cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
garde-collet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɡɑɹd(ə)kɔleɪ̯/
/ɡɑɹd(ə)kɔlɛt/
Forms: form: garde-collets
Etymology: From French garde-collet.
Senses: examples: text: These passe-gardes, or garde-collets, which sometimes are greatly elevated, distinguish the armour of the reigns of Charles VIII., Louis XII., and Francis I., of France (severally, A.D. 1483 to 1496; 1496 to 1515 […]).
ref: 1874, Joseph Paul Lacombe, Arms and Armour in antiquity and the Middle Ages ... Translated ... and with a preface, notes, and one additional chapter on arms and armour in England, by C. Boutell, page 155:
text: They act as a support by means of which the armour is hung from the shoulders. In some old suits of armour two stiff crescent-shaped pieces are fixed to the top of the Wata-gami, forming a sort of "garde collet." They are omitted in the later armour, together with other appurtenances, such as […]
ref: 1881, Asiatic Society of Japan, Transactions, page 267:
text: […] his neck is protected by a standard of mail, and the cusped pauldrons are surmounted by garde-collets; the coudes and genouillieres are also cusped and have butterfly roundel extensions; on his feet are broad sabbatons with spurs.
ref: 1960, An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Caernarvonshire: I East: the Cantref of Arllechwedd and the Commote of Creuddyn, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, page 79:
glosses: Synonym of passguard, neck guard (plate on shoulder-armor to protect neck)
synonyms: word: passguard
extra: plate on shoulder-armor to protect neck
word: neck guard
extra: plate on shoulder-armor to protect neck
garde-collets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garde-collet
corporation bus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corporation buses
Etymology: From corporation (“municipal corporation”) + bus.
Senses: glosses: A bus service operated by the local municipal corporation or council.
610 Office
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the 610 Office
Etymology: Calque of Chinese 610辦公室 /610办公室 (Liùyīlíng bàngōngshì). From the date of their establishment, June 10, 1999.
Senses: examples: text: The 610 Office has two main functions : coordinating personnel at state institutions to assist in fulfilling the office's mandate
and directly conducting operations against Falun Gong and other forbidden spiritual groups.
ref: 2013, United States. Congressional-Executive Commission on China, Falun Gong in China: Review and Update : Hearing Before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, Second Session, December 18, 2012, page 55:
glosses: The Public Security Anti-Xie-Jiao Organization (公安部反邪教组, gong'anbu fanxiejiao zu) in the People's Republic of China
corporation buses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corporation bus
Kiplingcotes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Etton parish, Dalton Holme parish and Goodmanham parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE9243).
Caudwell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Caudwells
Etymology: Variant of Caldwell.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Etton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ettons
Etymology: From the Old English personal name Ēata + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in the City of Peterborough district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TF1406).
glosses: A village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE9843).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
haute-piece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haute-pieces
Senses: examples: text: The pauldrons have the haute-piece, the upright ridge for the protection of the neck, which later became a separate plate. The left pauldron is more massive than the other, and is made in one piece, whereas that on the right shoulder, […]
ref: 1939, Somersetshire Archaeological, Natural History Society, Proceedings:
text: Left pauldron with a haute-piece on a field armor, Nuremberg, c. 1525. Waffensammlung, Vienna.
ref: 1986, Leonid Tarassuk, Claude Blair, The Complete Encyclopedia of Arms & Weapons: The Most Comprehensive Reference Work Ever Published on Arms and Armor, Random House Value Pub:
text: In the seventh course Gonzalo de León struck Sancho de Rabanal on the haute-piece of the left pauldron, without breaking the spear or either one of them suffering a reversal of fortune. In the eighth course Gonzalo de León struck Sancho ...
ref: 2010, Noel Fallows, Jousting in Medieval and Renaissance Iberia, Boydell Press, →ISBN, page 467:
glosses: Alternative form of haute piece.
haute pieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haute piece
haute-pieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haute-piece
almira
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: almiras
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of almirah.
almyrah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: almyrahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of almirah.
almyrahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of almyrah
almiras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of almira
aumeen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aumeens
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ameen.
aumeens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aumeen
fideicommissaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fideicommissary
ameen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ameens
form: amin
form: aumeen
form: aumin
form: amin
Etymology: From Arabic أمين (ʔamīn, “loyal, reliable, trustworthy”).
Senses: glosses: Any of various native Indian officials employed by the civil courts, for example to investigate accounts connected with a suit, to prosecute local enquiries of any kind bearing on a suit, to sell or to deliver over possession of immovable property, or to carry out legal process as a bailiff.
Derived terms: sudder ameen
ameens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ameen
aumin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aumins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ameen.
aumins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aumin
slobbism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From slob + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Slobbish behaviour; slovenliness.
organic defect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organic defects
Senses: glosses: a disease present since birth that is not the result of a genetic anomaly
Bantan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Banten (“province of Java”).
rib-faced deer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The muntjac.
Malabar oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Malabar oils
Senses: glosses: A mixture of oils obtained from the livers of several kinds of fish frequenting the Malabar Coast of India and the neighbourhood of Karachi.
Malabar oils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Malabar oil
momatty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: momatties
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mamoty.
mamooty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mamooties
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mamoty.
momatties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of momatty
mamooties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mamooty
canow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canows
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of canoe (“type of boat”).
canows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canow
pansari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pansaris
form: pansaree
form: punsaree
form: punsari
Etymology: From Hindi पंसारी (pansārī).
Senses: glosses: A pharmacist; a druggist.
punsaree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: punsarees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pansari.
pansaree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pansarees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pansari.
punsari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: punsaris
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pansari.
punsarees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of punsaree
pansarees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pansaree
punsaris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of punsari
pansaris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pansari
gardbraces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gardbrace
steel horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steel horses
Senses: examples: text: I'm a cowboy / On a steel horse I ride / I'm wanted dead or alive
ref: 1987, Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, “Wanted Dead or Alive”:
text: So, anyway, Jeff and I were whipping along, two totally stoned organic machines, riding a steel horse and grinning ear-to-ear like madmen.
ref: 2000, Lori Varosh, Jim Hallas, I Am the War, page 23:
text: Growing up in southern California, the C.H.P. and L.A.P.D. both had motors and I often daydreamed about how cool it must be to sit astride a steel horse, roaring with the thunder only a Harley provides […]
ref: 2005, Jim Geeting, The Badge Part Two - More Thoughts from a Retired State Trooper, page 43:
glosses: A motorcycle.
Related terms: iron horse
steed
steel horses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steel horse
tapul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tapuls
Etymology: Unclear; perhaps originally an error: Edward Halle's ante-1547 Vnion of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies mentions "the plackard, the rest, the port, the burley, the tasses, the lamboys, the backpece, the tapull, and the border of the curace all gylte"; Meyrick and others after him have taken the term to denote the vertical ridge down the center of a breastplate, perhaps related to French taper (“hit, beat, strike”).
Senses: examples: text: The convexity of the breast-plate, but more particularly its projecting tapul, […] the cone-like beevor, the pass-guards, and even the tapuls of the jambs and cuisses, are evidences of this fact.
ref: 1823, The Gentleman's Magazine, page 292:
text: Even to the time of his death (1643) the Black Mousquetaires of his house wore in the field complete armor, […] The breastplate has a ridge or "tapul" down the center with a marked projection near the lower edge.
ref: 1915, The Philadelphia Museum Bulletin, page 10:
glosses: A pronounced vertical ridge down the center of a breastplate, or rarely by extension a ridge on another item of armor.
wikipedia: Edward Halle
tapuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tapul
shambogue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shambogues
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shanbogue.
shambogues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shambogue
shanbogue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shanbogues
form: shambogue
Senses: glosses: A village clerk or accountant.
shanbogues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shanbogue
potato race
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potato races
Senses: glosses: A novelty race, on foot or on horseback, in which competitors attempt to collect a number of potatoes as quickly as possible.
potato races
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potato race
mainmortable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:mainmortable.
glosses: Not having (or, of goods: not subject to) the right to alienate one's property if one dies childless.
mainmortable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mainmortables
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:mainmortable.
glosses: A person who is mainmortable.
mainmortables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mainmortable
onion bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: onion bags
Etymology: From the resemblance to the net bags in which onions are sold.
Senses: examples: text: You ponce, you slag, pop it in the onion bag.
ref: 2002, Fat Les (band), Who Invented Fish and Chips? (song)
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: The goal net.
Derived terms: bulge in the onion bag
bulge the onion bag
onion bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of onion bag
committability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From commit + -ability or committable + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being committable.
Deasismont
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Deasismonts
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Saptagram
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Satgaon
form: Satigam
Senses: glosses: A major port in southern Bengal in ancient and medieval times, corresponding in modern times to part of the Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
braconniere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌbɹækənˈjɛɚ/
Forms: form: braconnieres
form: braconnière
Etymology: From French braconnière, from Middle French braconniere, bragonniere, from Old Italian braconi, from braca.
Senses: examples: text: Danish warrior of the fourteenth century, whose armour is curious because of the braconniere or apron and loinguards in trellised work which partly cover the mailed hauberk.
ref: 1877, Auguste Demmin, An Illustrated History of Arms and Armour from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, London: G. Bell & sons, page 185:
text: The true blade Peaceful snouted up and seared through the first knight's mail deep into his groin. […] The man collapsed in a clattering uproar of metal clashing against metal. Trouble with a full suit of plate, even today and as far as armorers like Master Gyron had gone, was that betraying section of mail braconniere.
ref: 2012, Kenneth Bulmer, The Key to Venudine: Keys to the Dimensions, Gateway, →ISBN:
text: Underneath was a broad girdle of heavy leather and metal plates, from which hung thigh guards and a kind of braconniere, a kilt of chain mail.
ref: 2018, Philip Nowlan, The Prince of Mars Returns, Jovian Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A skirt or apron of mail or lamellar armor, worn with plate armor, to defend the stomach, groin, and upper thighs.
Talaings
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Talaing
tulsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tulsi
takids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of takid
Tamluk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and a municipality in the Indian state of West Bengal.
lenticulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lenticulate.
lenticulothalamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of thalamolenticular.
synonyms: word: thalamolenticular
Leonardoesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Leonardoesque
form: most Leonardoesque
form: Leonardesque
Etymology: From Leonardo + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: He stared at her, and felt again that she had failed to be Leonardesque.
ref: 1908, EM Forster, A Room With A View, Penguin, published 2018, page 109:
glosses: Characteristic of (the works of) Leonardo da Vinci.
leuchemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leuchemias
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of leukemia.
leuchemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leuchemia
liquorer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liquorers
Etymology: From liquor + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person employed to test samples of coffee beans and select the desired blend.
liquorers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liquorer
lipsanotheca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A reliquary.
Liukiu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: YAMEN MINISTERS. We have only heard of the Formosan savages plundering and killing the people of Liukiu, but never heard of their attacking Japanese. Liukiu is a Chinese territory, and Chinese officers rescued and sent home to Liukiu such of them as could escape from the savages.
JAPANESE MINISTER. Liukiu has always belonged to Japan. During the feudal ages it was a dependency of the Prince of Satsuma, and is now under the direct rule of the Imperial Government. Hence, there is not a person of Liukiu who is not a Japanese subject, entitled to the protection of the Japanese Government. You say you have rescued the Liukiu people, but what have you done towards chastising the Formosan savages that have plundered and killed the rest ?
ref: 1904, Alfred Stead, editor, Japan by the Japanese, William Heinemann, →OCLC, page 162:
text: The captain of the schooner told me also that he was going to Ponape and the Liukiu Islands, then he would return directly home.
ref: 2009 [1898], Jenichiro Oyabe, “Wandering on the South Sea”, in Greg Robinson, Yujin Yaguchi, editors, A Japanese Robinson Crusoe, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 82–83:
glosses: Synonym of Ryukyu (“island chain”).
synonyms: word: Ryukyu
extra: island chain
litigationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: litigationists
Etymology: From litigation + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who engages in litigation, especially of a vexatious kind.
litigationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of litigationist
lockerman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lockermen
Etymology: From locker + -man.
Senses: glosses: A person in charge of a refrigerated storage locker.
lockermen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lockerman
kitschify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kitschifies
form: kitschifying
form: kitschified
form: kitschified
Senses: glosses: To make kitschy.
kitschified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kitschify
kitschifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kitschify
kitschifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kitschify
lodgerdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lodger + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The world or sphere of lodgers.
dealerdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dealer + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The world or sphere of dealers.
lodgeful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lodgefuls
Etymology: From lodge + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: But I think everyone up here is at risk. If he could murder eight women for his own twisted reasons, why not a lodgeful of people in order to survive?
ref: 2011, Jenna Ryan, Cold Case Cowboy:
glosses: Enough to fill a lodge.
lodgefuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lodgeful
turncoating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of turncoat
turncoated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of turncoat
guruing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of guru
gurued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of guru
Coccimiglios
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Coccimiglio
Caudwells
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Caudwell
Ettons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Etton
Deasismonts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Deasismont
Bisleys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bisley
Dalton Holme
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
Breedens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Breeden
la la la
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: I'm turning up the volume when you speak 'Cause if my heart can't stop it I find a way to block it, I go la la, la la la la la
ref: 2013, “La La La”, Naughty Boy (lyrics):
text: fingers in ears, la la la, I can't hear you, la la la, I can't hear you
ref: 2011, Paul Johnson, Choose Life, page 14:
glosses: said loudly to prevent the speaker from hearing something he/she doesn't want to hear
batanga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: batangas
Senses: glosses: A cocktail consisting of tequila, coke and lime juice, traditionally mixed with a knife. Usually also prapaired with ice cubes and spearmint
Related terms: Cuba libre
Breedons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Breedon
Breedon on the Hill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: See Breedon.
Senses: examples: text: The great age of the village is apparent even in the tautology of its name. Bre means 'hill' in the Celtic tongue of the pre-Roman Britons, dun means the same thing in Anglo-Saxon, Hill hill-on-the-Hill, in fact.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 87, Breedon on the Hill:
glosses: A village and civil parish in North West Leicestershire district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK4022).
Sweany
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sweanys
Etymology: Variant of Sweeney.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Sudbeck
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sudbecks
Etymology: Borrowed from German Südbeck.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Sudbecks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sudbeck
Sweanys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sweany
deconstructability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From deconstruct + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: Its deconstructability was high, so a significant amount of material could be salvaged and reused.
glosses: the ease with which something such as a building, can be deconstructed
Goodmanham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE8943).
hexaoctahedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexaoctahedra
form: hexaoctahedrons
Senses: examples: text: The writer has seen a remarkably fine specimen of alluvial (Ballaarat) gold, it was a group of inch and half-inch crystals of the hexaoctahedron crystallographic form, hollowing towards the centre of the faces stair fashion, parallel to the combination lines.
ref: 1861, The Victorian Government Prize Essays, 1860, John Ferres, page 223:
text: Diamond, C. I. In octahedrons, hexaoctahedrons; cleavage octahedral.
ref: 1908, Henry Erni, Mineralogy Simplified. Easy Methods of Identifying Minerals, Including Ores, by Means of the Blow-Pipe, by Flame Reactions, by Humid Chemical Analysis, and by Physical Tests., page 385:
text: The natural crystalline form of diamonds is a regular octahedron although a few have been found that were hexaoctahedrons.[…]Hexaoctahedrons have forty-eight faces.
ref: 1952, George Mimms Rawlins, Chemistry in Action, page 257:
text: The seven kinds consist of three unique forms which are the cube, octahedron, and rhombic dodecahedron, and four families of forms having the shape of icositetrahedra, trisoctahedra, tetrahexahedra, and hexaoctahedra.
ref: 1987, Progress in Basic Principles of Imaging Systems: Proceedings of the International Congress of Photographic Science, Köln (Cologne), 1986, page 59:
text: It usually forms rounded octahedra, often twinned, transparent, yellow, brown, green, less often blue and black; it rarely occurs in the form of hexaoctahedra.
ref: 1994, Zdenka Náglová, transl., Minerals and Rocks, Magna Books, translation of original by Jiří Kouřimský, →ISBN, page 156:
glosses: Alternative form of hexoctahedron.
hexaoctahedra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hexaoctahedron
hexaoctahedrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hexaoctahedron
Repsher
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Repshers
Etymology: Probably an altered spelling of South German Rebscher.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Sacher
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sachers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Sacher.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Sachers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sacher
Repshers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Repsher
loglet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loglets
Etymology: From log + -let.
Senses: examples: text: He dragged a pruned bough over to the woodpile and started sectioning it into sticks and small loglets.
ref: 2015, Michael Z. Williamson, A Long Time Until Now:
glosses: A small log.
loglets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loglet
locustelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: locustelles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of locustella.
locustelles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of locustelle
Sapon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sapons
Senses: glosses: A surname.
bandwing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bandwings
Etymology: From band + wing.
Senses: glosses: Any of the subfamily Oedipodinae of grasshoppers, many having colourful hindwings.
bandwings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bandwing
Walkowski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Walkowskis
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Walkowski.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
sinkproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sinkproof
form: most sinkproof
Etymology: From sink + -proof.
Senses: examples: a sinkproof boat
glosses: Resistant to sinking.
lossproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lossproof
form: most lossproof
Etymology: From loss + -proof.
Senses: examples: a lossproof betting scheme
glosses: Resistant to losses.
Walkowskis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Walkowski
Sapons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sapon
lulab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lulabs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lulav.
lulabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lulab
liensman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈliːnzmən/
Forms: form: liensmen
Etymology: From lien + -s- + man.
Senses: glosses: A kind of vassal in Germany
liensmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liensman
Vargus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Varguses
Etymology: A variant of Vargas or Fergus.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Balgobin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Balgobins
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Balgobins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Balgobin
Varguses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Vargus
luminoassays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of luminoassay
biradaris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biradari
danceband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dancebands
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dance band.
Lundyfoot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A variety of snuff.
Aylsworth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Aylsworths
Etymology: Variant of Ailsworth.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
dance band
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dance bands
form: danceband
Senses: glosses: A genre of music, combining jazz and dance music, popular in the 1920s and 1930s
glosses: A band playing this style of music
dancebands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of danceband
dance bands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dance band
lupetidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lupetidines
Senses: glosses: dimethylpiperidine
lupetidines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lupetidine
cumulonimbiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cumulonimbiform
form: most cumulonimbiform
Senses: glosses: Having the shape of a cumulonimbus.
bandroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bandrooms
Etymology: From band + room.
Senses: glosses: A room used for band practice
bandrooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bandroom
Bramel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bramels
Etymology: Variant of Bramhall, itself Old English brōm (“broom”) + healh (“corner, angle, nook”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
lutemaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lutemakers
Etymology: From lute + maker.
Senses: glosses: A manufacturer of lutes.
lutemaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lute + making.
Senses: glosses: The manufacture of lutes.
belyana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: belyanas
Etymology: From Russian беляна (beljana).
Senses: glosses: A type of large disposable ship that was used for timber-rafting along the rivers Volga and Kama from the end of the 16th century until the middle of the 20th century.
lutemakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lutemaker
Bramels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bramel
Aylsworths
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Aylsworth
belyanas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of belyana
Lutheranize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Lutheranizes
form: Lutheranizing
form: Lutheranized
form: Lutheranized
Etymology: From Lutheran + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make Lutheran; to convert to Lutheranism.
Lutheranized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Lutheranize
Lutheranizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Lutheranize
Lutheranizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Lutheranize
Abeln
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Abelns
Etymology: Borrowed from German Abeln.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Abelns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Abeln
Almases
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Almas
McGroarty
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McGroartys
Etymology: Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic and Irish Mac Rabhartaigh (“son of Rabhartach”), a byname from rabhartach (“having high tides, surging, swelling; vehement, impetuous”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
McGroartys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McGroarty
Vaughnses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Vaughns
bacchanalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Occasionally, too, they indulge in that harmonic bacchanalization known to the initiated as a Salamander […]
ref: 1857, Thomas Butler Gunn, The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses:
glosses: Riotous revelry.
Babbittism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Babbitt + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A complacently materialistic middle-class attitude.
Babbittian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Babbittian
form: most Babbittian
Etymology: From Babbitt + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Having, or relating to, a complacently materialistic middle-class attitude.
Ailsworth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ailsworths
form: Aylesworth
form: Aylsworth
Etymology: From the Old English personal name *Ægel + -s- + worþ (“enclosure”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL124985).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Vargases
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Vargas
Ailsworths
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ailsworth
Azande
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Zande (“African ethnic group”).
kouproh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kouprey.
baccaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Resembling a berry.
examples: a baccaceous plant
glosses: Bearing berries.
babuina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babuinas
Etymology: From New Latin, feminine of babuinus, from French babouin.
Senses: synonyms: babooness
glosses: A female baboon.
babuinas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of babuina
backfatter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backfatters
Etymology: From backfat + -er.
Senses: glosses: A pig yielding significant backfat.
backfatters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backfatter
balanceman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balancemen
Etymology: From balance + -man.
Senses: glosses: A man employed to sit on the trunk of a tree while it is transported and keep it horizontal.
balancemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balanceman
monopolistic competition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A type of market structure that shares both characteristics of perfect competition and that of monopoly depending on the time frame (long-run or short-run).
baldricwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From baldric + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: a chain worn baldricwise
glosses: In the manner of a baldric.
loggiaed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From loggia + -ed.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Having a loggia.
balladling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balladlings
Etymology: From ballad + -ling.
Senses: glosses: A short ballad.
balladlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balladling
V.J.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: V.J.'s
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of VJ.
V. J.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of VJ.
Act of Parliament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Acts of Parliament
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of act of parliament.
Derived terms: Act
n-firm concentration ratio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: n-firm concentration ratios
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: An economic metric that measures the market share of some number n of firms within an industry or market sector.
Ajays
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ajay
Acts of Parliament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Act of Parliament
Act
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Acts
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Act of Parliament.
non-excludability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-excludabilities
Senses: glosses: A scenario in which it is not possible to provide a sole individual with a product without allowing others to consumer it as well (e.g., streetlights), i.e., a variant of the free-rider problem.
Jays
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Jay
Jays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of jays.
non-pecuniary benefit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-pecuniary benefits
Senses: glosses: Any benefit offered to workers by their firm that is not monetary (such as a company vehicle).
non-price competition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-price competitions
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
antonyms: perfect competition
price war
glosses: A competitive strategy in which firms deliberately don't engage in price reductions, but rather compete in advertising, quality, or design etc.
Related terms: good value
market power
superiority
non-rivalry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-rivalries
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A scenario in which there is no competition between one person's consumption of a good or services as it does not prevent others from consuming it as well.
non-rejectability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The situation in which one cannot avoid consuming a good or service.
bandwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From band + work.
Senses: topics: art
arts
coordinate_terms: strapwork
glosses: Decorative work resembling interlaced bands.
Barbacoan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a particular language family of Colombia and Ecuador.
vampire bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vampire bugs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of kissing bug.
synonyms: word: kissing bug
vampire bugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vampire bug
barrelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barrelets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of barrelette (“structure in mouse brainstem”).
barrelets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barrelet
barrabora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barraboras
form: barabara
form: barabora
form: barabara
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian барабора (barabora), from Itelmen [Term?].
Senses: glosses: An Aleutian underground dwelling.
barraboras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barrabora
barabaras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barabara
barabora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baraboras
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of barrabora.
baraboras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barabora
batterable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more batterable
form: most batterable
Etymology: From batter + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able or fit to be battered.
Derived terms: unbatterable
bearbaiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bearbaiters
Etymology: From bear + baiter.
Senses: glosses: One who takes part in bearbaiting.
bearbaiters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bearbaiter
Beckie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Beckies
Etymology: Variant of Becky, diminutive of Rebecca.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Rebecca, variant of Becky.
normal profit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: normal profits
Senses: glosses: Normal profit refers to the revenue required for a firm to stay within a market in the long-run.
Belialic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Belialic
form: most Belialic
Etymology: From Belial + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the demon Belial.
bellowsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bellowsfuls
Etymology: From bellows + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Enough to fill a bellows.
bellowsfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bellowsful
bibliomanian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪniən
Forms: form: more bibliomanian
form: most bibliomanian
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or relating to bibliomania; having an obsession with collecting books.
Derived terms: bibliomanianism
normative statement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: normative statements
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
antonyms: descriptive statement
glosses: A statement expressing a value judgment answering the question of what ought to be, as opposed to what there is.
Related terms: normativity
bibliomaniacally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bibliomaniacally
form: most bibliomaniacally
Senses: glosses: In a bibliomaniacal manner.
perfect competition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
antonyms: non-price competition
market power
glosses: A theoretical type of market structure, where there are many firms providing homogeneous (especially, fungible) goods or services, resulting in allocative and productive efficiency in the long run but also precluding profitability.
Related terms: price war
involution
Biedermeier
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from German Biedermeier.
Senses: examples: text: When Frederick died, there followed that time of which Germans themselves are ashamed—the hole-and-corner time, the time when the parochial spirit was abroad and no German burgher saw beyond the village church and the village pump; the Biedermeier time (that comic figure of the German Punch), the time of genuine German philistinism, when the people were lapped in an idyllic repose and were content, as many are to-day, with the smallest and simplest pleasures.
ref: 1913, Stanley Shaw, William of Germany:
glosses: A period in Central Europe between 1815 and 1848 during which the middle class grew in number and the arts appealed to common sensibilities and a sense of parochialism, starting with the Congress of Vienna at the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and ending with the onset of the Revolutions of 1848.
perfect price discrimination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perfect price discriminations
Senses: glosses: A scenario that can be found in market dominated by a monopoly firm which is able to charge each consumer different prices based on certain characteristics.
perfectly elastic supply
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perfectly elastic supplies
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A situation in which firms are able and willing to supply any quantity of a good or service at the going price, i.e., the supply is infinite.
Biddelian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Biddelians
Senses: glosses: A religious follower of John Biddle (1615–1662), English nontrinitarian and Unitarian.
Biddelians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Biddelian
bifistular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + fistular.
Senses: glosses: Doubly fistular; having two tubelike parts.
perfectly inelastic supply
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perfectly inelastic supplies
Senses: glosses: A situation in which firms/producers can only supply a fixed quantity, hence cannot increase, or decrease the available amount even if there are increases/decreases in price. (Elasticity of supply = 0)
polluter pays principle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polluter pays principles
Senses: glosses: The principle that corporations and other entities polluting the environment should pay the full cost of the damage they inflict on society.
pollution permit system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pollution permit systems
Senses: glosses: A system aimed at controlling pollution by allocating each firm a certain amount of pollution permits which allows them to pollute up to a certain limit. If firms pollute less, they are able to sell there permits to firms that pollute more hence creating a permits market.
positive statement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: positive statements
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
glosses: A statement concerning what is, was, or will be, based on empirical evidence.
price elasticity of demand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: An economic metric designed to measure how sensitive quantity demanded is to a change in the price of a good/service.
price maker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: price makers
Senses: glosses: A firm that has the ability to choose its desired selling point of their good or services, as they face a downward-sloping demand curve.
price taker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: price takers
Senses: glosses: A firm that has no choice over its price and must accept that of the general market.
impeachmentworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more impeachmentworthy
form: most impeachmentworthy
form: impeachment-worthy
Etymology: From impeachment + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: Just the fact that the so-called "pResident" has made a face like that while in office should make him wholely impeachmentworthy.
ref: 2003 May 2, nickalicious, “George Bush, his historic landing”, in ILX:
text: So far, they still don't have anything that even they have found to be impeachmentworthy....everything has evaporated upon investigation.
ref: 2019 September 25, Revoltingest, “Trump used his office to ask a foreign leader to investigate his political opponent. That is a fact”, in Religious Forums:
text: Moreover, while this number on its own is objectionable, the impeachmentworthy part is Secretary Mayorkas has allowed these individuals into our communities without a proper understanding of their criminal backgrounds or national security intentions.
ref: 2024 January 11, LaLota, “Secretary Mayorkas Has Failed to Uphold His Office”, in Congressional Record, page H61:
glosses: Deserving impeachment, or (of an act) of such character as to warrant impeachment.
raw_tags: of a person
private benefits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Refers to the benefits received by a firm or consumer, as part of its economic activity.
grab box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grab boxes
form: grab-box
Senses: examples: text: Then pointing successively to the lottery-table, grab-box, ring-cake, and cigars, he continued[…]
ref: 1870, Jeremiah N. Thomas, “Jonadab Cleaver's Experiment; Or, the Last Church Fair at Rutway”, in Sabbath at Home:
text: The grab box was on the third floor of his store, and a sales slip was good for one grab.
ref: 1906 February 1, “John the Shoeman's Grab Box”, in The Shoe Retailer:
text: I shall have nothing more to do with this fair if we have a grab-box.
ref: 1909, Jessie A. Kelley, Our Church Fair: A Farcical Entertainment in Two Acts:
hypernyms: lucky dip
lucky draw
coordinate_terms: grab bag
mystery bag
glosses: A box having a small opening in the top through which individuals can (usually for a small amount of money) reach to retrieve an unknown trinket; a common feature of some fairs.
producer surplus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: producer surpluses
Senses: glosses: The difference between the minimum amount a producer is willing to accept for a product (based on the cost of production) and the current market price.
production externality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: production externalities
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: An externality (negative or positive) that affects the production side of a market.
production possibility curve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: production possibility curves
Senses: glosses: An economic curve, showing the maximum combinations/possibilities of goods and services that can be produced in a set amount of time given the limited available resources.
Nunburnholme
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish (served by Nunburnholme with Kilnwick Percy Parish Council) in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE8548).
New Year's Eves
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of New Year's Eve
ring-cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ring-cakes
Senses: examples: text: Then pointing successively to the lottery-table, grab-box, ring-cake, and cigars, he continued[…]
ref: 1870, Jeremiah N. Thomas, “Jonadab Cleaver's Experiment; Or, the Last Church Fair at Rutway”, in Sabbath at Home:
text: Then there is the church fair with its grab-bag having a silver pencil, and its ring-cake from which some one will get a gold ring for five cents.
ref: 1887, “The Book World”, in The Sunday-school World:
glosses: A cake having a ring baked inside it, with slices sold as a form of lottery. Once a common feature of church fairs.
productive efficiency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: productive efficiencies
Senses: glosses: Productive efficiency is a type of economic efficiency achieved when a firm operates at minimum costs, by using the appropriate inputs to produce the maximum output possible.