cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
biological life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biological lives
Senses: glosses: Synonym of life cycle.
synonyms: word: life cycle
examples: text: Life emerges as chemical life (branched proteins) that yields biological life (branched protein protocells).
ref: 2005, Joseph Seckbach, Julian Chela-Flores, Tobias Owen, Life in the Universe, page 357:
text: It is claimed that human biological life is only a bonum utile — it is not valuable in itself but only as a means to or as a precondition of the actualization of human achievements that are valuble in themselves. Where the human biological life is of a kind that is lacking in the capacity for such intrinsically valuable achievement, it lacks even instrumental value.
ref: 2014, John Kleinig, Valuing Life, page 140:
text: If indeed any composite things exist, so the claim goes,then these are living organisms—such as my rubber plant and myself—due to the strong unity of biological life which makes each organism preciesely one rather than many.
ref: 2020, Anne Sophie Meincke, John Dupré, Biological Identity:
text: Biological life is neither matter (by itself) nor Universal Information (by itself) but both matter and information are necessary for biological life.
ref: 2023, Werner Gitt, Information: The Key to Life, page 168:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see biological, life.
biological lives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biological life
lifeman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From life + man.
Senses: glosses: One who practices lifemanship.
glosses: One who attempts to seek an advantage or edge over another person.
Derived terms: lifemanship
found family
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: found families
Senses: synonyms: family of choice
chosen family
kith and kin
antonyms: biological family
glosses: A non-biologically related group of people who provide ongoing social support to one another, in the same way that family members might support one another.
found families
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of found family
Kitimat-Stikine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A regional district in north-west British Columbia, Canada.
life-giver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: life-givers
Etymology: life + giver
Senses: glosses: One who gives life, especially a deity.
Related terms: life-giving
more grease to your elbow
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Based on more power to your elbow, replacing power with grease from the term elbow grease.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of more power to your elbow.
synonyms: word: more power to your elbow
give life to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives life to
form: giving life to
form: gave life to
form: given life to
Senses: glosses: To render something into active use; to provide an impetus to something.
life-givers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of life-giver
barley-broths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barley-broth
live well
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: live wells
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of livewell.
live wells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of live well
de-oligarchisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: These questions shift the perspective from destruction ("fight" against corruption, de-oligarchisation, punishment and control) to construction (institutional design, generation and communication of interests, raising bottom-up social movements and political parties, creating open-access order). They can open new discussions, generate new ideas and disrupt the hopeless discourse of political corruption in Ukraine.
ref: 2018, Oksana Huss, “Corruption, Crisis, and Change: Use and Misuse of an Empty Signifier”, in Erica Resende, Dovilė Budrytė, Didiem Buhari-Gulmez, editors, Crisis & Change in Post-Cold War Global Politics: Ukraine in a Comparative Perspective, Cham, Zug, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature, →DOI, →ISBN, part II (Crisis and Social Change: Ukraine in Comparative Perspective), page 122:
text: De-oligarchisation depends on the de-politicisation of specific state institutions, the effective fighting against corruption, and the de-monopolisation of the media and key economic sectors. This will determine the success of the modernisation and building-up of democratic institutions in these countries.
ref: 2018, Wojciech Konończuk, Denis Cenușă, Kornely Kakachia, “Oligarchs as Key Obstacles to Reform”, in Michael Emerson, Denis Cenușă, Tamara Kovziridze, Veronika Movchan, editors, The Struggle for Good Governance in Eastern Europe, London: Rowman & Littlefield International [for the Centre for European Policy Studies], →ISBN, page 84:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of deoligarchization.
wallbangable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wallbangable
form: most wallbangable
Etymology: From wallbang + -able.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: Capable of letting bullets go through.
pin-dropping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pin-dropping
form: most pin-dropping
Senses: glosses: extremely quiet; silent.
examples: After she said "Silence," a pin-dropping silence flew through the room.
glosses: so quiet one could hear a pin drop
wetlease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wetleases
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wet lease.
Pine Point
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A ghost town in South Slave Region, Northwest Territories, Canada.
glosses: A coastal landform in Marin County, California, United States.
glosses: A township and census-designated place therein, in Becker County, Minnesota, United States.
glosses: A coastal locality in Yorke Peninsula council area, South Australia.
dirty minded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dirty minded
form: most dirty minded
form: dirty-minded
Senses: synonyms: green-minded
glosses: Tending to think in a sexualized manner.
Derived terms: dirty-mindedness
Related terms: sex-mad
mind in the gutter
big yikes
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Used to express disapproval or contempt in response to something especially embarrassing or cringeworthy.
bouncing on it
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: overpraising somebody or something.
raw_tags: of a person
that's flat
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of and that's flat.
dirty mind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dirty minds
Senses: synonyms: mind like a sewer
glosses: A tendency to think in a sexualized manner.
bearded lizard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bearded lizards
Senses: glosses: The bearded dragon.
stomachachy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stomachachy
form: most stomachachy
form: stomachachey
Etymology: From stomachache + -y.
Senses: examples: text: If you also knew how to combine foods—that is, what foods eaten together “set well,” you need never have indigestion, constipation or any of the headachy, stomachachy ills they lead to.
ref: 1917 February 12, “If You Knew What Foods?” (advertisement), in The Independent, volume 59, number 3558, New York: Independent Corporation, page 280:
glosses: Involving or characteristic of a stomachache.
bearded collie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bearded collies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bearded Collie.
castor-oil plant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: castor-oil plants
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of castor oil plant.
trumpet honeysuckle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trumpet honeysuckles
Senses: synonyms: coral honeysuckle
scarlet honeysuckle
glosses: A plant of species Lonicera sempervirens, native to the eastern US.
twitch grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Grass of species Elymus repens
vernal grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vernal grasses
Senses: glosses: A grass of the species of genus Anthoxanthum.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Anthoxanthum odoratum
word: sweet vernal grass
wall ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wallball.
trumpet honeysuckles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trumpet honeysuckle
vernal grasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vernal grass
castor-oil plants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of castor-oil plant
bearded collies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bearded collie
bearded lizards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bearded lizard
wing case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wing cases
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wingcase.
wire grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wire grasses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wiregrass.
wire grasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wire grass
beach grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beach grasses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of beachgrass.
bay lynx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bay lynxes
Senses: glosses: bobcat
bunch grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bunch grasses
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tussock grass.
synonyms: word: tussock grass
cane grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cane grasses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of canegrass.
cord grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cord grasses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cordgrass.
fever grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Grass of species of genus Cymbopogon.
needle grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: needle grasses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of needlegrass.
panic grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panic grasses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of panicgrass.
wing cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wing case
beach grasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beach grass
bunch grasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bunch grass
cane grasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cane grass
cord grasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cord grass
bay lynxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bay lynx
fever grasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fever grass
panic grasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panic grass
needle grasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of needle grass
convexing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of convex
paradise flycatcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paradise flycatchers
Senses: glosses: Any of Terpsiphone spp., birds of Africa and Asia.
shape-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shape-ups
Senses: examples: text: But if he is absent at the shape-up – when the boss stevedore blows his whistle and the men line up in a semi-circle outside the pier to be picked – another man gets his place for the time being, and it may be that he will miss the ship entirely.
ref: 1914 July, W.M. Houghton, “The Longshoreman's Life is Short but Seldom Merry”, in Temperance: A Monthly Journal of the Church Temperance Society, volume 6, number 11, page 14:
text: At each shape-up there is a new employment.
ref: 1957, Burrhus Frederic Skinner, Verbal Behavior:
text: The attainment of status in the community is another important objective of workers, and it is obvious that the shape-up prevented longshoremen from achieving this goal.
ref: 2023, Charles P. Larrowe, Shape-Up and Hiring Hall, page 73:
glosses: Alternative form of shapeup (any sense)
Gathering of workers to be picked for a job.
examples: text: Shower shape-ups have two advantages.
ref: 1990, The New Complete Medical and Health Encyclopedia, page 1147:
text: All the recipes for this 6-week shape-up are tasty and nutritious.
ref: 2017, Liz Earle, Liz Earle's 6-Week Shape Up Plan:
glosses: Alternative form of shapeup (any sense)
Activity to get someone or something back into shape.
examples: text: I noticed my shape-ups weren't as nice as some of my friends from the city.
ref: 2005, Spiro Milas, December 23, page 11:
text: Billy used to give us shape-ups to our hair. I went by his house one morning to get a shape-up, and he was shaking really bad.
ref: 2019, David Lyons, The Boy Becomes a Man: Confessions of an Honest Politician:
glosses: Alternative form of shapeup (any sense)
Hairstyle
shape-ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shape-up
paradise flycatchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paradise flycatcher
screw, nut and bolt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: screws, nuts and bolts
form: screwing, nutting and bolting
form: screwed, nutted and bolted
form: screwed, nutted and bolted
Etymology: Pun based on screw (“have sex with”), nut (“orgasm”), bolt (“run”).
Senses: glosses: To hit it and quit it.
club gourd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: club gourds
Senses: glosses: The snake gourd.
self-access
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + access.
Senses: examples: text: This paper discusses the role of the self-access centre (SAC) in tertiary language learning and teaching, a role which has developed out of the changes that have occurred within the disciplines of Applied Linguistics and Education as well as from wider changes in technology and society itself. As the focus in language learning has moved, over the past thirty years, from the teacher to the learner, self-access language learning has emerged as a complement to the more traditional face-to-face learning model, with SACs now operating in many parts of the world.
ref: 2008 June 24, Bruce Morrison, “The role of the self-access centre in the tertiary language learning process”, in System, volume 36, number 2, →DOI, page 123:
topics: education
glosses: The use of books, videos, and other study materials to learn on one's own.
PhST
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Philippine Standard Time.
PHT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Philippine Standard Time.
Lost River sucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lost River suckers
Senses: glosses: Deltistes luxatus, a species of fish within the taxonomic family Catostomidae.
Related terms: alt: Deltistes
word: Catostomus
c'waam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃwɑm/
enpr: chwäm
rhymes: -ɑːm
Etymology: From Klamath-Modoc c'waam
Senses: glosses: Deltistes luxatus, the Lost River sucker
Related terms: alt: Deltistes
word: Catostomus
patch-ice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of patch ice.
loaves of bread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loaf of bread
Mathieu moonshine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A surprising correspondence between the coefficients of K3 surfaces and finite simple group known as Mathieu group M24.
Fanta cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fanta cakes
Etymology: Calque of German Fantakuchen.
Senses: examples: text: The popularity of Fanta is unclear, but it was often used to flavour food when other flavourings were a luxury and a recipe for Fantakuchen, Fanta cake, is still popular.
ref: 2020 August 13, Richard Denham, M[eirion] J[ames] Trow, “Fanta”, in Weird War Two: Strange Facts and Tales from the World’s Weirdest Conflict, BLKDOG Publishing, →ISBN, page 93:
glosses: A German sponge cake with Fanta as the key ingredient.
Fanta cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fanta cake
industrial quality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: industrial qualities
Senses: examples: text: and the inferior industrial quality of many after they have been trained, cause employers to rely more and more on the provincial supply.
ref: 1914, Norman Burrell Dearle, Industrial Training - With Special Reference to the Conditions Prevailing in London, page 424:
text: Industrial quality will continue to be sold only in larger size rods.
ref: 1964, United States Congress, Reports and Documents, page 100:
text: You should never require that the product be of industrial quality, inasmuch as some producers can provide broadcast quality at a price competitive with industrial quality.
ref: 1980, United States - Office of Federal Procurement Policy, Federal System for Acquiring Audiovisual Productions - Volumes 1-2, page 32:
text: Standard industrial quality steel rod is used primarily in the production of wire mesh , clothes hangers and chain link fences where the tolerances required of the product are relatively low.
ref: 1982, United States International Trade Commission, Carbon Steel Wire Rod from Brazil and Trinidad and Tobago - Determination of the Commission in Investigations Nos. 731-TA-113 and 731-TA-114 (preliminary) Under Section 733(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, Together with the Information Obtained in the Investigations, page A-4:
topics: business
manufacturing
glosses: A type of characteristic, feature, or quality that is applicable in an industry or an industrial process.
industrial quality
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of such a quality.
industrial qualities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of industrial quality
semiflat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: semi- + flat
Senses: glosses: Partly or partially flat.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having the property that, given a morphism (f: X→Y), for every point y in Y, the fiber over y behaves like a flat family of schemes over the base (Y).
un-times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of un-time
un-times
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of un-time
un-timing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of un-time
un-timed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of un-time
life-sentenced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Of a person, having received a life sentence.
natural life sentences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of natural life sentence
housing stock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: housing stocks
Senses: qualifier: urban studies
glosses: The total number of houses, flats, apartments, etc., in a given area.
housing stocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of housing stock
shortnose sucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shortnose suckers
Senses: glosses: A fish of species Chasmistes brevirostris, within the taxonomic family Catostomidae of suckers.
random glucose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: hematology
medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: fasting glucose
glosses: A sample of glucose that has been collected during a blood test at a random time, prior to any fasting or dietary changes.
fasting glucose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: hematology
medicine
sciences
synonyms: fasting blood sugar
coordinate_terms: random glucose
glosses: A sample of glucose that has been collected during a blood test, after a period of fasting or dietary changes.
fasting blood sugar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fasting glucose.
synonyms: word: fasting glucose
barley beer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barley beers
Senses: glosses: An alcoholic drink that is brewed from barley malt, hops, sugar and water, and then fermented with yeast.
barley-brake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of barleybrake.
barley coal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barley coals
Senses: glosses: Anthracite coal of the smallest category, and which is approximately the size of a coarse grain of sand.
barley fork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barley forks
Senses: glosses: A type of pitchfork consisting of a guard at the base of the handle and is designed to gather barley or other small grains.
barley-hood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A state of drunkenness, or of ill humor brought on by the consumption of alcohol.
barleymow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A stack or collection of barley.
barley reel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barley reels
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A machine designed to remove wild oats from barley, wild oats from large tame oats, and pin oats from wheat.
burlap bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burlap bags
Senses: synonyms: barley sack
glosses: A large bag woven from burlap.
barley sack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barley sacks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of burlap bag.
synonyms: word: burlap bag
burlap bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burlap bag
barley sacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barley sack
barley scald
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: agriculture
biology
botany
business
lifestyle
natural-sciences
glosses: A disease of barley caused by the fungus Rhynchosporium secalis.
barley smut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: agriculture
biology
botany
business
lifestyle
natural-sciences
glosses: A disease of barley caused by the fungus Ustilago nuda.
topics: agriculture
biology
botany
business
lifestyle
natural-sciences
glosses: A disease of barley caused by the fungus Ustilago hordei.
koptu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑp.tu/
enpr: kŏp′-to͞o
Etymology: From Klamath-Modoc q'apdo
Senses: glosses: Chasmistes brevirostris, the shortnose sucker
Related terms: alt: Chasmistes
word: Catostomus
para-badminton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From para- + badminton.
Senses: glosses: An adaptation of the sport of badminton for athletes with a physical disability.
para-equestrian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From para- + equestrian.
Senses: glosses: An adaptation of the sport of equestrian for athletes with a physical disability.
para-dressage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From para- + dressage.
Senses: glosses: An adaptation of the sport of dressage for athletes with a physical disability.
para-judo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From para- + judo.
Senses: glosses: An adaptation of the sport of judo for visually impaired athletes.
paralifting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From para- + lifting.
Senses: glosses: An adaptation of the sport of weightlifting for athletes with a physical disability.
para-shooting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From para- + shooting.
Senses: glosses: An adaptation of the sport of shooting for athletes with a physical disability.
clochán
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clocháns
Etymology: From Irish clochán.
Senses: glosses: An old dry-stone hut with a corbelled roof, commonly found on the southwest Irish coast.
clocháns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clochán
para-table tennis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From para- + table tennis.
Senses: glosses: An adaptation of the sport of table tennis for athletes with a physical disability.
parataekwondo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From para- + taekwondo.
Senses: glosses: An adaptation of the sport of taekwondo for athletes with a physical disability.
quippiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quippinesses
Etymology: From quippy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being quippy.
quippinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quippiness
quippily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪpəli/
rhymes: -ɪpəli
Forms: form: more quippily
form: most quippily
Etymology: From quippy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a quippy manner.
barley coals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barley coal
Moisie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in the Côte-Nord region, Quebec, Canada, that flows into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
glosses: A district of Sept-Îles, Quebec, at the mouth of the river.
wilcoing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wilco
wilcoed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wilco
Gulf of Saint Lawrence
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Gulf of Saint Lawrence
Senses: glosses: A gulf in eastern Canada, on the shores of Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, between the Saint Lawrence River and Atlantic Ocean.
doodh soda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A cold drink popular in Pakistan and India, made by mixing milk with lemon- or lime-flavored soda or sometimes with cola.
Brighe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Irish.
cox'n
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cox'ns
Senses: examples: text: No cox'n will ever be hanged; he will always have "half-inched" the rope from the hangman first.
ref: 1942 December 9, “Rope”, in Punch, page 501:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alternative form of coxswain.
Related terms: bosun
Tadoussac
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village municipality in La Haute-Côte-Nord Regional County Municipality, Côte-Nord region, Quebec, Canada.
daresn't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Etymology: From dares + -n't.
Senses: examples: text: My miſtreſs begged hard for me, but ſhe daresn’t contradict that man; and ſo after many kind words, which was very good of her, ſhe ſaid I muſt leave her, but particularly ſhe ſaid for no fault, only becauſe of what her brother deſired.
ref: 1798, chapter V, in The Heir of Montague. […], volume II, London: […] Minerva-Press, for William Lane, […], page 220:
text: I believe he daresn’t fight, though he talks ſo big.
ref: 1798, [James Plumptre], “Act III. Scene I.”, in The Lakers: A Comic Opera, in Three Acts, London: […] W[illiam] Clarke, […], page 46:
text: There’s Murphy Roake, who often broke / My head, now daresn’t dare me, / But bows and quakes, and off he sneaks, / Since I’ve been in the army.
ref: 1830, J[acob] Beuler, “Since I’ve Been in the Army”, in Comic Songs, to Popular Tunes. […] Sixth Collection, […], London: […] J. Beuler, […] and sold by T. Williams, […], page 24:
text: Damn the devil, Flask; do you suppose I’m afraid of the devil? Who’s afraid of him, except the old governor who daresn’t catch him and put him in double-darbies, as he deserves, but let’s him go about kidnapping people; aye, and signed a bond with him, that all the people the devil kidnapped, he’d roast for him? There’s a governor!
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale; and Then Have a Talk over Him”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, pages 364–365:
text: But he lives around here doing tinkering and odd fixing, and Vilate Franker says he must have done some terrible crime to have to hide from the sea, or maybe there was some great sea beast that swallowed up his ship and left only him alive and now he daresn’t go back to sea for fear the beast—she calls it La Vaya Than, which Goody Trader says is Spanish for ‘Ain’t this a damn lie,’ do you know Goody Trader?
ref: 1995 September, Orson Scott Card, Alvin Journeyman (The Tales of Alvin Maker; IV), New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 159:
glosses: Contraction of dares not.
Related terms: daredn't
daren't
durstn't
keyboard cowboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keyboard cowboys
Senses: glosses: A person who posts inflammatory remarks from behind the anonymity of an online username; a keyboard warrior.
avvie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: avvies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of avi.
veganness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vegan + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Fairchildy adj. used to describe any relatively bland, tasteless food (from the veganness of the food prepared at Fairchild Co-op).
ref: 2003 summer, Katie Hubbard, “Word of Mouth”, in Kelly Viancourt, editor, Oberlin Alumni Magazine, volume 99, number 1, Oberlin, Oh.: Oberlin’s Office of College Relations, →ISSN, page 6, column 2:
text: Let’s assume we want to measure the construct of “veganness”—the degree to which an individual espouses being a vegan (someone who avoids using or consuming animal products). […] The point where the individual shifts from saying “yes” to saying “no” determines his or her veganness.
ref: 2005, Theresa J[ean] B[abbitt] Kline, “Designing and Writing Items”, in Psychological Testing: A Practical Approach to Design and Evaluation, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, Inc., →ISBN, pages 42–43:
text: Liberty and Meadow were standing next to the feller buncher, arguing in whispers about the veganness of various food items. Liberty claimed that Heinz ketchup contained cow’s blood, while Meadow countered that Guinness beer contained lard and fish scales.
ref: 2009, April Henry, Torched, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 142:
text: Ever done weightlifting with scones? Of all the baked goods, I think their heaviness would make them the ideal dumbbell if you only had baked goods to use as exercise equipment. That is, unless you were eating a Raven’s Restaurant scone, the perfect flaky blend of nondairy ingredients that somehow work their magic to create a light, lovely morning pastry to shame all those V-word naysayers. I bet you won’t have to proclaim its veganness to forewarn meat eaters—they’ll probably never know the difference!
ref: 2009, Serena Bartlett, “Raven’s Restaurant”, in “The Quiet Coast”, in GrassRoutes Northern California Wine Country: Green Road Trips, Seattle, Wash.: Sasquatch Books, →ISBN, page 195:
text: If you happen to arrive home after a busy day at work and you didn’t have time to go to the store, you might find yourself staring at an empty fridge and thinking about ordering some takeout whose veganness you find yourself unsure of because you’re a bit overwhelmed by what to make, and feeling a bit lazy on top of it all.
ref: 2010, Bob Torres, Jenna Torres, “The Cold Tofu Approach”, in Vegan Freak: Being Vegan in a Non-Vegan World, 2nd edition, Oakland, Calif.: PM Press, →ISBN, section 1 (Vegan and Freaky), page 32:
text: Some wines might be filtered with animal-based ingredients, so just be sure to choose a certifiably vegan wine for your cooking needs. One handy site that can confirm the veganness of your wine is barnivore.com.
ref: 2010, Terry Hope Romero, “The Vegan Latin Pantry”, in Viva Vegan! 200 Authentic and Fabulous Recipes for Latin Food Lovers, Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, →ISBN, part I (Latin Cuisine and Vegan Cooking), page 9, column 1:
synonyms: veganity
glosses: The quality of being vegan.
I'll see myself out
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of I'll get my coat.
synonyms: word: I'll get my coat
addressative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more addressative
form: most addressative
Senses: glosses: invocatory
qualifier: typically referring to languages without a corresponding grammatical case
glosses: vocative
ne exeats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ne exeat
avvies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of avvie
how you get them is how you lose them
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: A person who starts a relationship by cheating will lose that partner in the same way.
gender affirmation surgery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛn.dɚ æfɝˈmeɪʃən ˈsɚ.d͡ʒɚ.i/
Forms: form: gender affirmation surgeries
Senses: examples: text: Gender-affirmation surgery is a rapidly growing field in plastic surgery, urologic surgery, and gynecologic surgery. […] However, the details of gender-affirmation surgery are less well-known to other surgical subspecialties and other medical subspecialties.
ref: 2021, Arya Andre Akhavan, Shabaaz Sandhu, Idorenyin Ndem, Adeyemi A Ogunleye, “A review of gender affirmation surgery: What we know, and what we need to know”, in Surgery, volume 170, number 1, →DOI, →PMID, pages 336–340:
glosses: Synonym of gender-affirming surgery.
synonyms: word: gender-affirming surgery
gender affirmation surgeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gender affirmation surgery
unfuckupables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unfuckupable
Kimberlee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Kimberley.
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Kimberleigh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Kimberley.
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
anti-politics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-politics
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antipolitics.
pleuronectoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pleuronectoid
scaroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scaroid
turbinoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turbinoid
Pressie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pressies
Etymology: From Presbyterian + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: The mayor will be here any minute his bloody self, and we’ll pass round the hat for the reverend so as to fix his Pressie kirk up.
ref: 1952, Colin MacInnes, June in Her Spring:
glosses: A Presbyterian.
Pressies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pressie
Grambau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Grambaus
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Tahbaz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tahbazes
Etymology: Transliteration of Persian طاهباز.
Senses: examples: Morad Tahbaz
glosses: A surname from Persian.
disattracts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disattract
disattracting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disattract
disattracted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disattract
Shrago
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shragos
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Hayton and Mealo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Cumberland, Cumbria, England, previously in Allerdale borough.
Burnby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Hayton parish, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE8346).
Olgovka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɔːlɡəfkə/
Etymology: From Russian О́льговка (Ólʹgovka). Compare Olhivka.
Senses: glosses: The name of several settlements in Russia, including:
A hamlet in Rassvetovsky selsoviet, Davlekanovsky Raion, Republic of Bashkortostan, Volga Federal District, Russia.
examples: text: We’ll switch over to the developments along the front line, and here we have the Russians having a small advance here in Olgovka. We have the… a geolocation now of them being in the centre of town. Now, the Russians themselves confirm that the Ukrainians are still… still in Olgovka, so the grey zone has probably… has to be extended roughly like this here.
ref: 2024 September 4th, Torsten Heinrich M.A. (channel name: “Military & History”), Russians STOPPED? Ukrainian Reinforcements leave their Mark at Pokrovsk! Ukraine Sitrep, via YouTube, 3:09–3:33:
glosses: The name of several settlements in Russia, including:
A village, the administrative centre of Olgovsky selsoviet, Korenevsky Raion, Kursk Oblast, Central Federal District, Russia.
barley reels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barley reel
fwm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Compare fw (“fuck with”).
Senses: related: word: FWM
glosses: Initialism of fuck with me.
rollcage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rollcages
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of roll cage.
rollcages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rollcage
Burns dinner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Burns dinners
Senses: glosses: The traditional dinner served on Burns night.
barrier nursing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A set of stringent infection control techniques used in nursing to prevent the spread of pathogens.
PETases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PETase
primus-ship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: primus + -ship
Senses: glosses: One who holds the office of a primus.
liquid diet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liquid diets
Senses: qualifier: nutrition
glosses: A diet that consists mostly of liquids, or soft foods that melt at room temperature.
liquid diets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liquid diet
bad mood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bad moods
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ill humor.
synonyms: word: ill humor
bad temper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bad tempers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ill humor.
synonyms: word: ill humor
bad tempers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bad temper
bad moods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bad mood
glucose syrup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glucose syrups
Senses: synonyms: confectioner's glucose
glosses: A syrup made from the hydrolysis of starch, used in the food industry as a sweetener.
confectioner's glucose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of glucose syrup.
synonyms: word: glucose syrup
glucose syrups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glucose syrup
police report
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: police reports
Senses: topics: government
law
law-enforcement
glosses: A formal documentation of an incident that occurs and is recorded by a police officer.
police reports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of police report
semibisexual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + bisexual.
Senses: examples: text: In other definitions, someone who is semibisexual can feel sexual attraction towards two genders but feel romantically linked only to one.
ref: 2022 March 8, Gayety Team, “Sembisexuality: What Is It?”, in Gayety:
glosses: Identifying as bisexual but only attracted to one gender.
Derived terms: semibisexuality
semibisexuality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From semibisexual + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: In this case, semibisexuality might fall under the split attraction model, which states that romantic and sexual attraction are completely different experiences.
ref: 2022 March 8, Gayety Team, “Sembisexuality: What Is It?”, in Gayety:
glosses: The state of identifying as bisexual but only being attracted to one gender.
stop-go animation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The stop-motion animation technique.
Related terms: claymation
Luttinger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from ?
Derived terms: Luttinger liquid
Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid
Tomonaga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
Derived terms: Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid
pyramid sight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyramid sights
Senses: glosses: Synonym of barleycorn sight.
synonyms: word: barleycorn sight
barleycorn sight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barleycorn sights
Senses: topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
synonyms: pyramid sight
glosses: A type of front sight of triangular appearance.
barleycorn sights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barleycorn sight
pyramid sights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyramid sight
line-of-sight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lines-of-sight
Senses: examples: text: In Revolution VLR [very light rail], TDI Greenway has created a vehicle that works on segregated lines and will operate with line-of-sight capability.
ref: 2025 July 23, Peter Plisner, “You say you want a revolution...”, in RAIL, number 1040, page 39:
glosses: Alternative form of line of sight.
lines-of-sight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of line-of-sight
diabetic ketoacidosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: word: DKA
word: diabetic crisis
glosses: An acute, major, life-threatening complication of diabetes mellitus characterized by hyperglycemia, ketoacidosis, and ketonuria.
diabetic crisis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of diabetic ketoacidosis.
synonyms: word: diabetic ketoacidosis
licorice allsorts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of liquorice allsorts.
red licorice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red licorices
form: red liquorice
Senses: coordinate_terms: black licorice
glosses: An artificial type of licorice confection that instead of licorice is made with other flavorings such as strawberry, cherry, raspberry, or cinnamon.
Indian licorice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Indian licorices
Senses: glosses: The woody leguminous climbing plant, Abrus precatorius.
crab's eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crab's eye
Hps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hp
P-A
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
related: word: PA
coordinate_terms: A-P
glosses: Initialism of posteroanterior.
U&E
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of urea and electrolytes (blood tests).
restockpile
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: restockpiles
form: restockpiling
form: restockpiled
form: restockpiled
Etymology: From re- + stockpile.
Senses: examples: text: The D.P.W., with heavy equipment, intermittently moves snow banks and restockpiles large amounts of snow.
ref: 1984 January 25, Charlevoix County Press, volume 104, number 47, page 4, column 4:
text: The hallmark of the CMP event is the chance to own your own M1. After wars, rifles are restockpiled.
ref: 2004 December 11, “My Intro to the World of the CMP and Target Shooting”, in Out Your Backdoor:
text: When Congress does get back to work, with hopefully a minimum of self-inflicted damage, its members will be wrestling with efforts to reduce the deficit through cuts and taxation or fund our security needs— Border, Israel, Ukraine and restockpiling American defense reserves.
ref: 2023 December 24, Ray L. Lent, “Economic and Market Commentary”, in Portsmouth Financial Services, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2024:
text: “We definitely knew we had to restockpile our picks, which I feel like we've done a good job of, but at the same time we wanted to add some players to this roster too, […]
ref: 2024 August 2, Casey Holdahl, “Trail Blazers Focus On The Present At The 2024 Trade Deadline”, in NBA:
glosses: To stockpile again.
restockpiles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of restockpile
restockpiled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of restockpile
restockpiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of restockpile
C&S
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of culture and sensitivity (urine tests).
Indian liquorice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Indian liquorices
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Indian licorice.
liquorice extract
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liquorice extracts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of licorice extract.
liquorice root
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liquorice roots
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of licorice root.
red liquorice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red liquorices
Senses: glosses: British standard spelling of red licorice.
Indian licorices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Indian licorice
red licorices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red licorice
Indian liquorices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Indian liquorice
liquorice extracts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liquorice extract
liquorice roots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liquorice root
licorice roots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of licorice root
kundoku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of kun-yomi.
synonyms: word: kun-yomi
economic corridor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: economic corridors
Etymology: Coined by Asian Development Bank in 1998.
Senses: examples: text: An Economic Corridor is a geographically defined network connecting economic agents and activities to overcome frictions and unleash efficiencies
ref: 2020 March 31, Arianna Legovini, Alice Duhaut, Theophile Bougna, “Economic Corridors”, in thedocs.worldbank.org:
text: In November 2016, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) was declared open as the first truckload of Chinese goods reached Gwadar Port for international shipment. […] In response, India and Japan have teamed up to develop an ambitious economic corridor of their own: the Asia-Africa Growth Corridor.
ref: 2018 March 27, Stephanie Petrella, “What Is an Economic Corridor?”, in reconasia.csis.org:
text: Economic corridors connect economic agents along a defined geography. They provide important connections between economic nodes or hubs that are usually centered in urban landscapes.
ref: 2013, Asian Development Bank, “What is Economic Corridor Development and What Can It Achieve in Asia’s Subregions?”, in adb.org:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A geographically linked area with integrated infrastructure, aiming to enhance economic development.
copulants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copulant
A-Log
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: A-Logs
form: A-Logging
form: A-Logged
form: A-Logged
Etymology: Coined by the online forum Kiwi Farms after Anthony "A-Log" LoGatto, an online personality.
Senses: glosses: The act of taking things too seriously or getting angry at a person, which includes wishing or justifying harm or persecution.
A-Log
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: A-Logs
Etymology: Coined by the online forum Kiwi Farms after Anthony "A-Log" LoGatto, an online personality.
Senses: examples: text: A-Logs often sit in the opposite extreme of White Knights: while White Knights try (and fail) to defend and help Chris, A-Logs try (and fail) to compare Chris to actual tyrants like Théoneste Bagosora and Nicolae Ceaușescu: one does not have to mention another certain tyrant to understand how A-Logging against Chris makes no sense.
ref: “Unholy Quintet”, in CWCki, published 2024:
glosses: Someone who participates in A-Logging.