cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
necessitudinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From necessitude + -in- + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Wherever, in this architecture, forms can legitimately break loose from mere construction, wherever composition stands free of mere necessitudinous building, the expression towards which it strains with all the force of well-tutored simplicity is the manifestation of the Classical.
ref: 1908, The Georgian Period:
text: I believe every Princeton man, on graduation, absconds with something or other as a memento; it may be some extraneous signs, or an eleemosynary book from the Library, or necessitudinous laundry boxes.
ref: 1947, Princeton Alumni Weekly, volume 48, page 147:
glosses: Characterized by or a result of necessity.
Furness Vale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Whaley Bridge parish, High Peak borough, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK0083).
woolsedge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woolsedgees
Etymology: From wool + sedge.
Senses: synonyms: woolgrass
glosses: Any of several species of Scirpus related to Scirpus cyperinus with perianth bristles giving a wooly appearance.
Dove Holes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Celtic dwfr (water) (Modern Welsh dŵr).
Senses: glosses: A village in Chapel-en-le-Frith parish, High Peak borough, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK0778).
riverian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more riverian
form: most riverian
Senses: examples: text: This riverian environment, as in other places, played a prominent role in the development of the states.
ref: 1992, Okon Edet Uya, The African Diaspora and the Black Experience in New World Slavery:
text: The people of northern riverian Sudan continue to participate in the dramatic changes that have swept the Region in the twentieth century, including war and conquest, changes in labour opportunities both locally and abroad, […]
ref: 2002, Abida Samiuddin, Muslim Feminism and Feminist Movement: Namibia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, West Africa, Yugoslavia:
text: Slave institutions, however, were more effective among riverian Muslim societies of the Northern Sudan than among others such as the Fur.
ref: 2005, A. Idris, Conflict and Politics of Identity in Sudan, page 27:
text: While various resources, developed plans, and scattered parcels of land along the riverian corridor were acquired, there was no stable funding for facility development (St. Louis County, 2003).
ref: 2006, Richard Rosenfeld, Hidden Assets: Connecting the Past to the Future of St. Louis, page 177:
text: As far as other parts of the Sudan, including Darfur, were concerned, they were simply handed over to riverian Sudan to oversee the destruction of their cultures.
ref: 2009, Salah M. Hassan, Darfur and the Crisis of Governance in Sudan: A Critical Reader:
text: In the Sudan, people generally refer to religious men who teach the Qur'an and other Islamic knowledge as fuqarâ, whether in Darfur, Kordofan, the riverian or eastern Sudan.
ref: 2017, Bakheit M. Nur Mohammed, The Religious Men in Jebel Marra: The Process of Learning and the Performance of Islamic Rituals and Practices:
glosses: Pertaining to a river.
pig-sick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pig-sick
form: most pig-sick
Senses: glosses: Utterly sick of something; entirely fed up; used with of.
Buxworth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Respelt from Bugsworth 1930; recorded as Buggisworth 1275, from Old English Bucga's Worth (Bucga's enclosure).
Senses: glosses: A village in Chinley, Buxworth and Brownside parish, High Peak borough, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK0282).
cork tipped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: describing an early type of cigarette tip
Related terms: cork tip
Mine Kaffir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: mine-kaffir
Etymology: The language is associated with black miners in South Africa. They came from many parts of Africa and may not have spoken any of the major languages of South Africa.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Fanagalo.
synonyms: word: Fanagalo
toshery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: nonsense; rubbish; tosh
Compstall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SJ9690).
Graun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: That the Graun's effort is part of a coordinated new offensive in that department is pretty conclusively illustrated by […]
ref: 2017, Martin Gitlin, When Is Free Speech Hate Speech?, page 134:
topics: journalism
media
newspapers
glosses: Clipping of Grauniad (“The Guardian newspaper”).
Chorlton-cum-Hardy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chorlton
form: Hardy
form: Chorlton with Hardy
Etymology: Distinguishing this Chorlton from others, particularly nearby Chorlton-on-Medlock. English cum is a borrowing of Latin cum (“with”) and Hardy was a nearby settlement gradually absorbed by Chorlton.
Senses: glosses: A suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Manchester, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SJ8193).
Derived terms: Chorlton Park
Pride Month
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The month of June, declared for LGBT pride in commemoration of the Stonewall riots of June 1969.
Synonyms: Gay Pride Month
LGBT Pride Month
Related terms: Pride Day
Wrath Month
Gay Pride Month
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Pride Month.
synonyms: word: Pride Month
LGBT Pride Month
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Pride Month.
synonyms: word: Pride Month
Pride Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: June 28, declared for LGBT pride, as it is the anniversary of the Stonewall riots of 1969.
Synonyms: Gay Pride Day
LGBT Pride Day
Related terms: Pride Month
Gay Pride Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Pride Day.
synonyms: word: Pride Day
LGBT Pride Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Pride Day.
synonyms: word: Pride Day
bee farm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bee farms
form: beefarm
Senses: glosses: A farm of bees.
Related terms: bee farming
bee farming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beefarming
Senses: glosses: Farming of bees.
Related terms: bee farm
bee farms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bee farm
Whatstandwell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Walter Stonewell, who had a house there.
Senses: glosses: A village in Crich parish, Amber Valley district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3354).
Tchukuchak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Tchukuchak.
glosses: Alternative spelling of Chuguchak: (dated) A county-level city of the Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Lanchow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: länʹjōʹ
Etymology: Postal romanization of Mandarin 蘭州／兰州 (Lánzhōu)
Senses: examples: text: THERE is only one way in which open competition could be established once more in the interior markets which are accessible to Russia. That would be by constructing a railway into Kansu Province, either by completing the present branch line from the Pekin-Hankow line through Shensi, or by continuing the Pekin-Suiyuan line, which now stops at the Yellow River, up past Ninghsia to Lanchow.
ref: 1928, Owen Lattimore, “The Danger Line in the Far East”, in North American Review, volume 226, New York, page 492:
text: Lanchow, the provincial capital, has been for centuries known as an important crossing place on the Yellow River which flows through the city. Both railway and road bridges have now been built across the river. These bridges add considerably to the beauty of the landscape around Lanchow.
With convenient access to communications and sources of coal, water power and animal products, Lanchow has excellent prospects for the development of heavy and light industries.
ref: 1964, 任育地 [Jen Yu-ti], 中国地理概述 [A Concise Geography of China], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, page 198:
english: A Concise Geography of China
translation: A Concise Geography of China
text: Trade caravans traveled from Kuldja to distant Peking, passing through Urumchi [Tihwa] and Lanchow [Kaolan].
ref: 1966 [1957], Михаил Иосифович Сладковский, “Border Trade and Commercial Relations Between Russia and China from the Middle fo the 18th to the Middle of the 19th Centuries”, in M. Roublev, transl., edited by G. Grause, History of Economic Relations Between Russia and China [Ocherki Ekonomicheskikh Othosnenii SSSR c Kitaem], Jerusalem: Israel Program for Scientific Translations, →OCLC, page 65:
english: Ocherki Ekonomicheskikh Othosnenii SSSR c Kitaem
translation: Ocherki Ekonomicheskikh Othosnenii SSSR c Kitaem
text: An aluminum reduction plant was inaugurated in November, 1959, at Lanchow in Kansu Province, but its future development is unclear in view of failure to complete the planned low-cost sources of hydroelectric power on the Yellow River.
ref: 1972, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, page 70:
text: Lanchow near the source of the Yellow River and just below the Great Walls was described as a congested center of railroad transportation.
ref: 1973 September 2, L. Chen, “Another Lin Piao incident?”, in Free China Weekly, volume XIV, number 34, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:
text: By the time they reached Lanchow, the Golden City, the caravan had settled into the formation it would take for the rest of the journey.
ref: 2014, Dana Stabenow, Everything Under the Heavens, Portland, Oregon: Gere Donovan Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 113:
glosses: Dated form of Lanzhou.
wikipedia: Encyclopædia Britannica
Postal romanization
cumsha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cumshas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cumshaw.
compulsory heterosexuality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In none of these books, which concern themselves with mothering, sex roles, relationships, and societal prescriptions for women, is compulsory heterosexuality ever examined as an institution powerfully affecting all these; or the idea of "preference" or "innate orientation" even indirectly questioned.
ref: 1980 Summer, Adrienne Rich, “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence”, in Signs, volume 5, number 4, →DOI, page 633:
text: How could I have missed this milestone of compulsory heterosexuality? Who would teach my daughter whatever girls with fathers learned on these dates and dances, like how to wait for doors to be opened or hold a fork like an unmistakable catch?
ref: 2019 April 26, Asha French, “A ‘Daddy-Daughter Date,’ Queer Single Mom-Style”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
topics: feminism
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
synonyms: comphet
glosses: The idea that heterosexuality is often assumed and forced upon individuals regardless of their own sexual orientation by a patriarchal and heteronormative society.
Darley Dale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK2763).
Related terms: South Darley
coname
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: conames
form: conaming
form: conamed
form: conamed
Etymology: From co- + name.
Senses: glosses: To give (something) a secondary name.
coname
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conames
Etymology: From co- + name.
Senses: glosses: A secondary name.
conames
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coname
conames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coname
conaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coname
conamed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coname
comphet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒmpˌhɛt/
ipa: /ˈkɑmpˌhɛt/
rhymes: -ɒmphɛt
Forms: form: comp-het
form: comp het
Senses: examples: text: Because heterosexuality is, by and large, presented as the only acceptable sexuality to have, comp het assumes that one might choose heterosexuality by default, even if one is not strictly hetero, in order to escape such punishment.
ref: 2019 June 3, Anna Pulley, “Ask Anna: Am I really attracted to men, or just responding to heteronormativity?”, in Chicago Tribune:
topics: feminism
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of compulsory heterosexuality.
comp-het
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of comphet.
comp het
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of comphet.
backfoots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of backfoot
backfooting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of backfoot
backfooted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of backfoot
Monsal Dale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A valley in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK1771).
Great Longstone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK2071).
Related terms: Little Longstone
I'll pass
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: No thank you: used when asked whether one wants or needs something, etc.
kigu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kigu
form: kigus
Senses: glosses: Clipping of kigurumi.
Samp
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Samps
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Samp. It could also be a hypocoristic form of the personal name Samson.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
plasma therapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of convalescent plasma therapy (“treatment of an infectious disease using convalescent plasma”).
Related terms: convalescent plasma
antiserum therapy
serum therapy
Oildale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States.
Ridgecrest
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Kern County, California, United States.
Shafter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A city in Kern County, California.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Fayette County, Illinois.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Linn County, Missouri.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A ghost town in Presidio County, Texas.
Tehachapi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Kawaiisu tihačipía, from tihaa (“hard”) + čipii- (“to climb”).
Senses: glosses: A city in Kern County, California, United States.
glosses: Synonym of Kawaiisu (“a Uto-Aztecan language”).
synonyms: word: Kawaiisu
extra: a Uto-Aztecan language
glosses: A mountain range in California, United States, separating the Central Valley from the Mojave Desert, part of the Transverse Ranges.
Related terms: Tehachapi Mountains
Tehachapi Pass
California City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Kern County, California, United States.
McFarland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McFarlands
Etymology: Variant of McFarlane.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
glosses: A city in Kern County, California, United States; formerly, Hunt and Lone Pine.
glosses: A village in Dane County, Wisconsin, United States.
Golden Hills
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States.
Greenacres
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States.
glosses: An eastern suburb of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD9405).
Bear Valley Springs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States.
Ford City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States.
Lake Isabella
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States.
Frazier Park
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States.
Weedpatch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States.
Stallion Springs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States.
Lost Hills
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States.
Pine Mountain Club
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States.
Wofford Heights
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States.
South Taft
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States.
Edwards AFB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States.
Bodfish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States.
Taft Heights
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States.
China Lake Acres
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States.
Buttonwillow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States.
Lebec
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States.
Kernville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States.
Inyokern
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Inyo + Kern, referring to the location near the border with Inyo County.
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States.
North Edwards
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States.
Fuller Acres
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States, formerly named Hilltop.
Mountain Mesa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States.
Dustin Acres
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States.
Squirrel Mountain Valley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States.
Valley Acres
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States.
Smith Corner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States.
Derby Acres
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States.
Mexican Colony
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛk.sɪ.kənˈkɑləniː/
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States.
Edmundson Acres
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States.
Cherokee Strip
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States.
Tupman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States.
Randsburg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States.
Black History Month
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Black History Month was first proposed in the United States by black educators and the Black United Students at Kent State University in February 1969. The first celebration of Black History Month took place at Kent State one year later, from January 2, 1970 – February 28, 1970.
Senses: glosses: An annual observance of the history of the African diaspora, held in the United States and Canada throughout the month of February, and throughout October in some European countries.
wikipedia: Kent State University
Synonyms: word: African American History Month
Related terms: Negro History Week
African American History Month
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Black History Month.
synonyms: word: Black History Month
Negro History Week
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: First declared in 1926 by by historian Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. This week was chosen because it coincided with the birthday of Abraham Lincoln on February 12 and of Frederick Douglass on February 14, both of which dates black communities had celebrated together since the late 19th century.
Senses: glosses: The second week of February, declared for observance of the history of the African diaspora in the United States. Celebrated until the foundation of Black History Month in the 1970s.
wikipedia: Abraham Lincoln
Association for the Study of Negro Life and History
Frederick Douglass
plainclothesperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plainclothespersons
form: plainclothespeople
Etymology: From plainclothes + -person.
Senses: glosses: A police officer (especially a detective) of any gender who wears civilian clothes when on duty.
result noun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: result nouns
Etymology: From result + noun.
Senses: glosses: A noun denoting the result of the verb or verbal root from which it is derived.
Related terms: action noun
agent noun
NYCL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɛl
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Initialism of New York Consolidated Laws.
TPF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TPFs
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of tibial plateau fracture.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of triphenylformazan.
TPF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Tactical Patrol Force or Tactical Police Force.
glosses: Initialism of Transaction Processing Facility.
glosses: Initialism of Terrestrial Planet Finder.
TPFs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TPF
race lift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: race lifts
Etymology: Modeled on face lift.
Senses: examples: text: Characters who are ethnic minorities in original works are recast as Caucasians in adaptations so frequently that the phenomenon has its own nickname: it’s called a race lift.
ref: 2014, Richard Rosenbaum, Raise Some Shell: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, →ISBN, page 26:
text: But here's what gets me: They did do a "race lift" of a martial arts-oriented character. They took Elektra Natchios, who, if you couldn't tell from her name, is supposed to be Greek, and cast the French-Cambodian actress Elodie Yung to play her.
ref: 2016 April 1, Arthur Chu, “Not your Asian ninja: How the Marvel Cinematic Universe keeps failing Asian-Americans”, in The Daily Beast:
text: 2017 Rangers' "gritty" teaser trailer sees five stroppy teenagers (all smooth enough to have come from the High School Musical set) glower at one another in clothes most of us probably can't afford (styled to look almost-crap), get CGI powersuits, and fight a villain that's had a Hollywood "race-lift" for no reason other than I-don't-know.
ref: 2017 March 17, Phoebe-Jane Boyd, “Imagine if all our childhood TV favourites went 'dark and gritty'”, in The Guardian, Opinion:
text: No, I'm not just jumping on the bandwagon in the wake of Marvel Comics' announcement of a black Captain America and a female Thor—although if there were ever a politically opportune moment to give the Hulk a Race Lift, this is it.
ref: 2018 July 18, Arthur Chu, “Model minority rage: Why the Hulk should be an Asian guy”, in The Daily Beast:
glosses: The changing of the race of a character, protagonist, etc., in a work of art, literature, etc.
race lift
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: race lifts
form: race lifting
form: race lifted
form: race lifted
Etymology: Modeled on face lift.
Senses: examples: text: The movie industry has supposedly cleaned up this particularly shameful act, but it has been replaced by a subtler form of race-lifting: rather than hiring actors of the same ethnicity to play non-Caucasian characters, Hollywood often simply changes the ethnicity of the characters themselves. Instead of hiring a black actor to play Othello, you just make Othello white.
ref: 2011 November 14, Steve Rose, “G2: Bend it like Heathcliff: An Afro-Caribbean Heathcliff, a Caucasian anime hero and an all-black take on Tennessee Williams”, in The Guardian, page 6:
text: "This is not the first instance of race lifting in Hollywood. In the past, Idris Elba has played the Norse God Heimdall. Will Smith's character from I am Legend was originally white, as was Shawshank Redemption's Red (played by Morgan Freeman)," says movie buff Vinu S
ref: 2012 April 22, Prathibha Joy, “Row over Samuel L Jackson's portrayal”, in The Times of India:
glosses: To change the race of a fictional character.
race lifts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of race lift
race lifts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of race lift
game set
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Calque of Japanese ゲームセット (gēmu setto), derived from English game, set, match.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: game over
NMSQT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -iː
Senses: glosses: Initialism of National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.
Synonyms: PSAT
PSAT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iː
Forms: form: PSATs
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of phosphoserine transaminase.
glosses: Initialism of pop-up satellite archival tag.
PSAT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -iː
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Preliminary SAT.
glosses: Initialism of Palm Springs Aerial Tramway.
Synonyms: sense: Preliminary SAT
word: NMSQT
PSATs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PSAT
grid-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grid-ins
Etymology: From grid + in.
Senses: topics: education
glosses: A mathematical question on a test in which the answer must be placed on a grid that is preprinted on the answer sheet.
grid-ins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grid-in
answer sheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: answer sheets
Senses: examples: text: You must write your name at the top of each answer sheet.
topics: education
glosses: A sheet of paper supplemental to an assessment onto which the answers to the questions must be written.
glosses: Synonym of cheat sheet.
synonyms: word: cheat sheet
Related terms: answer key
answer sheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of answer sheet
NMSC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of nonmelanoma skin cancer.
NMSC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of National Merit Scholarship Corporation.
glosses: Initialism of National Marine Science Centre.
neutral section
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neutral sections
Senses: examples: text: When a driver approaches a neutral section separating sections of 25 kV. and 15 kV. overhead catenary, he trips the main circuit-breaker but keeps his pantographs up; as soon as the next section of live wire is reached, he re-sets his contact-breaker, whereupon voltage-sensitive relays automatically make appropriate connections to the auxiliary circuits.
ref: 1960 March, “Silicon Rectifiers for a French dual-frequency Bo-Bo locomotive”, in Trains Illustrated, page 166:
topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A dead section of overhead line for supplying power to trains between two live sections, used to separate two power supplies, different phases and supply voltages.
Related terms: dead section
neutral sections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neutral section
reticense
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reticenses
Senses: examples: text: It must not be numbered among the obliviscences and reticenses of the candid reader, that this man, who had been [...] declared by the head of the Church of Christ, in a public instrument for the instruction and direction of all the faithful, that he was a man of very unsound doctrine, and guilty of many outrages against the holy see, should have been selected and appointed the sole plenipotentiary, delegate, and commissioner, on the part of the Church of Rome, to effect the desirable object of her reunion with the Church of England.
ref: 1824, Francis Plowden, “Of Tithes and Other Church Property”, in Human Subordination: Being an Elementary Disquisition Concerning the Civil and Spiritual Power and Authority, […], Paris; London: […] W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, […], →OCLC, page 125:
text: Oh! M. de Vieux, this elixir, and the gallows, will suit you … that you may know what it is to enjoy … / He was going to continue, or to be silent, after these reticenses, but Kant interrupted one or both of these things, [...]
ref: 1852, Adadus Calpe [pseudonym; Antonio Diodoro de Pascual], chapter III, in Antonio Diodoro de Pascual, Henry Edgar, transl., The Two Fathers. […] Part First: The Ruins of the Paraclete, New York, N.Y.: Stringer & Townsend, […], →OCLC, page 35:
text: The greatest egotist has his reticenses. It is only during the sessions of sweet silent thought that a man can summon his soul to judgment.
ref: 1896 May 2, Elbert Hubbard, “The Study”, in The Journal of Koheleth: Being a Reprint of the Book of Ecclesiastes with an Essay […], East Aurora, N.Y.: The Roycroft Printing Shop, →OCLC, page XX:
text: That is why I regret that my arguments have not convinced many scholars, as shown by the reticenses of some here present.
ref: 1970, Armando Cortesão, Pizzigano’s Chart of 1424 (Revista da Universidade de Coimbra; XXIV; Série Separatas (Agrupamento de Estudos de Cartografia Antiga (Portugal)); 40), Coimbra, Portugal: Junta de Investigações do Ultramar-Lisboa, →OCLC, page 19:
text: The honour of a household is inextricably linked to the reputation of the women who live there [...]. This reputation is sealed by their public display of shame, as manifest in a reticense towards appearing in public places.
ref: 2002, Jon P. Mitchell, Ambivalent Europeans: Ritual, Memory and the Public Sphere in Malta, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 68:
glosses: Archaic spelling of reticence.
reticense
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reticenses
form: reticensing
form: reticensed
form: reticensed
Senses: examples: text: [Percy Bysshe] Shelley, a true vates, was called upon by their divine influence to render some choice passages from this very Faust, which, from confessed inability, [Francis Leveson-]Gower had left unattempted in his precious version, and some which from other motives he had purposely reticensed.
ref: 1833 May, “Hayward’s Translation of Goethe’s “Faust””, in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, volume VII, number XLI, London: James Fraser […], →OCLC, page 532, column 1:
glosses: Archaic spelling of reticence.
reticenses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of reticences; plural of reticense.
reticenses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It required the blandishments and even the threats of the magistrate, to induce him to repeat his story; and then it came so involved and disfigured by innumerable reticenses and circumlocutions; he made such a sad jumble of it that no doubt remained in the magistrate's mind, and but little in the boy's own partisans', that the whole tale was an illgot-up fabrication, [...]
ref: 1845 November, L. Mariotti, “Morello; or, The Organ Boy’s Progress”, in W[illiam] Harrison Ainsworth, editor, The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, volume LXXV, number CCXCIX, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, chapter IX (Morello at Bow-Street), page 312:
text: [T]he endeavour to cloak the gubernatorial derelictions of duty, [...] is defeated as much by the revelations of the publication under review, as by its reticenses.
ref: 1853, “Art. III.—Selections from the Records of the Bengal Government—No. IX. Report on the Teak Forests of the Tenasserim Provinces. By H. Falconer, […] Calcutta, 1852. [book review]”, in The Calcutta Review, volume XXI, number XLI, Calcutta: […] Sanders, Cones & Co., […], →OCLC, page 155:
text: A Spanish novel writer who cannot be accused of undue sex reticenses is Vicente Blasco Ibanez, [...]
ref: 1923 May, “The Pornographic Spanish Novel”, in The Urologic and Cutaneous Review, volume XXVII, number 5, St. Louis, Mo.: Urologic and Cutaneous Press, →OCLC, page 325, column 2:
glosses: Archaic spelling of reticences.
reticenses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reticense; archaic spelling of reticences.
reticensed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reticense; archaic spelling of reticenced.
Albon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Albons
form: Alban
form: Albans
form: Albone
form: Albones
form: Albons
form: Allbon
form: Allbons
form: Allbone
form: Allbones
form: Alabon
form: Alabons
form: Alabone
form: Alabones
form: Allebon
form: Allebons
form: Allebone
form: Allebones
form: Alliban
form: Allibans
form: Allibon
form: Allibons
form: Allibone
form: Allibones
form: Aubon
form: Aubons
Etymology: From Latin Albanus.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Middle English. (a variant of Albone)
glosses: A commune in Drôme department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
Related terms: alban
Ansusinha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ansusinhas
Etymology: Transliteration from Thai อังศุสิงห์ (ang-sù-sǐng).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Thai.
Semley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Sedgehill and Semley parish, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST8926).
Sedgehill and Semley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in south-west Wiltshire, England.
Sedgehill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Sedgehill and Semley parish, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST8628).
reticenced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reticensed
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reticence
Kelowna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈloʊnə/
Etymology: From Okanagan kiʔláwnaʔ (“male grizzly bear”).
Senses: glosses: A city in British Columbia, Canada, headquarters of the Regional District of Central Okanagan.
rotodyne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rotodynes
Etymology: From roto- + -dyne.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An aircraft that has both wings and rotors
ten-cent word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ten-cent words
Senses: examples: text: One important note: Exchanging a ten-cent word (“chew”) for a ten-dollar synonym (“masticate”) is NOT the point here. Overly fancy words are just that—overly fancy.
ref: 2013, Boris Fishman, The Creative Writer, Level Three: Building Your Craft, Peace Hill Press, →ISBN:
antonyms: five-dollar word
ten-dollar word
twenty-five cent word
glosses: A short and common word used in place of a longer and more uncommon one.
turbosail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turbosails
Senses: glosses: A ship that uses rotating vertical cylinders instead of sails
Hnat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hnats
Etymology: Borrowed from Czech Hnát.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Hnat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the East Slavic given name, Ukrainian Гнат (Hnat) or Belarusian Ігнат (Ihnat).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Ukrainian male given name Гнат (Hnat).
hop picker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hop pickers
Senses: examples: text: Several parties of hop-pickers joined the train at the intermediate stations, and the guard performed the acrobatic feat of walking along the footboards of the coaches to examine tickets, while the train was in motion.
ref: 1947 May and June, “Notes and News: The Kent & East Sussex Railway Today”, in Railway Magazine, page 182:
text: Immediately beyond Churn Lane the climb begins at 1 in 78, steepening to 1 in 66. Speed soon falls and a number of heavy hop-pickers' specials have come to grief here.
ref: 1960 March, H. P. White, “The Hawkhurst branch of the Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 170:
glosses: A person employed to pick hops in the hop-picking season.
hop pickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hop picker
Judayah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Respelling of Judea, from Latin Iudaea, from Ancient Greek Ἰουδαία (Ioudaía), from Biblical Biblical Hebrew יְהוּדָה (yehudá).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin, variant of Judea.
waiting maid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waiting maids
Senses: examples: text: As she was sometimes obliged to be alone, or only with her French waiting-maid, she sent to the metropolis for all the new publications […].
ref: 1788, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary: A Fiction:
synonyms: maid-in-waiting
glosses: A lady's female servant.
Related terms: lady-in-waiting
waiter's knife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waiter's knives
form: waiters' knives
Senses: glosses: Synonym of waiter's friend.
synonyms: word: waiter's friend
figure away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: figures away
form: figuring away
form: figured away
form: figured away
Senses: examples: text: Dr. King […] came in, & figured away to his own satisfaction before Mr. Garrick.
ref: 1771, Frances Burney, Journals:
text: [S]he still expected to recover, and figure away in the gay world.
ref: 1788, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary: A Fiction:
glosses: To make an impression; to show off.
figured away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of figure away
Teise
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The line is now well into the Wealden hills. Running along the Teise valley, the slopes of which are covered in hop gardens, it falls at gradients of 1 in 106 and 213 to Goudhurst, 6⅜ miles out, [...].
ref: 1960 March, H. P. White, “The Hawkhurst branch of the Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 172:
glosses: A river which is a tributary of the River Medway in Kent, England.
antisexuals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antisexual
PR China
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of People's Republic of China.
tenterground
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tentergrounds
Etymology: From tenter + ground.
Senses: glosses: An area used for drying newly manufactured cloth after fulling.
tentergrounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenterground
Etchingham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Rother district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ7126).
Twa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Batwa
Senses: glosses: Any of several pygmy tribes of sub-Saharan Africa, or a member of one of those tribes.
Batwa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Twa.
synonyms: word: Twa
Flimwell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Ticehurst parish, Rother district, East Sussex, England (OS TQ7131).
Ticehurst
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ticehursts
Etymology: From an unknown first element + Old English hyrst (“wood”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Rother district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ6930).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Wadhurst
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A market town and civil parish in Wealden district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ6431).
police work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: policework
Etymology: From police + work.
Senses: examples: text: The complement will consist of 290 persons, and these cruisers should prove valuable additions to our service, especially in the line of police-work—the peace time duty of most of our ships not assigned for manœuvres.
ref: 1899, Carl Schurz, George Brinton McClellan Harvey, George William Curtis, Henry Loomis Nelson, Henry Mills Alden, John Bonner, John Foord, John Kendrick Bangs, Montgomery Schuyler, Norman Hapgood, Richard Harding Davis, Samuel Stillman Conant (editors), Harper's Weekly, page 1090:
text: Many who are unfamiliar with real police work little realize the extent to which police science has developed.
ref: 1927, National Probation Association (U.S.), Annual Report and Proceedings of the Annual Conference, Volume 21, page 243:
text: All the ordinary developments in telecommunications can be applied to police work.
ref: 1951, Anthony K. Martienssen, Crime and the Police, page 96:
text: White officers were more likely to select skilled or other protective service positions (such as fireman) as a preferred employment at the time they entered police work.
ref: 1967, Albert J. Reiss, Donald J. Black, Studies in Crime and Law Enforcement in Major Metropolitan Areas: Patterns of Behavior in Police and Citizen Transactions, page 16:
text: Many puzzling aspects of police work fall into place when one ceases to look at it as primarily concerned with law enforcement and crime control, and only incidentally and and often incongruously concerned with an infinite variety of other matters.
ref: 1980, Susan Ehrlich Martin, Breaking and Entering, Policewomen on Patrol, page 81:
text: As a result, there exists little or no transparency in police work at the station house level.
ref: 1999, James Vadackumchery, Indian Police and Equal Justice Under Law, page 160:
text: That's not a bad motto for police work overall, he thought. A vain and arbitrary search for a needle in a haystack, that's exactly what it always seemed to be like.
ref: 2012, Håkan Nesser, Münster's Case, An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery:
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: Work performed by police; the investigation of criminal activities.
Santa Ana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsæntə ˈænə/
ipa: [ˌsænə ˈænə]
note: Spanish speakers, mispronunciation
ipa: /sanˈta.na/
ipa: /ˌsanta ˈʔana/
Senses: glosses: Places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Orange County, California, United States.
glosses: Places in the United States:
A river in southern California, United States.
glosses: A canton in Manabí province, Ecuador.
glosses: Places in El Salvador:
A department of El Salvador.
glosses: Places in El Salvador:
A city in El Salvador.
glosses: Places in the Philippines
glosses: Places in the Philippines:
A district of Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines.
glosses: Ellipsis of Santa Ana wind
Related terms: Binondo
Ermita
Intramuros
Malate
Paco
Pandacan
Port Area
Quiapo
Sampaloc
San Andres
San Miguel
San Nicolas
Santa Cruz
Santa Mesa
Tondo
Opata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An indigenous people of northern Sonora.
Opata
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The language of the Opata people.
prepuceless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prepuceless
form: most prepuceless
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore , a prepuceless penis is in the opinion of all Jews and Mohammedans, and even of many Christians , quite as beautiful as one with its full ornamental appendix, therefore the operation cannot by any means be termed a "mutilation," and lastly, there is no reason to reject it
ref: 1917, R.H. Andrews, The Medical Summary: A Monthly Journal of Practical Medicine, New Preparations, Volume 39, page 154:
text: You should have been a boy should have been a boy should have been a boy , how dare you not have masculine attributes — a prepuceless penis , forelocks and a yarmulke ?
ref: 2002, Nancy Huston, Dolce Agonia, page 104:
text: To stray beyond your own yard was to risk assault and humiliation – Polish louts loved nothing better than pulling down Jewish trousers and mocking a prepuceless penis – but once inside the gates you were safeguarded and never alone.
ref: 2019, Norman Lebrecht, The Song of Names, page 73:
glosses: Lacking a prepuce.
time loop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time loops
Etymology: From time + loop.
Senses: examples: text: Edge Of Tomorrow, Doug Liman’s click-clacky sci-fi take on Groundhog Day, stars Tom Cruise as a smarmy press flack who gets stuck in a time loop during an alien invasion.
ref: 2014 June 5, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “Edge Of Tomorrow puts Tom Cruise through an action-packed Groundhog Day”, in AV Club:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A hypothetical or fictional instance of characters living through a set period of time repeatedly until the loop can be broken.
Related terms: closed time loop
Groundhog Day
time loops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of time loop
save someone's face
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: saves someone's face
form: saving someone's face
form: saved someone's face
form: saved someone's face
Senses: glosses: to preserve someone's pride, especially as defined by customary social settings.
Related terms: save face
Epaphroditus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Epaphrodītus, from Ancient Greek Ἐπαφρόδιτος (Epaphróditos), from ἐπι- (epi-) + Ἀφρόδιτος (Aphróditos).
Senses: examples: text: Yet I supposed it necessary to send you to Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labor, and fellowsoldiar, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants.
ref: 1611, The Bible: Authorized King James Version with Apocrypha, Robert Carroll, Stephen Prickett, eds., Oxford, 1997
glosses: A male given name from Latin or Ancient Greek.
devil's candle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: devil's candles
Senses: examples: text: Deadly nightshade, henbane, hellebore and mandrakes were of evil reputation; the latter being called the "Devil's Candles," as they were supposed to shine out with baleful gleams upon dark nights.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 157:
glosses: The plant mandrake, especially when used in black magic.
devil's candles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of devil's candle
witches' bells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Foxgloves were called "Witches Bells", and were used by them for love philtres.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 157:
glosses: The plant foxglove.