cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
antideconstructionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antideconstructionist
deconstructionisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deconstructionism
brahminess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brahminesses
form: brahmaness
Etymology: From brahmin + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: The Chinese share the aversion, and the Brahmins were forbidden by law to marry a red-haired woman, a silly law which the Brahminesses immediately circumvented by the generous use of dye from black walnuts.
ref: 1939, Ivor Griffith, Lobscows: the clean-up of an editorial kitchen, page 23:
glosses: A female brahmin (member of Hindu priestly caste).
brahminesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brahminess
cargo bike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cargo bikes
Senses: examples: text: Demand for electric cargo bike couriers has boomed since first lockdown, bringing the hope of cleaner, quieter, safer streets.
ref: 2022, Amelia Hill, “Cargo without carbon: the rise and rise of e-bike deliveries”, in The Guardian:
text: It develops a use case in which an electrified three-wheeled cargo bike will become an on-demand, shared autonomous vehicle for the city.
ref: 2022 July 24, Katie Plant and Gesa Praetorius, Human Factors in Transportation, AHFE International, →ISBN, page 568:
text: Zero-emission zones and zero-fatality cities have eliminated the last-mile advantages of moving goods by road. The need for transshipment from trucks to vans or cargo bikes at the fringes of the urban core has meant that road has lost the advantage it held over rail for so much of the last 100 years.
ref: 2025 October 1, Gareth Dennis, “The future: a new role for a new British Rail: 2030s”, in RAIL, number 1045, page 30:
synonyms: cargo bicycle
freight bicycle
bakfiets
hyponyms: bakfiets
glosses: A bicycle designed for carrying large or heavy loads; by extension, any other pedal cycle such as a tricycle or quadricycle designed in this way.
Derived terms: e-cargo bike
cargo bikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cargo bike
bodabodas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bodaboda
dual-coding theory
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A theory of cognition according to which visual and verbal information are both used to represent information, but processed in different ways.
active transport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Movement of ions or molecules across a cell membrane into a region of higher concentration, assisted by enzymes and requiring energy.
qualifier: transportation planning
glosses: Walking and cycling as means of travel.
prepidgin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prepidgins
Etymology: From pre- + pidgin.
Senses: examples: text: An earlier prepidgin or jargon, which is quite variable in structure, may later become a stable pidgin, which has developed its own lexical and grammatical norms.
ref: 2010, Robert B. Kaplan, The Oxford Handbook of Applied Linguistics, page 383:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An early mixture of languages capable of developing into a pidgin.
prepidgins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prepidgin
A to B travel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: transportation planning
glosses: Transportation for ordinary purposes, as opposed to that by a professional driver for business purposes.
road bike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: road bikes
Senses: synonyms: road bicycle
coordinate_terms: mountain bike
racing bicycle
track bike
street bike
glosses: A lightweight bicycle with narrow wheels and downward curving handlebars.
Related terms: road cycling
unacerbic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unacerbic
form: most unacerbic
Etymology: From un- + acerbic.
Senses: glosses: Not acerbic.
road bikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of road bike
noncyanotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + cyanotic.
Senses: glosses: Not cyanotic.
knawn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of knaw
nowadayes
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of nowadays.
Zahavian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Zahavian
form: most Zahavian
Etymology: From Zahavi + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Amotz Zahavi (1928–2017), Israeli evolutionary biologist.
Balle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Balles
Etymology: Various origins:
* Borrowed from Dutch Balle, a reduced form of any of various Germanic names beginning with the element *balþaz (“bold”).
* Borrowed from Danish Balle, a habitational surname from balle (“slope; hill”).
* A respelling of Catalan Batlle, an occupational surname from batlle (“mayor”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
utility bike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: utility bikes
Senses: glosses: A bicycle designed for practical transportation as opposed to recreation or competition.
utility bikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of utility bike
Bourbon virus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Discovered in 2014 in a case in Bourbon County, Kansas by Olga Kosoy.
Senses: examples: text: On the basis of limited information for our case-patient, health care providers might consider Bourbon virus as a potential infectious etiology in patients in whom fever, leukopenia, and thrombocytopenia develop without a more likely explanation and who have shown negative results for other tickborne diseases (e.g., ehrlichiosis, anaplasmosis, or Heartland virus disease) or have not responded to doxycycline therapy.
ref: 2015 May 24, Olga I. Kosoy, Amy J. Lambert, Dana J. Hawkinson, Daniel M. Pastula, Cynthia S. Goldsmith, D. Charles Hunt, J. Erin Staples, “Novel Thogotovirus Associated with Febrile Illness and Death, United States, 2014”, in Emerging Infectious Diseases, volume 21, number 5 (in English), pages 760–764:
text: Rickettsioses caused by Rickettsia parkeri or by R. assiliae or the Bourbon virus disease caused by Bourbon virus, a new virus thought to be transmitted by ticks, serve as examples.
ref: 2015 August 25, World Journal of Clinical Infectious Diseases, volume 5, number 3:
text: And early last year, a new disease-causing virus, the Bourbon virus, was reported for the first time.
ref: 2016, Joy Xiaomin Su, Truth Vs Illusion: What Is Life About?:
text: A proportion of these viruses are zoonotic (severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus in China, the Heartland virus and the Bourbon virus in the USA) but the pathogenicity of many others is poorly documented.
ref: 2016 May 24, S. Moutailler, I. Popovici, E. Devillers1, M. Vayssier-Taussat, M. Eloit, “Diversity of viruses in Ixodes ricinus, and characterization of a neurotropic strain of Eyach virus”, in New Microbes and New Infections, volume 11, pages 71–81:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A virus believed to be in species Dhori thogotovirus in family Orthomyxoviridae, a tick-borne virus discovered in 2014 that has caused at least one fatality in an otherwise healthy man
wikipedia: Bourbon County, Kansas
Hypernyms: english: order
translation: order
word: Articulavirales
english: family
translation: family
word: Orthomyxoviridae
english: genus
translation: genus
word: Thogotovirus
english: species
translation: species
word: Dhori thogotovirus
briefish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From brief + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Greyhound racing was an inter-war phenomenon that, like speedway, enjoyed a briefish golden age after the war, peaking as early as 1946, when total attendances of 30 million were not far short of football and the night of the Greyhound Derby at White City stadium coincided with no fewer than 44 race meetings on other British tracks.
ref: 2010, David Kynaston, Family Britain, 1951-1957:
glosses: Somewhat brief.
bluntishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bluntish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being somewhat blunt.
glamper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æmpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: glampers
Etymology: Blend of glamorous + camper, parallel to glamping and equivalent to glamp + -er. Early 2006, UK origin, adopted in US by 2007.
Senses: examples: text: 2006, “The Glamper’s Guide To Style” (archive), GadgetCandy.com, 2/24/2006:
text: And with this fast-growing subsector comes an entire new language to describe these luxury globetrotting jetsetters – like jetrosexual, flashpacker and glamper.
ref: 2007 February 4, Jennifer Gould Keil, “Are you a Jetrosexual? Be Honest…”, in New York Post:
glosses: A participant in glamping (luxury camping).
Related terms: camp
camper
camping
glamp
glamped
glamping
glampers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glamper
dodderings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doddering
refractory rhymes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of refractory rhyme
Global South
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Global South
form: global south
Etymology: First used in a political sense in 1969.
Senses: examples: text: Where and what is the Global South? If you ask people on the street, many would probably not have the faintest idea. In everyday parlance and mass media, Global South has hardly become a household term. In academic and (global) policy circles, though, the term is used with much more gusto.
ref: 2015, Andrea Hollington, Oliver Tappe, Tijo Salverda, Tobias Schwarz, Concepts of the Global South. Voices from around the world., Global South Studies Center Cologne, archived from the original on 04 Sep 2016:
text: Countries from the global south, including Brazil, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo – mega-diverse countries home to the world’s three largest rainforests – wanted governments to agree to the creation of a new biodiversity fund as part of the Montreal pact to pay for new conservation targets.
ref: 2022 December 19, Patrick Greenfield, Phoebe Weston, “Cop15: historic deal struck to halt biodiversity loss by 2030”, in The Guardian:
text: A paragon from the Global South, as no one I know who lives there calls it, would be very 21st century, very au courant.
ref: 2023 February 11, Janan Ganesh, “After Germany's fall, which is the paragon nation?”, in FT Weekend, page 22:
topics: geopolitics
government
politics
antonyms: Global North
glosses: A region predominantly composed of the developing countries of Africa, Latin America, and Asia excluding Japan and South Korea, regarded as half of a socioeconomic and political divide opposite to the Global North.
Related terms: developing country
Third World
annoyable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more annoyable
form: most annoyable
Etymology: From annoy + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being annoyed.
Derived terms: unannoyable
LGBTA
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: An initialism, one of several expansions of the earlier initialism LGBT.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transsexual, and asexual/aromantic/agender/allied.
transexuals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transexual
cuatrillo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Spanish cuatrillo.
Senses: glosses: An obsolete letter (Ꜭ, ꜭ) shaped like a 4 with a hook, used in colonial Mayan orthographies to indicate a velar ejective.
Related terms: tresillo
cinquillo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Spanish cinquillo.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A type of Latin American musical rhythm consisting of five-beat units.
Related terms: tresillo
recoil pad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recoil pads
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A soft rubber (or similar) attachment added to the butt of a long firearm to absorb some of the recoil.
consecutives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of consecutive
draconians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of draconian
darwinians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of darwinian
daurades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daurade
elegants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elegant
endocrins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endocrin
finites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of finite
obedients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obedient
obstructives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obstructive
racials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of racial
recessives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recessive
volte-faces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of volte-face
foies gras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foie gras
chefs-d'œuvre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chef-d'œuvre
pot-pourris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pot-pourri
parcs fermés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parcs fermé
form: parc fermés
form: parcs fermes
form: parcs ferme
form: parc fermes
Senses: glosses: plural of parc fermé
formes frustes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forme fruste
Persephonë
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Theseus was all for a comparably glorious feat through the abduction and rape of Persephonë, from the underworld realm of Dis, or Hades.
ref: 2011, Saltonstall Weld Bardot, Penelope: Princess of Lakonia — Translator’s Epilogue & Endnotes: A Supplement, AuthorHouse (hardback) (paperback) (e-book), chapter xii: “Theseus & The First Abduction of Helen”, 78
glosses: Alternative spelling of Persephone.
ashugh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ashughs
form: ashough
form: ashik
form: ashiq
Etymology: Ultimately from Arabic عَاشِق (ʕāšiq). The forms ashugh, ashough are borrowed from Armenian աշուղ (ašuġ).
Senses: glosses: A mystic bard, balladeer, or troubadour in the South Caucasus, Iran or Turkey who accompanied their songs with a long-necked lute (saz).
ashough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ashoughs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ashugh.
ashik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ashiks
Etymology: Via a Turkic language; ultimately from Arabic عَاشِق (ʕāšiq).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ashugh.
ashiks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ashik
ashiq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ashiqs
Etymology: Via a Turkic language, ultimately from Arabic عَاشِق (ʕāšiq).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ashugh.
creditee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creditees
Etymology: From credit + -ee.
Senses: glosses: A person who is given credit to make a purchase.
acrobranching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Jonathan told her how they had been acrobranching on zip wires and climbing nets in the trees.
ref: 2017, Robert Bluck, Mr Woodreeve's Reflection:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A recreation in which participants climb tall trees and cross to others via the branches
pilotable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pilot + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being piloted.
accrobranching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of acrobranching
Staines
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /steɪnz/
Forms: form: Staineses
Etymology: From Old English stānas (“stones”).
Senses: synonyms: Pontes
Ad Pontes
glosses: A town on the Thames in Spelthorne borough, Surrey, England, historically in Middlesex. Officially Staines-upon-Thames, but this name is generally ignored.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Tobe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name, diminutive of Toby.
piphilology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /paɪfɪˈlɒləd͡ʒɪ/
ipa: /ˌpaɪfɪˈlɑləd͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Etymology: From pi + philology.
Senses: examples: text: In piphilology, ten thousand is the current world record for the number of digits of pi memorized by a human being.
ref: 2019, LL Grace, The Second Day: Sequel to Tomorrow is a new day:
glosses: The memorization of the digits of pi as a hobby.
Derived terms: piphilologist
Related terms: piem
gosans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gosan
humaniforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of humaniform
kettle-drum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kettle-drums
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kettledrum.
kettle-drums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kettle-drum
coregulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coregulation
coregulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + regulatory.
Senses: examples: a coregulatory protein
glosses: Involved with coregulation.
Stylites
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /staɪˈlaɪtiːz/
ipa: /stʌɪˈlʌɪtiːz/
ipa: /staɪˈlaɪtiz/
Etymology: Representing the Latin Stȳlītēs and/or the Ancient Greek Στῡλῑ́της (Stūlī́tēs) in saints’ epithets borrowed or adapted in toto from those languages.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: an epithet of several saints revered as stylites
minimum descent altitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minimum descent altitudes
form: MDA
Senses: examples: text: The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the descent below Minimum Descent Altitude during a nonprecision approach under adverse operating conditions, without visual contact with the runway environment. The Board has been unable to determine the reason for this descent, although the two most likely explanations are (a) improper use of cockpit instrumentation data, or (b) an altimetry system error.
ref: 1972 April 14, National Transportation Safety Board, “2.2b Probable Cause”, in Aircraft Accident Report: Southern Airways, Inc. DC-9, N97S, Tri-State Airport, Huntington, West Virginia, November 14, 1970, archived from the original on 08 May 2022, page 36:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The lowest altitude at which an aircraft is permitted to fly during a non-precision approach without the runway being in clear sight.
Coordinate terms: decision height
missed approach point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The point during descent at which a pilot must initiate a go-around maneuver if the runway is not in clear sight.
controlled flight into terrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: controlled flights into terrain
form: CFIT
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A usually-unintentional crash of an aircraft in which the aircraft flies into the ground while under full control by its pilots or autopilot.
repose in action
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
phrenology
psychology
sciences
glosses: The state or quality in which a person exhibits willingness to act rather than talk.
URNs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of URN
karaoke box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: karaoke boxes
Senses: qualifier: chiefly Asia
glosses: A small room containing karaoke equipment that can be rented for a period of time.
karaoke boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of karaoke box
poecilostomatoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poecilostomatoid
nearshored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nearshore
cyclopoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclopoid
monstrilloids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monstrilloid
monstrilloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monstrilloids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any copepod in the order Monstrilloida.
poecilostomatoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poecilostomatoids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the order Poecilostomatoida of copepods.
dominatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dominatable
form: most dominatable
Etymology: From dominate + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Most important, as South Asian historian Ronald Inden relates, for empiricists and rationalists that role was "the unchangeable" and /or "the absolutely different" (and therefore inscrutable and dominatable), and, for romantics, the "spiritual or ideal" Other.
ref: 1992, Janelle G. Reinelt, Critical Theory and Performance, page 26:
text: By transposing Gianni Vattimo's philosophical concept of "transparency" onto the Italian Futurist movement, the author detects the Futurists' attempts to construct a "transparent woman," one who would be totally penetrable and dominatable.
ref: 1994, Giovanna Miceli Jeffries, Feminine Feminists: Cultural Practices in Italy:
text: The modern ontology, since the scientific revolution and the Enlightenment, is an idea of the world as a knowable, controllable, dominatable place.
ref: 2009, David Cayley, Ideas on the Nature of Science, page 89:
glosses: Capable of being dominated.
see someone right
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sees someone right
form: seeing someone right
form: saw someone right
form: seen someone right
Senses: examples: text: Throw those curtains wide; one day like this, a year would see me right.
ref: 2008, Elbow (band), One Day Like This (song)
glosses: to satisfy someone
seeing someone right
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of see someone right
saw someone right
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of see someone right
seen someone right
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of see someone right
thiefless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thief + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without thieves.
stolenness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stolen + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being stolen.
gotong-royong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gotong-royongs
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Malay gotong-royong.
Senses: examples: text: These [Housing and Development Board housing estates] must be the core areas where the concept of neighbourliness and the friendly smile and greeting can and must be promoted and the kampung spirit of ‘gotong royong’ preserved. [Quoting an editorial in the National Youth Leadership Training Institute Alumni’s newsletter.]
ref: 1978 December 7, “The good S’porean urged to set an example”, in The Straits Times, Singapore: Singapore Press Holdings, →OCLC, page 26, column 10:
glosses: Cooperation by members of a community to achieve a common goal.
glosses: An event where people clean up a place, such as sweeping and removing rubbish.
seent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Apparently seen with the past tense suffix -t.
Senses: examples: text: "And"—Skeeter glared at Casper with killer eyes—"I kin tell you sumpthin' too, Mistah White Boy. Skeeter don't scare, and Slim Willie don't neither! Whatever you seent Slim do that night in Argle, you ain't seent shit."
ref: 2008, Tracy Price-Thompson, A Woman's Worth, →ISBN, page 6:
qualifier: especially African-American Vernacular
glosses: simple past and past participle of see
properispomenal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: having a circumflex accent on the penultimate syllable
Related terms: properispomenon
properispome
cablese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cable + -ese.
Senses: glosses: The terse jargon used in telegrams, often with unconventional grammar.
Related terms: headlinese
golfese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From golf + -ese.
Senses: glosses: The jargon used by golf players and commentators.
Ruskinese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ruskin + -ese.
Senses: glosses: A style of writing characteristic of John Ruskin (1819-1900), English art critic.
Disraelitish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Disraelitish
form: most Disraelitish
Etymology: From Disraeli + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Benjamin Disraeli and his political tactics.
Mark Twainish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Mark Twainish
form: most Mark Twainish
Etymology: From Mark Twain + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Mark Twain or his writing style.
Synonyms: Twainish
Twainish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Twainish
form: most Twainish
Etymology: From Twain + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Mark Twainish
Dixie cup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dixie cups
form: Dixie Cup
form: dixie cup
Etymology: Originally a brand name, first used in 1919, after a line of dolls made by Alfred Schindler's Dixie Doll Company in New York.
Senses: examples: text: One day I was looking at a little girl eating a Dixie cup of strawberry ice cream.
ref: 2010, Carol D. Levine, Panic Child: A Harrowing True Story of Sexual Abuse, →ISBN, page 55:
glosses: A disposable paper cup, sometimes waxed, especially used for individual servings of iced desserts.
Dixie Cups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dixie Cup
Dixie cups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dixie cup
amphioxuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amphioxus
amphioxi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amphioxus
Korean mussel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Korean mussels
Senses: glosses: A mussel of species Mytilus coruscus, heavily used as a food item via mariculture in Korea and China.
Synonyms: sense: Mytilus coruscus
word: head-shelled mussel
Yesso scallop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yesso scallops
Senses: glosses: A Japanese scallop (Mizuhopecten yessoensis).
Related terms: yessotoxin
ESIA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ESIAs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Environmental and Social Impact Assessment.
Related terms: EIA
fibroses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: fibro- + -oses
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fibrose
obeses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obese
plenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plene
resinoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resinosis
ISTQB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of International Software Testing Qualifications Board.
Related terms: CTAL
CTFL
ASTQB
debruises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of debruise
debruising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of debruise
personise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: personises
form: personising
form: personised
form: personised
Etymology: From person + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: If you would make Fortune your friend, or, to personise her no longer, if you desire, my son, to be rich, and have money, be more eager to save than acquire : when people say, money is to be got here, and money is to be got there, take no notice; mind your own business; stay where you are, and secure all you can get without stirring.
ref: 1885, Oliver Goldsmith, J. W. M. Gibbs, The Works of Oliver Goldsmith:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of personize.
personises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of personise
personising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of personise
personised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of personise
transductor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transductors
Etymology: From Latin trānsductus + -or (“electrical component”).
Senses: examples: text: The essential feature is that two adjacent transformer tappings are connected to the load simultaneously, each connection having a self-excited transductor in series; [...].
ref: 1962 June, “Talking of Trains: Notable new locomotives”, in Modern Railways, page 373:
glosses: A kind of magnetic amplifier used in power systems for compensating reactive power.
Related terms: transductory
transductors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transductor
unvalenced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + valenced.
Senses: glosses: Not valenced.
nonvalenced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + valenced.
Senses: glosses: Not valenced.
parenchymatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of parenchymatous.
synonyms: word: parenchymatous
Derived terms: pseudoparenchymatic
inverse condemnation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inverse condemnations
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The taking of private property by the government without providing compensation, thus forcing the previous owner to file a lawsuit against the government to recover the value of the property taken.
Related terms: word: expropriation
word: compulsory purchase
word: eminent domain
Twittersphere
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Twittersphere
form: twittersphere
Etymology: From Twitter + -sphere.
Senses: examples: text: In news stories that had the Twittersphere absolutely buzzing (there's no better word for it), two of America's largest casual restaurant brands—Applebee's and Olive Garden—managed, in separate incidents, to serve alcoholic beverages to a fifteen-month-old and a two-year-old, respectively (alcoholic margarita mix in a sippy cup to the fifteen-month-old; sangria to the two-year-old), between late March and early April 2011.
ref: 2012, Micah Solomon, High-Tech, High-Touch Customer Service: Inspire Timeless Loyalty in the Demanding New World of Social Commerce, AMACOM, published 2012, →ISBN, page 95:
text: Following Benedict's departure, his successor, Francis, surged into the Twittersphere, sending several tweets weekly translated into nine different languages, even though he has admitted never having written anything but longhand and never having gotten used to writing on a computer.
ref: 2015, David Willey, The Promise of Francis: The Man, the Pope, and the Challenge of Change, Gallery Books, published 2015, →ISBN:
text: I also expect their followers will be quick to pick up the activist causes, and spread these "good causes" widely across the Twittersphere, […]
ref: 2016, P. David Marshall, Sean Redmond, A Companion to Celebrity, Wiley Blackwell, published 2016, →ISBN, page 243:
glosses: The totality of users and messages on the Twitter microblogging service.
Synonyms: tweetdom
tweetosphere
Twitterverse
Related terms: blogosphere
vlogosphere
tweetosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From tweet (“a Twitter post”) + -o- + -sphere.
Senses: glosses: The totality of users and messages on the Twitter microblogging service.
Synonyms: tweetdom
Twittersphere
Twitterverse
Related terms: blogosphere
vlogosphere
e-election
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-elections
Etymology: From e- + election.
Senses: glosses: An election held online, with participants voting remotely by means of computer technology.
e-elections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-election
e-campaign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-campaigns
Etymology: From e- + campaign.
Senses: glosses: A campaign carried out online by means of computer technology.
e-campaigning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From e- + campaigning.
Senses: glosses: campaigning carried out online by means of computer technology.
e-campaigns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-campaign
e-infrastructure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-infrastructures
Etymology: From e- + infrastructure.
Senses: glosses: computer technology infrastructure
e-infrastructures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-infrastructure
baker's percentage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baker's percentages
Senses: glosses: A measurement of the proportion of an ingredient to be used when making bread, cakes, etc., expressing the ingredient in parts per hundred as a ratio of the ingredient's mass to the total mass of flour.
sex ratios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sex ratio
Baker day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Baker days
Etymology: After Kenneth Baker, the minister who introduced them in 1988 as part of a series of education reforms.
Senses: topics: education
glosses: An INSET day.
Baker days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Baker day
INSET day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: INSET days
Etymology: Short for in-service training day.
Senses: topics: education
synonyms: Baker day
coordinate_terms: teacher workday
glosses: A day during term-time on which pupils do not attend school, but staff take part in training or complete administrative tasks.
Related terms: in-service
ISE
INSET days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of INSET day
RESTafarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RESTafarians
Etymology: Blend of REST + Rastafarian
Senses: examples: text: The RESTafarians — or REST zealots — are probably right that a RESTful approach is best for retrieving information, but it is obviously inappropriate whenever the remote procedure call has side effects.
ref: 2005, David Paul Megginson, Imperfect XML: Rants, Raves, Tips, and Tricks, page 124:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A programmer who uses REST (Representational State Transfer).
RESTafarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RESTafarian
untrailed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + trailed.
Senses: glosses: Not trailed.
postquestionnaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postquestionnaires
Etymology: From post- + questionnaire.
Senses: examples: text: In the postquestionnaire, 21 percent of participants described themselves as very knowledgeable about food safety and 70 percent described themselves as somewhat knowledgeable.
ref: 2009, Christina Melissa Moore, Integrating Food Safety Risk Assessment and Consumer-Focused Risk Communication, page 134:
glosses: A questionnaire completed after a task or exercise.
prequestionnaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prequestionnaires
Etymology: From pre- + questionnaire.
Senses: glosses: A questionnaire completed before a task or exercise.
prequestionnaires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prequestionnaire
postquestionnaires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postquestionnaire
listeriotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Listeria + -otic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to listeriosis.
blizzardly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blizzardly
form: most blizzardly
Etymology: From blizzard + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a blizzard.
baronetess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baronetesses
Etymology: From baronet + -ess.
Senses: glosses: The wife of a baronet.
glosses: A woman holding the rank of a baronet in her own right.
Related terms: Btss
baroness
baronetesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baronetess
apophatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apophatisms
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: A theory of approaching knowledge of God through negative rather than positive assertions.
Related terms: apophatic
tarbouches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tarbouche
restopubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of restopub
restobars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of restobar
crêpiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crêpier
Girondins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Girondin
slow poke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slow pokes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of slowpoke.
Phillotson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
unconvertable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unconvertable
form: most unconvertable
Etymology: From un- + convertable.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unconvertible.
polymedia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poly- + media.
Senses: examples: text: Four basic types of library systems are discussed: polymedia libraries, electronic libraries, digital libraries, and virtual libraries.
ref: 1996, Allen Kent, Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, volume 59:
text: Whereas price and availability influenced decisions about media use in the past, the digital era of polymedia socialises media, according to Madianou and Miller.
ref: 2013, Deborah Chambers, Social Media and Personal Relationships:
glosses: media available in multiple forms
futurization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌfjuːt͡ʃəɹaɪ̯ˈzeɪʃən/
Forms: form: futurisation
Etymology: From future + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of futurizing.
oral history
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oral histories
Senses: topics: historiography
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The collection and study of historical information about individuals, families, important events, or everyday life using audiotapes, videotapes, or transcriptions of planned interviews.
glosses: Oral tradition.
oral histories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oral history
oral tradition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oral traditions
Senses: glosses: Cultural material transmitted orally from one generation to another.
Synonyms: oral lore
Related terms: oral history
orality
oral lore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oral lores
Senses: glosses: oral tradition
oral lores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oral lore
oral traditions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oral tradition
FUPAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of FUPA
dark-haired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dark-haired
form: darker-haired
form: most dark-haired
form: darkest-haired
form: darkhaired
Etymology: From dark + haired.
Senses: examples: text: And M. [Henri-François-Alphonse] Esquiros, in describing the Dutch generally, speaks of beauties both blondes and brunettes, ‘for black hair is not uncommon in the Netherlands.’ These words seem to imply that black hair does not preponderate; and, if not, there must be a marked difference between the Dutch and the English. Here again is confirmation of the opinion that the modern English are somewhat more dark-haired than the ancient Saxons.
ref: 1866, Luke Owen Pike, “The Evidence of Physical Characteristics”, in The English and Their Origin. A Prologue to Authentic English History., London: Longmans, Green, and Co., pages 145–146:
text: Perhaps people felt by some form of symbolism or imitative magic that if the very first foot over the threshold was that of a dark-haired man, so might that hearth be safe for a whole year from the marauding Northmen. We listened to the chimes of Big Ben on the radio, and then as the last notes of the Old Year died away, Humphrey, who was the darkest-haired man present, ran to the door so as to come in and first foot us.
ref: 1968, Cherry Evans [pseudonym; Cherry Drummond, 16th Baroness Strange], Creatures Great and Small, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN, page 88:
text: Maura was sixteen, with the Salter good looks. Darker-haired than her big sister Bridie, but she had the same soft grace.
ref: 2017, James Patterson with Alison Joseph, The Exile, New York, N.Y.: BookShots / Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 48:
glosses: Having hair of a dark color, usually dark brown.
hand, foot and mouth disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hand, foot, and mouth disease
form: hand-foot-and-mouth disease
form: hand, foot, mouth disease
form: hand-foot-mouth disease
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: word: HFMD
glosses: An infection in humans caused by a group of enteroviruses, typically characterized by a mild fever followed by a rash of flat discoloured spots and bumps that may blister, most commonly on the hands, feet and mouth.
Related terms: foot-and-mouth disease
concavously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more concavously
form: most concavously
Etymology: From concavous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: concavely
FIUs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of FIU
Euler-Lagrange equation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Euler-Lagrange equations
Etymology: Named after the Swiss mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler (1707–1783), and the Italian-born French mathematician and astronomer Joseph Louis Lagrange (1736–1813).
Senses: topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: analytical mechanics
glosses: A differential equation which describes a function mathbf q(t) which describes a stationary point of a functional, S( mathbf q)=∫L(t, mathbf q(t), mathbf ̇q(t)),dt, which represents the action of mathbf q(t), with L representing the Lagrangian. The said equation (found through the calculus of variations) is ∂L/∂ mathbf q=d/dt∂L/∂ mathbf ̇q and its solution for mathbf q(t) represents the trajectory of a particle or object, and such trajectory should satisfy the principle of least action.
wikipedia: Joseph Louis Lagrange
Leonhard Euler
padesoys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of padesoy
paduasoys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paduasoy
sawce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sawces
Senses: examples: text: Thy wit is a very Bitter-ſweeting, / It is a moſt ſharpe ſawce.
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv], page 62:
text: Thou art all for inlandish meat, and outlandish sawces […]
ref: 1657, Thomas Reeve, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: Obsolete spelling of sauce.
sawce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sawces
form: sawcing
form: sawced
form: sawced
Senses: examples: text: Meales, uſually ſavvced vvith a healthfull hunger, vvherein no incocted Crudities oppreſſe Nature, and cheriſh diſeaſe: […]
ref: 1645, Jos[eph] Hall, “Sect[ion] XII. Consideration of the Benefits of Poverty.”, in The Remedy of Discontentment: Or, A Treatise of Contentation in whatsoever Condition: […], London: […] J. G. for Nath[aniel] Brooks, […], published 1652, →OCLC, page 61:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of sauce.
sawces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sawce
Glocestershire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: ref: 1796, William Marshall, The Rural Economy of Glocestershire:
glosses: Obsolete form of Gloucestershire.
Sp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Abbreviation.
Senses: glosses: Spanish (language)
glosses: September
ujjayi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit उज्जायी (ujjāyī, literally “one who is victorious”).
Senses: qualifier: yoga
glosses: A diaphragmatic breath technique used in a variety of Taoist and yoga practices.
academic question
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: academic questions
Senses: examples: text: Well, I'm afraid it's an academic question anyway because there won't be any five thousand dollars the way things look.
ref: 2011, George Harmon Coxe, chapter 8, in Moment of Violence:
glosses: A question that is only of interest to academic scholars; a question of no practical importance.
academic questions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of academic question
Elohists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Elohist
Jehovists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jehovist
harvestries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harvestry
twaining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of twain
twained
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of twain
entwinedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From entwined + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being entwined.
influencings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of influencing
ferronnière
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferronnières
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French ferronnière
Senses: glosses: A headband that encircles the wearer's forehead, usually with a small jewel suspended in the centre.
romantic orientation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: romantic orientations
Senses: examples: text: There are more romantic orientations than simple homoromanticism and heteroromanticism.
glosses: The tendencies of a person's romantic attraction, considered as a whole, often as opposed to sexual attractions.
Related terms: sexual orientation
asexual
asexuality
sexual preference
sexuality
romantic orientations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of romantic orientation
bains-marie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bain-marie
biromantics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biromantic
biromanticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From biromantic + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The state of being biromantic.
Related terms: bisexuality
asexuality
homoromanticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From homoromantic + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: For example, analysis of Thoreau's poem “Sympathy” (“Lately, alas, I knew a gentle boy") is enriched by considering its homoromanticism.
ref: 1993, Arthur Lipkin, "The Case for a Gay and Lesbian Curriculum", The High School Journal, Volume 77, Number 1/2, October/November 1993 - December 1993/January 1994, page 103
text: In Smallville’s teen fantasy, the themes of alienation and the search for identity easily transmute into homoromanticism and sympathetic queerness.
ref: 2005, Louisa Ellen Stein, "'They Cavort, You Decide': Transgenericism, Queerness, and Fan Interpretation in Teen TV", Spectator, Volume 25, Issue 1, Spring 2005, page 21
text: 2006, "The homoromanticism of Sufjan Stevens' little ditties", The Georgia Straight, 2 December 2006 (used in title only)
glosses: The state of being being romantically attracted to the same gender.
Related terms: homosexual