cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
reverse gangbangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reverse gangbang
hillbillyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hillbillyish
form: most hillbillyish
Etymology: From hillbilly + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Befitting, resembling, or characteristic of a hillbilly
Coordinate terms: english: sometimes synonymous
translation: sometimes synonymous
word: hillbillylike
Related terms: rednecky
troilists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of troilist
troked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of troke
trokes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of troke
trominos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tromino
tropocollagens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tropocollagen
troublousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From troublous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being troublous.
troutless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trout + -less.
Senses: examples: text: In each of several previously troutless streams, they placed two rainbow trout in a cage 15 m upstream from a drift-collecting net.
ref: 2003, Thomas C. Grubb, The Mind of the Trout, page 87:
glosses: Without trout.
trovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trover
weak-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more weak-handed
form: most weak-handed
form: weakhanded
Etymology: From weak + handed.
Senses: examples: text: He also had a son named Dave who thought milking a pretty tough job, and who imagined he was getting weak-handed and on the way to milker's paralysis.
ref: 1914, Hoard's Dairyman - Volume 46, page 744:
text: It was no weapon for one at all weak-handed.
ref: 2014, William Osborn Stoddard, With the Black Prince, →ISBN:
text: No more weak-handed handshakes.
ref: 2012, Victor Villasenor, Macho!, →ISBN, page 45:
glosses: Having or involving hands that are weak or infirm.
examples: text: It is true there is much to be done, and perhaps you are weak-handed; but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects.
ref: 1897, Hezekiah Butterworth, True to His Home: A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin, →ISBN:
text: We have been mealy-mouthed and weak-handed; we have trifled and temporised and the Food has grown and grown.
ref: 2013, H.G. Wells, The H.G. Wells Anthology, →ISBN:
text: Cold Feet was a futile, weak-handed little coward.
ref: 2014, Max Brand, Three Who Paid, →ISBN:
text: This flushing out of weak-handed, short-term gold speculators will prove a valuable entry point for those who have felt they missed the gold rush over the last few years.
ref: 2014, Wayne Root, The Murder of the Middle Class, →ISBN:
glosses: Weak; lacking courage and strength.
examples: text: With this heroic resolution, he put himself into the hands of the Zamorin with a retinue of only twelve men, being unwilling to leave the ships weak-handed for the sake of an unavailing and empty parade of attendance.
ref: 1812, David Macpherson, The history of the European commerce with India, page 15:
text: We were now very weak-handed; three men, besides Mr. Bedwell who was still an invalid, being ill, considerably reduced our strength
ref: 1827, Phillip Parker King, Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia, Performed Between the Years 1818 and 1822:
text: Owing to various stoppages occasioned by the necessity of procuring supplies of wood, a duty of peculiar difficulty in the weak-handed condition of the vessel, she did not reach the open sea until the 29th.
ref: 1842, Sylvanus Urban (pseud. van Edward Cave.), Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle:
text: He felt himself so weak-handed with only Robinson, who might leave him, and a shepherd lad he had just hired.
ref: 2014, Charles Reade, Delphi Complete Works of Charles Reade:
glosses: Understaffed
examples: text: Should he be weak-handed (poor), he is compelled to be content with what is termed girdling, which consists in cutting the bark, thereby, of course, killing the trees, and he afterwards clears away the underwood, which is seldom considerable.
ref: 1906, University of Cincinnati Studies - Volume 2, page 61:
glosses: Poor; impoverished.
Derived terms: weak-handedness
weak-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more weak-handed
form: most weak-handed
form: weakhanded
Etymology: From weak + handed.
Senses: examples: text: Its cold hammer-forged barrel is beyond accurate, and the ergonomic grip is all it takes to stay steady in awkward shooting positions or when shooting weak-handed.
ref: 2012, Jennifer Pearsall, Gun Digest Illustrated Guide to Modern Firearms, →ISBN, page 87:
text: And if the targets require you to make really awkward leans from your freestyle position, don't ever rule out the possibility of engaging the targets strong-handed or even possibly weak-handed.
ref: 2012, Brian Enos, Practical Shooting, Beyond Fundamentals, →ISBN:
text: Let's face it, while there is obvious benefit to range shooting, standing at the fifteen-yard line at a barricade shooting three shots strong-handed and three shots weak-handed just does not equate to the elements the officer will experience if he or she is involved in a tactical encounter containing moving multiple suspects and lethal threat.
ref: 2014, Lawrence N. Blum, Force under Pressure, →ISBN:
qualifier: shooting
glosses: With gun held in hands that are not braced to strengthen the grip.
examples: text: Beginning there weak-handed is not the thing to do.
ref: 1838, Methodist Episcopal Church. Missionary Society, Annual Report, page 54:
glosses: In a weak-handed manner.
truepennies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of truepenny
trusters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of truster
weakhanded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more weakhanded
form: most weakhanded
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of weak-handed (as adjective).
weakhanded
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more weakhanded
form: most weakhanded
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of weak-handed (as adverb).
weak-handedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From weak-handed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being weak-handed
tsaddiqim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tsaddiq
tuaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tuath
tubulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tubulate
tuladis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tuladi
tuitional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tuition + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to tuition.
turcopoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turcopole
turncocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turncock
turnrounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turnround
tutorise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tutorises
form: tutorising
form: tutorised
form: tutorised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tutorize.
tutorises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tutorise
tutorising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tutorise
tutorised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tutorise
graphon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graphons
Etymology: Blend of graph + function
Senses: examples: text: This bound almost matches the known upper bound for graphs and, in a certain sense, is the best possible for graphons.
ref: 2015, Jacob W. Cooper, Tomáš Kaiser, Daniel Kráľ, Jonathan A. Noel, “Weak regularity and finitely forcible graph limits”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The completion of the metric space of the set of finite graphs endowed with the cut metric.
Derived terms: digraphon
graphons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of graphon
presemifield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presemifields
Etymology: From pre- + semifield.
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A finite algebra satisfying all the axioms for a skew field except multiplicative associativity and the existence of a multiplicative identity.
presemifields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of presemifield
isotopism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isotopisms
Etymology: From isotope + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The other class #92;mathcal#123;C#125;#95;2 of loops consists of 3-dimensional connected differentiable left A-loops such that the group G#61;PSL#95;2(#92;mathbbR)#92;ltimes#92;mathbbR³ is the group topologically generated by the left translations The loops in this class can be represented by two real parameters a,b and form precisely two isomorphism classes, which coincide with the isotopism classes.
ref: 2015, Ágota Figula, “Geodesic loops with non-solvable left translation groups on 3-dimensional reductive spaces”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An instance of an isotopic state.
isotopisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isotopism
noncompactness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + compactness.
Senses: examples: text: Our aim in this paper is to present results of existence of fixed points for continuous operators in Banach spaces using measure of noncompactness under an integral condition.
ref: 2015, Vatan Karakaya, Bouzara Nour El Houda, Kadri Dogan, Yunus Atalan, “Existence of fixed points for condensing operators under an integral condition”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: The quality or state of being noncompact.
infimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: More precisely, an infimal convolution model is applied to split the corrupted 3D image into the clean image and two types of corruptions, namely a striped part and a laminar one.
ref: 2017 February 24, Jan Henrik Fitschen, Jianwei Ma, Sebastian Schuff, “Removal of Curtaining Effects by a Variational Model with Directional First and Second Order Differences”, in Computer Vision and Image Understanding, volume 155, →DOI, pages 24–32:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to an infimum.
two spirit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: two spirits
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of two-spirit.
saiden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English saiden, equivalent to said + -en.
Senses: examples: text: It was done me to weet that divers of the Lord Moleyns' men saiden if they might get me they should steal me and keep me within the castle, and then they said that ye should fetch me out; and they saiden it should been but a little heart-burning to you.
ref: 1449, Margaret Paston, The Paston Letters:
text: and letters there were wryten in gold aboute the swerd that saiden thus / who so pulleth oute this swerd of this stone and anuyld / is rightwys kynge borne of all Enlond
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Book I:
text: Ne wish not (as by my counsell) to heare / The fearfull words, which they saiden there;
ref: c. 1605, William Bedell, The Shepherd's Tale of the Pouder-Plott:
text: Walking so, two men came him ageine, / And saiden thus: deare friend, we you pray
ref: 1614, William Browne, The Shepheards Pipe. The First Eclogue:
glosses: plural simple past of say
polyconvexity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poly- + convexity.
Senses: examples: text: Thus we negatively answer Morrey's conjecture in the subclass of isochoric nonlinear energies, since polyconvexity implies quasiconvexity.
ref: 2015, Robert J. Martin, Ionel-Dumitrel Ghiba, Patrizio Neff, “Rank-one convexity implies polyconvexity for isotropic, objective and isochoric elastic energies in the two-dimensional case”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A generalization of the notion of convexity for functions defined on spaces of matrices.
Related terms: polyconvex
polyconvex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + convex.
Senses: examples: text: We show that in the two-dimensional case, every objective, isotropic and isochoric energy function which is rank-one convex on #92;mathrm#123;GL#125;#43;(2) is already polyconvex on #92;mathrm#123;GL#125;#43;(2).
ref: 2015, Robert J. Martin, Ionel-Dumitrel Ghiba, Patrizio Neff, “Rank-one convexity implies polyconvexity for isotropic, objective and isochoric elastic energies in the two-dimensional case”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Exhibiting polyconvexity.
quasi-derivative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quasi-derivatives
form: quasiderivative
Etymology: From quasi- + derivative.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A particular generalization of the derivative of a function between two Banach spaces.
Derived terms: quasi-differentiable
quasi-differentiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: quasidifferentiable
Etymology: From quasi- + differentiable.
Senses: examples: text: Thus we extend the theory of the directed subdifferential from quasidifferentiable to directed subdifferentiable functions.
ref: 2015, Robert Baier, Elza Farkhi, Vera Roshchina, “From Quasidifferentiable to Directed Subdifferentiable Functions: Exact Calculus Rules”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: That has a quasi-derivative.
quasidifferentiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quasi- + differentiable.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quasi-differentiable.
rootfinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rootfinders
Etymology: From root + finder.
Senses: examples: text: In two dimensions, when significant care is taken, they are competitive practical rootfinders.
ref: 2015, Vanni Noferini, Alex Townsend, “Are resultant methods numerically unstable for multidimensional rootfinding?”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An algorithm for finding roots of an equation.
rootfinders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rootfinder
heishi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of heishe.
Woodses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Woods
ocelloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ocelloids
Etymology: From ocellus + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
glosses: a cellular structure found in unicellular microorganisms that is analogous in structure and function to eyes, which focus, process and detect light
ocelloids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ocelloid
pizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: Ocracoke Island (in the Outer Banks of North Carolina)
ipa: /paɪzɚ/
Forms: form: pizers
Etymology: From Italian piazza (“public or market square”), just like the term piazza (“front porch”) which is used in New England dialects.
Senses: examples: text: The old wicker rocker creaked as Josh pushed back and forth in it, back and forth, back and forth, his bare feet slapping against the boards of the pizer with each rock.
ref: 2007, Homer Hickam, The Keeper's Son, →ISBN, page 1:
text: Caruso thinks with a quiver. “When I saw you two, eating lunch—outside—on the pizer, you was holding hands,” Beryl says, pressing Clarissa hard with her eyes.
ref: 2014, Gwyn Hyman Rubio, Love and Ordinary Creatures: A Novel, →ISBN:
qualifier: some Southern US dialects
glosses: A (front) porch (on a house).
pizzer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pizzers
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of pizza.
malahack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: malahacks
form: malahacking
form: malahacked
form: malahacked
Senses: glosses: To cut up awkwardly.
return on investment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: returns on investment
Senses: examples: text: Researchers believe automated coupling would save time and cost, but there are questions about the return on investment when it comes to retrofitting old wagons.
ref: 2025 October 1, Chris Edwards, “Digital network”, in RAIL, number 1045, page 27:
topics: business
finance
glosses: A benefit, usually financial, gained by an investor from an investment.
Synonyms: ROI
Related terms: EROI
returns on investment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of return on investment
ROIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ROI
vessel flute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vessel flutes
Senses: glosses: A type of flute with an enclosed rather than cylindrical body - i.e. a vessel rather than a tube - such as the ocarina, xun, etc.
vessel flutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vessel flute
gel pens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gel pen
jubous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒubəs/
/ˈd͡ʒubɚs/
Etymology: Alteration of dubious.
Senses: glosses: Concerned, alarmed or sceptical.
gear changes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gear change
hip replacements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hip replacement
fashion statements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fashion statement
kyarn'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kyarn.
kyarn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Pronunciation spelling of carrion.
Senses: examples: text: It stinks worse 'an kyarn.
ref: 2008, Carolyn Digh Griffin, Hope Returns, →ISBN, page 313:
glosses: Carrion or anything foul-smelling, offal, manure.
kyarn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard form of can.
kyarn't
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of can't.
Mongolian gazelles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mongolian gazelle
pent roofs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pent roof
tin mines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tin mine
longneck eels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of longneck eel
paradise parrots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paradise parrot
bowel obstructions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bowel obstruction
intestinal obstruction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intestinal obstructions
Senses: glosses: A bowel obstruction.
mud dauber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: mud daubers
Senses: synonyms: dirt dauber
mud wasp
glosses: A wasp, from either the family Sphecidae or Crabronidae, that builds its nest from mud.
intestinal obstructions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intestinal obstruction
aquatic centres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aquatic centre
annual general meetings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of annual general meeting
shakes it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shake it
shaking it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shake it
shook it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of shake it
men of the hour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of man of the hour
medical records
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of medical record
internally displaced persons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of internally displaced person
parallel texts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parallel text
bath towels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bath towel
tones of voice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tone of voice
public purses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of public purse
pot stirrers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pot stirrer
power boards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of power board
theocratization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theocratisation
Etymology: From theocratize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The introduction of theocracy to an area or a state; the process or act of making something into a theocracy or of making it theocratic.
theocratise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: theocratises
form: theocratising
form: theocratised
form: theocratised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of theocratize.
theocratisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of theocratization.
theocratist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theocratists
Senses: glosses: One who supports theocracy.
theocratism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From theocrat + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Advocacy or partisanship in support of theocracy.
sublebrity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌbˈlɛ.bɹɪ.ti/
ipa: /sʌbˈlɛ.bɹə.ti/
ipa: [-ɾi]
Forms: form: sublebrities
form: sub-lebrity
Etymology: Blend of sub- (“below; secondary, subsidiary”, prefix) + celebrity.
Senses: examples: text: After the screening, a large crowd filled the street outside the theater, playing spot-the-sublebrity with some of the film's prime characters, including Nirvana photographer Alice Wheeler and [Courtney] Love's estranged (and notoriously unhinged) father, Hank Harrison, who appears in the movie hawking his self-published anti-Courtney screed, Who Killed Kurt Cobain?
ref: 1998 May, James Sullivan, “Maggot Brains: The Bizarre Premiere of Kurt and Courtney”, in Michael Hirschorn, editor, Spin, volume 14, number 5, New York, N.Y.: Vibe/Spin Ventures, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 78, column 2:
text: Of course, the ultimate celebrity of all time is still Marilyn Monroe. In the nearly fifty years since her death, hundreds of books have been written about her and her classic beauty still looks modern. I wonder how many of today's sub-lebrities will ever achieve that degree of long-term adulation?
ref: 2011, Joan Collins, “On Fame: I’m Going to Live for Ever, or at Least Fifteen Minutes”, in The World according to Joan, London: Constable & Robinson, →ISBN, page 25:
text: It's been fourteen years of some serious chasing after stardom and just as seriously running away from it, but I haven't become a star. I might be on my way, though. As I write this book, I have secured myself a place as a sublebrity in the pantheon of America's queer and postmodern subcultures. That makes me happy.
ref: 2012, Kate Bornstein, “Prologue: The Kiss of Death”, in A Queer and Pleasant Danger: A Memoir, Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, →ISBN:
text: But I could definitely consider a Shower List – a list of the biggest shower of horrors in any field at any given moment. First up, then: Britain's Ghastliest Financial Sublebrities. The idea is tangentially suggested – but of course – by the FT [Financial Times]'s exposé of the Presidents Club, a men-only charity party at which City chaps apparently seem to trade donations to the sick children of Great Ormond Street Hospital for the chance to sexually harass the female help.
ref: 2018 January 15, Marina Hyde, “Britain’s ghastliest financial sublebrities – a who’s who”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Sep 2024:
synonyms: word: C-lister
word: demicelebrity
word: minicelebrity
word: minor celebrity
extra: a celebrity of little importance or significance; someone famous for being famous
coordinate_terms: microcelebrity
noncelebrity
pseudocelebrity
semicelebrity
subcelebrity
glosses: Synonym of minor celebrity (“a celebrity of little importance or significance; someone famous for being famous”).
eyebag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈaɪbæɡ/
Forms: form: eyebags
Etymology: From eye + bag.
Senses: related: word: eye bag
synonyms: bag under the eye
undereye bag
glosses: A mild swelling or puffiness under and around the eye, generally caused by lack of sleep or illness.
Related terms: undereye bag
expert witnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of expert witness
Daubert standard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Daubert standard
Etymology: Named after Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, a legal case setting a related precedent in 1993.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A rule of evidence regarding the admissibility of expert witnesses' testimony during federal legal proceedings, and based (among other factors) on the use of the scientific method.
Related terms: Daubert motion
Daubert trilogy
lowerclassman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lowerclassmen
Etymology: From lower + classman.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of underclassman.
synonyms: word: underclassman
lowerclassmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lowerclassman
Amerindianization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Amerindian + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: Beginning in the mid 1970s, under the auspices of the Amerindianization project, one of the authors, a linguist associated with Memorial University of Newfoundland, began making regular visits to the community for teacher training.
ref: 2002, Barbara Burnaby, Indigenous Languages Across the Community, page 79:
glosses: The act or process of becoming Amerindian.
Related terms: Amerindianize
twibil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twibils
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of twibill.
twibils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twibil
twicer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪsə(ɹ)
Forms: form: twicers
Etymology: From twice + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who attends two church services on Sundays.
glosses: One who is both compositor and pressman.
twicers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twicer
twingeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of twinge
twirps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twirp
twonesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twoness
tychisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tychism
tyees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tyee
tykish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tykish
form: most tykish
Etymology: From tyke + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: In the photographs that illustrate the article, Lulu looks tykish in a white T-shirt and a pair of red-and-white candy-striped dungarees.
ref: 1998, Annamarie Jagose, Lulu: A Romance, page 150:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a tyke, or mischievous child.
tymbals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tymbal
tyned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tyne
tyning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tyne
typewritings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of typewriting
mud run
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mud runs
Senses: examples: text: I recently received a note from a young man named Austin who had encountered Spartan Race after trying a mud run put on by another promoter.
ref: 2014, Joe De Sena, Spartan Up!: A Take-No-Prisoners Guide to Overcoming Obstacles and Achieving Peak Performance in Life, page 141:
glosses: An athletic event in which runners compete to navigate an obstacle course designed to include stretches of mud.
typicalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of typicality
typographed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of typograph
typographing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of typograph
typomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From typo- + -mania.
Senses: examples: text: One of the most virulent cases of typomania was that of the man who, some ten years ago, inveigled his fiancee to go to Washington to be married in the Bureau of Printing and Engraving because he considered it the most appropriate setting […]
ref: 1938, New York Times Saturday Review of Books and Art, page 27:
text: When typomania strikes, sooner or later the victim is seized with an irresistible urge to print a display of the types he holds — perhaps on a single sheet, perhaps in a series of typecards.
ref: 1986, Small Printer, volume 22, page 35:
glosses: enthusiasm for typography
examples: text: We have all smiled over the account of how Dr. Holland, on seeing his first printed poem in the Youth's Companion, "walked on air;" and all those who have ever been afflicted with even the mildest form of that disease which Dr. Holland has characterized as "typomania," have slyly hugged their mental selves on remembering how similar their own experiences have been.
ref: 1886, The Disciple, volume 3, page 626:
text: At the same time a wandering minstrel named W. Dawson found enough encouragement among the starchy old Revolutionary heroes to enable him to publish a "Political and Literary Miscellany" which he called the Intelligencer. It was on the Western Statesman of Lawrenceburg under Gregg that Augustus Jocelyn, Judge David Laird, Thomas Dowling and C. F. Clarkson caught the typomania and carried the dangerous infection to as many Indiana towns.
ref: 1918, A History of Indiana: From 1850 to the present, page 1101:
text: But all this is of no avail: my typomania is boundless! I have started on my way and I must proceed forward, willy-nilly. The second part of my Collection must be published, even if I have to go to Kamchatka!
ref: 1953, University of California Publications in Modern Philology, page 70:
glosses: obsession with being published or writing for publication
mud runs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mud run
tyrannizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tyrannizers
Etymology: From tyrannize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Instead of honestly sharing their resentments, trivial tyrannizers do things they know will bother their partners, such as leaving dirty dishes in the sink, clipping fingernails in bed, belching out loud, turning up the television too loud, and so on.
ref: 2014, Deborah B. Proctor, Alexandra Patricia Adams, Kinn's The Medical Assistant: An Applied Learning Approach, page 64:
glosses: One who tyrannizes.
tyrannizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tyrannizer
tyrocidines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tyrocidine
tyrocidins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tyrocidin
tyrothricins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tyrothricin
tzaddiqim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tzaddiq
tzetse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tzetses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tsetse.
Eurocurrencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eurocurrency
Eurobank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eurobanks
Etymology: From Euro- + bank.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A financial institution (not necessarily located in Europe) that accepts deposits, and makes loans, in foreign currencies.
Eurobanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eurobank
vandalically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From vandalic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a vandalic manner
glosses: With regard to the Vandals
Vendean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or from the Vendée
guard's van
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guards' vans
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The last carriage on a passenger train which was occupied by the guard, consisted of storage space for parcels, bicycles, etc, and sometimes had an emergency brake.
vanessa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vanessas
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any butterfly of the genus Vanessa.
eenamost
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more eenamost
form: most eenamost
Etymology: Blend of e'en (“even”) + a'most (“almost”).
Senses: examples: text: I swanny if I ever felt so in my life ! I was so anxious about that long letter that I sent to them to get printed for you, that I was dreadful loth to go in, and eenamost made up my mind to turn about and make tracks for the sloop agin !
ref: 1843, Ann Sophia Stephens, High Life in New York, page 7:
glosses: almost, nearly.
Kraken Mare
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹæ.kən ˈmɑː.ɹeɪ/
ipa: /ˈkɹa.kən ˈmɑː.ɹeɪ/
ipa: /ˈkreɪ.kɪn mɛɚ/
ipa: /-kən -/
Etymology: Approved by the IAU 11 April 2008, Kraken (“a sea monster from Norse mythology”) + mare (“a large expanse of liquid hydrocarbons”), from Norwegian kraken + Latin mare (“sea”).
Senses: glosses: The largest of the methane lakes on the surface of Saturn’s moon, Titan.
wikipedia: IAU
Related terms: Ontario Lacus
a large hydrocarbon lake on Titan
Sugar Creek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: At least the Indiana and Tennessee creeks are named for the sugar maples which grow along their banks.
Senses: glosses: A watercourse:
A creek, a tributary of the Driftwood River, in Indiana.
glosses: A watercourse:
A different creek, a tributary of the Wabash River, in Indiana.
glosses: A watercourse:
A stream in Tennessee, a tributary of Duck River.
glosses: A watercourse:
A stream in Minnesota.
glosses: A watercourse:
A tributary of the Tuscarawas River, Ohio.
glosses: A watercourse:
A tributary of the Susquehanna River, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A community in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Moral Township, Shelby County, Indiana.
glosses: A community in the United States:
A city in Clay County and Jackson County, Missouri.
glosses: A community in the United States:
A town in Walworth County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A community in the United States:
A number of townships in the United States, listed under Sugar Creek Township.
Sugar Creek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Catawba; see Sugaw Creek.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sugaw Creek (“creek in North Carolina and settlements named after it”).
Sugaw Creek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sugar Creek
Etymology: From a Catawba word meaning "huts, houses" (see suk (“house”)).
Senses: glosses: A stream (creek) in North Carolina (a tributary of the Catawba), and any of several things (parks, churches, streets) named after it.
tourist tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tourist trees
Etymology: From the fancied resemblance of the peeling, papery red bark to the sunburned skin of tropical tourists.
Senses: glosses: The gumbo limbo, Bursera simaruba.
tourist trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tourist tree
put up to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts up to
form: putting up to
form: put up to
form: put up to
Senses: examples: text: "He's goin' to that well there after water."
"We ain't dyin' of thirst, are we? That's foolishness."
"Well, somebody put him up to it, an' he's doin' it."
ref: 1895, Stephen Crane, A Mystery of Heroism:
text: "I done the other things—Brace he put me up to it, and persuaded me, and promised he'd make me rich, some day, and I done it, and I'm sorry I done it."
ref: 1896, Mark Twain, chapter 11, in Tom Sawyer, Detective:
text: This week in London the hero of Mayfair matrons is the next-to-youngest brother of Edward VIII, His Royal Highness Henry, the Duke of Gloucester. . . . Gloucester's young Scottish Duchess put him up to telling the King-Emperor after Mrs. Simpson's departure (TIME, Dec. 14), "You are a damn fool if you run after her now!" For his pains, Gloucester got slapped.
ref: 1936 December 21, “Foreign News: Gloucester”, in Time, retrieved 02 Jul 2015:
text: [T]hree suspects were brothers, ages 19, 31 and 34, who were caught collecting money squeezed from a victim. The two younger brothers blamed their older sibling, who has been in and out of prison for years, for putting them up to it.
ref: 2008 April 29, Marc Lacey, “'Virtual kidnappings' in Mexico play on very real fears”, in New York Times, retrieved 02 Jul 2015:
glosses: To encourage or trick (someone) to perform an action which is foolish or wrong.
Synonyms: sense: lead by persuasion or influence
word: entice
sense: lead by persuasion or influence
word: induce
sense: lead by persuasion or influence
word: inveigle
subdifferentiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + differentiable.
Senses: examples: text: Thus we extend the theory of the directed subdifferential from quasidifferentiable to directed subdifferentiable functions.
ref: 2015, Robert Baier, Elza Farkhi, Vera Roshchina, “From Quasidifferentiable to Directed Subdifferentiable Functions: Exact Calculus Rules”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
topics: mathematics
sciences
coordinate_terms: superdifferentiable
glosses: Having a subderivative.
semiperfect
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + perfect.
Senses: examples: text: And the profound point that Jesus makes is that it is not the semiperfect, humanistic Pharisee who is justified, before God, but rather the sinful God-related publican.
ref: 1972, Journal of Religion and Health, volume 11, page 334:
glosses: Approaching perfection; not entirely perfect.
examples: text: Let R be a semiperfect commutative Noetherian ring and C a semidualizing R-module.
ref: 2015, Arash Sadeghi, “Linkage of finite G_C-dimension modules”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a ring over which every finitely generated left module has a projective cover.
topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: pseudoperfect
glosses: Of an integer equal to the sum of all or some of its proper divisors.
Derived terms: semiperfect number
outer product
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outer products
Senses: topics: linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The tensor product of two vectors.
outer products
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outer product
bimorphisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bimorphism
Joaquin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɑˈkiːn/
ipa: /hwɑˈkiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Joaquín.
Senses: examples: text: Jim Acosta, former chief White House correspondent for CNN, stirred controversy on Monday when he sat for a conversation with a reanimated version of a person who died more than seven years ago. His guest was an avatar of Joaquin Oliver, one of the 17 people killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, in 2018.
ref: 2025 August 4, Dara Kerr, “Jim Acosta interviews ‘made-up’ AI avatar of Parkland victim Joaquin Oliver”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A male given name from Spanish, an anglicized spelling of Spanish Joaquín.
blackify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blackifies
form: blackifying
form: blackified
form: blackified
Etymology: From black + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: Her France seems to her undoubtedly blackified [translating negrificada] and Jewish.
ref: 1995, Lisa Block de Behar, A Rhetoric of Silence and Other Selected Writings →ISBN, translating a word by Manuel Puig, page 269
text: There is another theme to some studies of whiteness by white feminists, and it borders on an assertion that We Are Other, Too. It is the implication that femaleness blackifies, that because a white person or group is female that person or group does not partake of white privilege to the same degree as do white males.
ref: 2005, Paul Spickard, “What's Critical about White Studies”, in Affect and Power: Essays on Sex, Slavery, Race, and Religion, →ISBN, page 123:
coordinate_terms: blackwash#Verb
;
negrofy
glosses: To convert (e.g. a country, a group, etc) to the black race or culture.
Related terms: blacken
downstaging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downstagings
Etymology: From down- + stage + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The goal of downstaging is to decrease the size and number of tumors in patients who do not meet the criteria for transplantation on initial evaluation.
ref: 2014, Nicholas J. Zyromski, Handbook of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery, →ISBN:
topics: medicine
oncology
sciences
antonyms: upstaging
hypernyms: restaging
glosses: A reduction in the stage of a cancer, from a more to a less threatening stage.
downstagings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of downstaging
immunocompromise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immuno- + compromise.
Senses: examples: text: Some types of cancer can lead to immunocompromise.
ref: 2003, Virginia Carrieri-Kohlman, Ada M. Lindsey, Claudia M. West, Pathophysiological Phenomena in Nursing, →ISBN:
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: immunodeficiency
immunosuppression
antonyms: immunocompetence
immunocompetency
immunocapability
glosses: The state of having a compromised immune system.
Related terms: immunocompetent
immunocompromised
immunodeficient
immunopotential
immunoresponse
immunosuppressed
immunocompromise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: immunocompromises
form: immunocompromising
form: immunocompromised
form: immunocompromised
Etymology: From immuno- + compromise.
Senses: examples: text: It is predictable that some of these infections occur in individuals immunocompromised by malnutrition or underlying disease (notably cancer or AIDS) or by immunosuppressive therapy.
ref: 2013, Robert H. Rubin, Lowell S. Young, Clinical Approach to Infection in the Compromised Host, →ISBN, page 275:
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: immunosuppress
glosses: To cause a compromised immune system.
immunocompromises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of immunocompromise
unparticularised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + particularised.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unparticularized.
unparticularized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + particularized.
Senses: examples: text: “Most of the allegations are totally unparticularised and therefore impossible to deal with in detail.
ref: 2015 July 2, Daniel Hurst, “Labor frontbencher attacks unions inquiry before Bill Shorten appearance”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Not particularized; nonspecific.
Piña
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from Spanish piña (“pineapple”).
Senses: glosses: Several barangays of Gattaran, Cagayan, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Taysan, Batangas, Philippines.
glosses: Several barangays of Pitogo, Quezon, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Palanas, Masbate, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of San Jacinto, Masbate, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Ma-ayon, Capiz, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Buenavista, Guimaras, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Sirawai, Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines.
Steller sea lion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɛlə siː ˈlaɪən/
Forms: form: Steller sea lions
form: Steller's sea lion
Etymology: Named after the naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller.
Senses: glosses: A species of sea lion, Eumetopias jubatus, the largest of the eared seals.
wikipedia: Georg Wilhelm Steller
Synonyms: northern sea lion
strike one's flag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: strikes one's flag
form: striking one's flag
form: struck one's flag
form: struck one's flag
form: stricken one's flag
form: strike one's colors
form: strike the colors
form: strike the flag
Senses: examples: text: At length, having lost her fore and main-top-masts, and her mizzen-mast having been shot away to the deck, . . . the English frigate was reduced to the last extremity. Captain Cardan ordered his signal quarter-master to strike the flag.
ref: 1850, Herman Melville, chapter 74, in White Jacket:
text: An Austro-Prussian army of 120.000 men . . . is of itself so imposing a spectacle that one is tempted to believe the little Kingdom of Denmark will strike its flag without firing a shot.
ref: 1864 February 7, “Very Latest Per Edinburgh”, in New York Times, retrieved 02 Jul 2015:
text: The enemy having yielded to our mercy and struck their flag, we ceased our fire, and thinking the worst over and done, I watched where Belvedere conned the ship with voice and gesture.
ref: 1921, Jeffery Farnol, chapter 12, in Martin Conisby's Vengeance:
topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: To take down one's national or other representative flag in order to indicate surrender.
examples: text: The point of this exercise wouldn't be to cause one side of the argument to see that the other is correct and strike their flag.
ref: 2014, David Berreby, “What If We Start Talking About Race Like We Talk About Religion?”, in bigthink.com, retrieved 02 Jul 2015:
glosses: To yield, give up, or surrender.
Synonyms: sense: yield, give up, surrender
word: give in
sense: yield, give up, surrender
word: strike the tent
sense: yield, give up, surrender
word: throw in the sponge
sense: yield, give up, surrender
word: throw in the towel
sense: yield, give up, surrender
word: throw up the sponge
sense: yield, give up, surrender
word: wave the white flag
strike the flag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: strikes the flag
form: striking the flag
form: struck the flag
form: struck the flag
form: stricken the flag
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of strike one's flag.
strike the colors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: strikes the colors
form: striking the colors
form: struck the colors
form: struck the colors
form: stricken the colors
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of strike one's flag.
strike one's colors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: strikes one's colors
form: striking one's colors
form: struck one's colors
form: struck one's colors
form: stricken one's colors
Senses: examples: text: Amidst all the chaos, Großer Kurfürst slows up and strikes her colors, her crew having had enough, and have^([sic]) overpowered the officers - willing to fight, but not willing to commit suicide.
ref: 2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 25:13 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2022:
glosses: Alternative form of strike one's flag.
whitehanded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more whitehanded
form: most whitehanded
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of white-handed.
white-handedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From white-handed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being white-handed.
white-handedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more white-handedly
form: most white-handedly
Etymology: From white-handed + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner characteristic of a white-handed individual.
blackifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blackify
blackified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blackify