cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sumaching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sumach + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Once during the process of sumaching the skins are removed from the tub and placed on a rack or perforated bench at the side: they are heaped one on another, and by their own weight press all the sumach solution through the pores. Another sumaching and another pressing complete the operation.
ref: 1843, George Dodd, “A Day at a Leather-factory”, in Days at the Factories; or, The Manufacturing Industry of Great Britain Described, […] (Series I (London)), London: Charles Knight & Co., […], →OCLC, page 171:
glosses: gerund of sumach: the process of applying a preparation of sumac to an object.
sumaching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From sumach + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sumach
lower orders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Although the extension to Crewe carried the line much nearer to the town, it was decided to retain this station, and a large enclosure there was roofed over to accommodate third class passengers (the M.B.R. was more generous than most railways in its treatment of what were then known as the "lower orders").
ref: 1957 September 24, M. D. Greville and G. O. Holt, “Railway Development in Manchester—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 618:
glosses: the lower classes in society
Related terms: lower order
anticolonist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anticolonist
form: most anticolonist
Etymology: From anti- + colonist.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of anticolonialist.
synonyms: word: anticolonialist
anticolonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anticolonists
Etymology: From anti- + colonist.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of anticolonialist.
synonyms: word: anticolonialist
Hollinwood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An urban area of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD9002).
glosses: A small village in Whixall civil parish, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ5236).
Related terms: Hollinswood
hairing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hair
hairing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hairings
Senses: examples: text: Base of abdomen thickly covered with silvery-yellow to golden hairing and strikingly contrasting in colour with remainder of abdomen, which appears partly or entirely black with black hairing.
ref: 1973, Kenneth G. V. Smith, Teresa Clay, John Smart, Insects and other arthropods of medical importance, page 128:
text: The presence or absence, or extent, of hairing on different parts of the body can provide valuable taxonomic characters at species-group, or genus-group levels.
ref: 1973, Roger Ward Crosskey, A revisionary classification of the Rutiliini, page 13:
text: Hind tibiae bristled above, about 8 bristles in antero- and posterodorsal rows nearly as long as tibia is deep, intermixed with shorter hairing, ventrally with short adpressed bristly-hairs.
ref: 1994, Milan Chvála, The Empidoidea (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark:
glosses: A distinctive pattern of hair growth.
hairings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hairing
Moston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Cheshire East district, Cheshire, England, containing the village of Moston Green (OS grid ref SJ7261).
glosses: A village and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester borough, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ4070).
glosses: A suburb of Manchester, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD8702).
glosses: A hamlet in Stanton upon Hine Heath parish, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ5626).
taken the l
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take the l
dehairer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dehairers
Etymology: From de- + hair + -er.
Senses: examples: text: In a carcass dehairing machine, the combination of a pivoted grate provided with openings, a rotary dehairer comprising scraping arms operable through said openings to scrape the carcass in said grate, means whereby to tilt said grate away from said rotary dehairer to discharge the carcass, and a shield for said rotary dehairer moovable about said rotar dehairer toward said grate between said grate and said rotary dehairer.
ref: 1935, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office:
text: Commercial lactic acid, however, goes largely to certain branches of the leather-tanning industry as a dehairer and decalcifier of hides.
ref: 1937, Food Engineering - Volume 9, page 636:
text: I was not thinking of apartment rent, television cost, or new furniture when I heard that motor start up with me in the dehairer.
ref: 2013, Pat and Jack Stewart, Nothing Good Happens After Midnight, page 74:
text: The recent development of small dehairers has made a huge difference to cottage-industry fiber development.
ref: 2015, Judith Mackenzie, The Practical Spinner's Guide - Rare Luxury Fibers:
glosses: Something or someone that removes hair.
dehairers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dehairer
take L's
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes L's
form: taking L's
form: took L's
form: taken L's
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of take the L.
unpardonable sin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unpardonable sins
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, what would otherwise be good points about the sort of selective literalism that renders homosexuality an unpardonable sin but shrugs off Sarah Palin’s biblically forbidden pearl earrings are lost in Eichenwald’s assumption that evangelicals make these decisions “with less care than they exercise in selecting side orders for lunch.”
ref: 2015 January 6, Rachel Held Evans, “What Newsweek gets wrong about evangelicals”, in CNN:
glosses: Eternal sin.
unpardonable sins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unpardonable sin
breader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breaders
Etymology: From bread + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The packinghouse usually delivers shrimp to a few regular customers, such as breaders, freezers, canners, or wholesalers of fresh shrimp.
ref: 1976, USITC Publication - Issue 773, page A-33:
text: The "key" to the breader's versatility is its ability to handle three kinds of material, according to chief engineer Michael E. Miller.
ref: 1983, Chilton's Food Engineering - Volume 55, page 111:
text: She cut the fish into bite-size cubes, dipped them in store-bought breader, and dropped them into a pan of boiling oil.
ref: 2009, Wells Tower, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned: Stories:
glosses: Someone or something that coats food items with breadcrumbs.
Related terms: daily breader
breaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breader
Derker
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A residential area of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD9305)
Uchitel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Uchitels
Etymology: From Ukrainian учитель (učytelʹ) or Russian учитель (učitelʹ, “teacher”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Ukrainian.
baby dedication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baby dedications
Etymology: From baby + dedication.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: Dedication of infant children to Christian upbringing and future Christian service.
topics: Christianity
glosses: The ceremony of dedicating infant children to Christian upbringing and future Christian service, usually performed before God and the church.
Related terms: baptism
confirmation
reconciliation
sacrament
baby dedications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baby dedication
hand-tied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of a bouquet: formed by bringing the stems together in one's hand and then tying them.
hand-tied
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hand-tieds
Senses: examples: text: Line flowers, in general, don't work for hand-tieds, whereas mass and filler flowers do.
ref: 2006, Floral Management, volumes 23-24, page xlix:
glosses: A bouquet prepared in this manner.
hand-tieds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hand-tied
unstamp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unstamps
form: unstamping
form: unstamped
form: unstamped
Etymology: From un- + stamp.
Senses: examples: text: At present let man sin as he may, and strive as he will, to unstamp his soul of the seal of God upon it, and the superscription of original virtue, he cannot do it.
ref: 1843, James Garbett (Archdeacon of Chichester), Parochial Sermons (volume 1, page 267)
text: If you gave a wrong number he would penalize you by marking an extra bag for Mangoloana which meant that you would have to fight to get him to unstamp that bag.
ref: 1986, William Beinart, Peter Delius, Stanley Trapido, Putting a Plough to the Ground, page 352:
glosses: To undo the act of stamping something; to remove a stamp from.
unstamps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unstamp
unstamping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unstamp
dollified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dollified
form: most dollified
Etymology: From doll + -ify + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Made into a doll, or like a doll.
decocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decockers
Etymology: From decock + -er.
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A device in certain firearms that uncocks the weapon.
decockers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decocker
wash its face
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: washes its face
form: washing its face
form: washed its face
form: washed its face
Senses: examples: text: At a cost of around $130 million, the film needed to take at least $260 worldwide to wash its face at the box-office.
ref: 2014, Mark Kermode, Hatchet Job: Love Movies, Hate Critics, page 259:
text: The Axeman movie had barely washed its face at the box office, and was already expected to suffer a reboot.
ref: 2017, Tim Walker, Smoke Over Malibu, page 115:
glosses: To pay for itself; to make enough revenue to cover the costs of its production.
Horki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gorki
form: Gorky
Etymology: From Belarusian Горкі (Hórki).
Senses: glosses: A town in Mogilev, Belarus.
Horky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Any of several settlements in the Czech Republic.
Kozuch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kozuchs
Etymology: Borrowed from Slovak Kožuch or Polish Kożuch.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
brainful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brainfuls
Etymology: From brain + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: A heartful of desire, man's natural load,
A brainful of belief, the noble's lot,—
ref: 1868, Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book, volume 2 (verse novel), Count Guido Franceschini, page 81, line 179; republished as The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Volume VIII. The Ring and the Book, Clarendon Press, 2001, →ISBN, page 16:
text: My only hope is that the memory of my real friendship for each one will blot out the recollection of the brainfuls of non-essentials which they were bidden to bear about with them, at least till the day of reckoning.
ref: 1924, Elementary English - Volumes 1-2, page 249:
text: The truly literate person knows thousands of words, often in several different languages, and has absorbed from listening and reading and seeing (for example, on TV) a whole brainful of thoughts and facts that he can recall and think about.
ref: 1957, Traffic World:
text: I can only usefully hold one brainful of detail at a time, and a thousand-line method contains way more than one brainful.
ref: 2007, Kent Beck, Implementation Patterns:
text: His Philosophy in Exile course was a brainful. It kicked my ass, but unlike many of my classes, it didn't waste my time.
ref: 2014, John Vorhaus, Poole's Paradise:
glosses: As much as one person can think about or hold in mind at one time.
brainful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more brainful
form: most brainful
Etymology: From brain + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Stephens dubbed him, the Peter the Hermit of the tragic secession that drove to a head the great civil revolution, were of the brainful and dominant Scotch-Irish blood, and exemplified its traits and powers.
ref: 1892, Scotch-Irish Society of America, The Scotch-Irish in America:
text: For it must ever be that the unconscious, dutiful, studious man, who ever strives to constantly replenish his mind through study, who follows sincerely the true function of his vocation , has within him the brainful power of obtaining the truest element of future reward.
ref: 1897, The Railway Surgeon - Volume 3, page 12:
text: We are “brainful” until we realize it. Then we can become mindful, at least momentarily, because our frame of reference is now larger.
ref: 2015, Joseph Emet, Mindfulness Meditation:
text: Fuck's sake. All this brainful red-pilling and you just trying to throw me off the trail again.
ref: 2018, Gautam Malkani, Distortion:
glosses: Characterized by brain activity; cerebral.
brainfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brainful
red pilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of red pill
red pilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From red pill + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having taken the red pill.
Derived terms: -pilled
Related terms: bluepilled
blackpilled
red pilled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of red pill
demedicalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: demedicalises
form: demedicalising
form: demedicalised
form: demedicalised
Senses: examples: text: It is said to “demedicalise” death as a response to the sometimes unfettered use of high technology at the end of life.
ref: 2003, Council of Europe, Euthanasia: National and European perspectives, page 113:
text: It would also demedicalise homosexuality, and thereby assist in bringing about the social and legal reforms mentioned earlier.
ref: 2015, Arvind Narrain, Vinay Chandran, Nothing to Fix:
glosses: Alternative form of demedicalize.
demedicalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of demedicalise
demedicalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of demedicalise
demedicalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of demedicalise
demedicalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of demedicalization.
imala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈmɑːlə/
enpr: ĭ-mä􂀽'lə
rhymes: -ɑːlə
Forms: form: imalas
form: imaala
form: imalah
form: imaalah
Etymology: From Arabic إمالة (ʔimāla, literally “inclination”). The earliest form of the process, described by the Arab grammarians, was conditioned on the existence of an /i/ before or after the /a/ (somewhat similarly to Germanic umlaut). Hence the /a/ was said to “incline” towards the /i/. In many modern dialects, however, imala is only conditioned by surrounding consonants, and it is typically hindered by certain adjacent consonants (especially emphatics).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: a sound change in Arabic by which the vowels /a/, /aː/ are fronted in certain phonetic environments (possibly creating new phonemes, notably in Maltese and to a lesser degree in some dialects)
axanthic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + xanthic.
Senses: topics: biology
herpetology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Coloured without normal yellow or red pigments, resulting in shades of grey.
Related terms: axanthism
tricosan-
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tricosane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A tricosane derivative, where the following part of the name starts with a vowel. Ending could be -ol -one.
macroneurological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒdʒɪkəl
Etymology: From macro- + neurological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the study of macrofeatures of the brain.
macroprotein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macroproteins
Etymology: From macro- + protein.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any relatively large protein, typically a metalloprotein
macroproteins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macroprotein
mapenterol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The halogenated amino alcohol 1-[4-amino-3-chloro-5-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]-2-(2-methylbutan-2-ylamino)ethanol
Cishan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: tsûʹshänʹ
rhymes: -æn
rhymes: -ɑːn
Forms: form: Tz'u-shan
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 磁山 (Císhān).
Senses: examples: text: Major archaeological finds of the last three decades include the earliest known sites along the Yellow River valley. Some of these sites are classified as belonging to the Cishan culture, after the type site in Wu’an, Hebei Province, and others to the Peiligang culture, after their type site in Xinzheng, Henan Province; both are datable between about 5500 and 5000 B.C.[…]
But a few are comb-marked, and at certain Cishan sites, some cord-marked or painted ones have been found. The common vessels are bowls, round-bottomed or with three short legs; deep, wide-mouthed jars; pots with two tiny lugs; caldrons with three or four legs (ding); and, in settlements of the Cishan culture, straight-walled, flat-bottomed jars (yu) and flat-topped, hollow pot supports.
ref: 1982, Wan-go Weng, Yang Boda, “Ceramics”, in The Palace Museum: Peking: Treasures of the Forbidden City, London: Orbis Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 81, column 1:
text: Domesticated millets — Setaria italica and Panicum miliaceum — appear a little later than rice in the archaeological record, around 6500-5000 BCE in sites of the Peiligang, Cishan and related cultures, in the mid Huang He river valley, the Wei river valley and the upper Han river valley in northern China.
ref: 1999, Laurent Sagart, “Agriculture: The Cereals”, in The Roots of Old Chinese, volume 184, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 176:
text: In Manchuria, changes in subsistence and sedentism can be traced through time and between regions. Interpretations of millet cultivation in Manchuria vary, but in general the sites are regarded as related to and derivative from the Cishan culture.
ref: 2004, Sarah M. Nelson, “Millet and Pigs in Korea and Manchuria”, in Korean Social Archaeology: Early Villages (Korean Studies Series), volume 27, Seoul: Jimoondang, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 47:
glosses: A Neolithic culture in northern China.
megasonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mega- + sonic.
Senses: glosses: Having a frequency much greater than ultrasonic, typically above 1000 kHz
mesohylar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mesohyl + -ar.
Senses: glosses: Relating to mesohyl
mesophylous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of mesophilous.
business partner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: business partners
Senses: glosses: A partner in a business context (as opposed to a partner in the sense of a personal relationship).
Synonyms: partner
business partners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of business partner
phosphino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phosphine + -o.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The chemical radical or group containing two hydrogen and one phosphorus atoms -PH₂
polysulfido
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From polysulfide + -o.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A ligand consisting of a chain of sulfur atoms connected at both ends
penten-
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical derivative of pentene where the following letter is a vowel, for example -ol, -one.
Trafford Park
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A mainly industrial area in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SJ7996).
ketimide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ketimides
Etymology: ket from ketone + imide
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An ion, group or ligand containing a carbon atom with a double bond to a nitrogen atom
ketimido
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: a ketimide ligand.
heavy rail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: As with all Metrolink routes on the network, the Oldham-Rochdale line is performing well. Passenger usage is now considerably higher than when it was in use for heavy rail services, [...]
ref: 2019 October 23, Andy Coward, “New acclaim for Oldham Loop”, in RAIL, number 890, page 63:
text: This section of line is a rarity, with heavy rail passenger and freight services sharing tracks with the Tyne and Wear Metro as far as Pelaw, where the Metro services run onto dedicated tracks.
ref: 2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 75:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A term generally applied to main-line railways, but this varies from country to country. It has no relation to the weight of the rails used.
take a fancy to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes a fancy to
form: taking a fancy to
form: took a fancy to
form: taken a fancy to
Senses: examples: text: And they’ve taken a fancy to me, Aunt said. Kitto and the others. That means they like me.
ref: 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 36:
glosses: To become fond of someone or something.
Synonyms: take a liking to
take a shine to
take a shining to
go hard with someone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes hard with someone
form: going hard with someone
form: went hard with someone
form: gone hard with someone
Senses: examples: text: Laugh not, pretty one, for by my life it shall go hard with you if you tell not the truth.
ref: 1836, George Payne Rainsford James, Darnley: or, The field of the cloth of gold, volume 2, page 181:
glosses: To lead to someone suffering; to place someone in difficulty or danger.
inu hariko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inu hariko
form: inu-hariko
form: inuhariko
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 犬張子 (inu hariko).
Senses: glosses: A kind of traditional Japanese papier-mâché dog doll, formerly considered to be a ward against evil and now either a toy or decoration sold as a souvenir.
bowstring hemp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of marool.
synonyms: word: marool
glosses: Any species in the genus Sansevieria (which many recent references treat as part of the genus Dracaena), most notably the mother-in-law's tongue.
moorva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of marool.
synonyms: word: marool
harrying of hell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of harrowing of hell.
akabeko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: akabeko
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 赤べこ (akabeko).
Senses: glosses: A red papier-mâché bobblehead cow toy, a kind of regional omiyage regarded as symbolic of the Aizu region of Japan.
beat the crowd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beats the crowd
form: beating the crowd
form: beat the crowd
form: beaten the crowd
form: beat the crowd
Senses: examples: text: Dhava beat the crowd to the sweets counter and was back within minutes with two boxes of Black Magic chocolates, which he handed to Sharda.
ref: 2007, Shunna Pillay, Shadow People, page 134:
glosses: To arrive at a location or complete a task before a large group of people do so.
Maczka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Maczkas
form: Monczka
form: Manczka
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Mączka.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
staring spell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staring spells
Senses: glosses: Staring into space and failing to respond to speech or touch; an absence seizure.
Haumeid
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɑʊˈmeɪ.ɪd/
Senses: glosses: A member of the collisional family of the Kuiper belt object Haumea.
enamino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enaminos
Etymology: From -ene + amine + -o.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A univalent radical derived from an enamine
Derived terms: enamino acid
enamino ester
enamino ketone
enamino nitrile
enamino sulfone
Bordesley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An urban area of Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP0886)
glosses: A village in Alvechurch parish, Bromsgrove district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SP0370).
Derived terms: Bordesley Green
deoxybenzoin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + oxy- + benzoin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: benzyl phenyl ketone, which can be considered as benzoin with one oxygen atom removed.
waterbreaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waterbreak
hydrophonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hydrophonic
form: most hydrophonic
Etymology: From hydrophone + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Even the sophisticated sonar and hydrophonic devices which cover both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans from shoreline to hundred of miles out to sea would be circumvented by this Trojan-Horse technique.
ref: 2008, Patrick Cunningham, The Dusa Affair, page 55:
text: Although others may have been sunk earlier, the first submarine confirmed lost in consequence of hydrophonic detection was the German UC-49 on August 8, 1918.
ref: 2009, Spencer Tucker, A global chronology of conflict:
text: Success for Operation Teardrop had come not from aircraft but from the tedious sonar and hydrophonic probing of the depths by surface ships.
ref: 2013, Carl P. LaVO, Pushing the Limits: The Remarkable Life and Times of Vice Adm. Allan McCann, USN:
glosses: By means of a hydrophone.
ridgil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ridgils
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ridgel.
ridgils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ridgil
waterstop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waterstops
Etymology: From water + stop.
Senses: examples: text: A waterstop, which is installed before pouring the concrete, may be effective in sealing joints, but is not applicable for cracks.
ref: 2010, Center for Chemical Process Safety, Guidelines for Safe Warehousing of Chemicals, page 83:
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A waterproof barrier that is used to prevent moisture from leaking through a joint.
examples: text: The barge pulled up at the waterstop; she allowed the young men to leave first and then followed them up the incline to Greenwich Palace.
ref: 2009, Virginia Henley, The Raven and the Rose, page 292:
glosses: A location along a waterway where a water taxi, riverboat, or similar form of transportation makes a regular stop to load and unload passengers or cargo.
waterstops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waterstop
waterbar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waterbars
Etymology: From water + bar.
Senses: examples: text: Most waterbar spacing, however, is in the magnitude of 80 - 120 feet.
ref: 1973, Information Series - Volumes 7-13:
text: With waterbar placement every 20 feet, in addition to mulching, the expected erosion would be less than 1 ton per acre, well within the tolerance level.
ref: 1980, United States. Bureau of Land Management. Casper District, Buffalo resource area oil and gas environmental assessment, page 152:
text: The angle at which the waterbar lies across a trail is important. Too close to the perpendicular, and silt will build up behind the waterbar; too small an angle will cause the trail to wash out.
ref: 1987, Thomas H. Mikkelsen, Donald B. Neuwirth, Jake Widman, Public Beaches: An Owners' Manual, page 29:
glosses: A barrier built across a steeply sloping road or trail in order to direct the flow of water and prevent erosion; waterbreak.
examples: text: A valve type of waterbar therefore is maintained in the stressed condition caused by shrinkage of the concrete during setting.
ref: 1968, Peter L. Critchell, Joints and cracks in concrete, page 93:
text: It is essential to prevent distortion of the waterbar before and during concreting; to some extent this can be ensured by the use of clips, attached to the dumb-bell and wired to the reinforcement.
ref: 1973, Engineering Equipment Users Association., The Use of Plastics Materials in Building, page 21:
text: A suitable waterbar should be incorporated in the joint to prevent the ingress of water.
ref: 2013, Roy Chudley, Roger Greeno, Building Construction Handbook, page 293:
glosses: Waterstop.
waterbars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waterbar
auto part
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: auto parts
Senses: glosses: Synonym of car part.
synonyms: word: car part
auto parts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of auto part
syncronous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of synchronous.
syncronus
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of synchronous.
ileac passion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ileac passions
form: iliac passion
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A severe colic accompanied by vomiting etc.
ileac passions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ileac passion
iliac passion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iliac passions
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ileac passion.
iliac passions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iliac passion
synchronus
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of synchronous.
asynchronus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of asynchronous.
water bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)
Forms: form: water bars
Senses: examples: text: “Fuck,” he shouted and tapped on his brakes,too hard,and fishtailed through a water bar, the nose ofhis vehicle slamming down hard, then skyward.
ref: 2014, Aaron Shepard, When is a Man:
glosses: Alternative form of waterbar.
Waterbreak.
examples: text: Alternatively, sub-sills may be made from stone, canted brick or concrete, perhaps incorporating a water bar to locate the timber sill horizontally and act as an additional check against the penetration of mosture.
ref: 2014, Michael Mcevoy, External Components, page 101:
glosses: Alternative form of waterbar.
Waterstop.
examples: text: Well, a pub, internet cafe, juice bar, water bar, snack bar, pottery-making bar, toy bar, ball bar, piano bar . . . which kind of bar do you like?
ref: 2008, Hongying Yang, Mo's Mischief: Super Cool Uncle, page 68:
glosses: A business that sells bottled water.
examples: text: We went to the pool which had a great slide and water bar.
ref: 2012, D.S. Carroll Jr., Memoirs of an Impurfect Salesman, page 36:
glosses: A bar on the side of a swimming pool that serves alcoholic beverages to swimmers.
examples: text: This situation has created the largest water bar of any state. The cost of hiring lawyers and engineers to battle out water matters is troubling.
ref: 2009, P. Andrew Jones, Tom Cech, Colorado Water Law for Non-Lawyers, page x:
glosses: A court that specializes in water-rights law.
water bars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water bar
gelatino-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From gelatine + -o-.
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: gelatine
Derived terms: gelatino-bromide
gelatino-chloride
gelatino-silver
pasquilant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pasquilants
Senses: glosses: One who lampoons.
pasquiler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pasquilers
Etymology: From pasquil + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who lampoons.
pasquilants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pasquilant
pasquilers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pasquiler
savanna wattle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: savannah wattle
Senses: glosses: fiddlewood (Citharexylum spp.)
savannah wattle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of savanna wattle.
hyding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hyde
hydden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of hyde
high-tails it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of high-tail it
high-tailing it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of high-tail it
high-tailed it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of high-tail it
Nullarbor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɐləboː/
ipa: /ˈnʌlɚbɔːɹ/
ipa: /ˈnʌləbɔː/
Forms: form: Nullarbor
form: the Nullarbor
Etymology: From Latin nulla arbor (“no tree”), as the area is nearly treeless.
Senses: examples: text: The arrested karst topography of the Nullarbor is considered to be eroding slowly (Gillieson & Spate 1992) and the surface has probably been stable for considerably longer than 30 ka.
ref: 1998, Monica M. Grady, Robert Hutchison, Meteorites: Flux with Time and Impact Effects, page 63:
text: We high-tailed it for 812 kms today and it appears we will make it across the Nullarbor in less than three days.
ref: 2003, William Hogan, Gone Walkabout in Henn Boo Too, page 63:
text: The Eyre Highway, the only road linking the two states of South and Western Australia, runs parallel to the railway line, along the rocky coastline of the Australian Bight and six-hundred miles across the empty plains of the Nullarbor.
ref: 2015, Susan Duxbury, Up the Gum Tree:
glosses: Ellipsis of Nullarbor Plain, a plain in Australia.
glosses: A locality defined by the South Australian government, covering a large area of western South Australia, bordering on Western Australia, between the Great Australian Bight and Trans-Australian Railway.
Derived terms: Nullarbor Canyon
dewrinkle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dewrinkles
form: dewrinkling
form: dewrinkled
form: dewrinkled
Etymology: From de- + wrinkle.
Senses: examples: text: They know how to work an unbelievable variety of little machines that peel, exfoliate, dermabrase, and claim to dewrinkle and smooth facial skin
ref: 1976, Clara Pierre -, Looking Good: The Liberation of Fashion, page 106:
text: Pulls and aligns heels, toes, and toe openings of hose, and lifts, extends, and smooths hose to dewrinkle and flatten edges and folds of hose legs.
ref: 1991, Dictionary of Occupational Titles - Volume 1:
text: "Then you could be happy living there again?" he asked, hanging a rumpled dark suit in the bathroom and turning on a hot shower to dewrinkle it.
ref: 2000, Tiffany White, Forbidden Fantasy, page 181:
glosses: To remove the wrinkles from; to smooth.
examples: text: Correspondingly, in macropore walls, carbon layers suddenly “dewrinkle” and become stiff"
ref: 1979, Advances in Organic Geochemistry - Volume 9, page 509:
text: What you do need to know is that many wool blends dewrinkle quickly, wool crepe being the quickest and the most comfortable.
ref: 1999, Michael Lafavore, Men's health today 1999, page 275:
text: A balanced life might include frequent retreats to the country to destress and dewrinkle.
ref: 2012, Lillian Bridges, Face Reading in Chinese Medicine, page xxv:
glosses: To become unwrinkled or less wrinkled.
dewrinkles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dewrinkle
dewrinkling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dewrinkle
dewrinkled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dewrinkle
dermabrasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dermabrase
dermabrased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dermabrase
swap partition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swap partitions
Etymology: So called because data can be swapped between memory and this partition.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A disk partition designated as auxiliary memory, used primarily on Unix and Linux systems.
Related terms: swap file
swap space
swap space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swap spaces
Etymology: So called because data can be swapped between memory and this space.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Space on a hard disk used as auxiliary memory.
Related terms: swap partition
swap file
file association
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: file associations
Senses: examples: text: Help me change the file association of TXT files.
text: File association in Microsoft Windows relies on the file extension.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The association of a file type with a program, so that the chosen program is the default for opening files of that type.
tetramethylcyclopropane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tetra- + methyl- + cyclopropane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound with four methyl groups connected to a cyclopropane ring.
judicial remedy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: judicial remedies
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong
Synonyms: judicial relief
legal remedy
judicial relief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: judicial relieves
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong
Synonyms: judicial remedy
legal remedy
legal remedy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: legal remedies
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong
Synonyms: judicial relief
judicial remedy
olotera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oloteras
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish olotera, from olote (“corncob”) + -era.
Senses: examples: text: Timo sat on a log with the olotera between his legs.
ref: 1960, William Madsen, The Virgin’s Children: Life in an Aztec Village Today, Austin: University of Texas Press:
text: The Otomi prefer to do it by scraping the ears against an olotera (fig. 8,c), a bunch of corncobs bound together
ref: 1975, Leonardo Manrique C., “34. The Otomi”, in Ethnology (Handbook of Middle American Indians; 7 & 8), Austin: University of Texas Press, page 690:
text: The woman, who is bent intently upon her work, uses a tool called an olotera to strip the grain from the cob, which she holds between her legs at crotch level, while a large basket is placed between her feet to catch the grain.
ref: 2015, Nancy Deffebach, María Izquierdo and Frida Kahlo: Challenging Visions in Modern Mexican Art, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 126:
glosses: A traditional Mexican tool consisting of bound, shortened corncobs, against which ears of corn are scraped against to remove their kernels.
pristanoyl-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From pristanic + -oyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Derivative such as an ester, of pristanic acid
glycinuria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A kidney condition that causes too much glycine in urine.
Moorgate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A place in England:
An urban area, a railway station and street in the City of London, Greater London, named after a former gate in London's wall (OS grid ref TQ3281).
glosses: A place in England:
A hamlet in Blickling parish, Broadland district, Norfolk (OS grid ref TG1730).
glosses: A place in England:
A southern suburb of Rotherham, South Yorkshire (OS grid ref SK4490).
aeroball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A sport, somewhat like volleyball, in which the players compete while on a trampoline
Fishlake
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish of the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE6513).
groak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: groaks
form: groaking
form: groaked
form: groaked
Etymology: From Scots groak, growk.
Senses: qualifier: typically of domestic animals
glosses: To look fixedly at someone who is eating, in anticipation of receiving food.
wikipedia: Green's Dictionary of Slang
Stainforth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Craven district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SD8267).
glosses: A town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE6411).
piraputanga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piraputangas
Senses: glosses: The South American fish Brycon hilarii
metaflammatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Relating to metaflammation
metallocenter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metallocenters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of metallocentre.
metallocenters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metallocenter
microaxial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + axial.
Senses: examples: A microaxial pump
glosses: Both very small and axial
microcerebral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛɹɪbɹəl
-iːbɹəl
Etymology: From micro- + cerebral.
Senses: examples: A microcerebral aneurism
glosses: Both very small and cerebral
microengine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microengines
Etymology: From micro- + engine.
Senses: glosses: A very small engine
microstellate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of microsatellite.
Brading
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small town and civil parish with a town council on the Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ6086).
glosses: A surname.
microtenotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microtenotomies
Etymology: From micro- + tenotomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Very small-scale tenotomy
microthread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microthreads
Etymology: From micro- + thread.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A thread (typically one executed in parallel) in a microprocessor
microthreads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microthread
mitotoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒksɪn
Forms: form: mitotoxins
Etymology: From mito- + toxin.
Senses: glosses: Any mitotoxic substance
mitotoxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mitotoxin
monoguttulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + guttulate.
Senses: glosses: Having a single guttule
morphokinetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From morpho- + kinetics.
Senses: glosses: Changes in form over time
Related terms: morphokinetic
multicatheter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + catheter.
Senses: glosses: Involving multiple catheters
multimetabolite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + metabolite.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to multiple metabolites
myotubulin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From myo- + tubulin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A tubulin present in muscle tissue.
glase
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: glases
form: glasing
form: glased
form: glased
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of glaze.
flash flooding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Just before 1300, a train driver reported fast-flowing water near Pontrilas. Flash flooding removed ballast, leaving sections of track suspended in the air.
ref: 2019 November 6, “Flash floods close Marches Line in Wales”, in Rail, page 13:
text: Flooding occurs in areas where the ground is unable to absorb all of the water, according to forecasters, who explained that flash flooding can also be caused by mudslides or breaks in dams or levees.
ref: 2021 July 18, Neil Vigdor, “What Is Flash Flooding, and How Can You Avoid It?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Flooding that occurs during a flash flood.
Pontrilas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Kentchurch parish, southern Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO3927).
neo-fascism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neo-fascisms
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of neofascism.
riever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rievers
Senses: examples: text: A certain sea riever wagered his ship to John Garve MacGillecalum of Raasay that neither he nor any of the race could lift him out of his chair.
ref: 1911, Celtic Monthly:
glosses: Archaic form of reaver.
rievers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of riever
rieve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rieves
form: rieving
form: rieved
form: rieved
Senses: examples: text: The Borderers on the English side rieved, harried, and plundered each other with as much keenness and audacity as did the Scots on the other side.
ref: 1904, The Border Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, volume 9, page 208:
glosses: Archaic form of reave.
rieves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rieve
rieving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rieve
rieving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rievings
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of reaving.
rieved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rieve
rievings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rieving
reavings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reaving
herriment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: herriments
form: herryment
Etymology: From herry + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: It was then as much the scene of continual spreaths, liftings, reavings, and herriments, as the Border country itself.
ref: 1836, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 3, page 426:
glosses: harassment; depredation
herriments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of herriment