cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
dog napping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dog nap
dog napped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dog nap
Banagher
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Irish Beannchar.
Senses: glosses: A town in County Offaly, Ireland.
psychologizings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psychologizing
psychologization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychologizations
Senses: glosses: Psychological analysis or interpretation.
psychologizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psychologization
BIR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It's one of the secret ingredients that makes BIR curries what they are. You will use it in almost all of the classic curries in this book. The flavours of cumin, coriander, paprika and turmeric are in most BIR curries […]
ref: 2017, Dan Toombs, The Curry Guy:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Initialism of British Indian restaurant.
BIR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: Initialism of Bureau of Internal Revenue (Philippines).
bhunao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bhuna (“type of curry”).
overcomplicatedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From overcomplicated + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being overcomplicated.
tut-tutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tut-tutters
Etymology: From tut-tut + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who tut-tuts.
deza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Deza, as it’s called for short, is the original “fake news,”
ref: 2017, John R. Schindler, The Observer:
text: 2020, Marcy Wheeler, Empty Wheel https://www.emptywheel.net/2020/01/02/deza-oleg-deripaskas-double-game/
Deza: Oleg Deripaska’s Double Game
glosses: Clipping of dezinformatsiya (“disinformation”).
tut-tutters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tut-tutter
tut-tutting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tut-tut
tut-tutted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tut-tut
tut-tuts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tut-tut
gighouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gighouses
form: gig-house
form: gig house
Etymology: From gig + house.
Senses: examples: text: In Reg. v. Coots, 2 Cox C. C. (Eng) 188, two boys were found concealed in a corn bin in an open gighouse, half a mile from the house in which the burglary was committed.
ref: 1911, The American and English Annotated Cases, page 1287:
text: The most significant exception to this is the gighouse added to the west end of the building.
ref: 2013, John Steane, James Ayres, Traditional Buildings in the Oxford Region, page 298:
text: And their stout ship, rigged for Antacrctic waters, was a raft constructed from weatherboard offcuts the builders had left stacked behind the stable and gighouse, now lashed to half a dozen firmly sealed kerosene tins.
ref: 2017, Fiona Farrell, Decline and Fall on Savage Street, →ISBN, page 24:
glosses: A building for keeping a gig (horse-drawn carriage) when not in use; carriage house.
gighouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gighouse
gig-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gig-houses
Senses: examples: text: The entrance to the loft ought to be by a ladder outside, or by stairs from the gig-house.
ref: 1838, John Claudius Loudon, The suburban gardener, and villa companion, page 82:
text: Because whe had put off telling her mother that they intended to take it — a slight weariness at having to explain her flimsiest actions year in and year out had produced its own little pall of dishonesty (she found actual lying forced up an almost physical nausea inside her, so she now shied away from that and relied entirely on silence with its mixed bag of answers), they eased the vehicle from the gig-house with an apprehensive casualness.
ref: 2012, Ronald Blythe, A Treasonable Growth:
glosses: Alternative form of gighouse.
gig-houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gig-house
gig house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gig houses
Senses: examples: text: If no additional space was available, the gig house was also used to store harness for the gig and for riding horses.
ref: 2003, Geoffrey Stell, John Shaw, Susan Storrier, Scottish Life and Society: Scotland's buildings, page 432:
text: Despite the mist created by the rain, she could easily make out the two fishermen winching their boat up on to the beach, and an old woman in a headscarf, scurrying past the pub with her dog, then popping something into the letterbox that was set into the wall of the gig house.
ref: 2012, Susan Lewis, Wicked Beauty, page 630:
glosses: Alternative form of gighouse.
gig houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gig house
sugarbags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sugar bags
form: sugar-bags
Senses: glosses: plural of sugarbag
pinman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinmen
Etymology: From pin + -man.
Senses: examples: text: The modern haberdasher has swallowed up the mercer, the draper, the skinner, among the ancient trades, and the hosier, the glover, the needlemaker, the pinman, and we know not how many more, among more modern trades.
ref: 1850, The Gentleman's Magazine - Volume 187, page 27:
text: The second pinman, similarly equipped, also accompanies the surveyor, and relieves the first when the pins of the latter are used up.
ref: 1870, Extracts from the Manual of Signals: Signal Service Drills, page 32:
text: In substance, it was alleged that appellee and two other members of a switch crew were engaged in transferring cars from one switch track to another, and that as he was walking upon and near the end of the last car but one, the pinman, as he is designated in the testimony, without notice or warning uncoupled the last car and signaled the engineer to reverse the movement of the train, which was suddenly done, thus throwing appellee forward and off the car.
ref: 1912, The Texas Civil Appeals Reports:
text: Of course, we sent a bunch of pretty good pinmen to Berlin in 1936 for all-out bowling war.
ref: 1942, The American Legion Magazine - Volumes 32-33:
text: The lay-out cat maneuvered, snorting and starting and stopping, and the pinman bobbed on and off, unhooking the wagons one by one.
ref: 2003, Edward Hoagland, Cat Man, page 56:
text: When the hole was drilled, the pinman slipped a 6 x 6 inch steel plate with a hole in the center over the end of a 4-foot, steel-ribbed glue pin, pushing it down to the head of the pin.
ref: 2009, Michael D. Guillerman, Face Boss, page 77:
glosses: One whose job involves working with pins (any sense).
examples: text: A red pinman means wait, a green pinman means cross, and he flashes when the crossing period is ending.
ref: 1969, The Irish Law Times and Solicitors' Journal - Volume 102, page 26:
text: Teacher divides the class into pairs and hands them cards bearing pinmen pictures showing passive actions.
ref: 1988, Ariel - Volume 13, page 53:
text: Here they were, tiny pinmen, on a suburban verandah, caught up in the tail of a comet 14 million miles away.
ref: 2017, Fiona Farrell, Decline and Fall on Savage Street, →ISBN, page 27:
glosses: A rudimentary drawing of a figure, such as a stick figure.
pinmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinman
Plymouths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Plymouth
Panipat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi पानीपत (pānīpat), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀧𑀡𑁆𑀡𑀧𑀢𑁆𑀢 (paṇṇapatta) or 𑀧𑀦𑁆𑀦𑀧𑀢𑁆𑀢 (pannapatta), from Sanskrit पाण्डुप्रस्थ (pāṇḍuprastha, “City of Pāṇḍu”), from पाण्डु (pāṇḍu, “A character from the Mahabharata”) and प्रस्थ (prastha, “city”).
Senses: glosses: A city and district of Haryana, India, where three important battles were fought.
lip-service
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: 41 year-old Thupten from Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture confirmed this threat of punishment. “The people in my area were very discontent when an election was announced. We knew that the candidates selected had already been carefully vetted by higher Chinese officials, and that our ‘voting’ was mere lip-service to Chinese claims of democracy, but we did it anyway.
ref: 2000 September 24, “Corrupt and Farcical Elections”, in Racial Discrimination in Tibet, Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, →OCLC, page 116:
glosses: Alternative form of lip service.
bacanora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bacanoras
Etymology: From Spanish bacanora, from the name of the Mexican town Bacanora.
Senses: examples: text: “Well,” he calls out, “that Daisy mare musta foaled by now. Come on in and we'll knock back another bottle of bacanora to celebrate.”
“You and your goddam bacanora,” Ole Man Benson yells, shaking his fist up at my Ole Man.
ref: 1989, Charles S. Park, Conflict at the Border: True Tales Of a U.S. Customs Border Officer!, Phoenix, AZ: Golden West Publishers, →ISBN, page 87:
glosses: A Mexican alcoholic beverage distilled from agave plants, made in the state of Sonora.
wikipedia: bacanora
black gram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black grams
Senses: glosses: A bean from the seed of Vigna mungo, native to the Indian subcontinent.
Synonyms: sense: bean from Vigna mungo
word: mungo bean
sense: bean from Vigna mungo
word: urad
sense: bean from Vigna mungo
word: urad dal
sense: bean from Vigna mungo
word: urad bean
sense: bean from Vigna mungo
word: black matpe bean
black grams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black gram
Castlecomer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in County Kilkenny, Ireland.
Mountmellick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Irish.
Senses: glosses: A town in County Laois, Ireland.
Mountmellick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Irish.
Senses: glosses: A floral whitework embroidery originating in the town of Mountmellick in County Laois, Ireland, in the early 19th century.
Kildangan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Irish.
Senses: glosses: A village in County Kildare, Ireland.
Maganey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Irish Maigh Géine.
Senses: glosses: A village in County Kildare, Ireland.
Gowran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Irish.
Senses: glosses: A small town in County Kilkenny, Ireland.
Dekhan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Dekhan
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Deccan.
Bennettsbridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in County Kilkenny, Ireland.
blood avenger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blood avengers
form: blood-avenger
form: avenger of blood
Etymology: Eventually probably after Biblical Hebrew גֹּאֵל דָם (gōʾēl dām).
Senses: glosses: one who takes revenge on behalf of a killed person, as in a blood feud
Related terms: blood vengeance
Ballyhale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Irish.
Senses: glosses: A village in County Kilkenny, Ireland (Irish grid ref S 5435).
Mullinavat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Irish.
Senses: glosses: A small town in County Kilkenny, Ireland.
Arklow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old Norse.
Senses: glosses: A town in County Wicklow, Ireland.
sharp elbows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Inequality rampant? Greater scope for middle-class parents (like teachers and politicians) to use their sharp elbows?
ref: 2006 January 9, Peter Preston, “Wretched systems”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A willingness to sacrifice others to advance one's own ambitions.
Related terms: sharp-elbowed
Hazelhatch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An area on the border between South Dublin, County Dublin and County Kildare, Ireland (Irish grid ref N 9831).
flavorwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From flavor + wood.
Senses: examples: text: The 63-page booklet gives ideas on special forest products from speciality wood products such as wooden bowls, fencing, curios, novelties and rustic furniture to other products as varied as flavorwood chips for barbecuing […]
ref: 1964, Oregon Recreation Views, number 12, page 1965:
text: Apart from charcoal, a number of small entrepreneurs have tried entering the cooking wood (also called smokewood or flavorwood) business in the past few years.
ref: 1993, Margaret G. Thomas, Income Opportunities in Special Forest Products, page 45:
text: The U.S. Forest Service has information on income opportunities in special forest products with ideas ranging from aromatics (such as birch oil and cedar leaf oil) to flavorwood (like hickory and oak).
ref: 1997, Alabama's Treasured Forests, volumes 16-18, page 15:
glosses: Wood that is intended impart a particular flavor to food when used for cooking.
dauntings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daunting
Sighthill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban area in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland (OS grid ref NT1971).
glosses: An urban area in the city of Glasgow, Scotland (OS grid ref NS6066).
Castlemilk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban area in the City of Glasgow council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS6059).
glosses: A locality south of Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NY1577).
King's Park
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kings Park
Senses: glosses: A park and residential subdivision of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
examples: text: Aug. 19 is the Festival of Hungry Ghosts. In addition to people burning paper offerings on most street corners, there will be Chinese opera and the burning of large paper effigies on Moreton Terrace in Causeway Bay and King's Park in Kowloon (Mass Transit Railway to Jordan Road).
ref: 1986 July 27, William Schwalbe, “WHAT'S DOING IN; HONG KONG”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015, Travel, page 10:
text: On a drizzly afternoon, Tobias Zuser met Andrew Barisić after his training session at King’s Park, right in the heart of Kowloon, to talk about his first trophy, the disputed pitch at Hong Kong Stadium, the quality of local football, the potential of the Premier League, as well as his club’s ambitious plans in the coming years.
ref: 2016 February 25, “‘We deserve to win the title’: Interview with Eastern striker Andrew Barisić”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 07 Apr 2024, Hong Kong:
glosses: A neighbourhood of Yau Ma Tei, Yau Tsim Mong district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
glosses: A park and district of Glasgow, Scotland (OS grid ref NS5960).
Croftfoot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban area in the City of Glasgow council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS6060).
ladderman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laddermen
Etymology: From ladder + -man.
Senses: examples: text: Back in his office, Tony Spivak received a call from the ladderman at the casino where Peggy had won so heavily at baccarat.
ref: 1979, Ian Andersen, The Big Night, page 184:
glosses: A casino employee who supervises the baccarat table from a tall chair, watching for cheating etc.
laddermen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ladderman
mini-baccarat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mini- + baccarat.
Senses: topics: card-games
games
glosses: A version of baccarat played at smaller tables for lower stakes, and having some differences in the rules.
radiation lampshade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiation lampshades
Etymology: From its lampshade-like shape.
Senses: glosses: A device whose readings, when coordinated from several sites, can be used to determine the exact position of an atomic blast.
radiation lampshades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radiation lampshade
land art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Artworks created from, and sited within, the natural environment.
earth art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of land art.
synonyms: word: land art
L&W
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: If one's parents are still living with only minor health concerns, the examiner may note the parents as L&W (living and well).
ref: 2017, Peggy C. Leonard, Building a Medical Vocabulary - E-Book, page 144:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of living and well.
A&O
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of alert and oriented.
cat-napping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cat-nap
cat-napped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cat-nap
late-blooming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Being a late bloomer; attaining maturity or success comparatively late in life.
cat napping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cat nap
cat napped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cat nap
Culpin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
cat-napper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cat-nappers
Senses: examples: text: Do not, however, include your cat's name because hearing it uttered could cause it to trust a potential cat-napper.
ref: 2003, Clare Gibson, The cat-care handbook, page 153:
text: Unfortunately for me, I had promised my wife Mary that I would tend to Maureen during the night time since she had to chase Brendan and Katherine during the daylight hours. Maureen proved to be a cat-napper who cried for my help every two hours.
ref: 2008, Richard Joseph O'Prey, Recollections in Tranquility:
text: The cat-napper could have koi fish in a different neighborhood.
ref: 2015, Linda Joy Singleton, Curious Cat Spy Club:
glosses: Alternative form of catnapper.
cat-nappers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cat-napper
cat napper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cat nappers
Senses: examples: text: The fact that a cat napper very frequently sees game near-by immediately upon awakening is a very good indication that nearly everyone moves too much while on a stand.
ref: 1977, Tom Hayes, How to hunt the whitetail deer:
text: Jim was convinced the cat napper would be nabbed with a mouthful of prime rib.
ref: 1988, Monk - Issues 6-13, page 356:
text: The recent disappearance of Mrs. Pickles' cat, Fluffykins, sparked local rumors that a cat napper was at work in Mossy Creek.
ref: 2009, Deborah Smith, Debra Dixon, Carolyn McSparren, Critters Of Mossy Creek, page 191:
glosses: Alternative form of catnapper.
cat nappers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cat napper
cyanonickelates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyanonickelate
cyanonickelate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyanonickelates
Etymology: From cyano- + nickelate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound containing an anion composed of nickel and cyanide ligands.
Derived terms: tetracyanonickelate
hexacyanonickelate
tetracyanonickelate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetracyanonickelates
Etymology: From tetra- + cyano- + nickelate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound containing an anion composed of nickel and four cyanide ligands. [Ni(CN)₄]²⁻
leg art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: At about that time even the tabloid newspapers began to play down sex, crime, and leg art in favor of such great problems as labor and management, the cost of living, and the spread of fascism.
ref: 1948, Armed Forces Talk, number 230, page 1:
text: The legendary filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille never asked his actresses to pose for purposeless leg art.
ref: 2013, Brett Kiser, The Pin-Up Girls of World War II:
synonyms: cheesecake
glosses: Suggestive pictures of scantily clad young women.
hexacyanonickelate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hexa- + cyano- + nickelate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound containing an anion composed of nickel and six cyanide ligands. [Ni(CN)₆]⁴⁻
dog-napper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dog-nappers
Senses: examples: text: Whether true or not, this kind of plea may heighten the public's compassion and dampen the potential dog-napper's notion of a big-money reward for your beloved "expensive" purebred dog.
ref: 1998, Nona Kilgore Bauer, Traveling with Dogs, page 11:
text: Hell, by this time, the dog-napper could have caught a plane to the north of Australia and be rounding up kangaroos to slaughter for fun along the Dingo-proof and may never be found.
ref: 2012, June Whyte, Muzzled:
text: I still feel that the dog-napper should have to pay me for my loss or serve some time for his actions.
ref: 2018, James R. Black, What I Wish I Had Learned in Seminary:
glosses: Alternative form of dognapper.
dog-nappers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dog-napper
dog napper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dog nappers
Senses: examples: text: "You're a dog napper!" said Gwen.
ref: 1980, D. Clymer, Lizard to Start With, page 135:
text: Nor did we ever have to worry about some dog napper trying to make off with Christopher.
ref: 1996, Richard G. Beauchamp, Doberman Pinscher: An Owner's Guide to Happy Healthy Pet, page 31:
text: I'll contact you again on where to bring the money.” Was all the dog napper said before he hung up the phone.
ref: 2017, Andrew (Yie) Roberts, Pitts:
glosses: Alternative form of dognapper.
dog nappers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dog napper
lens louse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lens lice
Senses: examples: text: Not all the lens lice are in front of the camera. The old "front page" tradition still lingers in our business. There are enough bald-headed, cigar-smoking, visor-decked, hard-drinking city editors to keep the legend alive inside the newsroom.
ref: 1956, ABA Journal, volume 42, number 9, page 845:
text: Just lens lice for the society photographers.
ref: 2013, Stuart Palmer, Nipped in the Bud:
topics: journalism
media
glosses: A person who tries to get into photographs for the sake of publicity.
lens lice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lens louse
lenser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lensers
Etymology: From lens + -er.
Senses: examples: text: It looks as though a group of amateur lensers had shot it off the cuff. Even some underwater pictures are hazy, sloppy and dull.
ref: 1949, The New York Times Film Reviews, volume 4, page 2822:
text: Stunning location photography was the work of at least four ace silent film lensers […]
ref: 1989, Variety Film Reviews, volume 21:
glosses: The person who shoots a film.
Related terms: lensing
lensers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lenser
dibromobenzene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dibromobenzenes
Etymology: From di- + bromo- + benzene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound containing two bromine atoms connected to a benzene ring.
Taplow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English *Tæppa + hlæw (“mound”), meaning "Tæppa's barrow." The personal name could be from the adjective top (“top, crest”) (from Proto-West Germanic *topp). See Taplow burial.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, previously in South Bucks district (OS grid ref SU9182).
wikipedia: Taplow burial
dibromobenzenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dibromobenzene
trithioacetone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tri- + thio- + acetone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound containing six methyl groups attached to a 1,3,5-trithiane ring used as a flavouring agent; also known as 2,2,4,4,6,6-hexamethyl-1,3,5-trithiane.
liquid cosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liquid coshes
Senses: glosses: A tranquilizer drug in liquid form.
liquid coshes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liquid cosh
toffeeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of toffee
toffeed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of toffee
living sculpture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: living sculptures
Senses: glosses: Any kind of sculpture created with living, growing plants, such as grasses, vines, or trees.
living sculptures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of living sculpture
toffee hammer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toffee hammers
Senses: glosses: A very small hammer designed for breaking up sheets or slabs of hard toffee.
glosses: Any small hammer, for example in orthopedics or construction.
toffee hammers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toffee hammer
English toffee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A kind of buttery toffee, either chewy or hard, often made with almonds.
winter-bound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more winter-bound
form: most winter-bound
Senses: examples: text: If the Skaldi are overly fond of wagering, bickering and drinking among themselves, I learned why: When the men are winter-bound in the confines of the great hall, there is naught else to be done.
ref: 2002, Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart:
text: The Commons teemed with airily dressed mothers and unjacketed businessmen, the emotional gloom of a winter-bound populace exposed by the sun to be as seasonally fragile as ice.
ref: 2008, Heidi Julavits, The Uses of Enchantment, page 351:
text: But all the eating up of shoo-fly pie, and the cooking up of gauzy cumuli of pink candy, and the toffeeing of crab apples, couldn't hide the fact that we were winter-bound.
ref: 2012, Elizabeth Lowry, The Bellini Madonna:
text: They walked for miles each day, in the churches, galleries and alleys of a winter-bound Venice largely free of tourists, happy in their own company.
ref: 2013, Paul Kildea, Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century:
glosses: Hampered, curtailed, or trapped by winter weather.
Fort Matilda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Greenock, Inverclyde council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS2577).
dustbug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dustbugs
Etymology: From dust + bug.
Senses: examples: text: The dustbug or groove-tracking type (there are different models for turntables and changers) sweeps the groove ahead of the stylus and the dust flicked out by a tiny brush is absorbed by a chemically treated pad.
ref: 1961, Stereo, page 73:
text: They are played with a clean 'dustbug' always, on spotless, high quality equipment, are returned immediately to both sleeves and are given an extra polythene cover.
ref: 1968, Records and Recording - Volume 12:
text: Use a record brush (such as a Decca carbon fiber brush or the Discwasher record cleaning system) before and after play, and a “dustbug" (for example, Decca, also) during.
ref: 1976, Parks - Volumes 1-5, page 19:
glosses: A dust control device for use with a record player that sweeps dust from in front of the needle onto an absorbent pad.
dustbugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dustbug
ADUC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of Active Directory Users & Computers.
kymatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cymatic.
kymatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cymatics.
British Jubaland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former province of British East Africa; now the regional state of Jubaland
Christleton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ4465).
living chambers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of living chamber
traveling crane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traveling cranes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of travelling crane.
traveling cranes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of traveling crane
cyberactive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cyberactive
form: most cyberactive
Etymology: From cyber- + active.
Senses: examples: text: Cyberdesign is what design becomes when it is supported by cyberactive systems.
ref: 1995, Derrick De Kerckhove, Christopher Dewdney, The Skin of Culture Investigating: The New Electronic Reality, page 93:
text: The enthusiasm of cyberactive advocacy NGOs is often reflected in their agendas. Even single-issue organisations, devoted to particular societal or environmental concerns, additionally aim at improving information, education, discussion […]
ref: 2006, Sarah Oates, Diana Owen, Rachel K. Gibson, The Internet and Politics: Citizens, Voters and Activists, page 156:
text: Meanwhile, Microsoft has recently launched a new advertising campaign in print and on the Internet in which it touts its visionary business acumen and proclaims its stake in a globalized, cyberactive financescape: […]
ref: 2012, Joe Parker, Ranu Samantrai, Mary Romero, Interdisciplinarity and Social Justice:
glosses: Active in cyberspace or on the Internet.
Related terms: cyberactivism
cyberactivist
cyberactivity
North Rode
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish in Cheshire East district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ8966).
Related terms: Odd Rode
route redistribution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The exchange of routing information, on a router, between different routing protocols.
Clemsons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Clemson
plug cut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: [H]is hard jaw worked slowly upon a generous mouthful of plug cut.
ref: 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 4:
glosses: Compressed chewing tobacco.
Clemsoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Clemson
Clemsoning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Clemsonings
Senses: glosses: An act of delivering an inexplicably disappointing performance.
Clemsoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Clemson
Kingham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in West Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP2624).
glosses: A surname.
Salovey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Saloveys
form: Salovei
form: Solloway
form: Solovay
form: Solovei
form: Solovey
form: Soloway
Etymology: From Belarusian салавей (salavjej, “nightingale”) or Russian соловей (solovej, “nightingale”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
gravity well
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gravity wells
Etymology: From gravity + well,
Senses: examples: text: Altanorch is a small but typical hydrogen-helium gas giant with no outstanding features. Its combination of strong magnetic field and relatively shallow gravity well make it a popular "stopover" world for discharging FTL drive cores.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Altanorch:
synonyms: gravitational well
glosses: The area of space around a celestial body that is dominated by the body's gravitational field.
Soloway
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Soloways
form: Salovei
form: Salovey
form: Solloway
form: Solovay
form: Solovei
form: Solovey
Etymology: From Ukrainian соловей (solovej, “nightingale”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Ukrainian.
Solloway
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Solloways
form: Salovei
form: Salovey
form: Solovay
form: Solovei
form: Solovey
form: Soloway
Etymology: From Ukrainian соловей (solovej, “nightingale”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Ukrainian.
pissed as a parrot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Very drunk.
Synonyms: drunk
Solovay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Solovays
form: Salovei
form: Salovey
form: Solloway
form: Solovei
form: Solovey
form: Soloway
Etymology: From Ukrainian соловей (solovej, “nightingale”) or Russian соловей (solovej, “nightingale”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Ukrainian.
Solovey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Soloveys
form: Salavey
form: Salovei
form: Salovey
form: Solloway
form: Solovay
form: Solovei
form: Soloway
Etymology: From Ukrainian соловей (solovej, “nightingale”) or Russian соловей (solovej, “nightingale”).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Соловей (Solovej)
glosses: A transliteration of the Russian surname Соловей (Solovej)
Salovei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Saloveis
form: Salovey
form: Solloway
form: Solovay
form: Solovei
form: Solovey
form: Soloway
Etymology: From Belarusian салавей (salavjej, “nightingale”) or Russian соловей (solovej, “nightingale”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Yanling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yěnʹlǐngʹ
Forms: form: Yenling
form: Yen-ling
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鄢陵 (Yānlíng).
Senses: examples: text: As suggested by the Yenling County party committee and approved by the Honan party committee, the Hsuchang prefectural party committee decided to adopt disciplinary measures against (Peng Fang-hsin) and others. It also decided to expell (Chen Wen-chin) from the party and dismiss him from the post as deputy chief of the Yenling County Culture and Education Bureau.
ref: [1978 February 22 [1978 February 18], “Honan CCP Committee Dismisses County First Secretary”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 36, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Chengchow Honan Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, Central-South Region, page H 1:
text: Six men in Yanling county, Henan province, who together caught almost 1,700 wild geckos, have each been fined 2,000 yuan (HK$2,500) for illegal hunting, Dahe Daily reports.
ref: 2014 December 22, Pinghui Zhuang, “Chinese men fined for catching almost 1,700 protected wild geckos in one night”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 23 Dec 2014:
text: Christian worshipers pray during a Christmas service at a village church in Yanling county, Xuchang city, central China's Henan province, in a file photo.
ref: 2018 September 5, Yang Fan, Luisetta Mudie, “Protestant Churches in China's Henan Hit by Dawn Police Raids”, in Luisetta Mudie, transl., edited by Luisetta Mudie, Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 05 Sep 2018:
glosses: A county of Xuchang, Henan, China.
Xuchang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shüʹchängʹ
Forms: form: Hsuchang
form: Hsu-ch'ang
form: Hsü-ch'ang
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 許昌 /许昌 (Xǔchāng).
Senses: examples: text: The following autumn Rev. Edwins, in company with Rev. Landahl of the Hauge Mission, fared forth on Chinese carts for central Honan, finally arriving, after many dangers and vicissitudes on the way, at Hsüchow (now Hsüchang) on the Peking-Hankow Railroad.
ref: [1938 December, Gustav Carlberg, The Story of Our China Mission, Board of Foreign Missions of the Augustana Synod, →OCLC, page 6:
text: Moving to Hsu-ch’ang (Xuchang) in 1906, Edwins obtained a foothold in Loyang (Luoyang), Jiaxian, and other strategic centers, where land and property were purchased and groundwork was laid for future expansion. In 1910 the first nine converts were baptized in Hsu-ch’ang.
ref: 1998, James. A. Scherer, “Edwins, August W(illiam)”, in Gerald H. Anderson, editor, Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 196:
text: Chiang habitually failed to take the advice of competent strategists. One especially harmful display of this tendency came in 1948 when, against the advice of his staff and American advisers, he massed more than fifty divisions around Hsuchang to prevent Communist forces from dominating central China. The result was a complete disaster in which 550,000 Nationalist soldiers were lost, an estimated 325,000 as prisoners.
ref: [2007, Brian Taylor, “Chiang Kai-shek and the Loss of China”, in Washington College International Studies Review, volume IV, page 72:
text: The police in the Henan city of Xuchang said on Monday that they were investigating a criminal gang headed by a man named Lu Yi whom they say may have used Henan New Fortune Group to amass control of the rural banks, and used fictitious loans to illegally transfer funds.
ref: 2022 July 11, Zixu Wang, Austin Ramzy, “Security Forces in China Attack Protesters Seeking Frozen Funds”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Jul 2022, Business:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Henan, China.
brown envelope journalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The practice of offering bribes to journalists in exchange for positive press coverage.
brown envelope syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The prevalence of "brown envelope journalism", i.e. bribing journalists for positive press coverage.
sea skimming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The practice of a missile or aircraft flying as low as possible, minimizing the range at which it can be detected by a target at sea.
Related terms: sea skimmer
sea skimmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea skimmers
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A missile or aircraft that engages in sea skimming.
sea skimmers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea skimmer
lunchtime abortion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lunchtime abortions
Etymology: So called because the procedure might conceivably be performed within the patient's lunchbreak.
Senses: examples: text: Aitken testified, "In recent years I personally have been involved in fights to prevent the State Health Service from closing down baby care facilities and opening 'lunchtime abortion clinics' instead."
ref: 1983, Family Protection Report, volume 5:
text: Abortion became so much easier. I remember Germaine Greer wildly proclaiming to the women of the world that here was another new thing that was going to liberate women further, and that was the lunchtime abortion.
ref: 1986, Mary Kenny, Abortion: the whole story, page 287:
text: "We are already seeing an increase in post-abortion trauma in women who have had 'quickie' lunchtime abortions", he said, "as they have had insufficient time truly to consider the options available to them."
ref: 2000, The Tablet, page 398:
glosses: A conveniently available abortion, performed under local anesthetic soon after the onset of pregnancy.
lunchtime abortions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lunchtime abortion
unthreateningness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unthreatening + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unthreatening.
Stirling partition number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Stirling partition numbers
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Synonym of Stirling number of the second kind.
synonyms: word: Stirling number of the second kind
Stirling partition numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Stirling partition number
omming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of om
ommed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of om
pylon poet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pylon poets
Etymology: After Stephen Spender's poem The Pylons.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: Any of a group of British poets of the 1930s who wrote about new technological developments.
pylon poets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pylon poet
optionee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: optionees
Etymology: From option + -ee.
Senses: glosses: The purchaser of a financial option.
optionees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of optionee
optioners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of optioner
optionor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: optionors
form: optioner
Etymology: From option + -or.
Senses: coordinate_terms: optionee
glosses: The grantor of a financial option.
optionors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of optionor
pyramid trading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
finance
synonyms: pyramiding
glosses: A strategy by which the trader gradually adds to an existing trade or position as the price moves in the expected direction.
nonclearing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + clearing.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Not clearing.
yellow trap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellow traps
Senses: qualifier: transportation engineering
glosses: A condition in which a traffic signal or signals display a yellow light facing traffic in one direction and a green light facing traffic in the opposite direction at the same intersection. This is considered a poor design because it may give drivers facing the yellow light the false belief that it is safe to turn in front of opposing traffic that has the green light.
yellow traps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yellow trap
underlying functor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underlying functors
Senses: examples: text: 3.1.10 Example If you forget [that] you can compose arrows in a category and you forget which arrows are the identities, then you have remembered only that the category is a graph. This gives an underlying functor U#58;#92;mathbf#123;Cat#125;#92;rightarrow#92;mathbf#123;Grf#125;, since every functor is a graph homomorphism although not vice versa.
ref: 1995, Michael Barr with Charles Wells, Category Theory for Computing Science, 2nd edition, University Press, Cambridge, Great Britain: Prentice Hall, §3.1.10, page 57:
topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: a forgetful functor
foreign legion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foreign legions
Senses: glosses: A military unit of one country that is composed of volunteers from another country.
foreign legions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foreign legion
type A
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: type As
Senses: coordinate_terms: type B
type O
type AB
qualifier: A person having
glosses: a competitive, highly organized, ambitious, impatient personality, according to a certain hypothesis describing two contrasting personality types.
wikipedia: + and Type B personality theory
ABO blood group system
type As
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of type A
type B
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: type Bs
Senses: coordinate_terms: type A
type O
type AB
qualifier: A person having
glosses: a relatively relaxed, less neurotic or frantic personality, according to a certain hypothesis describing two contrasting personality types.
wikipedia: ABO blood group system
Type A and Type B personality theory
type Bs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of type B
type designers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of type designer
uncontritely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uncontritely
form: most uncontritely
Etymology: From uncontrite + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without contrition.
garbage pail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪl
Forms: form: garbage pails
Senses: glosses: Synonym of garbage can (“waste receptacle”).
synonyms: word: garbage can
extra: waste receptacle
garbage pails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garbage pail
nonsubmersible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + submersible.
Senses: glosses: Not submersible.
nonsubmerged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + submerged.
Senses: glosses: Not submerged.
symmetricals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] what were known as "symmetricals," lumps of batting strategically placed, distorting the girls' natural curves to the masculine truck-horse taste of the times.
ref: 1942, Douglas Gilbert, Lost Chords: The Diverting Story of American Popular Songs, page 45:
text: The symmetricals he refers to were a false rubber “skin” that gave men a female torso or shape.
ref: 2004, Anne Alison Barnet, Extravaganza King: Robert Barnet and Boston Musical Theatre:
text: After some soulful discussions with Annabelle, Charlotte found what seemed an ideal solution: the stage padding then known as symmetricals, used not just by women but by men to fill out thin legs and upper body mass.
ref: 2007, Grant Hayter-Menzies, Charlotte Greenwood: The Life and Career of the Comic Star of Vaudeville, Radio and Film:
glosses: Padding worn by actors and other performers to expand their body shape.
cocreative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + creative.
Senses: glosses: creating together
Derived terms: cocreatively
cocreatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cocreatively
form: most cocreatively
Etymology: From cocreative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a cocreative manner.
cocreativity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From co- + creativity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being cocreative.
BTA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: advertising
business
marketing
glosses: Initialism of best time available (for publishing or broadcasting).
pseudoevent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoevents
Etymology: From pseudo- + event.
Senses: examples: text: Terrorists use violence as a pseudoevent to gain notoriety and legitimacy through media coverage of their acts.
ref: 2005, James A. Johnson, Gerald R. Ledlow, Mark A. Cwiek, Community Preparedness and Response to Terrorism, page 66:
text: News subsidies thus include making spokespersons available, producing press releases or staging pseudo-events designed to suit the media's production needs and attract the media's attention […]
ref: 2012, C. Holtz-Bacha, J. Strömbäck, Opinion Polls and the Media:
glosses: A happening that is orchestrated for some ulterior purpose.
pseudoevents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoevent
psychiatric deluge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the psychiatric deluge
Etymology: Coined by Kathleen Woodroofe in her book From charity to social work in England and the United States.
Senses: glosses: The dominating influence on social work of ideas from psychoanalysis.
psychodramatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The use of psychodrama as a therapeutic technique.