cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
walk on broken glass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: walks on broken glass
form: walking on broken glass
form: walked on broken glass
form: walked on broken glass
form: walk across broken glass
form: crawl on broken glass
form: crawl across broken glass
Senses: examples: text: “We’ve got a lot of players not playing domestic football week in, week out. What is it? Is it the crest on their chest that makes them raise their game? It must be. It’s playing for Wales. It’s powerful and everybody would walk on broken glass to get into this squad. Credit goes to the players.”
ref: 2021 June 16, Ben Fisher, “Robert Page hails Gareth Bale’s courage after captain drives Wales to victory”, in The Guardian:
text: Trump won’t succeed, as his successive losses of the House, Senate, presidency and last week’s midterm results show. Too many Americans would crawl on broken glass to vote against him, no matter who his general election opponent may be. They have seen enough.
ref: 2022 November 15, George T. Conway III, “Trump is out for vengeance — and to protect himself from prosecution”, in The Washington Post:
synonyms: bend over backwards
go to great lengths
go to the ends of the earth
move heaven and earth
glosses: To do everything possible to achieve something, even if it involves great risk or discomfort.
Related terms: walk on eggshells
woodkern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʊdkɝn/
ipa: /ˈwʊdkɜːn/
Forms: form: woodkerns
Etymology: From wood + kern. Calque of Irish ceithearn choille.
Senses: glosses: In medieval Ireland, a bandit operating in the forest.
saw the light of day
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of see the light of day
Tintagel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /tɪnˈtædʒəl/
Etymology: From Cornish or Norman French; an alternative name, Trevena, is Cornish.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish on the north coast of Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX0588). The remains of Tintagel Castle are near the village.
genderfae
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gender + fae, presumably from the stereotypical depiction of fairies as feminine or genderless.
Senses: examples: text: Kang identifies as a nonbinary/genderfae human and uses they and them pronouns.
ref: 2021, Carol Morris, "Hants West Green Party candidate hopes to alleviate causes of stress if elected", The Valley Journal Advertiser (Hants County, Nova Scotia), 29 June 2021 (link)
text: Bristow also claims to be a ‘genderfae female person’.
ref: 2021 July 19, Jo Bartosch, “The Greens: torn apart by trans mania”, in Spiked:
text: For River, a pansexual genderfae non-binary trans woman in her thirties, receiving gender affirmation from her best friend had not only helped her recover mentally, but had also allowed her to be physically safe at a time when her religious community and family of origin had rejected her.
ref: 2022, Elisabeth Dromer, Olivier Ferlatte, Trevor Goodyear, David J. Kinitz, & Travis Salway, "Overcoming Conversion Therapy: A Qualitative Investigation of Experiences of Survivors", SSM - Qualitative Research in Health, Volume 2, December 2022 (link)
glosses: Having a genderfluidity that does not include male or masculine gender identities or presentations.
Tumblrs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tumblr
hoveredst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of hover
bottlefeedings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bottlefeeding
alamsoa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Alamosi
Senses: examples: Do you want a alamosa?
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glosses: A cactus tasting drink with marshmallows.
schematochromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schematochrome
schematochrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schematochromes
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Structurally produced colour.
topsentins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of topsentin
silicifiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silicifier
silicifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silicifiers
Etymology: From silicify + -er.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A living organism that builds structures from silica.
multigait
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + gait.
Senses: topics: biology
computing
engineering
mathematics
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
robotics
sciences
glosses: Having multiple gaits to adapt to the environment.
Tasexit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Tasmania + exit. Modeled after Brexit and Grexit.
Senses: examples: text: Ahead of the state's upcoming election, the Liberal government has pledged to pull Tasmania's pricing structure from the National Electricity Market if it is elected as part of its 'Tasmania First' policy, in a move being dubbed 'Tasexit'.
ref: 2018 February 5, Cole Latimer, “Tasmania wants to leave the national grid as part of 'Tasexit'”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:
text: The 'Tasexit' is part of the Liberal Government's Tasmania First philosophy where local generators would not be given full freedom to sell electricity generated in Tasmania to other states.
ref: 2018 February 7, Mike Carabott, “Tasmania's Liberal Government will pull out of National Energy Market if re-elected”, in Leading Edge Energy:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The secession or expulsion of the state of Tasmania from Australia or another Australian Government initiative.
Synonyms: Texit
Coordinate terms: Quexit
Waxit
Related terms: Brexit
Frexit
Grexit
Quexit
Texit
Wexit
Capexit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Cape + exit. Modeled after Brexit and Grexit.
Senses: examples: text: CapeXit needs the support of 1.6 million people to request a referendum with the SA government in order to start the process of independence.
ref: 2021, Erene Roux, "The CapeXit mission: Can this be Brexit for the Western Cape?", The South African, 31 May 2021
topics: government
politics
glosses: The secession of Western Cape (as well as sometimes Eastern Cape and Northern Cape) from South Africa.
with privilege
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Calque of Latin cum privilegio (“with legal permission, with legal authority”).
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: used to indicate a book has been legally published or is entitled to special privileges, e.g., due to a royal monopoly
Synonyms: cum privilegio
C.P.
CP
sinarquista
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sinarquistas
Etymology: From Spanish sinarquista.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A member of Mexico's National Synarchist Union.
pretty-prints
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pretty-print
pretty-printing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pretty-print
pretty-printed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pretty-print
unapocopated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + apocopated.
Senses: glosses: Not apocopated.
Wycliffist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wycliffists
Etymology: From Wycliffe + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Wycliffite.
synonyms: word: Wycliffite
Wycliffists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wycliffist
Wycliffism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Wycliffe + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The religious beliefs of the Wycliffites.
wrist-fall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wrist-falls
Senses: glosses: A deep ruffle of various materials, usually lace, falling from the wrist.
wrist-falls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wrist-fall
witlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: witlets
Etymology: From wit + -let.
Senses: glosses: A minor or petty wit.
witlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of witlet
witmonger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: witmongers
Etymology: From wit + monger.
Senses: glosses: One who attempts to be witty.
witmongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of witmonger
Wikeno
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Wuikinuxv.
wasir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wasirs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vizier.
wasirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wasir
nonrecess
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + recess.
Senses: glosses: Not being or relating to a recess.
lamister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lamisters
Senses: glosses: A person who is on the run from law enforcement.
lamisters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lamister
pseudoleukopenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + leukopenia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Transiently low leukocyte count (WBC count) that does not represent leukopenia despite that it would seem to if interpreted in isolation (as opposed to the following of trends over serial measurements).
Coordinate terms: pseudoerythrocytosis
pseudoleukocytosis
pseudolymphocytosis
pseudoneutropenia
pseudothrombocytopenia
pseudolymphocytosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + lymphocytosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Transiently high lymphocyte count that does not represent lymphocytosis despite that it would seem to if interpreted in isolation (as opposed to the following of trends over serial measurements).
Coordinate terms: pseudoerythrocytosis
pseudoleukocytosis
pseudoleukopenia
pseudoneutropenia
pseudothrombocytopenia
lichwake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lichwakes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lich-wake.
lichwakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lichwake
liney
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more liney
form: most liney
form: liny
Etymology: From line + -y.
Senses: examples: text: […] there is a want of clearness; and the pattern may have a "liney" effect.
ref: 1891, Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, volume 39, page 908:
text: To obviate spottiness we may insist upon the lines of the design, for a liney thing cannot well be spotty; […]
ref: 1895, Richard George Hatton, A Text Book of Elementary Design, page 114:
glosses: Resembling or characterised by lines.
lobulose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lobulose
form: most lobulose
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lobulous.
pseudomoniasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From translingual Pseudomonas + -iasis.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Pseudomonas infection: a bacterial infection caused by any of various species of the genus Pseudomonas. Such infections occur in various host animals, especially certain fish; in humans immunodeficiency is typically a predisposing factor.
Synonyms: pseudomonosis
lobulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lobulous
form: most lobulous
Senses: glosses: Shaped like a lobule.
glosses: Having lobules.
pseudomonosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From translingual Pseudomonas + -osis.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pseudomoniasis.
synonyms: word: pseudomoniasis
pseudoerythrocytosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + erythrocytosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Transiently high erythrocyte count (RBC count) that does not represent erythrocytosis despite that it would seem to if interpreted in isolation (out of clinical context, ignoring hemoconcentration). Also called relative erythrocytosis, relative polycythemia, or Gaisböck syndrome.
Coordinate terms: pseudoleukocytosis
pseudoleukopenia
pseudolymphocytosis
pseudoneutropenia
pseudothrombocytopenia
manglement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of mangle + management.
Senses: topics: business
glosses: Incompetent senior management.
topics: business
glosses: The harmful or destructive effects of incompetent senior management.
subboset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subbosets
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A subset of a biordered set.
phytoabsorption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Absorption by plants.
decaketides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decaketide
decaketide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decaketides
Etymology: From deca- + ketide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A decameric ketide.
neededly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more neededly
form: most neededly
Etymology: From needed + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: If all this seems like a vaporings of a diseased imagination, too monstrous and too improbably for belief, only see how the ascending series of events, as steps in a stairway from basement to top story, mounts up, one after another, in neededly progressive order, from the outset toward the purposed summit of the conspiracy.
ref: 1888, Oliver Morell Babcock, The New Conspiracy!, H. Bailey & Company, page 6:
text: What it all amounted to, at any rate, was that Mrs. Assingham would be keeping him quiet now, while his wife and his father-in-law carried out their own little frugal picnic; quite moreover, doubtless, not much less neededly in respect to the members of the circle that were with them there than in respect to the pair they were missing almost for the first time.
ref: 1904, Henry James, The Golden Bowl, Methuen Publishing, →ISBN, page 114:
text: Let us call a reduction P self-neededly fair if no redex in a term of P has a P-needed P-erased residual in every subsequent term.
ref: 1996, Michael Hanus, Algebraic and Logic Programming, Springer, page 146:
antonyms: unneededly
glosses: In a needed manner; necessarily.
unneededly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unneededly
form: most unneededly
Etymology: From un- + neededly or unneeded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Adoption of such a tax reform would only increase the long run excess burden unneededly.
ref: 1988, Finances Publiques, volume 43, H.J. Paris, page 179:
text: "We could have just stayed back home and not had to worry with it." Philip pointed out unneededly.
ref: 2013, Jennifer Kane, Death on the Beach, Lulu.com, →ISBN:
text: […] no tables this time, and I'm typing that unneededly to help memory because that way of doing it came to mind, interesting, but I don't want to ruin quickly established flow too much.
ref: 2017, O. H. Owhens, Bipolar Words Word Madness Healing Words, Lulu.com, →ISBN:
synonyms: needlessly
unnecessarily
glosses: In an unneeded manner; not neededly.
alkalonic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: bacteriology
biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
glosses: A tricyclic ketide carboxylic acid made by bacteria as an intermediate in the production of aklaviketone and doxorubicin.
ahurikens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ahuriken
ahuriken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ahurikens
Senses: glosses: Ninja throwing knife.
vPFC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vPFCs
Senses: topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of ventricular prefrontal cortex.
ctenodactyloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ctenodactyloids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the Ctenodactyloidea superfamily of rodents.
neopulmonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neo- + pulmonic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to the new lung part of the bird respiratory system.
there goes the neighbourhood
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: British standard spelling of there goes the neighborhood.
Chancel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chancels
Senses: glosses: A surname
Chancels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Chancel
anislactone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æktəʊn
Forms: form: anislactones
Etymology: anis + lactone, coined by Y Fukuyama, JM Huang
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A sesquiterpenoid lactone derived from Illicium merrillianum.
BSHS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BSHSs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Bachelor of Science in health science.
BSHSs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BSHS
Pooh sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Poohsticks (less common)
plushcap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plushcaps
Senses: glosses: A bird of the species Catamblyrhynchus diadema, native to the Andes.
Gurdaspur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a city and district in the Indian state of Punjab.
Derived terms: Gurdaspur District
General Government
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the General Government
form: General Governorate
Etymology: Calque of German Generalgouvernement. Strictly a mistranslation, because German Gouvernement (at least in this context) means governorate, not government.
Senses: glosses: an occupation zone established by Nazi Germany in parts of Poland (including areas that are now part of Ukraine)
wrenthrush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wrenthrushes
Etymology: From wren + thrush.
Senses: glosses: A bird of the species Zeledonia coronata, native to certain montane forests of Costa Rica and Panama.
casing bead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: casing beads
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A decorative trim or moulding used to help in forming the edges and corners of stucco and plasterwork.
casing beads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of casing bead
phenethylamides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phenethylamide
entify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: entifies
form: entifying
form: entified
form: entified
Senses: examples: text: The man unnerved me, but his nonsensical rambling became a sort of entertaining white-noise sound track to everything that I pretended or perhaps hoped would entify, cystallize, or coalesce at some point into something vaguely useful or at least coherent, however shapeless.
ref: 2009, Percival Everett, I Am Not Sidney Poitier, Influx Press, page 151:
glosses: To make into an entity, attribute objective existence to.
phenethylamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenethylamides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A derivative of phenethylamine and a carboxylic acid.
call sheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of call sheet
art-houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of art-house
Dannies
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Danny
Danielles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Danielle
Danielas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Daniela
Daniellas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Daniella
Gemmas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gemma
barber pole effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barber pole effect
parking place
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parking places
Senses: glosses: Synonym of parking space.
synonyms: word: parking space
parking places
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parking place
top-line
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: top-lines
form: top-lining
form: top-lined
form: top-lined
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of topline.
Maliseet–Passamaquoddy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Maliseet + Passamaquoddy.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Malecite-Passamaquoddy.
Maliseet-Passamaquoddy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Maliseet + Passamaquoddy.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Malecite-Passamaquoddy.
Kazipet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city within Warangal Tri-City, Telangana, India.
Wardha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and district in Maharashtra, India.
Manmad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Nashik district, Maharashtra, India.
Wadi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Kalaburagi district, Karnataka, India.
glosses: A city in Nagpur district, Maharashtra, India.
Vijayawada
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bezawada
form: Bezwada
Etymology: Borrowed from Telugu విజయవాడ (vijayavāḍa).
Senses: glosses: A city in NTR district, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Bezawada
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bezwada
Senses: glosses: Former name of Vijayawada, India.
Bezwada
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: One, from Wadi Junction, on the G.I.P. Bombay-Madras line, to Bezwada, on the M.S.M. Madras-Calcutta coast line, provides the shortest route between Bombay and the East Coast, and taps en route the cities of Hyderabad, Secunderabad, and Kazipet; […].
ref: 1945 November and December, “Notes and News: The Railways of Hyderabad”, in Railway Magazine, page 360:
glosses: Alternative form of Bezawada, the former name of Vijayawada, India.
RUQ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: LLQ
LUQ
RLQ
glosses: Initialism of right upper quadrant (of the human abdomen).
LLQ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: LUQ
RLQ
RUQ
glosses: Initialism of left lower quadrant (of the human abdomen).
LUQ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: LLQ
RLQ
RUQ
glosses: Initialism of left upper quadrant (of the human abdomen).
Singareni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Khammam district, Telangana, India.
seductour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seductours
Senses: examples: text: […] anon he gat certeyn of the Iuwes / whiche dyd repyne & ſpeake agaynſt the doctryne of ye Apoſtels accuſing them to be ſeductours & deceyuers, […]
ref: 1534 June 15, [Joachim Vadian; William Turner, transl.], A Worke Entytled of yᵉ Olde God & the Newe of the Olde Faythe & the Newe, of the Olde Doctryne and yᵉ Newe / or Orygynall Begynnynge of Idolatrye, London: […] Iohan Byddell, […] [for William Marshall]:
text: For they ſhall reporte him to be a glotton, a wynebybber, a frende of Publicãs & ſinners, one that caſteth out diuelles by yᵉ helpe of Beelzebull prynce of the dyuels, a Samaritane, one poſſeſſed withe a diuell, one all togyther ſet a maddinge, a ſeductour and deceyuer of the people, […]
ref: [1541?], Theodore Basille [pen name; Thomas Beccon], Newes out of Heauen Both Pleasaunt & Ioyfull, Lately Set Forth to the Great Cõsolacion & Cõforte of All Christen Mẽ, London: [J. Mayler for J. Gough?]:
text: […] if Paſtours turne Impoſtours, if Doctours Seductours, if Prelates Pilates, if Miniſters of Chriſt ſervants of Antichriſt, either by ſilence to give way, or by ſmoothing Romiſh tenets to make way for Popery; […]
ref: 1636, Daniel Featley, Clavis Mystica: A Key Opening Divers Difficult and Mysterious Texts of Holy Scripture; Handled in Seventy Sermons, Preached at Solemn and Most Celebrious Assemblies, upon Speciall Occasions, in England and France, London: […] R[obert] Y[oung] for Nicolas Bourne, […], page 121:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of seductor.
seductours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seductour
Selsey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English sēolh (“seal”), genitive singular sēoles + īeġ (“island”).
Senses: glosses: A coastal town and civil parish with a town council in Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SZ8593).
Milgram
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Yiddish מילגרוים (milgroym, “pomegranate”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Yiddish
Derived terms: Milgram experiment
Timmis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Laurentian Hills
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality in Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada, formed in 2000.
Rintoul
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
airport malaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airport malarias
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: baggage malaria
luggage malaria
suitcase malaria
glosses: Malaria caused by an infected female Anopheles mosquito that is transported by aircraft from a malaria-endemic country to a country where malaria is usually not found, potentially biting local residents without a history of recent travel.
H.I.V.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Although the World Health Organization does not recommend the combination, the United Nations agency does recommend each measure separately — cotrimoxazole for H.I.V. in Africa and bed nets to prevent malaria in infected areas.
ref: 2007 March 1, Lawrence K. Altman, “Project Curbs Malaria in Ugandan Group”, in The New York Times:
topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
related: word: HIV
glosses: Initialism of human immunodeficiency virus.
skylands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skyland
synthetic intelligence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synthetic intelligences
Senses: examples: text: Man will be able to accelerate the rate of progress in every field when electronic synthetic intelligence is readily available to supplement the intellectual abilities of man's natural brain.
ref: 1967, Robert W. Prehoda, Designing the Future: The Role of Technological Forecasting, Chilton:
text: Perhaps Artificial Intelligence should be called “Synthetic Intelligence” to accord better with commercial parlance. Thus artificial diamonds are fake imitations, whereas synthetic diamonds are genuine diamonds, only manufactured instead of dug up (compare also artificial maple flavoring versus, say, synthetic insulin).
ref: [1985, John Haugeland, Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 255:
glosses: Synonym of artificial intelligence.
synonyms: word: artificial intelligence
examples: text: Like the fictional sleuth Sherlock Holmes, people with synthetic intelligence recognize the significance of small bits of information and are able to connect them in ways that no one else could imagine.
ref: 2000, Steven Lattimore McShane, Brownstone Research Group, Canadian Organizational Behaviour, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 331:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see synthetic, intelligence.
illimitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: illimitudes
Senses: examples: text: […] And round the domed illimitude of heaven, / My soul has revelled with the fleeting clouds; […]
ref: 1884, William Reid, Romance of Song or The Muse in Many Moods, London: David Bogue, […], page 128:
text: When we think of the vastness of the universe, spread forth in the infinite abysm of what we call space, itself immeasurable, and of the illimitudes of time through which its history extends, and attempt to conceive of a Being whose mysterious presence fills all, so that no atomic part or increment is without him; whose presence and power touch all, and always; […]
ref: 1897, Randolph S[inks] Foster, God: Nature and Attributes (Studies in Theology; V), New York, N.Y.: Eaton & Mains; Cincinnati, Ohio: Curts & Jennings, page 127:
text: […] From which extending thitherward / Unto Time’s remotest bounds / Where the great Sea of Illimitude / Eternally resounds
ref: 1911, Brewer Mattocks, Ad Tiberim or The Fall of the Gracchi: An Epic Ballad of the Roman Republic:
text: […] And the winds from the 'skylands brought / Over the illimitudes, a thought:— / A thought I could not understand, / That earth lay shadowed ’neath God’s hand.
ref: 1913, John Gould Fletcher, The Book of Nature, 1910-1912, London: Constable and Company Ltd, page 44:
text: He withdraws—to the illimitude of the arm-chair.
ref: 1919 December, Abydos, “Mr. George Moore Abdicates”, in Austin Harrison, editor, The English Review, London, page 490:
text: Accordingly, if the ego exists in itself, it must have an existence different from the self whose image is given in perception, which must be infinitely far from the substantial ego, which is confined by the phenomenal construction of the body so that it may be instructed in its own illimitude, and self-consciousness must advance in the manner of an infinitesimal calculus whereby the self, the bodily image, proportionately recedes.
ref: 1950, Marjorie L. Burke, Origin of History as Metaphysic, New York, N.Y.: Philosophical Library, pages 14–15:
glosses: Something without limits; immensity or boundlessness.
illimitudes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of illimitude
spermageddon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Spermageddon.
subcuticularly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a subcuticular manner.
extracuticularly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In an extracuticular manner.
intracuticularly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In an intracuticular manner.
epicuticularly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In an epicuticular manner.
cake lifter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cake lifters
Senses: glosses: A large circular or trowel-shaped utensil with a handle, for separating a cake from the tray it was baked on.
cake lifters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cake lifter
sick office syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Sick building syndrome occurring in an office or office block.
rings off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ring off
ringing off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ring off
open evangelicalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: An approach that attempts to uphold evangelical doctrines, morality, and spirituality while also being inclusive of others.
Related terms: open evangelical
open evangelical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: open evangelicals
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A person who takes the approach of open evangelicalism.
open evangelicals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of open evangelical
gun grabber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gun grabbers
Senses: examples: text: Although his adversaries in the gun industry might characterize Ricker as a "gun grabber," or a total abolitionist of gun rights, the portrayal is far from accurate. In fact, he is a gun owner and a hunter.
ref: 2006, Arnold Grossman, One Nation Under Guns: An Essay on an American Epidemic, page 114:
text: And once the gun grabbers know who has the guns, then they know where to send the police to confiscate them; just like the Nazis did in 1930s Germany and New York City did with gun bans.
ref: 2018, Mark W. Smith, #Duped: How the Anti-gun Lobby Exploits the Parkland School Shooting—and How Gun Owners Can Fight Back:
glosses: A person in favour of gun control who wishes to confiscate the firearms of private citizens.
gun grabbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gun grabber
Fock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname
Derived terms: Fock matrix
Fock operator
Fock space
Fock state
Hartree-Fock method
intelligent designist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intelligent designists
Etymology: From intelligent design + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Although Intelligent Design has its share of scientific supporters, most remain resolute that I.D. is at best pseudo-science. Critics contend that the evidence upon which intelligent designists base most of their assumptions—for example, that the biblical Great Flood carved the Grand Canyon—is nothing more than faulty logic with footnotes.
ref: 2002 April, Steve Jacoby, “Designer Creation: Should a New Theory Be Taught in Public School?”, in Cincinnati, volume 35, number 7, →ISSN, page 18:
synonyms: IDist
IDer
designist
glosses: A proponent of intelligent design.
Derived terms: designist
intelligent designists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intelligent designist
Ider
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Uncertain, possibly a variation of the name Ida.
Senses: glosses: A town in DeKalb County, Alabama, United States.
wikipedia: Encyclopedia of Alabama
husbandland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: husbandlands
Senses: examples: text: The complexity of a man’s relationship to lord and neighbour is well illustrated by a grant of land at Dilston in Northumberland to Geoffrey de Cokeside 1339. He received a husbandland (probably of 25 acres) to hold at will for 30s. yearly, a more or less economic rent.
ref: 1988, Edward Miller, “Social Structure: Northern England”, in H. E. Hallam, editor, The Agrarian History of England and Wales, volumes 2, 1042–1350, →ISBN, page 698:
glosses: The landholding of a husbandman, that is, a manorial tenant.
examples: text: ‘Coldlands’ of c 1715 can be traced as the ‘Cald Lands’, a six-husbandland unit in 1596 (Milne Home, no 371). These 6 husbandlands (156 acres in theory) are very nearly identical with the 157 measured acres of the survey.
ref: 2001, J. Donnelly, “In the territory of Auchencrow: long continuity or late development in early Scottish field-systems?”, in Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, volume 130, page 760:
glosses: A unit of land corresponding to a single farmstead; around 26 acres.
husbandlands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of husbandland
meetee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meetees
Etymology: From meet + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: There are also established examples of this type: is a meetee the object or the subject of the meeting, i.e., can the meetee also be the meeter?
ref: 2010, Susanne Muehleisen, Heterogeneity in Word-formation Patterns, page 39:
text: […] being five minutes earlier than his judgement of when whoever he was meeting would arrive, which could have become confusing for the meeter if the meetee had twigged to the tactic and adjusted his timepiece by another five minutes.
ref: 2018, Ian Burns, Messing With Your Mind, page 283:
glosses: A person who is met.
meetees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meetee
industrial designer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: industrial designers
Senses: glosses: Someone who specializes in industrial design.
industrial designers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of industrial designer
Berkson's paradox
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Originally described by Joseph Berkson.
Senses: topics: mathematics
probability
sciences
statistics
synonyms: Berkson's bias
Berkson's fallacy
collider bias
glosses: A counterintuitive result arising in statistical tests of proportions when there is an ascertainment bias inherent in a study design.
wikipedia: Joseph Berkson
Berkson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname
Derived terms: Berkson's bias
Berkson's fallacy
Berkson's paradox
AGABs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of AGAB
actualizability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: actualizabilities
Senses: glosses: The quality of being actualizable.
actualizabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of actualizability
reactualizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From reactualize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be reactualized.
transmetalating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of transmetalate
transmetalate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: transmetalates
form: transmetalating
form: transmetalated
form: transmetalated
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of transmetallate.
transmetalated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of transmetalate
crackling microstar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crackling microstars
Senses: qualifier: pyrotechnics
glosses: A kind of firework which first burns for a period for a visual effect and then loudly deflagrates
Synonyms: dragon egg
dragon's egg
crackling microstars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crackling microstar
Middleton-on-Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Recorded as Middletone in 1086 (DB), the affix was added in 1934.
Senses: glosses: A suburban village and civil parish in Arun district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU9700).
microstars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microstar
microstar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microstars
Senses: topics: engineering
nanotechnology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: pyrotechnics
glosses: A tiny star shaped object.
Derived terms: crackling microstar
Bisu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mBisu
form: Mbisu
Senses: glosses: a Loloish language of Thailand and China
mBisu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mbisu.
Mbisu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Bisu proper as opposed to Laomian.
high falution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Here the candidate has a chance of expounding his sentiments, if he have a taste for public speaking; and here he may deliver himself of as much "high falution" and "spread-eagleism" as he thinks proper, or as his audience will tolerate.
ref: 1867, Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 101:
text: […]suffered to accumulate on their hands until the last moment, in consequence of their over indulgence in buncombe, spread-eagleism, high falution, and tall talk.
ref: 1873, The St. James's Magazine and United Empire Review, Volume 12:
text: […]"high falution" with which the medical profession impresses the public, not with treatment but rather with high sounding, ambiguous and profound medical[…]
ref: 1958, Current Medicine for Attorneys:
glosses: act of behaving in a highfalutin manner.
Synonyms: highfalutinism
hydroxysulfosuccinimide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroxysulfosuccinimides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydroxy derivative of sulfosuccinimide, often N-hydroxysulfosuccinimide.
azanides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of azanide
bisacylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Having two acyl functional group; modified by addition of two acyl groups.
Bonfield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bonfields
Etymology: English and Irish habitational surname of Norman origin, from an altered form of any of three places in France called Bonneville.
Senses: glosses: A habitational surname from Norman.
glosses: A placename, from the surname:
A township in Nipissing District, north-east Ontario, Canada, named after James Bonfield.
glosses: A placename, from the surname:
A village in Kankakee County, Illinois, United States, named after Thomas Bonfield.
thruppeny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of threepenny.
fauxthentic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfəʊˈθɛn.tɪk/
ipa: /ˌfoʊˈθɛn.tɪk/
Etymology: Blend of faux + authentic.
Senses: examples: text: Yet it begs the question as to whether the authenticity of Southern food should be so closely guarded that Ruby's, a restaurant that clearly follows the spirit and many of the ingredients of Southern food, would be labeled “fake” or “fauxthentic.”
ref: 2016, Ashli Quesinberry Stokes, Wendy Atkins-Sayre, Consuming Identity: The Role of Food in Redefining the South:
synonyms: fake
phoney
glosses: Nonauthentic, but made to appear so; falsely authentic.
go hostile
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes hostile
form: going hostile
form: went hostile
form: gone hostile
Senses: examples: text: Microsoft may go hostile in its bid for Yahoo as soon as Friday, according to a published report.
ref: 2008, Jessica Mintz, “Report: Microsoft-Yahoo deal may go hostile today”, in ABC News:
topics: business
glosses: To engage in a hostile takeover of another company.
parallelohedrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parallelohedra
Senses: glosses: plural of parallelohedron
orelline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A yellow pigment derived from Bixa orellana with IUPAC name 3-hydroxy-2-(3-hydroxy-4-oxo-1H-pyridin-2-yl)-1H-pyridin-4-one.
Shoalhaven
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A local government area in south-east New South Wales, Australia; in full, the City of Shoalhaven.
qamancha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qamanchas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kamancheh.
expand one's wings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: expands one's wings
form: expanding one's wings
form: expanded one's wings
form: expanded one's wings
Senses: glosses: Synonym of spread one's wings.
synonyms: word: spread one's wings
cinemaholic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cinemaholics
Etymology: From cinema + -holic.
Senses: examples: text: He said elsewhere that he had really wished to become a priest “so that I'd be saved.” He eventually wound up “finding a vocation in movies with the same kind of passion.”²⁴ This wasn't too difficult since he was a cinemaholic since youth.
ref: 2010, Aubrey Malone, Sacred Profanity: Spirituality at the Movies, Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, →ISBN, page 198:
synonyms: cineast
cinemaphile
cinephile
filmaholic
movieholic
glosses: A movie enthusiast.
antiwoke
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiwoke
form: most antiwoke
form: anti-woke
Etymology: From anti- + woke.
Senses: examples: text: Now a classic Disney movie is part of the fake antiwoke, anti–critical race theory activism because too many White people cannot stand the fact that a Black mermaid will grace the big screen.
ref: 2023, Omekongo Dibinga, Lies about Black People […] , Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, pages 27–28:
glosses: Against things that are woke in the social justice sense.
sweem
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sweems
form: sweeming
form: sweemed
form: sweemed
Etymology: From Middle English swemen, from Old English *swǣman, from Proto-West Germanic *swaimijan, from Proto-Germanic *swaimijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sweh₁- (“to move, sway”). Cognate with Scots sweem, soom (“to spin at high speed; float”), Icelandic sveima (“to float, hover; wander, roam”).
Senses: glosses: to swoon, faint; be giddy
sweem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweems
Etymology: From Middle English swemen, from Old English *swǣman, from Proto-West Germanic *swaimijan, from Proto-Germanic *swaimijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sweh₁- (“to move, sway”). Cognate with Scots sweem, soom (“to spin at high speed; float”), Icelandic sveima (“to float, hover; wander, roam”).
Senses: glosses: a swoon, fainting; a state of giddiness or faintness
Derived terms: sweemy
sweemish
Related terms: sway
sweam
swim
zoom
lukongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lukong
political-economic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more political-economic
form: most political-economic
Etymology: From political + economic.
Senses: examples: text: But, as Marx was later to remark, “the anatomy of civil society is political economy,” and thus a radical critique of human alienation required the development of a political-economic critique as well.
ref: 1979, Stephen K. Levine, “Marxist Anthropology and the Critique of Everyday Life”, in Stanley Diamond, editor, Toward a Marxist Anthropology: Problems and Perspectives, →ISBN, page 13:
text: Political economy must begin with a recognition of the inherently conflictual nature of international relations. The nation is, as early mercantilists held, the key unit of political-economic analysis.
ref: 1997, “Classical Mercantilism”, in George T. Crane, Abla Amawi, editors, The Theoretical Evolution of International Political Economy: A Reader, 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 36:
text: […] it is necessary for political economists who wish to be similarly critical to be self-conscious of their method of theorizing as much as they are self-conscious of their political-economic theory and its concepts so that those concepts, and even the theory itself, do not become static but instead remain perpetually critical.
ref: 2016, Brice Nixon, “Critical Political Economy of Communication and the Problem of Method”, in Christian Fuchs, Vincent Mosco, editors, Marx and the Political Economy of the Media, →ISBN, page 262:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or influenced by political economy.
synonyms: politico-economic
qualifier: sum of parts
glosses: Political and economic.
super gonorrhoea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of super gonorrhea.
super gonorrhea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Basically, when we say ‘super gonorrhea’ we mean ‘gonorrhea superbug’. These are extensively drug-resistant gonorrhea with high-level resistance to the current recommended treatment for gonorrhea (ceftriaxone and azithromycin) including resistance to penicillin, sulphonamides, tetracycline, fluoroquinolones, macrolides.
ref: “What's 'Super' about Super Gonorrhea?: A Q&A with WHO's Dr. Teodora Wi”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), WHO, (Can we date this quote?)
text: Lee, Bruce Y. (20 June 2022), “New Super Gonorrhea Strain Detected, Causes Sexually Transmitted Infection In Austrian Man”, in Forbes: “Speaking of naughty, you don’t catch super gonorrhea just by going to your local hardware store.”
glosses: A strain of gonorrhea that is resistant to many antibiotics
Hypernyms: superbug
alabastrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alabastron
lydions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lydion
kothons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kothon
kothon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kothons
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κώθων (kṓthōn).
Senses: glosses: An Ancient Greek cosmetic container with folded-over rim.
Synonyms: plemochoe
exaleiptron
Blomkamp
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Blomkamps
Etymology: From Dutch Blomkamp.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch, equivalent to English Bloomfield
Related terms: Blomenkamp
make it one's life
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes it one's life
form: making it one's life
form: made it one's life
form: made it one's life
Senses: examples: text: If I catch you smoking on the job again, I will make it my life to get you fired.
glosses: To dedicate effort to a task, often at great cost.