cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Charlie Brown Christmas tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃɑːli bɹaʊn ˈkɹɪsməs tɹiː/
ipa: /ˈtʃɑɹli bɹaʊn ˈkɹɪsməs tɹi/
Forms: form: Charlie Brown Christmas trees
Etymology: See Charlie Brown tree.
Senses: examples: text: My friends have wives that I'd be happy to take home to Mom, but I've only met the Charlie Brown Christmas trees of the dating world.
ref: 1999, Peter Bartula, “Well Then, Where the Hell is She?: Where to Look for the Perfect Woman”, in The Complete Male Handbook for Sex, Dating, and Other Trivial Stuff, Lincoln, Neb.: toExcel Press, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 27:
text: We had a little tree in our den area with a few little lights on it. It reminded me of the Charlie Brown Christmas tree a little bit and I kind of felt sorry for us because I realized we were poor by society's standards.
ref: 2009 July 6, Doneareum S. Winston, “Born into the Struggle”, in Panning for Gold, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 24:
text: [H]e spotted an abandoned tree near a dumpster at the back of the lot. It was a scrawny little thing, not much to look at. But it was a tree—and apparently it was free. Bob took it home to their little apartment, and Jayne nearly smothered the little tree in blinking lights and ornaments and garlands and tinsel. The baby was spellbound by the little Charlie Brown Christmas tree—and thus began a Ritter tradition.
ref: 2010, Delilah Scott, Emma Troy, “’Tis Better to Give … Or Why Beauty is in the Eye of the Gift Giver”, in The Upside-down Christmas Tree and Other Bizarre Yuletide Tales, Guildford, Conn.: Lyons Press, Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, page 115:
text: It was a humble little plant, fragile, a fledgling shrub with a few sprays of leaves—a Charlie Brown Christmas tree.
ref: 2014, Lev Grossman, The Magician’s Land (The Magicians Trilogy; 3), New York, N.Y.: Plume, published 2015, →ISBN, page 389:
glosses: Synonym of Charlie Brown tree.
synonyms: word: Charlie Brown tree
Charlie Brown Christmas trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Charlie Brown Christmas tree.
JRPGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of JRPG
SASEs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SASE
SASAEs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SASAE
Charlie Brown's Christmas tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃɑːli bɹaʊns ˈkɹɪsməs tɹiː/
ipa: /ˈtʃɑɹli bɹaʊns ˈkɹɪsməs tɹi/
Forms: form: Charlie Brown's Christmas trees
Etymology: See Charlie Brown tree.
Senses: examples: text: Oh yes, 'twas the night before Christmas, / and it was a horrible site to see. / Things were looking sadder than Charlie Brown's / Christmas tree. / But hark! There was hope, and all was not lost.
ref: 2002, Wendell J. Powell I, “’Twas the Nite before Christmas – 1997”, in 12 Spiritual Voices, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 23:
text: When Rick laughs near me, the ground quakes because he is a California redwood, and I am Charlie Brown's Christmas tree. Now that I have won, he will not laugh. He will instead quietly pay for a very expensive dinner in a restaurant with no prices on the menu … and I will laugh. Though the story of the bet is true, beyond that has been Rick's earnest encouragement for me to move this book forward.
ref: 2009, Steven L. Layne, “Acknowledgments”, in Igniting a Passion for Reading: Successful Strategies for Building Lifetime Readers, Portland, Me.: Stenhouse Publishers, →ISBN, pages xv–xvi:
text: Walking around the dwarfed trees with bare spots throughout their branches, I commented that they reminded me of Charlie Brown's Christmas trees.
ref: 2017, Marilyn Peake, chapter 14, in Blood and Ashes: A Paranormal Romance Novel, [s.n.]: Marilyn Peake:
glosses: Synonym of Charlie Brown tree.
synonyms: word: Charlie Brown tree
Charlie Brown's Christmas trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Charlie Brown's Christmas tree.
polyhistorian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyhistorians
Senses: glosses: Synonym of polyhistor.
synonyms: word: polyhistor
polyhistorians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyhistorian
mardarse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mardarses
Etymology: See mardy and arse.
Senses: glosses: A person who whines and complains a lot.
glosses: A sissy; an effeminate person.
mardarses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mardarse
absorptives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absorptive
bunguses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bungus
Adventism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Advent + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The Adventist Christian movement founded by William Miller in 19th-century United States.
glosses: Any of several related movements.
Hypernyms: Protestantism
Related terms: Advent
Adventist
paniculately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From paniculate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a paniculate manner.
deed of assumption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deeds of assumption
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A deed executed by trustees under a trust-deed assuming a new trustee or settlement.
Related terms: deed of appointment
deeds of assumption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deed of assumption
caregive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: caregives
form: caregiving
form: caregave
form: caregiven
Etymology: Back-formation from caregiver.
Senses: examples: text: This is what she wanted to share with other readers about that: I realized how many times it interfered with the way I caregave at certain times. I ended up resenting my task at hand.
ref: 2008, Sheryl Karas, The Spiritual Journey of Family Caregiving, page 210:
text: Encouraging men to caregive in their own way is a win-win for all.
ref: 2010, Barbara Dunn, Linda Scott, Our Turn to Parent:
text: Using data from the Survey of Ageing and Independence conducted in 1991, McDonald (1996) found that retiring to caregive decreased the age of retirement for women by almost six years. The costs of retiring to caregive may be high.
ref: 2011, Frank Denton, Deborah Fretz, Byron Spencer, Independence and Economic Security in Old Age, page 277:
text: If you have decided to caregive, ask yourself these tough questions: “Why did I choose to caregive? Out of obligation? Promise? Because I am the only child without kids to take care of? Or is it because caregiving is what I want to do?
ref: 2016, Jolene Brackey, Creating Moments of Joy Along the Alzheimer's Journey:
glosses: To provide care, especially in the role as a caregiver
proctuchous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From procto- + Ancient Greek -οῦχος (-oûkhos, “having”), from ἔχω (ékhō).
Senses: glosses: Of certain Turbellaria: having the digestive canal furnished with an anal aperture.
caregiven
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of caregive
synonymatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: synonymous
synonymics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: As a matter of course, an examination of the synonymics and of the epic connection could not fail to shed another light than that which could be gained without this study upon a number of passages in the old mythological poems, and upon the paraphrases based on the myths and occurring in the historical songs.
ref: 1889, Viktor Rydberg, Teutonic Mythology, page 612:
text: Synonymics contains the resources of specific significations in a given language, its lexicon, analyzed as the internal relations within and between the word classes.
ref: 1987, Thomas Albert Sebeok, The Semiotic Web, page 86:
glosses: Synonym of synonymy (the study of synonyms)
synonyms: word: synonymy
extra: the study of synonyms
caregave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of caregive
caregives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of caregive
spinitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spine + -itis.
Senses: glosses: inflammation of the spinal cord in the horse, etc.
spinispirular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: spiny and somewhat spiral-shaped
baronship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baronships
Etymology: From baron + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The rank or position of a baron.
baronships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baronship
plutologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plutologists
Senses: glosses: One who studies plutology, the science of wealth.
plutologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plutologist
scutoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scutoids
Etymology: First described by Gómez-Gálvez et al. in a 2018 paper (see quotation below). Variously said to be from scutum or scutellum (parts of insect anatomy) or from Escudero, surname of one of the researchers, + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: A scutoid can be regarded as a prism that is truncated at one or more vertices, with faces and edges sized such that suitably oriented copies of said scutoid can be arranged to fully pack the space between two planes.
text: As a consequence, epithelial cells adopt a novel shape that we term “scutoid”.[…]Using biophysical arguments, we propose that scutoids make possible the minimization of the tissue energy and stabilize three-dimensional packing.
ref: 2018, Pedro Gómez-Gálvez, Pablo Vicente-Munuera, Antonio Tagua, et al., “Scutoids are a geometrical solution to three-dimensional packing of epithelia”, in Nature Communications, volume 9, →DOI:
text: Our energetics analysis reveals that scutoids allow tissues to minimize the packing energy and we propose that such geometrical shape is nature’s solution to epithelial bending.
ref: 2019, Felix Reichel, Johannes Mauer, Ahmad Ahsan Nawaz, Gerhard Gompper, Jochen R. Guck, Dmitry Fedosov, “High Troughput Microfluidic Characterization of Erythrocyte Shapes and Mechanical Variability”, in Biophysical Journal, page 123a:
text: It has been postulated that ‘scutoids’ are part of a continuum of cell shapes and 3D arrangements, together with frusta and prisms
ref: 2020, Ghislain Gillard, Katja Röper, “Control of cell shape during epithelial morphogenesis: recent advances”, in Current Opinion in Genetics & Development, →DOI, page 8:
glosses: A geometrical solid described as a mix between a frustum and a prismatoid.
scutoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scutoids
Etymology: From scutellum + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Scutoid, a genetic mutation in Drosophila melanogaster
turn an honest penny
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turns an honest penny
form: turning an honest penny
form: turned an honest penny
form: turned an honest penny
Senses: examples: text: My client is an infant, a poor foreign immigrant who started scratch as a stowaway and is now trying to turn an honest penny.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[15]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To earn money by honest methods.
decolorated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decolorate
scutoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scutoid
unbelated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + belated.
Senses: glosses: Not belated.
up the flume
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: done for; ruined; having come to grief
Shetland lace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An openwork ornamental trimming made with woolen yarn for shawls, etc.
Soans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Soanses
Etymology: Patronymic or plural form of Soane.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
voop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vuːp/
rhymes: -uːp
Forms: form: voops
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: Big ups to: the sound of scratching (that "voop voop voop"), old 45s, vinyl, NeilRoss and KDEO, Dusty Groove America, […]
ref: 2005, Eliot Wilder ·, DJ Shadow's Endtroducing:
text: I play with the zipper on my jacket, yanking it up and down. Voop. Voop. Voop-voop-voop.
ref: 2012, Sarah Ockler, Bittersweet, page 40:
text: VOOP...He let the gears spin round in circles, for a couple revolutions...and then set it down.
ref: 2017, Ace Finlay, Avilascaca Season 1 Episodes 1-8:
text: Gin heard it too. Voop voop voop, the blades of a helicopter, voop voop voop.
ref: 2017, Fiona Melrose, Johannesburg:
glosses: A short, slightly swooping sound normally produced by technology.
voop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /vuːp/
rhymes: -uːp
Forms: form: voops
form: vooping
form: vooped
form: vooped
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: The curlews were still calling, and now I could see them, vooping and flashing in their spring flight.
ref: 1956, Chambers's Journal, page 241:
text: The loudest sound, except for an occasional car, was my hood “vooping” back and forth near my ears.
ref: 2001, Reggie Marra, Who Lives Better Than We Do?, page 120:
text: Bekiaa shouted at Bele, crouching under the vooping warble of returning musket fire.
ref: 2020, Taylor Anderson, Winds of Wrath, page 303:
text: Anyhow, I'm not about to sit here just waiting for them to voop in and grab me at any moment.
ref: 2020, Tracy Partridge-Johnson, The Golden Telescope, page 305:
glosses: To produce a voop sound, possibly accompanied by a swift fluid movement.
swattered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of swatter
swattering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of swatter
cinct
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: […] Grecian maids, / Under their night-black braids / Cinct with the green acanthus, did advance, / Link'd in a rhythmic dance […]
ref: 1870, John Payne, The Masque of Shadows and other poems:
glosses: surrounded
Derived terms: uncinct
Related terms: cincture
turpentine moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turpentine moths
Senses: glosses: A moth whose larvae bore into the twigs of pine and fir, causing exudation of resin and destroying the twig.
turpentine moths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turpentine moth
salivaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salivary
without cease
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: ceaselessly; continually
wrecksite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wrecksites
Etymology: From wreck + site.
Senses: glosses: The site of a shipwreck.
guestings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guesting
wrecksites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wrecksite
dyked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Containing a dyke (ditch).
Derived terms: undyked
dyked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dyke
undyked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + dyked.
Senses: glosses: Not dyked; not containing a dyke (ditch).
unringable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + ringable.
Senses: examples: text: The Parish Clerk in 1843 recorded that four bells then existed, and that one 1551 bell was cracked and unringable.
ref: 2005, Saxilby and District History Group, Chris Hewis, Saxilby with Ingleby - Step Back in Time:
glosses: unable to be rung; not ringable
horsebreeder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horsebreeders
Etymology: From horse + breeder.
Senses: glosses: A person who breeds horses.
overgown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overgowns
Etymology: From over- + gown.
Senses: glosses: A gown worn over other clothing.
horsebreeders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horsebreeder
overgowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overgown
flushboarded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flashboarded.
try line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: try lines
Senses: glosses: In rugby, the line at the end of the pitch past, or on, which the ball must be placed to score a try
flashboarded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From flashboard + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Made with flashboard.
motorglider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motorgliders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of motor glider.
radiatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From radiating + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to radiate, or spread outward in rays.
motorgliders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motorglider
unsupercharged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + supercharged.
Senses: glosses: Not supercharged.
ceratal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ceratal
form: most ceratal
Etymology: From cerata + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to cerata
dentiled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dentiled
form: most dentiled
Etymology: From dentil + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Containing dentils
behovefully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more behovefully
form: most behovefully
Etymology: From behoveful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a behoveful manner.
microblades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microblade
microblasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microblaster
screwman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screwmen
Etymology: From screw + man.
Senses: glosses: A laborer who uses screws to make adjustments
like a dying duck in a thunderstorm
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Looking hopelessly sad and dejected.
hyponomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyponome + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the hyponome
Derived terms: hyponomic sinus
hyponome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyponomes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὑπονομή (huponomḗ, “underground passage”).
Senses: examples: text: Ordinarily, it swims forward, but the hyponome can give an emergency spritz, sending the hydrodynamic cone floating backwards at speed with a powerful jet through long thin streamers of brown seaweed and clouds of scattering shrimp.
ref: 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 243:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A tubular organ of a cephalopod, used to expel water.
Derived terms: hyponomic
residuates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of residuate
residuating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of residuate
paracanoeist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paracanoeists
Etymology: From paracanoe + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who competes in paracanoe
residuent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: residual
residuent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: residuents
Senses: glosses: by-product; residuum
residuents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of residuent
paracanoeists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paracanoeist
recordholder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recordholders
Etymology: From record + holder.
Senses: glosses: One who keeps records or documents.
glosses: Someone or something that holds a record for being the best at a particular feat.
Related terms: recordholding
wholetime
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whole-time.
recordholders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recordholder
voicetrack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voicetracks
Etymology: From voice + track.
Senses: glosses: A pre-recorded spoken clip to be used later on the radio
voicetrack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: voicetracks
form: voicetracking
form: voicetracked
form: voicetracked
Etymology: From voice + track.
Senses: glosses: To record speech, in order to play at a later date on the radio
reletter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reletters
form: relettering
form: relettered
form: relettered
Etymology: From re- + letter.
Senses: glosses: To change the letters or lettering of.
reletters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reletter
relettering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reletter
relettered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reletter
trechometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trechometers
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τρέχω (trékhō, “to run”) + -meter.
Senses: glosses: odometer
trechometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trechometer
upon the wing
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of on the wing.
ladder lottery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ladder lotteries
Senses: examples: text: Eight lines were drawn on each sheet of paper. There were two sheets. It looked like ladder lottery to me. Maybe I was hallucinating?
ref: 2012, Nagaru Tanigawa, The Boredom of Haruhi Suzumiya:
text: A ladder lottery, known as “Amidakuji” in Japan, is one of the most popular lotteries. In this paper, we consider the problems of enumeration, counting, and random generation of the ladder lotteries.
ref: 2015, Jianxin Wang, Chee Yap, Frontiers in Algorithmics: 9th International Workshop:
glosses: An informal method of decision-making in Asia, based on a series of interlinked descending lines that are followed from the top (where a choice is made) to the bottom (where an outcome is revealed).
Synonyms: Amidakuji
beadman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beadmen
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of beadsman.
beadmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beadman
pictography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: writing in pictographs; hieroglyphics
tenendums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenendum
midribbed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From midrib + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having a midrib.
attendress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attendresses
Etymology: From attender + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female attendant.
attendresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attendress
stand of arms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stands of arms
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A complete set of weapons for one soldier.
stands of arms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stand of arms
Amidakuji
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amidakuji
form: Amida-kuji
form: Amida kuji
Etymology: From Japanese あみだくじ (Amida-kuji).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ladder lottery.
synonyms: word: ladder lottery
unbested
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + bested.
Senses: glosses: Not having been outdone or defeated.
ladder lotteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ladder lottery
batchoy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: batchoys
Etymology: Borrowed from Hiligaynon batsoy, from Hokkien, either 肉碎 (bah-chhùi, “minced meat”, literally “meat pieces”) or 肉水 (bah-chúi, literally “meat water”). See also chop suey, Hokkien 肉脞麵 /肉脞面 (bah-chhò-mī), Hokkien 碎肉 (chhùi-bah / chhùi-mah).
Senses: glosses: Noodles mixed with pork offal, crushed pork cracklings, chicken stock, and beef loin.
dubdown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dubdowns
Etymology: From dub + down.
Senses: examples: text: In this application, the loudspeaker monitor is the standard by which recordings are judged—from initial microphone placement, through mixing and dubdown, to final mastering.
ref: 1971, Exclusively Yours - Volume 24, page 59:
text: Full bandwidth digitally recorded images don't pick up random analog noise during dubdown, but they can add "quantizing noise" (detectable rings separating areas of different luminance intensities).
ref: 1983, International Television:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The process of remixing audio tracks to use fewer tracks.
examples: text: You certainly should have the final dubdowns of your playbacks from the sixteen track to the three-stripe 35mm.
ref: 1980, Milton Lustig, Music editing for motion pictures, page 78:
text: It's true that “Barnyard” only exists as a poor second generation copy, a dubdown to mono recorded onto one track of an otherwise blank 8-track/one inch tape.
ref: 2012, Todd Van Buskirk, Purple Chick, →ISBN, page 272:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The result of a dubdown.
dubdowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dubdown
gut-scraper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gut-scrapers
Senses: glosses: One who plays the fiddle or a similar instrument.
gut-scrapers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gut-scraper
cocainisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cocainisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cocainization.
cocainisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cocainisation
Prandtl-Meyer function
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Prandtl-Meyer function
Senses: topics: aerodynamics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A function describing the angle through which a flow can turn isentropically for the given initial and final Mach number.
Malfatti circle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Malfatti circles
Etymology: Named after Gian Francesco Malfatti, who made early studies of the problem of constructing these circles in the mistaken belief that they would have the largest possible total area of any three disjoint circles within the triangle.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any of the three circles inside a given triangle such that each circle is tangent to the others and to two sides of the triangle.
Related terms: Malfatti's problem
Malfatti circles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Malfatti circle
Kutta-Joukowski theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Kutta-Joukowski theorem
Etymology: Named after Martin Wilhelm Kutta and Nikolai Zhukovsky (Joukowski), who developed its key ideas in the early 20th century.
Senses: topics: aerodynamics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A fundamental theorem used to calculate the lift of an airfoil and any two-dimensional bodies including circular cylinders translating in a uniform fluid at a constant speed large enough so that the flow seen in the body-fixed frame is steady and unseparated.
Smets
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Smet
Molenaar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Molenaars
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Molenaar.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
Manders
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mander
circulating library
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circulating libraries
Senses: glosses: A library that circulated books among feepaying subscribers.
circulating libraries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circulating library
thetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a thetic or thetical manner; as or like a thesis.
muslin-kale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A thin broth made without meat.
thridace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The inspissated juice of lettuce.
endooesophageal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of endoesophageal.
endoesophageal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: endooesophageal
Etymology: From endo- + esophageal.
Senses: examples: endoesophageal intubation
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Within the esophagus.
appentice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: appentices
Etymology: Doublet of penthouse and pentice.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: penthouse; pentice
appentices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of appentice
hyposulphurous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hyposulfurous.
pingling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pingle
pingled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pingle
rootfinding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From root + finding.
Senses: examples: text: The algorithms in 26, 28 yield (up to polylog factors) these nearly optimal precision and Boolean cost bounds for the worst case polynomial rootfinding.
ref: 2002, Felipe Cucker, Joseph Maurice Rojas, Foundations of Computational Mathematics: Proceedings of the SMALEFEST 2000:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The process of finding the root of an equation.
quinqueliterals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quinqueliteral
confusive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more confusive
form: most confusive
Senses: glosses: Full of confusion; confused or confusing.
beheadable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From behead + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be beheaded.
Stakhanovian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Stakhanovian
form: most Stakhanovian
Etymology: From Stakhanov + -ian, named after Russian coal miner Алексе́й Григо́рьевич Стаха́нов (Aleksei Grigor’evich Stakhanov) whose prodigious output was publicised by Stalin as part of a 1935 campaign.
Senses: glosses: Extremely productive or hard-working, especially in the context of the former USSR, where such workers could earn special rewards.
disparples
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disparple
disparpled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disparple
disparpling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disparple
fuckniggas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fucknigga
Eleutheria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἐλευθερία (Eleuthería).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A personification of liberty, represented on certain ancient coins, and sometimes denoting the goddess Artemis.
sinkroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sinkrooms
Etymology: From sink + room.
Senses: glosses: A room containing a sink for washing things; a scullery.
sinkrooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sinkroom
parainesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of parenesis.
pangrammatist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pangrammatists
Senses: glosses: One who composes pangrams.
pangrammatists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pangrammatist
pangopups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pangopup
Glyconic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlaɪˈkɒnɪk/
ipa: /ɡlaɪˈkɑnɪk/
rhymes: -ɒnɪk
Forms: form: Glyconics
Etymology: From Glycon + -ic. See Glyconian.
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: Synonym of Glyconian.
synonyms: word: Glyconian
Glyconics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Glyconic
racemaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From race + making.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The formation of sociocultural ideas about races of people.
put the saddle on the right horse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts the saddle on the right horse
form: putting the saddle on the right horse
form: put the saddle on the right horse
form: put the saddle on the right horse
Senses: glosses: To assign praise or blame where it is properly due.
fancy shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fancy shops
Senses: glosses: A shop selling fancy goods.
fancy shops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fancy shop
shopocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shopocracies
Etymology: From shop + -o- + -cracy.
Senses: glosses: Shopkeepers as a social class.
shopocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shopocracy
shop-bell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shop-bells
Senses: glosses: A small automatic bell that rings when a person enters a shop, so as to alert the shopkeeper.
shop-bells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shop-bell
schismaticals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schismatical
predesignation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: predesignations
Etymology: From pre- + designation.
Senses: glosses: The act of predesignating.
predesignations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of predesignation
original righteousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: The condition of man before the Fall as made in the image of God.
righteouses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of righteous
writ of privilege
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: writs of privilege
Senses: glosses: An order for the release of a person from custody.
writs of privilege
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of writ of privilege
ahaptoglobinemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ahaptoglobinemias
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ahaptoglobinaemia.
Related terms: ahaptoglobinemic
ahaptoglobinemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ahaptoglobinaemic.
Related terms: ahaptoglobinemia
allelewise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From allele + -wise.
Senses: glosses: With regard to alleles
allelewise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From allele + -wise.
Senses: glosses: One allele at a time
amascrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of amsacrine.
ampelovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ampeloviruses
Senses: glosses: Any virus of the genus Ampelovirus that typically infect plants
ampeloviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ampelovirus
amphidromy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From amphi- + -dromy.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being amphidromous
anaflatoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of anaphylatoxin.
aneuplerotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of anaplerotic.
angioadaptation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angioadaptations
Etymology: From angio- + adaptation.
Senses: glosses: The adaptation of blood vessels to changing circumstances (by changes in diameter etc.)
antidromicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: The condition of being antidromic
antifadent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That counters fading (of fluorescence)
Related terms: antifadant
ayrag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of airag.
antimesometrial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + mesometrial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the ventral mesometrium
Related terms: antimesometrium
antimotif
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antimotifs
Etymology: From anti- + motif.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A pattern, in a nucleotide or amino-acid sequence, that appears less often than chance would predict and is conjectured to have biological significance.
glosses: A pattern that acts as a reversal or counterpoint to a dominant motif.
antimotifs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antimotif
antitoxicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + toxicity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being antitoxic
natick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naticks
Etymology: Named after Natick, Massachusetts, used as an example of an obscure clue with, “Town at the eighth mile of the Boston Marathon”. The town is named after the local native word from the Natick people for “Land of Many Hills”.
Senses: examples: text: “The NATICK Principle. And here it is: If you include a proper noun in your grid that you cannot reasonably expect more than 1/4 of the solving public to have heard of, you must cross that noun with reasonably common words and phrases or very common names.”
ref: 2008 July 6, Rex Parker, “("TREASURE ISLAND" ILLUSTRATOR, 1911 / TOWN AT THE EIGHTH MILE OF THE BOSTON MARATHON) - SUNDAY, Jul. 6, 2008 - Brendan Emmett Quigley”, in Rex Parker Does the NY Times Crossword Puzzle:
text: “A crossword blogger by the name of Rex Parker critiqued one of my puzzles in The New York Times, where the illustrator 'N.C. Wyeth' crossed the Boston town 'Natick,'” Quigley explains. “[Parker] said, 'Who in their right mind is going to understand what's going to fit in that one square? It's totally unfair. From now on, this shall be known as the Natick Principle.'”
ref: 2017 January 8, Julia Franz, “Crossword puzzle-making tips from a pro at The New York Times”, in Studio 360, Public Radio International:
text: “There were some tough proper nouns today (including a personal natick, included below) — BAYLOR, KRIS, RILKE, ILYA and DANA, among others. And I loved the clues for ESCAPEE, ONO, MYSELF, PANTS and FAT LADY.”
ref: 2018 April 18, Caitlin Lovinger, “Let’s Change the Subject”, in The New York Times:
glosses: An intersection of two obscure crossword puzzle clues.
wikipedia: Natick people
Natick, Massachusetts
naticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of natick
end-Cretaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Towards the end of the Cretaceous diversity declined sharply and only a few widespread genera are found in the uppermost beds, these finally disappearing in the end-Cretaceous extinctions.
ref: 1988, Rona M Black, The Elements of Palaeontology, page 93:
text: Although the end-Cretaceous bolide impact is contemporaneous with the abrupt end of the reign of dinosaurs, early mammals survived the catastrophic event […].
ref: 2007, Clarence A Hall Jr., Introduction to the Geology of Southern California and Its Native Plants, page 100:
text: The end Cretaceous catastrophe that killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago did for these animals too and the oceans were quieter for a while, but within fifteen million years or so the ancestors of dolphins and whales were exploiting the rich seas of the Eocene.
ref: 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 187:
topics: biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the end of the Cretaceous period, marked by a major extinction event.
holy day of obligation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holy days of obligation
Senses: topics: Catholicism
Christianity
glosses: A feast day on which the faithful are expected to attend Mass.
holy days of obligation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holy day of obligation
antitrypanosomatid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + trypanosomatid.
Senses: glosses: That counters trypanosomatid infections
antixenosis
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + xenosis.
Senses: glosses: That counters xenosis
karesansui
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: karesansui
Etymology: From Japanese 枯山水.
Senses: examples: text: Wall of offices, windows, the fabulous design of the Japanese architects—and the surrounding gardens of dwarf evergreens, rocks, the karesansui landscape, sand imitating a dried-up stream winding past roots, among simple, irregular flat stones….
ref: 1962, Philip K. Dick, “The Man in the High Castle”, in Four Novels of the 1960s, Library of America, published 2007, page 27:
text: Suden commissioned master garden-designer Kobori Enshu to build the karesansui garden south of the hojo.
ref: 2002, Alison Main, Newell Platten, The Lure of the Japanese Garden, page 101:
text: To some observers a karesansui is just twigs, rocks and grit.
ref: 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 193:
glosses: A Japanese rock garden or Zen garden.
antroduodenal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From antro- + duodenal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the antrum of the duodenum
Derived terms: antroduodenal manometry
apextrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An extracellular protein associated with larval ectoderm evolution in some sea urchins
aporeceptors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aporeceptor
arthritogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The formation and development of arthritis
Related terms: arthritogenic
refront
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: refronts
form: refronting
form: refronted
form: refronted
Etymology: From re- + front.
Senses: glosses: To change the front of (a building).
autoassembly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: auto-assembly
Etymology: From auto- + assembly.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of self-assembly.
synonyms: word: self-assembly
demilion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demilions
form: demi-lion
Etymology: From demi- + lion.
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: The upper or front half of a lion.
autoluminogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoluminograms
Senses: glosses: An image produced by autoluminography
Synonyms: autoluminograph
autoluminograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autoluminogram
lotholder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lotholders
Etymology: From lot + holder.
Senses: glosses: Someone who owns a lot (small parcel of land) in a cemetery
axoprotective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more axoprotective
form: most axoprotective
Etymology: From axo- + protective.
Senses: glosses: That protects axons from damage
Related terms: axoprotection
fleetname
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fleetnames
Etymology: From fleet + name.
Senses: glosses: The name of a fleet of buses, coaches or lorries
restavek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: restaveks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of restavec.
restavec
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: restavecs
Etymology: Borrowed French reste-avec, from Haitian Creole restavèk, from French rester (“stay”) + French avec (“with”)
Senses: glosses: A child sent by their parents to work for another household as a domestic servant.
megaraptoran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megaraptorans
Senses: glosses: A carnivorous theropod dinosaur of the clade Megaraptora
middeck
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: space flight
glosses: In the middle of a deck
atelectatrauma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of atelectrauma.
atelectrauma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atelectatrauma
Etymology: Blend of atelectasis + trauma.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A form of ventilator-induced lung injury where alveolar damage results from transient and repeated closure and reopening of alveoli during the respiratory cycle.
Tianmen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: tyěnʹmǔnʹ
Forms: form: Tienmen
form: T'ien-men
form: T'ien-mên
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 天門 /天门 (Tiānmén).
Senses: examples: text: This interaction between popular suspicions and rumors generated by inflammatory literature was clearly noted by Li Hung-chang in connection with the Tienmen, Hupeh, missionary case of 1869.
ref: [1963, Paul A. Cohen, China and Christianity: The Missionary Movement and the Growth of Chinese Antiforeignism, 1860-1870, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 303:
text: Warmly accepted, the challenge was made at the recent national conference on cotton growing held in Tienmen County of central China's Hupeh Province, China's main cotton growing county both in acreage and output.
ref: [1977 June 29, “National Cotton Growing Conference Held in Hupeh Province”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 125, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA and Wuhan, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: National Affairs, page E 19:
text: Conscripted and entered the barracks November 2, 1939. He was killed in action March 17, 1942, in Tienmên Hsien in Hupei-Shêng. Army lieutenant. He was twenty-five years old.
ref: [2000, “Takaaki Ishigami”, in Listen to the Voices from the Sea: Writings of the Fallen Japanese Students, University of Scranton Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 11:
text: City officials in Tianmen in Hubei Province in central China are being punished and investigated for their role in the killing of the man, Wei Wenhua, the general manager of a construction company, and the beatings of five villagers during a dispute on Jan. 7, the state-run news agency Xinhua reported.
ref: 2008 January 18, David Barboza, “Bloggers Push China to Prosecute Beating Death”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Dec 2015, ASIA PACIFIC:
glosses: A sub-prefectural city of Hubei, China.