cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
inbreeder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inbreeders
Etymology: From inbreed + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] the genetic fitness of the inbreeder male […]
ref: 1983, Joseph Shepher, Incest: A Biosocial View, page 101:
glosses: One who engages in inbreeding.
examples: text: […] inbreeder! Go home and screw your sister!
ref: 2008, Nico Medina, Fat Hoochie Prom Queen, page 130:
text: Those stereotypes of you backwoods gun fondlers being incestuous inbreeders didn't come to be on account of me.
ref: 2013, JohnMcvie, “Re: MSNBC's 'NewsNation' Uses Chicago Gang Violence To Again Push For Gun Control”, in talk.politics.guns (Usenet):
synonyms: incester
incestual
glosses: One who engages in incest.
Related terms: outbreeder
Wiccanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Wiccan + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Wicca
LaVeyanism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From LaVeyan + -ism.
Senses: glosses: LaVeyan Satanism.
caustification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From caustic + -ification.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The production of caustic soda (or caustic potash) by treatment of sodium carbonate (or potassium carbonate) with quicklime
cerofer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cerofers
Etymology: See Latin cera (“wax”) + -o- + -fer (“bearing, carrying”).
Senses: glosses: A holder for a wax taper.
ceroferary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ceroferaries
Etymology: See cero- (“wax”) + Latin -fer (“carrying, bearing”).
Senses: glosses: A candleholder, especially for a large church candle.
ducatone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ducatones
form: ducatoni
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ducaton.
geolocalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geolocalisation
Etymology: From geo- + localization.
Senses: glosses: The attachment of a geolocation to an object
georeference
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: georeferences
form: georeferencing
form: georeferenced
form: georeferenced
Etymology: From geo- + reference.
Senses: examples: text: It's difficult to georeference an image onto a map.
glosses: To reference a location using a coordinate reference system.
Derived terms: georeferencer
georeference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: georeferences
Etymology: From geo- + reference.
Senses: examples: text: The raster has a georeference to get coordinate data.
glosses: Data used to transform locations using a coordinate reference system.
Related terms: geolocate
Jesuate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jesuates
Senses: glosses: A member of a religious order founded by Giovanni Colombini of Siena
dissolvents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dissolvent
leptoclase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leptoclases
Etymology: From lepto- + -clase.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A thin fracture, in sedimentary rocks, either normal or oblique to the bedding plane
unitises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unitise
unitising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unitise
unitised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unitise
cutting fluid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cutting fluids
Senses: glosses: A fluid that functions as a coolant and lubricant in a machine tool
shoulder-length
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From shoulder + length.
Senses: examples: text: With her shoulder-length platinum blonde hair, she was easy to spot from afar.
topics: business
clothing
fashion
jewellery
jewelry
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
qualifier: or similar
glosses: Reaching the shoulders.
raw_tags: of hair
lib'ral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈlɪbɹəl/
Forms: form: more lib'ral
form: most lib'ral
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of liberal.
lib'ral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlɪbɹəl/
Forms: form: lib'rals
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of liberal.
lib'rals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lib'ral
Sandon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in city of Chelmsford district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL7404).
glosses: A village and civil parish in North Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL3234).
glosses: A village in Sandon and Burston parish, Stafford district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ9429).
glosses: A ghost town in the Kootenay region of British Columbia, Canada.
glosses: A locality in central Victoria, Australia.
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Sandon and Burston
ducatoni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ducatone
whatchu
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: Whatchu doin'?
text: Whatchu think?
text: Whatchu been up to?
text: Whatchu mean?
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: what are you; what do you; what have you; what you.
Synonyms: whatcha
misselected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misselect
skittler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skittlers
Etymology: From skittle + -er.
Senses: examples: text: In the seventeenth century, Lincoln's Inn Fields was the favourite resort of football players, skittlers, and bowlers.
ref: 1865, The Fortnightly Review, volume 2, page 305:
glosses: One who plays the game of skittles.
skittlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skittler
antiphilosophies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiphilosophy
antiphilosophers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiphilosopher
surchargeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: surcharge + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of surcharge
surmounteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: surmount + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of surmount
stingable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stingable
form: most stingable
Etymology: From sting + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Two hairy, soft projections, evidently very sensitive, inform the bee when she is in contact with a stingable object.
ref: 1916 November, Popular Science, volume 89, number 5, page 698:
text: Then came the bees, stinging at everyone they could catch. Each sting meant a dead bee, but there were millions of bees. Usually they stung only that part of the human anatomy which was most stingable[…]
ref: 1940, Amazing Stories, volume 14, numbers 1-6, page 82:
glosses: Capable of being stung.
cogencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cogency
Lillooet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lillooets
form: Lillooet
Senses: glosses: A member of an Interior Salish people located in the southern Coast Mountains and Fraser Canyon region of the Interior of the Canadian province of British Columbia.
Synonyms: St'at'imc
Lillooet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The language of these people.
glosses: A district municipality in Squamish-Lillooet Regional District, British Columbia, Canada.
Synonyms: topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: St’át’imcets
Derived terms: Squamish-Lillooet
Lillooets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lillooet
microstory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microstories
Etymology: From micro- + story.
Senses: glosses: An extremely short story.
allographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to allographs or allography.
microstories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microstory
infomediaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infomediary
cybergeneration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + generation.
Senses: examples: text: At 75, he had become an icon for the cybergeneration, publishing three books on the cyberculture (Leary is fond of saying that "the PC is the LSD of the 90s.").
ref: 1999, Indian Journal of American Studies, volume 29, page 18:
text: […] Jim, as part of the new cybergeneration, has been exposed, due to the Internet and to all multimedia communication, to the rapid proliferation of debates about political and social dishonesty […]
ref: 2001, George Serban, Lying: Man's Second Nature, page 94:
glosses: The generation of people who grew up with computer technology and the Internet.
provisionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From provision + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without provisions or supplies.
regular folks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of just folks.
synonyms: word: just folks
regular folk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of just folks.
leavetaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leavetakings
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of leave-taking.
thrumb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thrumbs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thrum
thrumbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thrumb
Hyrum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Related to Hiram?
Senses: glosses: A city in Cache County, Utah, United States.
glosses: A male given name associated with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
odalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From odal + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: But the King's sagacity had found the pear not ripe — Odalism was sick, but not dead — the project was deferred, and no open attempt was renewed to feudalize the Islands for another generation.
ref: 1859, David Balfour, Oppressions of the Sixteenth Century in the Islands of Orkney and Zetland: From Original Documents:
text: Odalism had this peculiarity: that by whatever means the primal occupant obtained his lands, these descended, free of all service, to his descendants. But we could never understand why an Odaller, who rested on such right alone, should complain if his neighbour, coveting his vineyard, should, by the strong hand, oust him from his allodium.
ref: 1861 June 22, David Balfour, “Odal Rights and Feudal Wrongs: a Memorial for Orkney”, in The Athenaeum, page 828:
text: I therefore pass by the long tale of oppression in the islands under Scottish rule, the subversion of the native laws, the imposition of the feudal system upon the odalism of the north, the appropriation of the greater part of the land by adventurers from Scotland; in short, the ruin of the native race.
ref: 1887, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland:
glosses: A system of heritable freehold property rights to odal land.
worthying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of worthy
worthied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of worthy
youth detention centre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: youth detention centres
form: youth detention center
Senses: glosses: A secure residential facility for young people, often termed juvenile delinquents, awaiting court hearings and/or placement in long-term care facilities and programs.
Synonyms: word: juvenile hall
word: juvie
youth detention center
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: youth detention centers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of youth detention centre.
juvenile hall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: juvenile halls
Senses: glosses: Synonym of youth detention centre.
synonyms: word: youth detention centre
Related terms: juvenile delinquent
juvenile detention centre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: juvenile detention centres
Senses: glosses: A youth detention centre.
banana note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banana notes
Etymology: From the prominent illustration of a banana tree on some series of the notes.
Senses: glosses: a note of Japanese invasion money.
banana money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the prominent illustration of a banana tree on some series of the notes.
Senses: glosses: World War II Japanese invasion money.
Related terms: banana note
invasion money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: banana money
qualifier: World War II
glosses: Currency issued by the Japanese government for use in its occupied territories.
outframes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outframe
outframed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outframe
outframing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outframe
staffable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From staff + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being staffed (supplied with employees).
clarifiability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From clarify + -ability.
Senses: glosses: Ability to be made clear.
slimdown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slimdowns
Etymology: From the verb slim down.
Senses: glosses: A period of weight loss.
glosses: A downsizing.
slimdowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slimdown
RUD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹʌd/
rhymes: -ʌd
Forms: form: RUDs
Etymology: (explosion): Abbreviation of rapid unplanned disassembly as an initialism and an acronym
Senses: examples: text: Private spaceflight company SpaceX has released new pictures of its Falcon 9 rocket attempting to land on a floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean before undergoing what its chief executive, Elon Musk, euphemistically referred to as "RUD" – that’s "Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly". In other words, it blew up.
ref: 2015 January 16, Alex Hern, “This is what a 'rapid unscheduled disassembly' looks like”, in The Guardian:
text: “Fuel header tank pressure was low during landing burn, causing touchdown velocity to be high & RUD, but we got all the data we needed!” he said in a tweet.
ref: 2020 December 13, Eliott C. McLaughlin and Melissa Alonso, “SpaceX Falcon 9 launches and deploys satellite, days after another rocket crashed in Texas”, in CNN:
glosses: (engineering, euphemistic) Synonym of rapid unplanned disassembly: An unexpected explosion or breakup
RUD
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹʌd/
rhymes: -ʌd
Etymology: (explosion): Abbreviation of rapid unplanned disassembly as an initialism and an acronym
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To produce a RUD (rapid unplanned disassembly)
rapid unplanned disassembly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rapid unplanned disassemblies
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An explosion or breakup of a vehicle, usually an airplane or a rocket.
Synonyms: word: rapid uncontrolled disassembly
word: rapid uncontrolled self-disassembly
word: rapid unexpected disassembly
word: rapid unexpected self-disassembly
word: rapid unplanned self-disassembly
word: rapid unscheduled disassembly
word: rapid unscheduled self-disassembly
word: RUD
Derived terms: word: RUD
english: verb form
translation: verb form
word: RUD
Related terms: energetic disassembly
change the channel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: changes the channel
form: changing the channel
form: changed the channel
form: changed the channel
Etymology: In allusion to television.
Senses: examples: text: Repeated attempts to "change the channel" to pocketbook issues that traditionally favor Democratic candidates have flopped.
ref: 2002 October 20, Thomas M. Defrank, “Dems Can't Cash In on Economy”, in New York Daily News, retrieved 17 Oct 2013:
text: “This is all smoke and mirrors because the issue in this campaign is taxes, which candidate is going to raise them and which candidate is going to cut them,” Harris said. “Bill McBride doesn’t want that to be the focus so he’s trying to change the channel.”
ref: 2002 October 26, Ken Thomas, “McBride Ad Reveals Praise from Bush”, in Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Sarasota, Florida, retrieved 17 Oct 2013, page 6B:
text: Conservative Leader Stephen Harper tried to change the channel on a campaign of distractions Wednesday as he deftly neutralized the Afghan mission as an election issue.
ref: 2008 September 10, “Harper’s Fresh Commitment on Afghan Pullout Neutralizes War as Election Issue”, in The Guardian (Canadian Press), Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2016:
text: [Big banks] have become the perfect foil for the White House as it tries to lead the Democratic Party out of its post-Massachusetts morass — and to change the channel from the seemingly unending debate over health insurance.
ref: 2010 January 22, Jackie Calmes, “With Tougher Stance, Obama Takes on Banks”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 15 Dec 2022:
text: Hudema responded, “This government doesn’t want to have a public discussion on the industry’s disastrous safety record, or the toxic effects that spills from a 1,170-kilometre tarsands pipeline would have on indigenous rights, the Rocky Mountains, the B.C. coast, or the more than 1,000 rivers and streams this pipeline would cross. Instead, they try to change the channel by inventing scapegoats and bogeymen. […]”
ref: 2012 January 9, Les Whittington, “Environmentalists Hit Back Over Pipeline Hearings”, in Toronto Star, retrieved 17 Oct 2013:
synonyms: change the subject
antonyms: stay tuned
glosses: To redirect someone’s attention.
antonyms: stay tuned
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see change, the, channel.
Related terms: turn the page
OWS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: In one of the OWS emails, liberal writer Matt Taibbi encouraged protesters to come up with some demands.
ref: 2011 October 18, “Media Shill For OWS”, in Investor's Business Daily, page A10:
text: OWS has contributed more to our politics than anything else in the last 40 years. Americans are becoming aware of just how unequal and undemocratic this country is and for that OWS has to be shut up.
ref: 2011, Holdenby, in "Readers React", New York Times, 11/16/2011, page A31
text: This debate was important because the OWS Antiwar Working Group brought it up when acknowledging a similar conversation[…]
ref: 2012, Emily Welty, Matthew Bolton, Meghana Nayak, Occupying Political Science:
text: An OWS afternoon march ends not at Wall Street but at a rally by postal workers protesting against a five-day delivery week.
ref: 2012, Danny Schechter, Occupy: Dissecting Occupy Wall Street, page 132:
text: The OWS movement splintered after Mayor Michael Bloomberg had police raid Zuccotti Park and it has been unable to articulate a clear message since.
ref: 2013, “Distracted Americans unruffled by OWS”, in Real Estate Weekly, 58(48), 09/18/2013, page A18:
text: My boss had me meet her husband, an anthropologist, at a Korean restaurant to explain OWS. I couldn't get over the strangeness of needing to get someone to explain something happening in the open just down the street.
ref: 2020, Emily Segal, Mercury Retrograde, New York: Deluge Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Initialism of Occupy Wall Street: a protest movement that began in 2011 in New York City's Wall Street financial district, primarily opposing social and economic inequality, greed, corruption and the influence of corporations on government.
Related terms: Occupier
marlin spike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marlin spikes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of marlinspike.
marline spike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marline spikes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of marlinspike.
marling spike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marling spikes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of marlinspike.
marling spikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marling spike
marline spikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marline spike
marlin spikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marlin spike
pericapsid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pericapsids
Etymology: From peri- + capsid.
Senses: glosses: viral envelope
Derived terms: pericapsidic
viral envelope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: viral envelopes
Senses: topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
synonyms: pericapsid
supercapsid
glosses: A coating covering the capsid of a virus.
pericapsidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + capsidic.
Senses: glosses: Surrounding a capsid of a virus
glosses: Relating to a pericapsid
polydromic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: polytropic
sensoriality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sensorialities
Etymology: From sensorial + -ity.
Senses: glosses: the condition of being sensorial
glosses: sensation
chimney flashing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chimney flashings
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A strip of material around the base of a chimney, traditionally lead and sometimes including a short length of flue, that prevents rainwater from entering a building.
wrecking balls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wrecking ball
heat conductance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heat conductances
Senses: glosses: thermal conductance
heat conductivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heat conductivities
Senses: glosses: thermal conductivity
Afrophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Afrophiles
Etymology: From Afro- + -phile.
Senses: glosses: One who loves Africa or African people.
Afrophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Afrophile
foileth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: foil + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of foil
infantrywoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infantrywomen
Etymology: From infantry + woman. Modeled after infantryman.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A female member of an infantry
Hypernyms: english: genderless terminology
translation: genderless terminology
word: infantryman
word: infantier
word: infanteer
silentest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of silent: most silent
infantrywomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infantrywoman
go for your life
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes for your life
form: going for your life
form: went for your life
form: gone for your life
Senses: glosses: An expression of encouragement.
enspell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enspells
form: enspelling
form: enspelled
form: enspelled
Etymology: From en- + spell.
Senses: glosses: To bewitch with a magic spell; to charm.
enspelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enspell
enspells
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enspell
enspelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enspell
katajjaq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An Inuit form of throat singing, traditionally performed by two women competing to see who can outlast the other.
mindeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: mind + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mind
palatally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From palatal + -ly.
Senses: examples: a palatally impacted canine tooth
glosses: With reference to the palate.
Pestilence
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The personification of pestilence, often depicted riding a white horse.
wikipedia: Victor Vasnetsov
Synonyms: Conquest
the white rider
pheoplast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pheoplasts
Etymology: From pheo- + -plast.
Senses: glosses: A plastid, containing brown pigment, found in diatoms, dinoflagellates and brown algae
consonantally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more consonantally
form: most consonantally
Etymology: From consonantal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: as a consonant, in a manner of a consonant
she-tiger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: she-tigers
Etymology: From she- + tiger.
Senses: glosses: A female tiger or tigress.
Coordinate terms: english: male tiger
translation: male tiger
word: he-tiger
Related terms: she-bear
she-dog
she-wolf
dispiration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dispirations
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A singularity associated with screw symmetry or a screw displacement, especially in liquid crystals and crystalline polymers; related to dislocation and disclination.
dispirations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dispiration
feliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more feliform
form: most feliform
Etymology: From Latin feles, felis (“cat”) + -form.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a cat; applied to member of the Feliformia, a suborder within the order Carnivora consisting of cat-like carnivorans, including cats (large and small), hyenas, mongooses, civets, etc.
feliform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feliforms
Etymology: From Latin feles, felis (“cat”) + -form.
Senses: examples: text: However, when extinct genera are included, caniforms far outnumber feliforms, with 244 extinct caniform genera to 76 extinct feliform genera, if nimravids are included with feliforms (McKenna and Bell, 1997).
ref: 2010, Anjali Goswami, “1: Introduction to Carnivora”, in Anjali Goswami, Anthony Friscia, editors, Carnivoran Evolution, page 7:
text: This arrangement is also found in procyonids; however, in mustelids and feliforms, the artery and the nerve travel through the foramen [39].
ref: 2011, Rebecca E. Fisher, “6: Red Panda Anatomy”, in Angela R. Glatston, editor, Red Panda: Biology and Conservation of the First Panda, page 96:
text: In feliforms, two bones (ectotympanic and entotympanic) unite to form the bullae with a septum separating the two resulting chambers.[…]Palm civets are considered basal to all feliforms because they are genetically distinct from other feliforms and retain primitive auditory bullae lacking a septum (Flynn and Nedbal 1998).
ref: 2013, Terry A. Vaughan, James M. Ryan, Nicholas J. Czaplewski, Mammalogy, page 285:
glosses: Any carnivore of the suborder Feliformia, which are regarded as cat-like.
unholinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unholiness
feloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more feloid
form: most feloid
Etymology: From feline + -oid. From Latin felis.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the Feloidea; feliform.
feloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feloids
Etymology: From feline + -oid. From Latin felis.
Senses: glosses: Any member of the Feloidea.
feloids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feloid
nonkeloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + keloid.
Senses: glosses: Not keloid.
lamplit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lamp + lit.
Senses: examples: text: The hours spent there by Corvick were present to my fancy as those of a chessplayer bent with a silent scowl, all the lamplit winter, over his board and his moves.
ref: 1896, Henry James, The Figure in the Carpet, page 37:
glosses: Illuminated by a lamp or lamps.
pre-creative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of precreative.
disciplineth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: discipline + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of discipline
tolerateth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: tolerate + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tolerate
transmuteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: transmute + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of transmute
unstropped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + stropped.
Senses: examples: an unstropped blade
an unstropped razor
glosses: Not stropped.
seamare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seamares
Etymology: From sea + mare.
Senses: glosses: A female sea horse.
Angelinas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Angelina
counterarguable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more counterarguable
form: most counterarguable
Etymology: From counterargue + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being counterargued.
wanton kittens make sober cats
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: People who are unruly and reckless in youth may nevertheless turn out to be responsible adults.
giffies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giffy
Nabataean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnæ.bəˈtiː.ən/
rhymes: -iən
Forms: form: Nabataeans
form: Nabatean
form: Nabathean
form: Nabatæan
Etymology: Latin Nabataeus, Ancient Greek Ναβαταῖος (Nabataîos), ultimately from the same root as Arabic أَنْبَاط (ʔanbāṭ)
Senses: synonyms: Nabathite
glosses: Any of a group of people who once lived around modern Jordan.
Nabataean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnæ.bəˈtiː.ən/
rhymes: -iən
Forms: form: Nabatean
form: Nabathean
form: Nabatæan
Etymology: Latin Nabataeus, Ancient Greek Ναβαταῖος (Nabataîos), ultimately from the same root as Arabic أَنْبَاط (ʔanbāṭ)
Senses: glosses: The language of those people.
Nabataean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnæ.bəˈtiː.ən/
rhymes: -iən
Forms: form: more Nabataean
form: most Nabataean
form: Nabatean
form: Nabathean
form: Nabatæan
Etymology: Latin Nabataeus, Ancient Greek Ναβαταῖος (Nabataîos), ultimately from the same root as Arabic أَنْبَاط (ʔanbāṭ)
Senses: examples: 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text
We tug our hammer-headed mules along the tourist trails of Petra, the fabled Nabataean capital cut from rock the color of living muscle.
glosses: Relating to the Nabataean people or their language.
Nabataeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nabataean
thaa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thaas
Senses: glosses: The letter ث in the Arabic script.
jeem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jeems
form: jim
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic جِيم (jīm).
Senses: examples: text: The underlying letters themselves are a concept. For example, the Arabic letter jeem can be rendered by any of four possible glyphs (depending on where the letter jeem is positioned in the text).
ref: 2013, John D. Byrum, Olivia Madison, Multi-script, Multilingual, Multi-character Issues for the Online Environment, page 100:
glosses: The letter ج in the Arabic script.
dhaal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dhaals
Senses: glosses: The letter ذ in the Arabic script.
ghayn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghayns
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The Cyrillic letter Ғ in various Central Asian languages.
examples: text: The Hebrew 'Ayn has, it is true, in many cases — some scholars say always — the sound of the Arabic ghayn […]
ref: 1872, Richard Francis Burton et al., Unexplored Syria:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The Arabic letter غ.
Synonyms: word: ayn
qaaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qaafs
Senses: glosses: The letter ق in the Arabic script.
kaaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kaafs
Senses: glosses: The letter ك in the Arabic script.
laam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laams
Etymology: From Arabic لَام (lām).
Senses: glosses: The letter ل in the Arabic script.
reynard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reynards
Etymology: From French renard.
Senses: glosses: A fox.
waaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waaws
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of waw (Arabic letter)
ensorcelment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ensorcelments
Etymology: From ensorcel + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: Thou must find a way to bring her back out of the Liche's ensorcelment, even if only for a brief moment.
ref: 1992, Ultima VII: The Black Gate:
glosses: Alternative form of ensorcellment.
ensorcelments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ensorcelment
trick up one's sleeve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tricks up one's sleeve
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ace up one's sleeve.
synonyms: word: ace up one's sleeve
RFS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Selling my brand new Air max 90 wolf grey anthracite size 7y (8.5 womens^([sic])). RFS: It's too big for me 😢💔
ref: 2015 April 24, Abigail Cruz (@AbigailCruz), Twitter:
text: Selling: kidney
RFS: Bruno Mars VIP ticket
ref: 2017 July 17, tash ❤️🔥 (@tashdiaz), Twitter:
related: word: rfs
glosses: Initialism of reason for selling.
glosses: Initialism of Rural Fire Service (a volunteer organisation used to augment the regular service.)
topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
coordinate_terms: HIRMS
HMS
HBMS
HSwMS
HNoMS
HNLMS
HTMS
USS
HMCS
HMAS
HMNZS
HMSAS
HMIS
RMS
BRMS
SS
SV
SY
MS
glosses: Initialism of Russian Federation Ship (a commissioned warship of the Russian navy.)
energetic disassembly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: energetic disassemblies
Senses: glosses: destructive explosion.
codedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From coded + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being coded.
wallflowerish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wallflowerish
form: most wallflowerish
Etymology: From wallflower + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Socially awkward or shy.
coldnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coldness
borrowedst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: any drop thou borrow'dst from thy mother
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:
glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of borrow
Borrow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Borrows
Senses: examples: George Borrow wrote novels and travelogues based on his experiences travelling around Europe.
glosses: A surname.
poppy seed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poppy seeds
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of poppyseed.
Swartz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɔɹts/
ipa: /swɔːts/
Senses: examples: text: he came home to find […] honest Swartz in her favourite amber-coloured satin, with turquoise bracelets, countless rings, flowers, feathers, and all sorts of tags and gimcracks, about as elegantly decorated as a she chimney-sweep on May-day.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: One person who typifies that feeling is Aaron Swartz, a 22-year-old programmer who lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Something of a wunderkind in the software development world, Swartz used to spend a lot of time working on Wikipedia – in 2006 he even stood for election to the Wikimedia Foundation, the organisation behind the site (his bid failed). These days, however, he rarely checks in.
ref: 2009 August 12, Bobbie Johnson, “Wikipedia approaches its limits”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: topics: mineralogy
geology
chemistry
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
geography
word: swartzite
runecarver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: runecarvers
Etymology: From rune + carver.
Senses: glosses: Runesmith.
runecarvers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of runecarver
runemaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: runemasters
Etymology: From rune + master.
Senses: examples: text: Without delay he got it taken out and removed to the Palace-yard, and afterwards commissioned the Rune-master Olaf Worm to visit and decipher it.
ref: 1867, George Stephens, The Old-Northern Runic Monuments of Scandinavia and England, volume I, London: John Russell Smith, page 335:
text: This great period of older English, set down by the rune-masters and then by medieval scribes using the roman alphabet, came to an end with the invention of printing in the late fifteenth century.
ref: 1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 19:
text: This excerpt from the histories of a contemporary of the Teutonic runemasters is, as far as can be determined, factual[.]
ref: 1989, Lisa Peschel, A Practical Guide to the Runes: Their Uses in Divination and Magic, St. Paul, Minn.: Llewellyn Publications, page 99:
glosses: A runesmith; one skilled at carving and deciphering runes.
examples: text: The Rune Masters of the Teutons and Vikings wore startling garb that made them easily recognizable. Feared, honored, welcomed, these shamans were familiar figures in tribal circles.
ref: 1982, Ralph Blum, The Book of Runes, New York: St. Martin's Press, page 26:
text: This stone, not attached to any grave and probably originally part of a ritual stone arrangement, is then charged by the force of the runemaster in this threatening aspect of "the malicious one" and "the raven."
ref: 1989, Edred Thorsson, Runelore: A Handbook of Esoteric Runology, York Beach, Me.: S. Weiser, page 76:
glosses: One who has mastered the use of runes for magical, divinatory, or other esoteric uses.
Coordinate terms: runemistress
runemasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of runemaster
RUDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RUD
camrip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkæmˌɹɪp/
Forms: form: camrips
form: cam rip
form: cam-rip
Etymology: Blend of camcorder + rip
Senses: glosses: A pirated video created by illicitly recording a movie with a camcorder.
camrip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈkæmˌɹɪp/
Forms: form: camrips
form: camripping
form: camripped
form: camripped
form: cam rip
form: cam-rip
Etymology: Blend of camcorder + rip
Senses: glosses: To record (a movie) illicitly by means of a camcorder.
camrips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of camrip
camrips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of camrip
warp drive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warp drives
Senses: topics: literature
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A technological device that warps spacetime to enable movement through space in a non-Newtonian manner.
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: An engine that allows a vessel to travel faster than light by manipulating spacetime to bypass Einstein's restrictive light barrier.
Hypernyms: sense: non-Newtonian drive
word: non-Newtonian drive
sense: non-Newtonian drive
word: reactionless drive
sense: non-Newtonian drive
word: space drive
Hyponyms: topics: physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: Alcubierre drive
Coordinate terms: topics: physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: gravitational wave
topics: physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: RAMAcraft
topics: physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: RAMADAR
sense: FTL drive
word: hyperdrive
sense: FTL drive
word: jump drive
sense: FTL drive
word: jumpdrive
sense: FTL drive
word: stardrive
sense: FTL drive
word: starship
sense: FTL drive
word: tunnel drive
warp drives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of warp drive
naartjies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of naartjie
doe eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Large, wide-open (purportedly innocent-looking) eyes.
examples: text: No, I'm sorry, I don't love you I love Alisha and you shouldn't keep making doe eyes at me either.
ref: 2012, Mike Ginns, Jared's Song, page 84:
glosses: Large seductive eyes, usually on a woman.
Related terms: doe-eyed
physiognosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: diagnosis of disease by studying facial appearance
insectotoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insectotoxins
Etymology: From insect + -o- + toxin modelled on neurotoxin, etc.
Senses: examples: text: 2001, N. Sperelakis, M. Sunagawa, M. Nakamura, H. Yokoshiki, T. Seki, 11: Toxins that Affect Ion Channrls, Pumps and Exchangers, Daniel Acosta, Cardiovascular Toxicology, 3rd Edition, page 343,
The insectotoxins may also target the insect post-synaptic glutamate receptor.
text: It is, however, highly homologous to the scorpion insectotoxins derived from Buthus eupeus venom.
ref: 2001, Kenneth M. Blumenthal, “38: Ion Chaannels as Targets for Toxins”, in Nicholas Sperelakis, editor, Cell Physiology Source Book: Essentials of Membrane Biophysics, page 640:
text: 2011, Zhiwei Cai, Jeng-Haur Chen, Lauren K. Hughes, Hongyu Li, David N. Sheppard, The Physiology and Pharmacology of the CFTR Cl⁻ Channel, Michael Pusch, Chloride Movements Across Cellular Membranes, page 133,
DeBin et al. (1993) purified a 4.1 kDa basic peptide from scorpion venom with sequence similarity to small insectotoxins.
text: The cytolytic acting peptides from Cupiennius salei are grouped into several cupiennin families; in Lachesana tarabaevi the short peptides are called latarcins, the large cyto-insectotoxins.
ref: 2013, Wolfgang Nentwig, Lucia Kuhn Nentwig, “14: Main Components of Spider Venoms”, in Wolfgang Nentwig, editor, Spider Ecophysiology, page 195:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A toxin that specifically affects insects.
Derived terms: cyto-insectotoxin
insectotoxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insectotoxin
Mussolinian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Mussolinian
form: most Mussolinian
Etymology: From Mussolini + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Benito Mussolini (1883–1945), Italian politician, journalist and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 until his ousting in 1943.
Mussolinian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mussolinians
Etymology: From Mussolini + -an.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of Benito Mussolini.
Mussolinians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mussolinian
saffronization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saffronisation
Etymology: From saffron + -ization, after the saffron robes worn by Hindu priests and monks.
Senses: examples: text: Given the 'saffronization' of Congress, the 'ethnoreligious purification' of the BJP, and the parturition of the avowedly secular parties (CPI, SJP and BSP) […]
ref: 1993, Harold Alton Gould, India votes: alliance politics and minority governments in the ninth and tenth general elections, page 308:
text: The saffronization of the Shiv Sena, and the fusion of its Maratha-kunbi chauvinism and communalism were natrual outcomes.
ref: 1999, Rajeev Bhargava, Multiculturalism, Liberalism, and Democracy, page 241:
text: The “value education” directives issued in the 81st Report encouraged, in the first instance, the “saffronization” agenda of the BJPled NDA government from 1999.
ref: 2015, S. Gupta, Consumable Texts in Contemporary India: Uncultured Books and Bibliographical Sociology:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The politics of right-wing Hindu nationalism (Hindutva) that seek to make the Indian state adopt policies that recall and glorify Hindu cultural history and heritage of India at the expense of other religious traditions.
Related terms: word: saffron terror
word: Sanghification
alt: alteration in favour of Dravidian nationalism or separatism
word: Dravidization
saffronisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From saffron + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of saffronization.
saffronize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: saffronizes
form: saffronizing
form: saffronized
form: saffronized
Etymology: From saffron + -ize.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: To subject to saffronization.
saffronizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of saffronize
saffronizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of saffronize
saffronized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of saffronize
Hindutva
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪnˈdʊtvə/
ipa: /hinˈdətvə/
ipa: /hɪnˈdətvə/
Etymology: Transliteration of Hindi हिंदुत्व (hindutva) / Bengali হিন্দুত্ব (hindutto, literally “Hinduness”). Coined by Chandranath Basu in 1892 and appropriated by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.
Senses: glosses: Hindudom.
glosses: Hindu Rashtra.
glosses: The state or quality of being Hindu
examples: text: In India, too, people now wish to bring that argument to a close: to replace the ruckus of politics with the moralized ideology of Hindutva.
ref: 2016, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin, page 284:
text: China’s one-party meritocracy, Putin’s uncrowned czardom, the post-Arab Spring triumph of dictatorship and monarchy over religious populism in the Middle East, the Hindutva populism transforming Indian democracy — these aren’t just all indistinguishable forms of “autocracy,” but culturally distinctive developments that fit well with Huntington’s typology[…]
ref: 2022 March 30, Ross Douthat, “Yes, There Is a Clash of Civilizations”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: The ideology of Hindu nationalism.
Derived terms: H-pop
Related terms: word: Hindutvavadi
word: Hinduness
word: saffronization
word: Hindudom
word: Hindu Rashtra
word: bhagwa
word: sanghi
word: bhakt
word: nationalist
word: rashtravadi
alt: a member of RSS, a Hindutva paramilitary organisation
word: swayamsevak
english: term for Hindutva supporters
translation: term for Hindutva supporters
word: chaddi
Hindutva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪnˈdʊtvə/
ipa: /hinˈdətvə/
ipa: /hɪnˈdətvə/
Forms: form: Hindutvas
Etymology: Transliteration of Hindi हिंदुत्व (hindutva) / Bengali হিন্দুত্ব (hindutto, literally “Hinduness”). Coined by Chandranath Basu in 1892 and appropriated by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.
Senses: glosses: A member of a Hindutva group or a supporter of Hindutva.
Hindutvavadi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hindutvavadis
Etymology: Transliteration of Hindi हिंदुत्ववादी (hindutvavādī).
Senses: synonyms: Hindutvist
Hindu nationalist
hypernyms: rashtravadi
nationalist
Bharatwasi
glosses: A supporter of Hindutva, or Hindu nationalism.
Hindutvavadis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hindutvavadi