine Lucille Moore, “Project”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume 39, number 2:
text: He called mutants Homo Superiors to underscore the difference between mutants and the rest of mankind—puny Homo sapiens.
ref: 2000 August 24, Walter Mosley, “Extreme Fan”, in Vibe, volume 8, number 6, page 84:
text: As a supercomputer constructed by leading 'Tomorrow Person' John (Nicholas Young), with the help of the Galactic Federation, TIM has the role of assisting the homo superiors in this fight from their secret base — appropriately called the 'lab' — in a disused tunnel of the London Underground.
ref: 2006, John R. Cook, “The Age of Aquarius”, in British Science Fiction Television: A Hitchhiker's Guide, I.B.Tauris & Co, →ISBN, page 98:
glosses: plural of Homo superior
white-tailed sea eagles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white-tailed sea eagle
learning streak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: learning streaks
Etymology: Euphemistic rewording of losing streak
Senses: glosses: A series of mistakes, sometimes also with successes, that help to educate a person
market segment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: market segments
Senses: topics: business
marketing
synonyms: submarket
glosses: A group of customers that share at least one characteristic in one homogenous market.
Related terms: market segmentation
Uniates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Uniate
Vestini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An Italic tribe who inhabited a region on the coast of the Adriatic.
Olynthus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Olynthus, from Ancient Greek Ὄλυνθος (Ólunthos).
Senses: glosses: An ancient city in Chalcidice, modern Chalkidiki regional unit, Greece.
on tour
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: On a journey through a given list of places, such as by an entertainer performing concerts.
Derived terms: what happens on tour stays on tour
kmph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kmph
Etymology: From kilometers + per + hour.
Senses: related: word: kph
word: KPH
word: kmh
word: mul:km/h
word: km/hr
coordinate_terms: mph
MPH
M.P.H.
mi/h
mi/hr
mi./hr.
mi./hr
glosses: Abbreviation of kilometers per hour.
cps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cps
Senses: glosses: Initialism of character(s) per second.
Coordinate terms: sense: character per second
word: wpm
sense: character per second
word: ppm
PPM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PPMs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of pulse position modulation.
glosses: Initialism of process production model.
glosses: Initialism of power-performance management.
glosses: Initialism of prediction by partial match.
PPM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PPM
form: ppm
Senses: glosses: Initialism of page per minute.
once at a time
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of one at a time.
telephone conferences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telephone conference
cosmic dust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: space dust
glosses: Dust which exists in outer space or has fallen from outer space to Earth.
my spider sense is tingling
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From Marvel Comics' "Spider-Man" comic books, in which the main character (Spider-Man) has a superpower called "spider sense" (sometimes called spidey sense) that would forewarn him about dangerous events. He would often say his spider sense was "tingling" when it was warning him of something.
Senses: glosses: My intuition (spider sense) tells me that something wrong or dangerous is happening or about to happen.
goes halves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go halves
going halves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go halves
went halves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go halves
gone halves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of go halves
road tests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of road test
driving tests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of driving test
semicolonial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + colonial.
Senses: examples: text: The Aidit leadership's theory of the Indonesian revolution is based on the assumption that Indonesia is a semicolonial, semifeudal country.
ref: 1966, Donald Hindley, The Communist Party of Indonesia, 1951-1963, page 32:
glosses: Partly colonial; having certain aspects of being colonial.
curatoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curatorium
Uniate Church
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuː.ni.eɪt ˌtʃɜːtʃ/
ipa: /ˈjuː.ni.eɪt ˌtʃɝːtʃ/
Forms: form: Uniate Churches
form: Uniat Church
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Uniate Church.
glosses: Any of several Christian Churches, mostly from Eastern Europe, that are in communion with the Roman Catholic Church, but use their own language and customs.
Synonyms: Eastern Catholic Church
Hypernyms: Catholic Church
Coordinate terms: Eastern Orthodox Church
Orthodox Church
Roman Catholic Church
Meronyms: Uniat
Uniate
Uniat Church
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Uniat Churches
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Uniate Church.
desalination plant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desalination plants
Senses: examples: text: It has a solar-powered desalination plant on some of its flatter, more stable land, and that provides its people with a dependable supply of water.
ref: 1993, Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower, HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP (2019), page 110:
glosses: an industrial installation which converts seawater into drinking water by removing the salt.
Related terms: desalinator
Uniat Churches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Uniate Churches
Senses: glosses: plural of Uniat Church
Synonyms: Eastern Catholic Churches
Hypernyms: Catholic Church
Uniate Churches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Uniat Churches
Senses: glosses: plural of Uniate Church
Synonyms: Eastern Catholic Churches
Hypernyms: Catholic Church
re-entries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of re-entry
hwans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hwan
behinded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From behind + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: I am a kind of farthing dip,
Unfriendly to the nose and eyes;
A blue-behinded ape, I skip
Upon the trees of Paradise.
ref: 1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, “A Portrait”, in Underwood, London: Chatto & Windus, published 1898, page 63:
text: 1909, Andrew Lang, Sir George Mackenzie, King's Advocate, of Rosehaugh: His Life and Times, 1636(?)–1691, Chapter VI, p. 58, footnote,
Naturally Sir Archibald Stewart Denham did not like Mackenzie, who had styled these Stewarts "bare-behinded Macgregors."
text: There was a hoot from the distant train. It rolled round the bend, like a black-behinded caterpillar that looks over its shoulder as it goes, and vanished.
ref: 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 23”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:
text: 1969, Sarah Elizabeth Wright, This Child's Gonna Live, excerpted in William H. Banks, Jr. (ed.), Beloved Harlem: A Literary Tribute to Black America's Most Famous Neighborhood, From the Classics to the Contemporary, New York: Harlem Moon, 2010,
Then she was gonna tell him where his old bleached-out papa come from and his weak-behinded mamma too, if she could stomach herself getting down that low.
glosses: Having a behind (of a specific type).
thebes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thebe
lemon eucalyptus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lemon eucalyptuses
Senses: glosses: Corymbia citriodora, a lemon-scented eucalypt native to Australia
Synonyms: sense: Corymbia citriodora
word: lemon-scented gum
sense: Corymbia citriodora
word: blue spotted gum
sense: Corymbia citriodora
word: Eucalyptus citriodora
Derived terms: oil of lemon eucalyptus
semisheer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + sheer.
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: Somewhat thin and translucent.
bitwidth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bitwidths
Etymology: From bit + width.
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, as bit convolutions can be efficiently implemented on CPU, FPGA, ASIC and GPU, DoReFatNet opens the way to accelerate training of low bitwidth neural network on these hardware.
ref: 2016, Shuchang Zhou, Zekun Ni, Xinyu Zhou, He Wen, Yuxin Wu, Yuheng Zou, “DoReFa-Net: Training Low Bitwidth Convolutional Neural Networks with Low Bitwidth Gradients”, in arXiv:
glosses: The length of a value in bits (binary digits).
bitwidths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bitwidth
cutwidth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cutwidths
Etymology: From cut + width.
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The minimum number of edges that cross any cut between lower-numbered and higher-numbered vertices in an optimal linear arrangement of the vertices of a graph.
Related terms: pathwidth
cutwidths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cutwidth
rowmotion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A certain operation on the order ideals (or antichains) of a finite poset.
multigraded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + graded.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of multigrade.
synonyms: word: multigrade
oneshots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oneshot
free votes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of free vote
clericocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒkɹəsi
Etymology: From cleric + -o- + -cracy.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: theocracy
text: Marx in his analysis of the East India Company had already characterised the nature of the company's administration — the clericocracy.
ref: 1988, K. Seshadri, Marxism and Indian Polity, page 120:
text: Does this mean that religions are still more attached to (hybrid forms of) theocracy, clericocracy and monocracy than to democracy, which underlies the two principles?
ref: 2011, Leslie Francis, The Public Significance of Religion, page 32:
topics: government
politics
antonyms: anticlericalism
hypernyms: ideocracy
glosses: Rule by clerics.
Related terms: declericalize
QBs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of QB
Tumblrinas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tumblrina
Tumblrina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtʌm.bləˈɹiː.nə/
ipa: /ˌtʌm.bləˈɹi.nə/
rhymes: -iːnə
Forms: form: Tumblrinas
Etymology: From Tumblr + -ina.
Senses: hypernyms: Tumblrite
coordinate_terms: Tinderella
glosses: A female user of the microblogging service Tumblr, sometimes stereotyped as a social justice warrior.
unghost
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unghosts
form: unghosting
form: unghosted
form: unghosted
Etymology: From un- + ghost.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To restore from a ghosted state.
unghosted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unghost
unghosted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not ghostwritten.
unghosts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unghost
unghosting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unghost
rejoinable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rejoin + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being rejoined.
jerkless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From jerk + -less.
Senses: examples: a jerkless hoist
glosses: Without a jerking motion.
jackless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From jack + -less.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Without a jack.
quirkless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quirkless
form: most quirkless
Etymology: From quirk + -less.
Senses: glosses: Free from quirks.
litted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lit
litting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lit
nivellate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nivellates
form: nivellating
form: nivellated
form: nivellated
Senses: glosses: To make level.
nivellated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nivellate
nivellates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nivellate
nivellating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nivellate
nomen confusum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nomina confusa
Senses: glosses: A nomen dubium based on an impure bacterial culture.
Related terms: nomen ambiguum
nomen periculosum
nomina confusa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nomen confusum
noncy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: noncier
form: nonciest
form: noncey
Etymology: From nonce + -y. Sense 2 is probably after poncy.
Senses: examples: text: Lloyd pushed his leader back into his seat and subscribed to the same Ngs, he then began to scrawl a whole manner of spurious boring shite............throwing back his head and in his nonciest laugh shouted "soon they will all be mine, the world will be mine and it all starts here in Scarecrow......WOOOOOOOHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH...............WOOOOOOOOOOOHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA."
ref: 2001 November 29, g.caffrey5, “Movie script starring Lloyd.............”, in freeserve.discuss (Usenet), archived from the original on 10 Sep 2025:
text: He was a noncy guy. […] The nonce whispered something in the kid's ear, squeezed his arse, and got his face opened up from ear to ear.
ref: 2011, Freddie Foreman, Tony Lambrianou, Getting it Straight: Villains Talking:
text: 'Are you saying I look like a noncy man doll?' Dutch asked.
'You're not exactly the rugged SAS action man type we're all made out to be are ya mate?'
ref: 2015, Fredrik Hansen, Ghost: Inception:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a nonce, or sex offender.
examples: text: Yeah, he’s getting a bit noncy, ain’t he lately? I seen him walking down the high street the other day with his Filofax held up in front of him.
ref: 1989 January 8, John Sullivan, “Yuppy Love”, in Only Fools and Horses, season 6, episode 1, spoken by Mickey Pearce (Patrick Murray), London: BBC One:
text: IN a survey of nine cities, Prima magazine claimed that Geordie men were the least likely to help a damsel in distress. Now, as a native of Newcastle I will not have noncy London magazines casting aspersions on our menfolk.
ref: 2001 August 12, Carole Malone, “It’s only a matter of priorities”, in Sunday Mirror, London, →OCLC, page 25:
text: “On the corner? There’s a Starbucks.” / “I wouldn’t set foot in the place!” Macy was gabbling like a spin cycle on overdrive. “Capitalist pigs! Brainwashed the public into believing that in order to maintain their visibility, they need to sport a cardboard container full of brown water with some noncy Italian name – what happened to a simple cup of coffee?[…]”
ref: 2023 June 19, Wendy Salisbury, chapter 51, in Take Two Tablets, London: Austin Macauley Publishers, →ISBN:
glosses: Pretentious, affected, fancy.
Norican
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Norican
form: most Norican
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the ancient Celtic state of Noricum.
Norican
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Noricans
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Noricum.
nomen periculosum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nomina periculosa
Etymology: Latin
Senses: glosses: A nomen dubium whose ambiguity may lead to a hazardous outcome.
nomina periculosa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nomen periculosum
nomina ambigua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nomen ambiguum
debt-for-nature
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: a debt-for-nature swap, exchange, or scheme
topics: business
finance
glosses: Being or relating to a financial transaction that writes off a portion of a developing nation's foreign debt in exchange for local investments in environmental conservation.
nithering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nither