cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
take off one's gloves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes off one's gloves
form: taking off one's gloves
form: took off one's gloves
form: taken off one's gloves
Senses: examples: text: The public's duty is to take the role of prosecutor in seeking out the truth: and we ought to roll up our sleeves, take off the gloves, and wade into action.
ref: 1952, United States. Congress, Congressional Record, page 8391:
text: Ben-Gurion's self-restraint was soon exhausted and the British now took off their gloves to crush the Arabs by all and any means: they collectively punished villages and at one point destroyed a whole neighbourhood of Jaffa.
ref: 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 541:
text: So, for example, in the midst of social tensions and manpower shortages in Britain (December 1916), David Lloyd George came to head a war regime which took off its gloves in handling the domestic unrest and keeping dissidents, like Siegfried Sassoon and his famous antiwar letter, out of the public eye.
ref: 2015, Hunt Tooley, The Great War: Western Front and Home Front, page 208:
text: The Court is willing to take off its gloves for the most serious infringements, however.
ref: 2017, András Jakab, Dimitry Kochenov, The Enforcement of EU Law and Values:
glosses: To be unrestrained, especially in acting in a violent or punitive manner.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take off, glove.
Related terms: gloves are off
kid-glove
takes off one's gloves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take off one's gloves
taking off one's gloves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take off one's gloves
took off one's gloves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take off one's gloves
posthetomist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: posthetomists
Etymology: From posthetomy + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who performs posthetomies.
Synonyms: posthectomist
circumciser
circumcisionist
posthetomists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of posthetomist
posthectomist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: posthectomists
Etymology: From posthectomy + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who performs posthectomies.
Synonyms: circumciser
circumcisionist
posthectomists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of posthectomist
posthioplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æstɪk
Forms: form: posthoplastic
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to posthioplasty.
posthioplastician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: posthioplasticians
form: posthoplastician
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: One who carries out a posthioplasty.
posthioplasticians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of posthioplastician
foam-flecked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more foam-flecked
form: most foam-flecked
Etymology: A reference to the way a rabid animal foams at the mouth.
Senses: examples: text: Now the hostess became his mistress: his love letters were passionate, indiscreet, and hate-filled, featuring Briish military secrets and foam-flecked rants against Jews:
ref: 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 558:
text: Stephenson had already worked himself into something just short of a foam-flecked tirade by the time Will arrived.
ref: 2012, Ian Tregillis, Bitter Seeds:
text: The stories were fabulous bubbles of outrage (prawn-cocktail flaboured crisps were never banned), but the foam-flecked hymns of hate were real.
ref: 2020, Fintan O'Toole, Three Years in Hell: The Brexit Chronicles:
glosses: Rabid; furious; fanatical.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see foam, flecked.; covered in flecks of foam.
posthoplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: posthoplasties
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of posthioplasty.
posthoplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of posthioplastic.
posthoplastician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: posthoplasticians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of posthioplastician.
posthioplasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of posthioplasty
posthoplasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of posthoplasty
posthoplastics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of posthoplastic
posthoplasticians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of posthoplastician
posthetomize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: posthetomizes
form: posthetomizing
form: posthetomized
form: posthetomized
form: posthetomise
Etymology: From posthetomy + -ize.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: To perform a posthetomy (on)
Synonyms: posthectomize
circumcise
PELCO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Pampanga Electric Corporation.
posthetomise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: posthetomises
form: posthetomising
form: posthetomised
form: posthetomised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of posthetomize.
posthetomises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of posthetomise
posthetomizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of posthetomize
posthetomising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of posthetomise
posthetomizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of posthetomize
posthetomised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of posthetomise
posthetomized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of posthetomize
posthiotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: posthiotomies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of posthetomy.
Derived terms: posthiotomist
posthiotomize
IATF-EID
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases.
posthetomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of posthetomy
posthiotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of posthiotomy
posthiotomist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: posthiotomists
Etymology: From posthiotomy + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who performs posthiotomies.
Synonyms: posthectomist
circumciser
circumcisionist
posthiotomists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of posthiotomist
posthiotomize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: posthiotomizes
form: posthiotomizing
form: posthiotomized
form: posthiotomized
form: posthiotomise
Etymology: From posthiotomy + -ize.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: To perform a posthiotomy (on)
Synonyms: posthectomize
circumcise
posthiotomise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: posthiotomises
form: posthiotomising
form: posthiotomised
form: posthiotomised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of posthiotomize.
posthiotomizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of posthiotomize
posthiotomises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of posthiotomise
posthiotomising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of posthiotomise
posthiotomizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of posthiotomize
posthiotomized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of posthiotomize
posthiotomised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of posthiotomise
comship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comships
Etymology: Blend of complicated + ship, or complex + ship.
Senses: examples: text: I know, but he's not a human and that makes it a comship. And there are many canonical comships, it's not necessarily a bad thing
ref: 2023 September 11, Julián (@Justigodesgod), Twitter:
text: I've always hated comships (besides the usual ones like immortal x mortal), but I just.. block people. It's as simple as that.
ref: 2023 September 12, Lumi (@oneiricstar), Twitter:
text: as long as you're nice and don't only talk about your comships as some make me uncomfy
ref: 2024 January 16, Lana (Ame-Chan) (@Ena_Irl_), Twitter:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A ship featuring elements deemed morally complex or problematic, such as abuse, incest, or a power gap.
Related terms: comshipper
comshipping
self-victimize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: self-victimizes
form: self-victimizing
form: self-victimized
form: self-victimized
Etymology: From self- + victimize.
Senses: examples: text: It’s timely to bring this topic up because when the world is falling apart, people generally fall into two groups: those that self-victimize and those that take responsibility for their lives.
ref: 2020 July 31, Briana Theroux, “How To Stop Victimizing Yourself”, in brianatheroux.com:
glosses: To engage in self-victimization.
self-victimizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of self-victimize
KFCB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Kenya Film Classification Board.
self-victimizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of self-victimize
self-victimized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of self-victimize
comshipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comshippers
Etymology: Blend of complicated + shipper, or complex + shipper.
Senses: examples: text: comshippers sometimes scare me more than proshippers
ref: 2023 May 19, Legs (@Pavryklvr), Twitter:
text: Comshippers ALWAYS use that excuse, as if it’s valid “at least I can tell fiction and reality is different!!”
ref: 2023 May 21, Glub (@dio_mew), Twitter:
text: “I don’t condone it IRL” is such a brain-dead defense proshippers/comshippers use, and I’m sick of hearing it.
ref: 2023 August 1, L0GIC (@123L0gic), Twitter:
topics: lifestyle
synonyms: anti-anti
pro-shipper
darkshipper
glosses: One who supports a ship with elements deemed morally complex or problematic, such as abuse, incest, or a power gap.
Related terms: comship
comshipping
blackclad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: People tear down trees to build their houses, and the melting snow water sluices down the mountainside, carrying occasional houses and blackclad robeclad Zen masters too.
ref: 2010, Jason Murk, Mexican Song of Sunshine:
text: 'Hardly a day would go by,' recalled Sari Nusseibeh, 'when I didn't spy into the streets beyond No-Man's-Land' and there in Mea Shearim, 'I saw blackclad men. Sometimes the bearded creatures looked back at me.'
ref: 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 584:
text: River hadn't laid eyes on Hobden before, but this had to be him: average height, thinning brownish hair, look of terror as he turned to face this new intrusion even while crushed in an arm-lock by the previous invader, the achiever—except this wasn't an achiever: he was blackclad, wore a balaclava, had a utility belt round his waist, but the ensemble lacked the hi-tech tailoring of the genuine article.
ref: 2011, Mick Herron, Slow Horses:
glosses: Alternative form of black-clad.
black-clad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: blackclad
Etymology: From black + clad.
Senses: examples: text: "Yes, you are exactly right. You have called the wayward child by its proper name," repliec the thin black-clad man in a deferential manner as he bowed his head briefly toward the black-clad woman, who had asked the question.
ref: 2010, Uta Christensen, Bed of Roses, Bed of Thorns:
text: An without warning they appear, the black-clad men, holding automatic rifles, their faces callous, their hands bloody, their three-cornered eyes hard.
ref: 2016, Yashar Kemal, The Sea-Crossed Fisherman:
text: Once again, those black-clad figures make a kind of grim visual poetry from the moment.
ref: 2016, Keith Gray, Carl Miller, Ostrich Boys:
glosses: Dressed in black.
sit over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sits over
form: sitting over
form: sat over
form: sat over
Senses: examples: text: She sat over toward the front of the train car.
glosses: To move along a seat or bench to make room.
topics: card-games
games
antonyms: sit under
glosses: To be on the left side of a player.
examples: text: His legal problems sat over him all year.
text: The trump cards hadn't been played yet, so they sat over his strategy.
glosses: To weigh heavily on (someone) or to trouble (someone)
solanigrines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of solanigrine
solar shingles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of solar shingle
sompotons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sompoton
sordarins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sordarin
Southpoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Southpole
specific resistances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of specific resistance
specularites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of specularite
speradines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speradine
sphenopalatines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sphenopalatine
spherical nucleic acids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spherical nucleic acid
sphericalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sphericalization
sphingophosphatides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sphingophosphatide
sphygs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sphyg
sit off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sits off
form: sitting off
form: sat off
form: sat off
Senses: examples: text: I thought we sat off them in the second half of the game.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To give less than full effort; to let off on energy or pressure.
glosses: Misspelling of set off.
sit in with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sits in with
form: sitting in with
form: sat in with
form: sat in with
Senses: examples: text: I'll have to sit in with the interviews for the deputy manager position.
text: She sat in with one of his group counseling session.
glosses: To join (often as an observer, supervisor or outsider) a group working together on a task.
Fletestreete
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Fleet Street.
government-owned and controlled corporation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: government-owned and controlled corporations
form: GOCC
Senses: topics: business
glosses: state-owned enterprise
Trowutta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A rural locality in Circular Head council area, north-west Tasmania, Australia.
Billingsgate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Billynges gate
Senses: examples: text: And vppon fridaye the morowe after brought it vpp to Billynges gate in London
ref: 1569, C. R., The true discripcion of this marueilous straunge Fishe, whiche was taken on thursday was sennight, the .xvi. day of June, this present month, in the yeare of our Lord God. M.DLX.ix.:
glosses: A ward of the City of London, Greater London, England.
Derived terms: billingsgate
Billingsgate Fish Market
Billingsgate pheasant
St Marys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Sydney in the City of Penrith, New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A suburb of Adelaide in the City of Mitcham, South Australia.
glosses: A town in Break O'Day council area, eastern Tasmania, Australia.
Paragamian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Paragamians
Senses: examples: Arto Paragamian
glosses: A surname.
gunbarrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gunbarrels
Etymology: From gun + barrel.
Senses: examples: text: The old complaint against smokeless powders that they caused an excessive strain in the gunbarrel is now very seldom heard.
ref: 1904, Notes on Shooting, page 3:
text: Named becuse the creek is enclosed by vertical cliffs on both sides, so when you look up or down the creek it is straight as a gunbarrel.
ref: 1991, Susanne Smith, Recreation Guide to the North Fork Ranger District and the Salmon National Forest, page 33:
text: Scarcely before the gunbarrels had cooled , the inhabitants of the Maghrebi Quarter, founded by Saladin's son Afdal, were evacuated to new homes, their houses demolished to open the space before the Wall for the first time.
ref: 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 602:
glosses: The barrel of a gun.
examples: text: To examine the alloy of potassium and iron by experiments made upon the alloy itself, a gunbarrel was procured, in which the above chemists had frequently repeated their process for reducing potash, and was still filled on the inside with potashed iron.
ref: 1811, HassenFratz, “On Potashed Iron”, in Retrospect of Philosophical, Mechanical, Chemical, and Agricultural Discoveries, page 179:
text: A four-inch line takes water from bottom of the gunbarrel to the heaters, and then returns the heated fluid to the gunbarrel.
ref: 1946, Gulf Coast Oil News - Volume 122, page 73:
text: Clean oil then discharges from the gunbarrel into the sales tank.
ref: 1960, World Oil - Volume 151, page 142:
glosses: Clipping of gunbarrel tank.
gunbarrels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gunbarrel
gun barrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gun barrels
Senses: examples: text: The gun barrel, whether forged, rolled, or drawn, is known technically as a tube.
ref: 1907, William Wellington Greener, The Gun and Its Development, page 242:
text: The current condemnation criteria for cracking in gun barrels is stated in the applicable technical manual regarding serviceability of Naval gun barrels as being the existence of any crack equal or greater than 3 inches for monobloc barrels.
ref: 1990, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services, Review of the Department of the Navy's Investigation Into the Gun Turret Explosion Aboard the U.S.S. "Iowa", page 79:
text: As a result MAVAG machine tools normally engaged in manufacturing 40mm gun barrels were employed to bore out and rifle 40mm 51-calibre anti-tank gun barrels to be mounted on copies of the German carriage.
ref: 2013, Terry Gander, The Bofors Gun, page 114:
glosses: Alternative form of gunbarrel.
gun barrels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gun barrel
gun-barrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gun-barrels
Senses: examples: text: The honey-combing of gun-barrels is caused by the residue, left by the exploded powder, setting up a galvanic action between the iron and steel composing Damascus and laminated steel barrels, or between the different grades of iron forming twist barrels.
ref: 1883, Alfred Marshall Mayer, Sport with Gun and Rod in American Woods and Waters, page 795:
text: A petition from the master gun-barrel makers of Birmingham and district to his Majesty's Secretary of State for War praying that steps be taken to amend the present practice of proof-marking foreign-made barrels with the same proof-mark or marks as those stamped upon barrels made in the United Kingdom, and to adopt a mark or marks which would be indicative of foreign make, and which would be easily discernable by sportsmen and other purchasers and colonial and foreign Customs officers.
ref: 1903 November, “Barrel Makers' Petition to the War Office”, in Arms & Explosives, page 164:
text: If, on the other hand, we perceive the smoking gun-barrel as proof of something then we are precisely trying to rule out alternatives.
ref: 2002, M.C. Lemon, The Discipline of History and the History of Thought:
glosses: Alternative form of gunbarrel.
gun-barrels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gun-barrel
Saint-Ybars
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Saint-Ybars.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Ariège department, Occitania, France.
gunbarrel tank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gunbarrel tanks
Etymology: From the shape of the tank, which is long and cylindrical, like the barrel of a gun.
Senses: examples: text: The gunbarrel tank, sometimes called a wash tank, is the oldest equipment used for multi-well onshore oil treating in a conventional gathering station or tank battery.
ref: 2008, Maurice Stewart, Ken Arnold, Emulsions and Oil Treating Equipment, page 2:
text: The technique has been demonstrated for the production of gunbarrel tanks, water storage tanks, oil storage tanks, oil heaters, and production vessels.
ref: 2011, Michael Vollmer, Klaus-Peter Möllmann, Infrared Thermal Imaging, page 511:
text: The gunbarrel tank is a vertical flow treater in an atmospheric tank.
ref: 2011, Maurice Stewart, Ken E. Arnold, Surface Production Operations, Volume 1, page 353:
glosses: A long slender cylindrical metal tank, especially one used to separate oil from water as it flows from a production well.
gunbarrel tanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gunbarrel tank
helperviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of helpervirus
helveticins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of helveticin
dirty sanchezes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dirty sanchez
Sanchezes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sanchez
Sanchezs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sanchez
hemis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemi
hemimaculas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemimacula
hemiparesthesias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemiparesthesia
hemiparesthesiae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemiparesthesia
hemoadsorbents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemoadsorbent
hemocytins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemocytin
hemolyzations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemolyzation
hemorrhoidopexies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemorrhoidopexy
heneicosadienes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heneicosadiene
heparinates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heparinate
deeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deerie
hephthemimers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hephthemimer
heptadecads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heptadecad
heptadecadienes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heptadecadiene
heptadecaglycosides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heptadecaglycoside
heptadecatrienes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heptadecatriene
heptadecenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heptadecene
heptadecenoates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heptadecenoate
vodvils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vodvil
heptadecenoic acids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heptadecenoic acid
heptadepsipeptides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heptadepsipeptide
heptadienes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heptadiene
heptaquarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heptaquark
heptaketides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heptaketide
heptamethylenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heptamethylene
heptasulfates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heptasulfate
heptenals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heptenal
heteroadditions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heteroaddition
value in use
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: values in use
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
coordinate_terms: value in exchange
glosses: Synonym of use value.
synonyms: word: use value
value in exchange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: values in exchange
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
coordinate_terms: value in use
glosses: Synonym of exchange value.
synonyms: word: exchange value
Yuhuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yüʹhwänʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 玉環 /玉环 (Yùhuán).
Senses: examples: text: On Tuesday, state-run media reported that a 57-year-old man in Yuhuan County, Zhejiang Province, staggered and collapsed on Sunday afternoon near the turn of a small lane.[…]
The head of his village in Yuhuan County told The Beijing News that Mr. Chen was a heavy drinker, and when drunk had often quarreled with other villagers and fallen down.
ref: 2015 February 4, Jess Macy Yu, “A Man’s Death Strikes a Nerve in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Aug 2024, Sinosphere:
glosses: A county-level city of Taizhou, Zhejiang, China.
umzimbeet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: umzimbeets
Etymology: Borrowed from Zulu umSimbithwa. Compare Afrikaans omsambeet, omzambeet, oesambiet.
Senses: glosses: Millettia grandis, a species of flowering legume tree native to South Africa.
Related terms: Millettia grandis
chemoreceptorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chemoreceptorial
form: most chemoreceptorial
Etymology: From chemoreceptor + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: The nitrergic CP/VEG ganglion cells may mediate interactions between chemoreceptorial systems in the CP and secretory cells in the VEG.
ref: 1999 February, “Abstracts. Thirteenth Congress of the European Chemoreception Research Organisation.”, in Chemical senses, volume 24, number 1, Oxford University Press, →ISSN, The intrinsic nervous system of the CP/VEG complex (section 36), page 13:
text: Several neuronal fibers were detected under the chemoreceptorial epithelium.
ref: 2004 july, Crescimanno, C., Merigo, F., Bernardi, P., Osculati, F., Sbarbati, A., “Neurochemistry of the Gustatory Subgemmal Plexus”, in Chemical Senses, volume 29, number 6, →ISSN, page 537:
text: The data suggest that amylase-positive cells constitute an additional subset of taste receptor cells also associated with chemoreceptorial and/or secretory molecules, confirming the occurrence of various pathways in taste buds.
ref: 2009 june, Merigo, Flavia1; Benati, Donatella1; Cecchini, Maria; Cristofoletti, Mirko; Osculati, Francesco; Sbarbati, Andrea, “Amylase expression in taste receptor cells of rat circumvallate papillae.”, in Cell & Tissue Research, volume 336, number 3, →ISSN, page 411:
glosses: Of or pertaining to chemoreceptors.
ice girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice girls
Etymology: Created by the New York Islanders NHL franchise in the year 2001.
Senses: glosses: A girl or woman hired by an ice hockey team to perform a myriad of support duties including serving as a cheerleader and/or as an ice cleaner during intermission.
golden-collared manakin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golden-collared manakins
Etymology: From golden + collared + manakin. Partial calque of translingual Manacus vitellinus (“golden-collared manakin”, literally “yellow manakin”).
Senses: glosses: Manacus vitellinus, a species of manakin native to Colombia and Panama.
Related terms: Manacus vitellinus
kouhai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kouhais
form: kouhai
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kohai.
kōhais
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kōhai
kouhais
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kouhai
Bastardi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
awaitingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more awaitingly
form: most awaitingly
Etymology: From awaiting + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: “But you ’re in San Francisco now. Where are you stopping?” He took up a pencil and held it over a memorandum pad awaitingly.
ref: 1897, Bret Harte, chapter I, in Three Partners or The Big Strike on Heavy Tree Hill, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], pages 70–71:
text: […] hoping to hear from you soon I am yours awaitingly ⸺ ⸺.
ref: 1902 October 13, R. E. Sterling, quoting a man in Texas, “Kansas Department”, in The Northwestern Miller, volume 54, number 16, Minneapolis, Minn.: The Miller Publishing Co., published 15 October 1902, page 795, column 4:
text: Quia, v. Sit down awaitingly (used in perf.), as men when some work is about to be done, a case to be tried, or when a person sits down at any spot awaiting the passage of somebody (ela form and ace.) expected; […]
ref: 1905, Alfred T. Bryant, “Qula, v.”, in A Zulu-English Dictionary with Notes on Pronunciation, a Revised Orthography and Derivations and Cognate Words from Many Languages; […], Maritzburg; Durban: […] P. Davis & Sons, […], page 547, column 1:
text: “Awaitingly, with the sweetest anxiety, / “Fannie ⸺.”
ref: 1918 January, Fannie, quotee, “No Wonder Managers Suffer from Dyspepsia!”, in Eugene V[alentine] Brewster, editor, Motion Picture Magazine, volume XIV, number 12, Brooklyn, N.Y.: The M. P. Publishing Co., page 161, column 1:
text: [T]he only way in which the making-present itself can meet up with anything unsuitable, is by already operating in such a way as to retain awaitingly that which has an involvement in something. To say that making-present gets ‘held up’ is to say that in its unity with the awaiting which retains, it diverts itself into itself more and more, […]
ref: 1962, Martin Heidegger, translated by John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson, Being and Time, New York, N.Y.; Evanston, Ill.: Harper & Row, →LCCN, page 406:
text: We can only be in many of our bodily, emotional, thinking or artistic ways if we reflex round our being altered and thrown into them by independent others. Such lines of contact reach out only by awaitingly being out there within the space of others who might enliven them.
ref: 1996, Samuel B. Mallin, “The Athletes’ Vase”, in Art Line Thought (Contributions to Phenomenology; 21), Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, →ISBN, book II (The Minoan and the Philosophical), chapter I (Swirling Beyond Our Time: Along Minoan and Nazcan Lines), page 138:
text: Ed was gripped by simultaneous panic and excitement, which he quelled by walking through the flat’s narrow hallway to his sitting-room/study next door, where his computer screen glowed awaitingly.
ref: 2008, Robyn Sisman, chapter 11, in A Hollywood Ending, London: Orion Books, →ISBN, page 131:
glosses: In an awaiting manner.
Russell Falls
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A waterfall in the Central Highlands, Tasmania, Australia.
mother up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mothers up
form: mothering up
form: mothered up
form: mothered up
Senses: examples: text: We have to open the pen so the calves can mother up.
glosses: To unite and remain with one's mother.
raw_tags: of young livestock
glosses: To act as a mother to a child.
police up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: polices up
form: policing up
form: policed up
form: policed up
Senses: examples: text: We have to police up the grounds before the end of the day.
glosses: To clean up an area or an item or person, usually in preparation for an inspection; to police an area for problems.
Regatta Point
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A port and railway terminus on Macquarie Harbour in West Coast council area, Tasmania, Australia. It was also the old name for Strahan.
school inspector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: school inspectors
Senses: glosses: An official who inspects schools, ensuring they are adhering to the criteria, or to give them a rating.
search for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: searches for
form: searching for
form: searched for
form: searched for
Senses: glosses: Synonym of look for.
synonyms: word: look for
school inspectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of school inspector
truant school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: truant schools
Senses: glosses: A school for children who played truant.
in length
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: at length
truant schools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of truant school
his/her
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Forms: form: their
Senses: examples: text: Any pupil with special dietary needs should inform his/her school.
text: For the abbreviation of the name of the pieces, each player is free to use the name which is commonly used in his/her country. Examples: F = fou (French for bishop), L = loper (Dutch for bishop). In printed periodicals, the use of figurines is recommended.
ref: 2022, “2023 Laws of Chess”, in FIDE, page 21:
glosses: Possessive form of he/she.
Related terms: him/her
himself/herself
her
himself
she/he
cast-in-place
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: antonyms: precast
glosses: Of buildings or construction, cast directly at the site in formwork.
manhwagas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manhwaga
princessling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: princesslings
Etymology: From princess + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: The day dawned, and Miss Hermitage woke up like some cradled princessling, sure of being dawdled and prattled to and showed the pretties till bed-time should come round again.
ref: 1883, Matilda Betham-Edwards, chapter IV, in "Disarmed!", John W. Lovell Company, page 18:
text: She had been no idle pampered lady, for she had insisted on going with her prince on all his military expeditions, and almost every year she had given him a little princeling or princessling, as sign and symbol of the love that was between them.
ref: 1921, Marjorie Latta Barstow Greenbie, “Old Love and Modern Comedy” (chapter XLV), in In the Eyes of the East, Dodd, Mead & Co., page 365:
text: He found arguments that impressed him. Better blood than some ugly German princessling. Better than a political match, with continental complications. Better for Anglo-American relations. Better to marry for love.
ref: 1937 April 24, Dennis Geoffrey, “Abdication”, in Coronation Commentary, William Heinemann Ltd, page 266:
text: “What did you say she was?” Liavrec asked, slightly puzzled.
“A princess,’’ said Jacques, enjoying it.
“Oh, pas d’histoires,” said Liavrec impatiently.
“Mais je t’assure . . . to be quite accurate, a princessling. As you very well know, Pierre, there are a lot of little princes in France.[…]”
ref: 1952, Evelyn Jordan, “Marine”, in The Nature of the Beast, Peter Davies, section 3, page 43:
text: Eowyn, Princess of Rohan, has dreamt of nothing but battle, heroism, and glory since she was a little princessling.
ref: 2013, Jill Richardson, “The Young and the Restless Eowyn” (chapter 15), in Hobbits, You, and the Spiritual World of Middle-Earth, Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas, page 71:
glosses: A minor or unimportant princess.
princesslings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of princessling
manhuajia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manhuajias
form: manhuajia
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 漫畫家 /漫画家 (mànhuàjiā). Doublet of mangaka and manhwaga.
Senses: examples: text: Some of the manga introuced during this period came through unauthorized copying by local Taiwanese manhuajia, who adapted original Japanese manga into a Taiwanese-style three horizontal grid.
ref: 2019, Lee, I. Yun, “The Development of Taiwan Manhua”, in Haruhiko Fujita, Christine Guth, editors, Encyclopedia of East Asian Design, →ISBN:
text: Most of the art work in Wanxiang is by a group of artists who are most often referred to today as manhuajia 漫畫家 (cartoonists), many of whom had been members of a cartoon society that was established in Shanghai in December 1926.
ref: 2020, Paul Bevan, ‘Intoxicating Shanghai’ – An Urban Montage, →ISBN:
text: The creators of these East Asian comics also have specific titles: a person who makes manga is a mangaka, a person who creates manhwa is a manhwaga, and a person that makes manhua is a manhuajia.
ref: 2022, Jieun Kiaer, Ben Cagan, Pragmatics in Korean and Japanese Translation, →ISBN:
coordinate_terms: mangaka
manhwaga
cartoonist
glosses: A manhua (Chinese comic) author or artist.
Related terms: manhua
manhuajias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manhuajia
Parattah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small town in Southern Midlands council area, Tasmania, Australia.
Jiaojiang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 椒江.
Senses: examples: text: Jiaojiang District is on the central coast of Zhejiang Province and historically was called Haimen. In 1981 the county-level Jiaojiang Municipality was set up, which was the first county-level city. In 1994 Taizhou changed the prefecture into a municipality, and Jiaojiang became the district of Taizhou, where the Taizhou Municipal People’s Government was located. The whole district had a rural population of 340,000 and 275 administrative villages.
ref: 2011, Liu Jianfei [刘建飞], “Taking the Chance of Reform: New Achievements of China's Construction of Democratic Politics”, in Democracy and China [民主中国与世界], Beijing: New World Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 56:
english: 民主中国与世界
translation: 民主中国与世界
glosses: A district of Taizhou, Zhejiang, China.
sea fishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea fish
Dachen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: däʹchǔnʹ
Forms: form: Tachen
Etymology: From Mandarin 大陳 /大陈.
Senses: examples: text: The drills are near the Dachen islands, which Taiwan controlled until 1955 until being evacuated after other nearby islands were seized by Chinese forces in a bloody battle.
Taiwan still controls the Matsu and Kinmen islands, off the coast of China's Fujian province, held since the defeated Republic of China government fled to Taipei after losing a civil war with Mao Zedong's communists
ref: 2023 June 13, Ryan Woo, Albee Zhang, Ben Blanchard, “China holds live-fire drills in East China Sea north of Taiwan”, in Robert Birsel, editor, Reuters, sourced from BEIJING (Reuters), archived from the original on 13 Jun 2023, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A group of islands of Jiaojiang district, Taizhou, Zhejiang, China.
overswerve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overswerves
form: overswerving
form: overswerved
form: overswerved
Etymology: From over- + swerve.
Senses: examples: text: Don't overswerve to avoid hitting a deer. If a collision with the animal seems inevitable, then hit it while maintaining full control of your car.
ref: 2012 September 10, “Deer Collision - What Next”, in The Suburban Bushwacker:
glosses: To swerve excessively, especially to avoid hitting something.
overswerves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overswerve
overswerving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of overswerve
overswerved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overswerve
pornhua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔːn.wɑː/
ipa: /ˈpɔːn.hwɑː/
ipa: /ˈpɔɹn.wɑː/
ipa: /ˈpɔɹn.hwɑː/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)nwɑː
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)nhwɑː
homophone: pornhwa
Forms: form: pornhuas
form: pornhua
Etymology: Blend of porno + manhua. Piecewise doublet of pornhwa.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
media
pornography
sexuality
coordinate_terms: hentai
pornhwa
glosses: A pornographic manhua (Chinese comic).
Related terms: pornhwa
queenling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: queenlings
Etymology: From queen + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: I must pull onwards; so, Queenling, au revoir! What, not a kiss of the hand to me, your first visitor, your only lover this day!
ref: 1857, F. G. S., “Thames Rowing”, in John Saunders, Westland Marston, editors, The National Magazine, volume II, page 396:
text: “Notre petite reinette Ecossaise,” said Catharine de Medici herself, who looked upon her with distaste, “our little Scottish queenling has only to smile in order to turn all the heads in France!”
ref: 1859, Alphonse de Lamartine, chapter V, in J. M. H., transl., Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, Houghton Mifflin Company, page 17:
text: There! Sit thee down on the trackway / And croon thy dolly a song; / Let the procession sweep by thee, / Queenling, whom none may wrong.
ref: 1901, Mary Boole Hinton, “Idolatry”, in Other Notes, Neale Publishing Company, page 31:
text: I have suspected that, notwithstanding this vigilance, a queenling of exceptional enterprise occasionally would escape, and go solitary to her destiny.
ref: 1907, Henry Christopher McCook, “Ant Queens and the Foundation of Formicaries” (chapter II), in Nature's Craftsmen: Popular Studies of Ants and Other Insects, Harper & Brothers, page 23:
text: The time has come to crush this queenling and her little country. Their arrogance is beginning to annoy me.
ref: 2005, Stuart Hill, The Cry of the Icemark, The Chicken House, page 413:
glosses: A queenlet; a petty queen.
queenlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of queenling
pornhuas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pornhua
Tonle Bati
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Khmer ទន្លេបាទី (tɔɔnleibaatii).
Senses: examples: text: At present, the area of Tonle Bati Lake has shrunk by 40 percent, the local residents said that the shrinking of the area is due to the land reclamation done by powerful people.
ref: 2022 April 8, “Area of Tonle Bati shrinking due to encroachment and land reclamation”, in Khmer Times:
glosses: A small lake about 30 km south of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
formwork carpenter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: formwork carpenters
Senses: glosses: Synonym of formworker.
synonyms: word: formworker
form setter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: form setters
Senses: glosses: Synonym of formworker.
synonyms: word: formworker
shuttering carpenter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shuttering carpenters
Senses: glosses: Synonym of formworker.
synonyms: word: formworker
savorest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of savor (alternative spelling of savourest)
shuttering carpenters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shuttering carpenter
form setters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of form setter
formwork carpenters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of formwork carpenter
savoreth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of savor (alternative spelling of savoureth)
savoredst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of savor (alternative spelling of savouredst)
sharpshot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sharpshoot
beachface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beachfaces
Senses: glosses: The planar, relatively steep section of the beach profile that is subject to swash processes.
beachfaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beachface
hoeddeoks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoeddeok
hoddeok
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoddeoks
form: hoddeok
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hotteok.
hoddeoks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoddeok
hodduk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hodduks
form: hodduk
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hotteok.
hodduks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hodduk
South Burnie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A locality and suburb of the City of Burnie, northern Tasmania, Australia.
old-worldly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more old-worldly
form: most old-worldly
Senses: examples: text: David and I were not "intimate" friends. There was always a certain old-worldly formality about our interchanges. There was something professorial and distant about David, something that commanded respect, partially, I think, because he was so respectful himself.
ref: 1984 December 15, Nancy Walker, “Remembering David Stryker”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 22, page 5:
glosses: old-fashioned, reminiscent of a bygone era.
dunmesh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: Clipping of Dungeon Meshi.
die on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dies on
form: dying on
form: died on
form: died on
Senses: examples: text: I can't handle any more patients dying on me.
glosses: To die under the care or watch of (someone).
Glenora
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A former settlement in the Stikine Country of British Columbia, Canada.
glosses: A community in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A hamlet in the town of Starkey, Yates County, New York, United States.
glosses: A rural locality in Derwent Valley council area, Tasmania, Australia.
hoppang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoppang
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 호빵 (hoppang), from 호 (ho, blowing sound), implying hotness + 빵 (ppang, “bread”), as a genericized trademark.
Senses: glosses: A Korean steamed bun with red bean paste filling.
trancily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more trancily
form: most trancily
Etymology: From trance + -ily.
Senses: examples: text: On Christmas morning the three of them went to church, and Mrs Shannon, being deeply affected by the carols, go her annual religious mania, and walked trancily down the road afterwards, talking about the peaceful life of a nun.
ref: 1940, Monica Dickens, Mariana, Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, published 1950, page 256:
text: Louise gazed trancily down the hall, but then seemed to recognise something — the modern-art clock on the wall, maybe.
ref: 2010, Lucy Dillon, Walking Back to Happiness, London: Hodder, →ISBN, page 254:
text: The truth is that not all of Brötzmann's output is difficult listening. This 2022 live performance with the Gnawa master Majid Bekkas and the drummer Hamid Drake is even trancily soothing.
ref: 2023 July 5, David A. Graham, “How Musk and Biden Are Changing the Media”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 May 2024:
glosses: Which causes or results from a trance (a dazed or unconscious condition).
square around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: squares around
form: squaring around
form: squared around
form: squared around
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To shift to a position to ready to bunt, i.e. by moving to face the pitcher and hold the bat laterally above the home plate.
raw_tags: of a batter
Gacys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gacy
Gacies
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gacy