cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
child-molester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: child-molesters
Senses: examples: text: You cannot wrap a highway robber or a child-molester in cotton wool, but it would have a wholesome effect if convicted people knew that not only would good conduct knock a definite period off their term of imprisonment, but that this excellent conduct and unusual industry and manliness might at any moment be recognised and the doors be opened for them to begin life afresh, even though less than half of the sentence passed had been actually inflicted.
ref: 1913 February 20, Herbert Thomas, “[‘One and All’ Notes. Looking Backward.] A Christmas Greeting.”, in The Cornishman: A Newspaper for “One and All”, volume 34, number 1,820, Penzance, Cornwall, page 4, column 2:
text: It may be a Noble act to chase a child-molester through the streets, but to bark one’s shins and sport a limp for the rest of the day is no joke.
ref: 1924 May 10, “Sam Square’s Budget”, in Goulburn Evening Penny Post, Goulburn, N.S.W., page two, column 5:
text: A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010, Horror) Teens in a small Ohio town find their dreams haunted by Freddy, the murderous ghost of a child-molester who died years before, and who now has the ability to kill them in horrible ways if they aren’t able to prevent themselves from falling asleep.
ref: 2011 July 3, “Wednesday highlights”, in DNJ Extra (The Daily News Journal), Murfreesboro, Tenn., page 9, column 4:
text: Many people seriously believe that our national leaders are a conspiratorial band of child-molesters.
ref: 2022 April 24, Peter Goodman, “Seek compromise, not carnage, across the aisle”, in Las Cruces Sun-News, volume 142, number 15, Las Cruces, N.M., →ISSN, page 8A, column 3:
glosses: Alternative form of child molester.
child-molesters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of child-molester
Vuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Vucks
Etymology: Shortened form of "Victory". Popularised by a Melbourne Victory fan podcast, For Vuck's Sake (derived from the vulgar expression "for fuck's sake").
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A supporter of Melbourne Victory (an Australian soccer club based in Melbourne)
Vucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Vuck
outburps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outburp
outburping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outburp
outburped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outburp
Cape Winelands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Boland (“a region of South Africa”).
synonyms: word: Boland
extra: a region of South Africa
Jamestown Canyon viruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jamestown Canyon virus
BVB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Initialism of Ballspielverein Borussia 09 e. V. Dortmund.
color coordinate system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: color coordinate systems
Senses: topics: colorimetry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A set of values representing the position of a color in a color space.
color coordinate systems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of color coordinate system
spacetime metric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spacetime metrics
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
qualifier: relativity
glosses: A mathematical tool used in the theory of relativity to describe the curvature of space and time.
topics: astrophysics
glosses: Any method used to measure the geometry of the universe.
spacetime metrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spacetime metric
Vawdrey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vawdreys
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Vawdreys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Vawdrey
lemonene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of biphenyl.
synonyms: word: biphenyl
Related terms: limonene
outearnt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outearn
whatever helps you sleep at night
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Believe what you want to believe if it makes you feel better.
Related terms: how can you sleep at night
whatever floats your boat
scratch up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scratches up
form: scratching up
form: scratched up
form: scratched up
Senses: glosses: To scratch the surface of (something) thoroughly.
blastomatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: blastomatous tumor
glosses: Pertaining to a blastoma.
Derived terms: ameloblastomatous
ars antiqua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin ars antīqua (literally “old art”).
Senses: coordinate_terms: ars nova
glosses: The medieval music of Europe during the High Middle Ages, between approximately 1170 and 1310.
Ovingham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish north of the River Tyne in southern Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NZ0863).
glosses: A suburb of Adelaide, in the Cities of Charles Sturt and Prospect, South Australia.
nonaired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + aired.
Senses: examples: text: Importantly, around this time in the seventies, Harry Shearer also commenced his long-standing hobby of collecting nonaired video of people “just sort of being in strange situations,” and observing their behavior —“real,” natural behavior.
ref: 2010, John Kenneth Muir, This Is Spinal Tap: Music on Film Series:
text: Sports content has included news, regional sports coverage report, flips from sports entertainment, programs, and exclusive footage of nonaired events.
ref: 2012, Jim Owens, Television Sports Production, pages 2-33:
text: A nontelevised/nonaired match on a wrestling card (primarily on a TV taping or a pay-per-view, but a dark match can also be one that doesn't appear on the DVD for a wrestling show).
ref: 2019, LaToya Ferguson, An Encyclopedia of Women's Wrestling:
glosses: Unaired.
Not broadcast.
examples: text: The paper also deals with epidemiology, pathogeny and pathologic anatomy of the disease (characteristic macroscopic aspect: nonaired lung of high consistency, with whitish infiltrations alternating with congestive zones and the microscopic aspect of alveolo-interstitial pneumonia).
ref: 1991, D Dragomir, L Tauberg, V Popescu, “Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia”, in Europe PMC plus, volume 40:
text: In the following lines we present the method achieved in our country, using the nonaired water consolidometer.
ref: 20??, B Vintila, Contributions to the development of geosynthetics and of technical solutions with these materials:
text: The material for compost shall never be put in a pit; the air cannot reach it; nonaired compost rots and smells bad.
ref: 2021, Lech Wojciech Szajdak, Nitrogen in Agricultural Landscape:
glosses: Unaired.
Not aerated.
Four Floors of Whores
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: 4 Floors of Whores
form: Four Floors
Etymology: Chosen for the rhyme. So called because brothels were situated on the first four floors of Orchard Towers until 2023.
Senses: examples: text: Built in 1975, the 18-storey office building is notorious for its assortment of girlie bars, massage parlours and seedy nightlife that occupy four storeys, earning it the nickname “Four Floors of Whores”.
ref: 2018 July 1, P. Silvam, “Sex, spas, sleaze: what Orchard Road of Singapore hides in plain sight”, in South China Morning Post:
text: Orchard Towers, sometimes known as the "Four Floors Of Whores", belongs to what many would dub the seedier side of town.
ref: 2019 July 13, Andrew Koay, Tanya Ong, “I went clubbing at Orchard Towers. I felt slightly out of place, but then again, not really.”, in Mothership (website):
ref: 2023 July 4, Marielle Descalsota, “Nightclub doors at Singapore's ‘4 Floors of Whores’ are closing for good in less than 30 days.”, in Business Insider:
glosses: Orchard Towers, which was known for its rampant prostitution.
tradey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹeɪdi/
rhymes: -eɪdi
Forms: form: tradeys
Etymology: From trade + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Jason is a tradey, still doing his apprenticeship for a builder on one of those new housing sites.
ref: 2013, Karen Turner, All That and Everything:
glosses: Alternative form of tradie.
tradey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹeɪdi/
rhymes: -eɪdi
Forms: form: more tradey
form: most tradey
Etymology: From trade + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The Board of Trade has gone "tradey" or even more "tradey." They have discovered that Art has some commercial value.
ref: 1937, Public Administration, volume 15, page 158:
glosses: Of or relating to trade.
tradeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tradey
Marvie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Marvin.
portmanteau agreement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The situation where a single morpheme encodes features from multiple arguments.
gnow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gnows
Senses: glosses: Synonym of mallee fowl.
synonyms: word: mallee fowl
gnows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gnow
marvie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more marvie
form: most marvie
Etymology: From marv(ellous) + -ie.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of marvy.
corporate law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of company law.
synonyms: word: company law
Related terms: corporation lawyer
product manager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: product managers
Senses: topics: business
synonyms: PM
glosses: A person who is responsible for the development of products for an organization.
Related terms: product management
product owner
manillese lace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A kind of lace made in Manila with drawn-thread work, combined with embroidery.
product management
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
glosses: The business process of planning, developing, launching, and managing a product or service.
Related terms: product manager
credit manager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: credit managers
Senses: topics: business
synonyms: credit man
glosses: A person employed by an organization to manage the credit department and make decisions concerning credit limits, acceptable levels of risk, terms of payment and enforcement actions with their customers.
Related terms: credit management
Serada
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Seradas
Etymology: Transliteration of Japanese 世良田.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Japanese surname 世良田.
glosses: A surname from Japanese.
leimoniad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leimoniads
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of limoniad.
leimoniads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leimoniad
ringding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: And in 1969 I had a ringding fight with Mr. Meyer and the Nixon administration when they came in because they said that we should not continue aid to Chile […]
ref: 1976, United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, Covert Action (page 44)
glosses: Alternative form of ring-a-ding.
hyaloclast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyaloclasts
Etymology: From hyalo- + clast.
Senses: examples: text: Hyaloclasts occur partly between the individual lava flows, partly in the vents penetrating the volcanic formations.
ref: 1974, Acta Geologica, volume 18, page 388:
text: Suite IV represents sediment gravity flow deposits near a deep submarine vent, whereas Suite V represents a mixture of hemipelagic mud and epiclastic sand which incorporated some hyaloclasts.
ref: 1987, Brian J. Taylor, N. F. Exon, Marine Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry of the Woodlark Basin-Solomon Islands (page 300)
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A volcanic glass fragment formed by hot lava rapidly cooling when it encounters water or ice, causing it to shatter into small, glassy pieces.
Related terms: hyaloclastite
hyaloclasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyaloclast
mairehau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Maori [Term?].
Senses: glosses: The plant Phebalium nudum.
Wallace effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wallace effects
Etymology: Named after Alfred Russel Wallace.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
qualifier: evolutionary biology
glosses: A process of speciation where natural selection increases the reproductive isolation between two populations of species as a result of selection acting against the production of hybrid individuals of low fitness.
wikipedia: Alfred Russel Wallace
Wallace effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wallace effect
Warburg effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Warburg effects
Etymology: Named after Otto Heinrich Warburg who first published the observation.
Senses: topics: medicine
oncology
sciences
glosses: The observation that most cancer cells release energy predominantly not through the 'usual' citric acid cycle and oxidative phosphorylation in the mitochondria as observed in normal cells, but through a less efficient process of 'anaerobic glycolysis' consisting of a high level of glucose uptake and glycolysis followed by lactic acid fermentation taking place in the cytosol, not the mitochondria, even in the presence of abundant oxygen.
wikipedia: Otto Heinrich Warburg
Warburg effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Warburg effect
LDFs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LDF
London dispersion force
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: London dispersion forces
Etymology: Named after the German physicist Fritz London.
Senses: synonyms: word: LDF
glosses: A weak kind of intermolecular force acting between atoms and molecules that are normally electrically symmetric, i.e. having the electrons symmetrically distributed with respect to the nucleus. Such forces are part of the van der Waals forces.
wikipedia: Fritz London
London dispersion forces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of London dispersion force
upper decked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of upper deck
upper decking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upper deck
lorebook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lorebooks
Etymology: From lore + book.
Senses: examples: text: The lad has a good imagination. He’ll be writing his own lorebooks soon enough.
ref: 1978 March, Niel Hancock, Dragon Winter, New York, N.Y.: Popular Library, page 36:
text: In Barinthus’s seemingly inexhaustible lorebooks and data crystals were detailed maps of planets where, though no folk dwelled, beasts and plants were plentiful.
ref: 1998 November, Patricia Kennealy-Morrison, The Deer’s Cry (The Keltiad), New York, N.Y.: HarperPrism, →ISBN, page 238:
text: Who remembers the foot soldiers who molder where they fall? It is the wizards, their spells, their legacy—these are the tales that fill the lorebooks.
ref: 2001 April, Elaine Cunningham, The Floodgate (Counselors and Kings; II), Renton, Wash.: Wizards of the Coast, →ISBN, page 135:
glosses: A book of lore.
lorebooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lorebook
telegraphable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more telegraphable
form: most telegraphable
Etymology: From telegraph + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be telegraphed.
ungraphable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ungraphable
form: most ungraphable
Etymology: From un- + graphable.
Senses: glosses: Not graphable.
ungraphically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ungraphically
form: most ungraphically
Etymology: From ungraphic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an ungraphic manner.
chemospecifically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From chemospecific + -ally.
Senses: glosses: describes a reaction or process that targets, with precision and selectivity on a molecular level, a specific functional group or site within a molecule.
Synonyms: chemoselectively
Kent Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island of the Chesapeake Bay, Maryland.
Parsons Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Parsons
glosses: An island of the Chesapeake Bay, Maryland.
Corckran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Corckrans
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Jew York City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Jew York.
synonyms: word: Jew York
power button
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: power buttons
Senses: glosses: A button that switches an electrical device on or off.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A button that switches an electrical device on or off.
A button that switches the computer on or off (or, on more recent models, often enables sleep mode).
power buttons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of power button
Bắc Hà dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bắc Hà dog
Assyro-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Assyrian.
Tilghman Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island of the Chesapeake Bay, Maryland.
baking pan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baking pans
Senses: glosses: Synonym of baking tray.
synonyms: word: baking tray
baking pans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baking pan
Blockburger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from ?
Derived terms: Blockburger test
Draize
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from ?
Derived terms: Draize test
cock's comb test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cock's comb tests
Senses: glosses: Synonym of comb test (“a test for whether a substance should be considered a male sex hormone”).
synonyms: word: comb test
extra: a test for whether a substance should be considered a male sex hormone
fine-tooth comb test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fine-tooth comb tests
Senses: glosses: Synonym of comb test (“a method of determining racial identity”).
synonyms: word: comb test
extra: a method of determining racial identity
cock's comb tests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cock's comb test
fine-tooth comb tests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fine-tooth comb test
Warhol-esque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Warhol-esque
form: most Warhol-esque
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Warholesque.
Adovasio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Adovasios
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Adovasio.
Senses: examples: James Adovasio, b. 1944
glosses: A surname from Italian.
Dillehay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dillehays
Senses: examples: Tom Dillehay
glosses: A surname.
pale-faced antbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pale-faced antbirds
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pale-faced bare-eye.
synonyms: word: pale-faced bare-eye
pale-faced antbirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pale-faced antbird
Palko tests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Palko test
ABS-CBN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: ABS
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: Initialism of Alto Broadcasting System and Chronicle Broadcasting Network.
blendering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blender
blendered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blender
dongsaeng
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒŋˌsɛŋ/
ipa: /ˈdɔŋˌsɛŋ/
rhymes: -ɒŋsɛŋ
Forms: form: dongsaengs
form: dongseng
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 동생 (dongsaeng, “younger sibling”).
Senses: glosses: A younger sibling (in the context of Korea).
dongsaengs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dongsaeng
dongseng
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dongsengs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dongsaeng.
dongsengs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dongseng
credit management
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
glosses: The process of granting credit, setting the terms on which it is granted, recovering this credit when it is due, and ensuring compliance with company credit policy.
Related terms: credit manager
district manager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: district managers
Senses: topics: business
synonyms: regional manager
glosses: A manager who oversees all sales activity in a district.
days sales outstanding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
synonyms: DSO
coordinate_terms: word: days payable outstanding
word: DPO
glosses: The ratio of the number of accounts receivable to the average number of sales per day, used as an estimate of the number of days needed to collect all accounts receivable.
Myerscough and Bilsborrow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Wyre borough, Lancashire, England, which includes the named places.
Bilsborrow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Myerscough and Bilsborrow parish, Wyre borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD5139).
Sotadic Zone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Sotadic Zone
Etymology: Coined by British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar Richard Francis Burton in 1886.
Senses: examples: text: Within the Sotadic Zone the Vice is popular and endemic, held at the worst to be a mere peccadillo, whilst the races to the North and South of the limits here defined practice it only sporadically amid the opprobrium of their fellows who, as a rule, are physically incapable of performing the operation and look upon it with the liveliest disgust.
ref: 1894, Richard Francis Burton, “Terminal Essay”, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume X, London: H.S. Nichols & Co.:
glosses: A region of the world, approximately defined as a strip of Afroeurasia from the Mediterranean region eastward as well as the entirety of the Americas, in which male homosexuality was supposed to be societally prevalent.
rethreader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rethreaders
Etymology: From rethread + -er.
Senses: glosses: A device for repairing a damaged mechanical thread.
rethreaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rethreader
Slyne-with-Hest
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in City of Lancaster district, Lancashire, England, which includes the villages of Slyne and Hest Bank.
faunula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faunulae
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of faunule.
faunulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faunula
superalgorithm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superalgorithms
Etymology: From super- + algorithm.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: An algorithm made up of lesser algorithms (subalgorithms).
superalgorithms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superalgorithm
subaligned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of subalign
subaligns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of subalign
subaligning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of subalign
Slyne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Slyne-with-Hest parish, City of Lancaster district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4765).
quote retweet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quote retweets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quote tweet.
quote retweet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: quote retweets
form: quote retweeting
form: quote retweeted
form: quote retweeted
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quote tweet.
cheongju
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chungju
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 청주 (cheongju).
Senses: glosses: A rice wine of Korean origin.
chungju
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cheongju.
weapons effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weapons effects
Senses: qualifier: social psychology
glosses: The theory that the mere presence of a weapon or a picture of a weapon leading to more aggressive behavior in humans, particularly if these humans are already aroused.
weapons effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weapons effect
Weissenberg effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Weissenberg effects
Etymology: Named after Karl Weissenberg.
Senses: topics: fluid-dynamics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A phenomenon that occurs when a spinning rod is inserted into a solution of elastic liquid. Instead of being thrown outward, the solution is drawn towards the rod and rises up around it.
wikipedia: Karl Weissenberg
Weissenberg effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Weissenberg effect
Wien effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wien effects
Etymology: Named after Lars Onsager who proposed a theoretical explanation of the phenomenon.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The experimentally-observed increase in ionic mobility or conductivity of electrolytes at very high gradient of electrical potential.
wikipedia: Lars Onsager
Wien effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wien effect
khanly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From khan + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In a sense, minimal segments present too small and undifferentiated a social field for khanly leadership, and the maximal segments encompass too much play for a single coherent game. So it is in the intermediate range that khanly leadership finds its arena, where khans endeavour to mediate or connect the more abstract qoum to the more concrete groupings by bringing various of them together.
ref: 2012, Richard Tapper, Tribe and State in Iran and Afghanistan, page 134:
glosses: Belonging to, characteristic of, or pertaining to a khan.
ahjushi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ahjushis
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ahjussi.
ahjushis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ahjushi
ajushi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ajushis
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ahjussi.
ajushis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ajushi
ajeoshi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ajeoshis
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ahjussi.
ajeoshis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ajeoshi
ajuma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ajumas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ajumma.
ajumas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ajuma
ahjuma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ahjumas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ajumma.
ahjumas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ahjuma
Wigner effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wigner effects
Etymology: Named after Eugene Wigner, who discovered the effect.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The displacement of atoms in a solid, caused by neutron radiation.
wikipedia: Eugene Wigner
Wilson-Bappu effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Olin Chaddock Wilson and Vainu Bappu.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
qualifier: spectroscopy
glosses: The correlation between the measured width of the calcium II K emission line and the absolute visual magnitude of a star.
wikipedia: Olin Chaddock Wilson
Vainu Bappu
alkylants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alkylant
uwaa
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: uwa
form: uwah
form: uwaaa
form: uwaah
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese うわー (uwā).
Senses: topics: comics
literature
manga
media
publishing
glosses: Whoa! Wow! An exclamation of shock.
uwaaa
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of uwaa.
uwaah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of uwaa.
uwah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of uwaa.
paints with a broad brush
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of paint with a broad brush
painting with a broad brush
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of paint with a broad brush
painted with a broad brush
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of paint with a broad brush
practiceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹæktɪsəbəl/
Forms: form: more practiceable
form: most practiceable
Etymology: From practice (verb) + -able.
Senses: examples: text: If any ſhould here expect a more full opening of the nature of ſuch Banks of ſecurity, and other circumſtances relating to the practice thereof, it is not my ſcope to inſiſt thereon at preſent, leaſt the diſcourſe might become too large for men of buſineſſe: It may ſuffice in the mean time that the thing it ſelf plainly appeares to be practiceable, there being nothing in it but what is dayly acted amongſt men: […]
ref: 1644, “A Bank of Lands; or, an Improvement of Lands, never thought on in former Ages: […]”, in Samuel Hartlib His Legacy of Husbandry. Wherein Are Bequeathed to the Common-wealth of England, Not Onely Braband and Flanders, but Also Many More Outlandish and Domestick Experiments and Secrets (of Gabriel Plats and Others) Never Heretofore Divulged in Reference to Universal Husbandry. […], 3rd edition, London: […] J. M. for Richard Wodnothe, […], published 1655, page 296:
text: The immediate objects to be accomplished are, first, to arrest the growth of the tumor, bring it to a stand-still, and thus avoid the disastrous results which attend the attainment of very large size, with its consequent pressure, ruptures, &c. Second, when this is not practiceable, to obliterate the sac or sacs.
ref: 1867, W[illia]m H[eath] Byford, “Ovarian Tumors”, in The Practice of Medicine and Surgery Applied to the Diseases and Accidents Incident to Women, 2nd edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lindsay & Blakiston, page 441:
text: His balloon can be made to travel against contrary winds, and when this is not practiceable, it will tack to and fro like a ship.
ref: 1877 July 19, “A Balloon with Wings and Tail”, in R. M. Birkman, editor, The Indiana Progress, volume VIII, number 28, Indiana, Pa., page [3], column 6:
text: Fordism, by contrast, is oriented toward the achievement of economies of scale in production by the elimination of labor by machinery. This latter approach was never practiceable in Japan because the smaller, more fragmented Japanese markets meant producers were constantly having to vary what they produced and had to settle for smaller lot sizes.
ref: 2000 January, Gary Herrigel, “[Book Reviews] Manufacturing Ideology: Scientific Management in Twentieth-Century Japan. By William M. Tsutsui. […]”, in Roger V. Gould, editor, American Journal of Sociology, volume 105, number 4, Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, →ISSN, page 1214:
glosses: Alternative form of practicable.
clearer cut
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of clear cut: more clear cut
clearer-cut
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of clear-cut: more clear-cut
clearest cut
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of clear cut: most clear cut
clearest-cut
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of clear-cut: most clear-cut
Kwangju
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 광주(光州) (gwangju). Doublet of Gwangju.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Gwangju.
child-abuser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: child-abusers
Senses: examples: text: Twenty-five Indictments Found Against Crowley, the Child-Abuser.
ref: 1880 February 3, “By Telegraph”, in Black Hills Daily Pioneer, volume 3, number 194, Deadwood, Dakota Territory: R. O. Adams, column 2:
text: But they have all held firmly to the fact of future punishment. They have all taught clearly that there will be a future retribution, a future punishment; and, indeed, from the very nature of things, must it not be so? Is it so that, in the future of things, there will be no difference between the seducer, the adulterer, the wife-beater, the child-abuser, the blasphemer, the thief, the social parasite, the moral leper, the man whose influence is only for bad, and the pure man, the woman-respecter, the wife-lover, the child-protector, the honest man, whose influence is only for good, and to whom society points with pride and admiration?
ref: 1881 January 13, Seeker for Truth [pseudonym], “Future Punishment”, in Reno Evening Gazette, volume X, number 77, Reno, Nev.: R. L. Fulton, page [2], column 3:
text: However, if these guys’ moral values were consistent regarding the basic sanctity of life, they wouldn’t keep defunding the social safety nets that protect children after birth. But rather now they crucify poorly resourced young mothers with “failure-to-protect” laws, so women who are “less than” get lengthy terms relative to male child-abusers.
ref: 2022 December 20, Mike Beebe, “[Letters to the Editor] Men keep failing women”, in Monadnock Ledger-Transcript, Peterborough, N.H., page 7, column 6:
glosses: Alternative form of child abuser.
child-abusers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of child-abuser
eonni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eonnis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unnie.
eonnis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eonni
eonnie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eonnies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unnie.
eonnies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eonnie
hyeong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyeongs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hyung.
hyeongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyeong
small bikkies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: small bickies
Senses: examples: text: "The figures quoted of savings made and unpaid tax that could have been paying for public infrastructure is small bikkies compared to what the big corporations are avoiding," wrote in another.
ref: 2019 September 27, Peter Ryan, “ATO ramps up warnings about audits and potential big fines for dodgy tax return claims”, in ABC News:
glosses: Not much money.
promodizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: promodizers
form: promodiser
Etymology: Blend of promotional + merchandiser.
Senses: glosses: a merchandiser who promotes products
GSIS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Government Service Insurance System.
glosses: A sitio in the barangay of San Martin de Porres, Parañaque, Philippines.
silvercraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From silver + craft.
Senses: synonyms: silverware
glosses: Anything manufactured from silver.
goldcraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gold + craft.
Senses: synonyms: goldware
glosses: Anything manufactured from gold.
red egg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red eggs
Etymology: Calque of Tagalog itlog na pula.
Senses: glosses: salted eggs with shells dyed magenta
nonairworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + airworthy.
Senses: examples: text: Ideal ornamentation for his den wall is a real (but nonairworthy) wooden propeller.
ref: 1966 December, Patricia Demarest, “Presents for Pilots”, in Flying Magazine, volume 79, number 6, page 69:
text: By order of the Administrator, this aircraft is declared nonairworthy and is hereby grounded.
ref: 2000, Peter Fusco, Moondog's Academy of the Air and Other Disasters, page 117:
text: Observers do not intervene unless there is an imminent safety issue or if an aircraft would be flown in a nonairworthy condition.
ref: 2017, Steven James Landry, Handbook of Human Factors in Air Transportation Systems, page 83:
text: We had a perfectly good airplane with a nonairworthy, nonrepairable engine.
ref: 2023, Neal V. Loving, Loving's Love: A Black American's Experience in Aviation:
glosses: Not meeting the standards for safe flight; unsafe for use in flight.
examples: text: Reginald Buffet, who served for a time as respondent's superintendent of maintenance, testified that all airworthy items were written in the log, and only nonairworthy items were submitted on a separate piece of paper. He cited as an example of a nonairworthy item the extension of a reclining seat (transcript 552, 553) .
ref: 1962, United States. Civil Aeronautics Board, Economic Decisions of the Civil Aeronautics Board, page 1052:
text: Construction is basically of actual helicopter nonairworthy components with only the minimum electrical system installed as necessary for the operation of the hydraulic and control system .
ref: 1986, United States. Department of the Army, Index and Description of Army Training Devices, pages 3-22:
glosses: Unrelated to airworthiness.
jam up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jams up
form: jamming up
form: jammed up
form: jammed up
Senses: glosses: To cause (something) to become blocked or clogged; to clog up.
examples: text: The traffic jammed up on the boulevard.
glosses: To become blocked or clogged.
glosses: To cause trouble; to stop or inhibit (someone, something).
Derived terms: jammed up
jam-up
nonairy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nonairy
form: most nonairy
Etymology: From non- + airy.
Senses: examples: text: she must use another, nonairy “vessel" to prepare WS for her divine dispensation.
ref: 1979, Geoffrey Aggeler, Anthony Burgess: The Artist as Novelist, page 76:
text: Meaning that is a matter of language and meaning that is a matter of use or context of utterance need to be distinguished in a principled nonairy manner.
ref: 2016, PP Giridhar, “Taprooting translation: Reflections on the epistemology of translation”, in GSTF Journal on Education:
text: The fruits are stored in warm, dark, nonairy enclosures for curing and for increasing the flavor before bringing the fruits to the market.
ref: 2022, Khashti Dasila, Dheeraj Shootha, Mithilesh Singh, “Machilus edulis: An underutilized wild edible fruit species of North-eastern Himalaya, India”, in Tarun Belwal, Indra D. Bhatt, Hari Prasad Devkota, editor, Himalayan Fruits and Berries, page 233:
glosses: Not airy. (any sense)
a world of
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: in a world of trouble
text: in a world of pain
text: in a world of hurt
text: You should go on vacation, it'll do you a world of good.
text: There is a world of difference.
text: But if we start governing or conducting foreign policy by poll, by public opinion poll , we're going to be in a world of hurt.
ref: 1995, United States Air Force Academy, United States Intervention Policy in the Post-cold War World, page 22:
glosses: A lot of, a mountain of.
LRB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: In another LRB review, he had written after reading Martin Amis’s latest, elsewhere feted as a glorious return to form: “I read The Zone of Interest straight through twice from beginning to end and it feels like I’ve read nothing at all.”
ref: 2016 April 9, Philip Oltermann, quoting Michael Hofmann, “Michael Hofmann: ‘English is basically a trap. It’s almost a language for spies’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Initialism of London Review of Books.
icemelts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of icemelt
bioinsecurity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + insecurity.
Senses: glosses: Lack of biosecurity.
Hamilton-Jacobi equation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hamilton-Jacobi equations
Etymology: Named after William Rowan Hamilton and Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi.
Senses: topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: A mathematical formulation of classical mechanics in which the motion of a particle can be represented as a wave.
wikipedia: Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
William Rowan Hamilton
Related terms: Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation
Hen and Chickens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Hen and Chickens
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Hen and Chicken Islands.
Hen and Chicken Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Hen and Chicken Islands
Senses: synonyms: Hen and Chickens
glosses: A group of islands to the east of the North Auckland Peninsula off the coast of northern New Zealand.
sampling tube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sampling tubes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of liquor thief.
synonyms: word: liquor thief
sampling thief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sampling thieves
Senses: glosses: Synonym of liquor thief.
synonyms: word: liquor thief
sampling thieves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sampling thief
sampling tubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sampling tube
serviceware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From service + -ware.
Senses: examples: text: Flatware should not be allowed to dry between presoaking and washing. It should be washed with the handles down and stored with the handles up. Serviceware is most efficiently stored in plastic dishwasher racks […]
ref: 2007, Benjamin W. Pearce, Senior Living Communities, page 118:
text: Material that was not recyclable was sent to landfill. In the case of the compostable serviceware that formed part of the compostable waste stream, a scientific monitoring regime was put in place to determine how effective disposal, by way of a small-scale local composting facility, would be in breaking this waste down.
ref: 2022, Johnny Allen, Robert Harris, Leo Jago, Festival & Special Event Management, Essentials Edition, page 296:
synonyms: serveware
servingware
glosses: The utensils used for serving food.
examples: text: A component is simply a reusable software executable. Our serviceware clearly includes the software itself, but in addition has many nonfunctional attributes, such as a cost and payment, trust, brand allegiance, legal status and redress, and security.
ref: 2002, Marvin Zelkowitz, Advances in Computers, page 46:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Products and services taken collectively.
Indian spotted creeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Indian spotted creepers
Senses: glosses: A small passerine bird of the species Salpornis spilonota.
African spotted creeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: African spotted creepers
Senses: glosses: A small passerine bird of the species Salpornis salvadori.
Indian spotted creepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Indian spotted creeper
African spotted creepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of African spotted creeper
breyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of brey
breys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of brey
breying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of brey
acqui-hire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: acqui-hires
form: acqui-hiring
form: acqui-hired
form: acqui-hired
Senses: examples: text: While the money is supposed to make up for it, I’ve heard about many acqui-hired engineers across Silicon Valley who are just biding their time until they are fully vested and then plan to strike out on their own again.
ref: 2015, Laszlo Bock, Work Rules!, Twelve, →ISBN, page 57:
glosses: Alternative form of acquihire.
acqui-hire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acqui-hires
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of acquihire.
bull denim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bull denims
Senses: glosses: A form of denim made from 100% cotton, with three warps for every weft, often used for upholstery.
bull denims
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bull denim
acqhired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of acqhire
acqhiring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of acqhire
acqui-hires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acqui-hire
protos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proto
vararg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: varargs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Any of the arguments to a variadic function.
varargs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vararg
green laver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: aonori
green sloke
parae
sea cabbage
glosses: Edible green seaweed, including species from the genera Monostroma and Ulva.
parae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Korean 파래 (parae).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of green laver.
synonyms: word: green laver
porae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Maori [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A marine ray-finned fish of species Nemadactylus douglasii, found around Australia and New Zealand.
jhana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jhanas
Senses: examples: text: The first time I heard about the jhanas, they sounded too good to be true. These special mental states are described in the sacred texts of an ancient school of Buddhism.
ref: 2024 March 4, Ross Andersen, “The Meditation Start-Up That’s Selling Bliss on Demand”, in The Atlantic:
topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Alternative spelling of dhyana.
jhanas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jhana
Tulipano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tulipanos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Tulipano.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
paraelectrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paraelectric.
seed case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seed cases
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of seedcase.
Série A
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛɾii ˈa/
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
synonyms: Brasileirão
glosses: the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (the highest division of professional football in Brazil)