cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
platform-edge door
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: platform-edge doors
Senses: examples: text: They’ll have elevators for disabled and elderly passengers, some heating (existing stations are not heated) and they’ll be safer, thanks to platform-edge doors. […] “When you have an open platform, you have a real risk of young children, seniors or people with disabilities falling off the edge,” said Jim Berry, facilities engineering manager for the expansion program. “And there are people who simply use the train system to end their lives,” he said. “Platform-edge doors simply eliminate the possibility of that happening.”
ref: 1994 August 7, Bruce Campion-Smith, “New subway stations to have global flavor: Hint of Moscow, Paris and Vienna in design concept”, in The Sunday Star, metro edition, Toronto, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page A6, columns 1–2:
text: No work on wiring the signalling, power supply, communications systems, platform-edge doors or ventilation systems has taken place for a week.
ref: 1998 November 24, Barrie Clement, Philip Thornton, “Peace talks in Jubilee Line row”, in The Independent, number 3,777, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10, column 6:
text: Tube trains create a piston effect, which forces gales of air through the stations on the line, and sweeps debris along the track—causing a fire risk. Engineers hope the platform-edge doors will stop that, as well as providing a more pleasant, wind-free, safer wait for commuters.
ref: 1999 November 4, Dick Murray, “East to west in 62 minutes”, in Evening Standard, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8, column 2:
text: The incident has renewed discussion regarding safety barriers in subways. Brad Ross, a spokesman for the Toronto Transit Commission, said it is studying the feasibility of platform-edge doors, which would cost hundreds of millions to install.
ref: 2009 February 18, Melissa Leong, Justin Robertson, “Man accused of TTC assault to remain in police custody: 47-year-old may undergo psychiatric assessment”, in National Post, volume 11, number 94, Toronto, Ont.: National Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page A10, column 5:
text: Platform-edge doors are hardly novel. They exist in London, Paris, Singapore and other cities around the world – and in Queens at AirTrain stops.
ref: 2011 February 14, Pete Donohue, “On the Subway: Platform wall? It beats deaths, pol’s stop idea”, in Daily News, volume 92, number 234, New York, N.Y.: Daily News L.P., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 16, column 3:
text: “The MTA has looked at this issue and identified a number of hurdles to outfitting the system with platform-edge doors, including train door misalignment, column placement, platform construction and the need to maintain or create accessibility in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act,” Metropolitan Transportation Authority spokesman Aaron Donovan said in a statement.
ref: 2022 January 25, Sammy Westfall, “NYC subway trains kill dozens of people a year. Other countries have paid for safety.”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2022:
glosses: Alternative form of platform edge door.
platform-edge doors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of platform-edge door
gingerlier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of gingerly: more gingerly
gingerliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of gingerly: most gingerly
flexi-boarding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: education
glosses: An arrangement where a pupil stays overnight at a boarding school only on certain nights of the week.
boarding school syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by psychotherapist Joy Schaverien in 2011.
Senses: glosses: A set of lasting psychological problems, such as defensiveness and failed interpersonal attachments, that may result from being sent away to boarding school at an early age.
Horrocks box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Horrocks boxes
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A kit for measuring the dose of chlorine to be used to sterilize a water supply.
Horrocks boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Horrocks box
OISC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: OISCs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of one-instruction set computer
OISCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of OISC
BLAV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BLAVs
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Abbreviation of British Latin American Volunteer
BLAVs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BLAV
Kaylene
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Kayleen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
chore horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chore horses
Etymology: Originally a trade name.
Senses: glosses: A kind of portable electrical generator.
chore horses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chore horse
DZs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of DZ
Chaklala
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A major suburban town of Rawalpindi in the Punjab province of Pakistan.
RWAFF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of West African Frontier Force
Related terms: WAFF
statichute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: statichutes
Etymology: Blend of static + parachute
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
parachuting
glosses: A parachute with a static line.
statichutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of statichute
gets cracking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get cracking
Saddle Rock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Saddle Rocks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of saddlerock
borderline-personality disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: borderline-personality disorders
Senses: examples: text: Psychiatrists and lawyers worked from a 500-page manual of mental disorders and bombarded the jury with its jargon. There were learned discourses of schizophrenia, schizoid-personality disorder, borderline-personality disorder, schizotypal disorder, magical thinking, ideas of reference, social isolation, affect that was blunted or inappopriate, narcissistic personality disorder including a grandiose sense of self-importance, preoccupations with fantasies and exhibitionism.
ref: 1982 June 22, Associated Press, “[John] Hinckley [Jr.] innocent in [Ronald] Reagan shooting: Would-be assassin might be set free”, in The Arizona Republic, 93rd year, number 37, Phoenix, Ariz., →ISSN, →OCLC, page A2, column 2:
text: He [Brandon Marshall] also Tweeted that he would earmark $1 million to mental-health research, which is significant to Marshall, having been diagnosed in 2012 with borderline-personality disorder.
ref: 2014 May 20, “Overtime: The lighter side”, in Santa Barbara News-Press, Santa Barbara, Calif., →OCLC, page C2, column 2:
text: In “Welcome to Me,” Wiig is Alice Klieg, a woman with borderline-personality disorder who wins the Mega Millions lottery and decides to use her windfall to bankroll a TV talk show—with herself as the star.
ref: 2015 May 8, Steven Rea, “[Kristen] Wiig drawn to fragile, complex characters”, in Orlando Sentinel, Orlando, Fla., →ISSN, →OCLC, Calendar section, page 6, column 1:
glosses: Alternative spelling of borderline personality disorder.
borderline-personality disorders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of borderline-personality disorder
guilt tripping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of guilt trip
guilt tripped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of guilt trip
aphract
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Of a galley; having the upper tier of rowers exposed rather than shielded
aphract
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aphracts
Senses: glosses: A galley with the upper tier of rowers exposed.
Blaktino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Blaktinos
Senses: examples: (2013) "[…]many of whom identify as Blaktino (Black Latino/a)." Butch Queens Up in Pumps, page 7, Marlon M. Bailey, University of Michigan Press 9780472051960
glosses: Alternative form of Blatino
narcissistic-personality disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: narcissistic-personality disorders
Senses: examples: text: [Arnold] Goldberg is editor of “Casebook of Narcissistic-Personality Disorders” (International University Press, $17.50).
ref: 1978 August 31, Chicago Sun-Times, “This quiz will tell you whether you’re too proud of yourself”, in The Argus, Rock Island, Ill., →OCLC, page 9, column 5:
text: The psychiatrist [Park Dietz] diagnosed Hinckley as having four personality disorders: […] A narcissistic-personality disorder that Dietz said is “the view that one is more important than other people.”
ref: 1982 June 5, Associated Press, “Psychiatrist denies [John] Hinckley [Jr.] was insane”, in The Arizona Republic, 93rd year, number 20, Phoenix, Ariz., →ISSN, →OCLC, page A3, columns 1–2:
text: Amy Castillo, a pediatrician, requested a proctective order in Montgomery County District Court on Dec. 25, 2006, and asked that her husband receive psychiatric counseling. In her petition, she said her husband had been found two months earlier to have mood disorder and narcissistic-personality disorder.
ref: 2008 April 1, Associated Press, “Cops: Divorce keyed killings”, in Philadelphia Daily News, volume 84, number 1, Philadelphia, Pa., →OCLC, page 28, column 2:
text: The Texas assistant DA who prosecuted [Paul] Skulnik for sexual assault told Pamela Colloff of the^([sic]) New York Times and ProPublica that he was “grandiose, delusional and had narcissistic-personality disorder.”
ref: 2020 January 19, Fred Grimm, “Florida prosecutors believed con man, snitch”, in South Florida Sun Sentinel, volume 60, number 269, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 33A, column 3:
glosses: Alternative form of narcissistic personality disorder
narcissistic-personality disorders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of narcissistic-personality disorder
gratters
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Clipping of congratulations + -ers.
Senses: glosses: Congratulations.
unigender
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: uni- + gender
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a single gender.
paranoid-personality disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paranoid-personality disorders
Senses: examples: text: “You know a lot about Bradley Chandler,” [Thomas T.] Merrigan told the jury. “You know that guns were his hobby … there was no premeditation, that he had a paranoid-personality disorder, post-traumatic-stress disorder. You know that guns were not part of the plan, that Bradley was illusional, irrational, crazy thinking.”
ref: 1987 June 18, Lyndsey Layton, “Jury weighs insanity issue in Chandler murder trial”, in The Recorder, 195th year, number 143, Greenfield, Mass., →OCLC, page 1, column 5:
text: [Eugene] Maurer cited defense psychiatrists’ diagnoses that [Roland] Daniels was suffering from a paranoid-personality disorder and post-traumatic stress syndrome caused by his brother’s death.
ref: 1988 March 25, Mack Reed, “Verdict of guilty but mentally ill passes test”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, volume 318, number 85, Philadelphia, Pa., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14-B, column 5:
text: Formal charges against [Marlene] Flor were contained in a July 14 letter informing her a DOE-paid psychiatrist concluded she had “a paranoid-personality disorder,” leaving her ineligible for a security clearance.
ref: 1992 September 3, John Fleck, “Worker Calls DOE Action Retaliatory: Whistleblower Group Backs Her on Clearance”, in Albuquerque Journal, 112th year, number 247, Albuquerque, N.M.: Journal Publishing Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, section E, page 1, column 1:
text: The only crime here is that a genuinely fragile human being, a police officer unable to work as one because of a severe clinical depression and paranoid-personality disorder, as well as a back problem, is being punished by the system in having to deal with an unjustified, unnecessary and retaliatory criminal investigation.
ref: 1996 January 24, Milan Rada, “Disability Takes Many Forms”, in Newsday, Nassau edition, volume 56, number 143, New York, N.Y.: Newsday Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page A39, column 3:
text: [Gerald] Pascale suffered from a major depression with psychosis, from substance abuse problems and auditory hallucinations, [Daniel P.] Greenfield said. He displayed a fear of leaving familiar places and paranoid-personality disorder, Greenfield said.
ref: 1997 May 13, Carol Gorga Williams, “Killer says he meant to scare ex-lover”, in Asbury Park Press, Asbury Park, N.J., →OCLC, page B4, column 1:
text: If [Scott] Woodring has a level of distrust to the point of a paranoid-personality disorder, he would prove extremely difficult—and obviously, dangerous—for police to deal with, said John Hulsing, a retired state police lieutenant and psychologist who has studied state prisoners.
ref: 2003 July 13, John Agar, “Standoffs turn more dangerous”, in Sunday Chronicle, Muskegon, Mich., →OCLC, page 4A, column 3:
glosses: Alternative form of paranoid personality disorder.
paranoid-personality disorders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paranoid-personality disorder
democratic centralisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: democratic centralism
form: democratic centralization
Senses: examples: text: The Communist Party should be based on the principle of democratic centralisation. The chief principle of the latter is the elective nature of the lowest unit, the absolute authority of all the decisions of a higher unit upon the one immediately beneath, and a strong party central organ, whose decrees are binding upon all the leaders of party life between party conventions.
ref: 1920, “Theses of the Executive Committee of the Communist International on the Role of the Communist Party in the Workers' Revolution”, in Theses Presented to the Second World Congress of the Communist International, pages 13-14:
text: All the parties belonging to the Communist International should be formed on the basis of the principle of democratic centralisation. At the present time of acute civil war the Communist Party will only be able fully to do its duty when it is organised in a sufficiently thorough way, when it possesses an iron discipline and when its Party centre enjoys the confidence of the members of the Party, who are to endow this centre with complete power, authority and ample rights.
ref: 1924, “Conditions of Admission to the Communist International”, in Grigory Zinoviev, Karl Radek, editors, Communist International, volume 2, number 1, pages 176-177:
text: The idea of any such central organisation is unpalatable to some people. But the harsh lesson from the past is that if you do not have democratic centralisation your eventual reaction to centralised attacks on the movement will be the embracing of undemocratic, authoritarian forms of centralisation.
ref: 2003 December, Chris Harman, “Autonomism for the people?”, in Socialist Review, number 280:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of democratic centralization.
Pokegirl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pokegirls
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Pokégirl.
Pokegirls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pokegirl
pokégirl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pokégirls
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Pokégirl.
pokégirls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pokégirl
pokegirl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pokegirls
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Pokégirl.
pokegirls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pokegirl
post-traumatic-stress disorders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of post-traumatic-stress disorder
post-traumatic-stress disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: post-traumatic-stress disorders
Senses: examples: text: The Readjustment Counseling Service, as “Outreach” is formally called, costs $10 million and serves 50,000 veterans in 91 storefronts nationwide. It has proven the most effective approach to dealing with the special misery which our most unpopular war visited on those who fought it. It is “post-traumatic-stress disorder” or delayed stress, which produces suicidal urges, nightmares, self-destructive rages and disorientation.
ref: 1981 March 11, Mary McGrory, “A bitter slice for Vietnam vets”, in The Arizona Daily Star, volume 140, number 70, Tucson, Ariz., →ISSN, →OCLC, section A, page 10, column 3:
text: “You know a lot about Bradley Chandler,” [Thomas T.] Merrigan told the jury. “You know that guns were his hobby … there was no premeditation, that he had a paranoid-personality disorder, post-traumatic-stress disorder. You know that guns were not part of the plan, that Bradley was illusional, irrational, crazy thinking.”
ref: 1987 June 18, Lyndsey Layton, “Jury weighs insanity issue in Chandler murder trial”, in The Recorder, 195th year, number 143, Greenfield, Mass., →OCLC, page 1, column 5:
text: Pilot’s service focus is brain disorders/diseases, and each year Pilot Clubs receive matching grants from Pilot International Foundation to conduct programs and projects that assist those in their communities who are affected by illnesses including Alzheimer’s Disease, traumatic brain injuries, post-traumatic-stress disorders, schizophrenia, depression, and similar conditions.
ref: 2011 August 2, “Pilot International holds annual meeting and leadership conference”, in The Enterprise Ledger, Enterprise, Ala.: Media General, →OCLC, page 2A, column 3:
text: “What I regret, now that I know what abuse looks like, is that I didn’t protect my children,” says Heather, who left Mike for good the day it occurred to her that he wouldn’t be “finished” with her until he killed her. She and the kids have been in therapy ever since for post-traumatic-stress disorder.
ref: 2016 August 29, Ronnie Polaneczky, “Domestic violence & its lasting impact”, in Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia, Pa., →OCLC, page 5, column 1:
text: The men and women who spend several hours working scenes like this investigating and helping victims and their families are at a higher risk for developing post-traumatic-stress disorder.
ref: 2017 February 13, Mary F. Baca, “Support those who serve: First responders especially vulnerable to stress disorder”, in Albuquerque Journal, Albuquerque, N.M.: Journal Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page A9, column 1:
text: [Terese Marie] Mailhot receives a diagnosis. She has post-traumatic-stress disorder, an eating disorder and bipolar II.
ref: 2018 March 25, Nancy Lord, “In ‘Heart Berries,’ a powerful new indigenous voice breaks old silences”, in Anchorage Daily News, Anchorage, Alas., →ISSN, →OCLC, page B6, column 4:
glosses: Alternative spelling of post-traumatic stress disorder.
posttraumatic-stress disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: posttraumatic-stress disorders
Senses: examples: text: GENERAL HOSPITAL: Alexis [Davis] arranged for Molly [Lansing-Davis] to see a therapist for her posttraumatic-stress disorder.
ref: 2011 January 27, North America Syndicate Inc., “Guide to Entertainment”, in Kearney Hub, 123rd year, number 82, Kearney, Neb., →OCLC, page 14, column 3:
text: As a 41-year-old female, I spent two decades trying to undo the damage of being physically abused for years by my father. It was only recently, when I was diagnosed with posttraumatic-stress disorder, that I came to understand that certain behaviors, such as sabotaging relationships, difficulties controlling my emotions and even the fear of being touched from behind were all a direct result of the abuse I suffered.
ref: 2011 November 20, Kelli Gail, “Be Our Guest: We can break the abuse cycle”, in Daily News, New York, N.Y., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 38, column 3:
text: Following her ordeal, [Zoila] Figueroa was diagnosed by a psychiatrist as suffering from posttraumatic-stress disorder, panic disorder and agoraphobia, a fear of open or public spaces.
ref: 2013 April 10, Erica Pearson, “Immig kidnap ordeal”, in Daily News, New York, N.Y., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14, column 5:
text: It’s used to treat a range of conditions, including depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder and posttraumatic-stress disorder.
ref: 2020 June 3, Bloomberg, “Zoloft in short supply as American anxiety increases”, in The Birmingham News, volume 133, number 35, Birmingham, Ala., →ISSN, →OCLC, page A16, column 4:
glosses: Alternative spelling of post-traumatic stress disorder.
posttraumatic-stress disorders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of posttraumatic-stress disorder
post-traumatic stress disorders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of post-traumatic stress disorder
post traumatic stress disorders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of post traumatic stress disorder
posttraumatic stress disorders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of posttraumatic stress disorder
antisocial-personality disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antisocial-personality disorders
Senses: examples: text: “Men have significantly higher rates of substance-use disorders and antisocial-personality disorder,” the report said.
ref: 1988 November 9, “Mental health studied: Survey: One-third will face disorders”, in Sun-Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.: News and Sun-Sentinel Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 17A, column 1:
text: [Nancy] Einsel said [Robert L.] Shackelford meets the Megan’s Law criteria because he has an antisocial-personality disorder, evidenced by his drug and alcohol use from the age of 12, as well as his truancy and suspensions from school.
ref: 2009 May 14, Les Stewart, “Ex-reservist sent to jail for rape at Gap”, in Lebanon Daily News, Lebanon, Pa., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2A, column 6:
text: The court relied heavily on a report by Dr. Harvey Musikoff, then-director of the Trenton Psychiatric Hospital, who diagnosed [Geraldine] Cherry with antisocial-personality disorder, a condition defined by decpeption, exploitation and criminal behavior.
ref: 2012 July 25, Jason Nark, “A twisted death: Kin: Woman came unraveled long before bizarre murder accusations”, in Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia, Pa., →OCLC, page 5, column 2:
glosses: Alternative spelling of antisocial personality disorder.
antisocial-personality disorders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antisocial-personality disorder
oosiks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oosik
social-anxiety disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: social-anxiety disorders
Senses: examples: text: A popular depression pill was approved by regulators yesterday for treating social-anxiety disorders, such as chronic shyness, that affect an estimated 10 million Americans.
ref: 1999 May 12, Edward R. Silverman, “People who fear people get a pill: FDA clears Paxil for the severely shy”, in The Star-Ledger, Newark, N.J., →OCLC, page 1, column 5:
text: It wasn’t until a year ago that he was diagnosed with social-anxiety disorder, a syndrome that leaves sufferers with an intense fear of scrutiny by people in social situations.
ref: 2002 July 24, Sam Farmer, “[Ricky] Williams Is Facing the Hidden Truth”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Nov 2019:
text: For a patient with a straightforward diagnosis of social-anxiety disorder who fears blushing, [Paul] Greene recommends 10 to 15 weekly sessions with a cognitive-behavioral therapist and homework that may include exposure exercises — if talking to strangers provokes a reddened face, you might be tasked with doing just that.
ref: 2017 October 20, Malia Wollan, “How to Blush Without Shame”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Oct 2017:
glosses: Alternative form of social anxiety disorder.
social-anxiety disorders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of social-anxiety disorder
🪱
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: examples: text: 👂🪱
translation: earworm
english: earworm
bold_translation_offsets: 3
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glosses: Used in compounds similar to the word worm.
camera-ready
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: camera ready
Etymology: A reference to the old photo-offset printing process.
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: Ready to go to press; ready for publication.
topics: media
publishing
glosses: Of artwork or a hard copy: ready to be photographed, without requiring any additional editing.
AMBER alert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AMBER alerts
Senses: examples: text: Don’t people realize that snatching your purse is just gonna end up in an AMBER alert?
ref: 2010 December 2, Eric Spitznagel, “Kirsten Dunst on Bad Boys, Nude Scenes, and Beatnik Boot Camp”, in Graydon Carter, editor, Vanity Fair, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Apr 2015:
text: Most uses of the Emergency Broadcast System, such as tornado or flood warnings, are designed to help people look out for themselves. AMBER alerts, by contrast, try to get them to help someone else. It's a crowdsourced solution to a daunting problem that police often don't have the resources to solve.
ref: 2013 August 6, Jon Healey, “Californians climb the learning curve for AMBER text alerts”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 May 2014:
text: An AMBER alert was issued for Jace Saunders on Monday morning after he was last seen Sunday afternoon
ref: 2024 December 16, Kelly Rissman, “Grandma turns self in after AMBER alert was issued when she allegedly took 5-year-old boy”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Dec 2024:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of amber alert.
AMBER alerts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of AMBER alert
Amber Alert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Amber Alerts
Senses: examples: text: Desperation does spur creative thinking. Like this: One state lawmaker wants to turn electronic Caltrans freeway signs into advertising billboards in between Amber Alerts and road condition reports.
ref: 2016 April 27, Mariel Garza, “Amber alerts and Taco Bell ads? That's an accident waiting to happen”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Apr 2016:
text: Regardless of what kind of phone you use, ShakeAlert can still find its way to you if an earthquake of magnitude 5 or higher hits. For areas also likely to surpass a high shaking threshold, wireless carriers are equipped to automatically send warnings to every phone using a similar emergency system to Amber Alerts.
ref: 2022 November 14, Geoffrey A. Fowler, “America has an earthquake early-warning system now — on your phone”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2022:
text: An Amber Alert for 3-year-old Nola Dinkins was canceled Wednesday as police now investigate the incident as a homicide.
ref: 2025 June 12, Erin Keller, “Mom claimed a man kidnapped her 3-year-old daughter at gunpoint. Cops now say she is the one who killed the toddler”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Jun 2025:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of amber alert.
Amber Alerts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Amber Alert
Amber alerts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Amber alert
Amber alert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Amber alerts
Senses: examples: text: Amber alerts, in which bulletins about abductions are quickly distributed through the news and posted on highway signs, were named in recognition of Amber Hagerman, a 9-year-old Texas girl who was kidnapped and killed in 1996. “Just pass this, just pass this,” Senator Patrick J[oseph] Leahy of Vermont, the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, urged House members. The Senate passed a bill on the Amber alerts in January.
ref: 2003 March 14, Carl Hulse, “End of an Abduction: Alert Network; Lawmakers Rush to Back a National Alert System”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015:
text: It is fabulous that the Seat Pleasant girl who was the subject of an Amber alert was recovered safely […]
ref: 2010 February 20, “How to improve Amber alerts”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Jul 2025:
text: Ego Nwodim, who came into her own last season, was the first special guest. “Black Woman Who’s Been Missing for 10 Years” had some thoughts on America’s sick fascination with missing white girls. [“]If the tragically missing has a straight blonde ponytail, she’s going to get an Amber alert, the promise of a hefty reward, portraits of her grieving parents, and around-the-clock news coverage.”
ref: 2021 October 3, Karen Valby, “SNL Got the Gang Back Together, But Still Can‘t Figure Out Joe Biden”, in Radhika Jones, editor, Vanity Fair, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Oct 2021:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of amber alert.
Arkadian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Arkadians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Arcadian (“person from region in Ancient Greece”)
Arkadian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Arkadian
form: most Arkadian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Arcadian (“of region in Ancient Greece”)
Arkadians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Arkadian
Dixit-Stiglitz model
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dixit-Stiglitz models
Etymology: Developed by Avinash Dixit and Joseph Stiglitz (1977).
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A mathematical model of monopolistic competition that formalizes consumers' preferences for product variety by using a CES function.
Dixit-Stiglitz models
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dixit-Stiglitz model
daleky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more daleky
form: most daleky
form: Daleky
Etymology: From Dalek or dalek + -y.
Senses: examples: text: "You're sounding a bit daleky."
glosses: Resembling a Dalek in voice or action.
strangen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: strangens
form: strangening
form: strangened
form: strangened
Etymology: From strange + -en.
Senses: examples: text: […] such a silence, heavy and weird and motionless, was everywhere; such peace, honey-heavy, strangening the world!
ref: 1929, Ella Young, The Tangle-coated Horse and Other Tales:
text: It offers a possible explanation for the viro- , cancero- and immunemodulative ^([sic]) activities of those compounds in their ability to strangen the common nucleic acid pattern of bioorganism and to provoke both humoral and cellular non-self recognitions, […]
ref: 1978, Alexandre Blumstein, editor, Mesomorphic order in polymers and polymerization in liquid crystalline media:
text: The act of coming out and the various points of exposure function like generators of further making strange, or strangening, of identity.
ref: 2019, Lauren Berlant, Reading Sedgwick:
text: […] that is transforming love and happiness into death and mourning, that is strangening a familiar emotion in order to explain their situated reality.
ref: 2025, Beatriz Revelles-Benavente, Feminist Literature as Everyday Use, page 58:
glosses: To make or become strange.
Derived terms: strangening
black as my hat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Synonym of black as your hat
synonyms: word: black as your hat
flat as your hat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Thoroughly flat.
flat as my hat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Synonym of flat as your hat
synonyms: word: flat as your hat
Halahala
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /həˈlɑˌhʌlə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit हलाहल (halāhala).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: Kalakuta
glosses: A poison drunk by Shiva, thus turning his neck blue.
centerlock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centerlocks
form: center-lock
form: center lock
Etymology: From center + lock.
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A type of mounting where the wheel of an automobile is fastened to the axle using a single central nut.
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A type of mounting where the rotor of a disc brake is attached to the wheel hub using a single lockring.
strangening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From strangen + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle of strangen
strangening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From strangen + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Of course this deliberate strangening was an artificial procedure, but based on the valid idea that it is the poem (or painting or building) that matters, so that you should make the most direct contact with it that you can, first as a physical object appealing to the senses, […]
ref: 2009, Robert Harbison, Travels in the History of Architecture:
glosses: The act or process of making or becoming strange.
sharedealing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: share + dealing
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: trading in shares.
Related terms: sharedealer
sharedealer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sharedealers
Etymology: share + dealer
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: One who trades in shares.
Related terms: sharedealing
sharedealers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sharedealer
Cleja
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Cleja.
Senses: glosses: A commune, village, and river in Maramureș County, Romania.
glosses: A river in Olt County, Romania, tributary to the Iminog.
REAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of REA
milk skin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From milk + skin.
Senses: synonyms: lactoderm
glosses: A sticky film of protein that forms on top of dairy milk and foods containing dairy milk (such as hot chocolate and some soups).
spooing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spoo
spoos
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spoo
spooed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spoo
first thing's first
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Uncommon spelling of first things first
traumatropism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Curvature induced by wounds on the tip of a growing root.
Related terms: traumatropic
traumatropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to or exhibiting traumatropism.
HJK
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Then HJK ran out comfortable champions – finishing 13 points clear of nearest rivals SJK.
ref: 2015 May 5, Matias Frez, “Finland: The world’s most orderly football league?”, in CNN:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Abbreviation of Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi; a Finnish football club.
taxonymic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to taxonyms or taxonymy.
Caribbean coots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Caribbean coot
CTPA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CTPAs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of computed tomography pulmonary angiogram
CTPA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Cosmetic, Toiletry and Perfumery Association
CTPAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CTPA
INCI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of International Nomenclature of Cosmetic Ingredients
AMTA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of American Manufacturers of Toilet Articles
PCPC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Personal Care Products Council
stubby Hubble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stubby Hubbles
Etymology: stubby + Hubble. From being a telescope similar to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), with a shortened tube (ie. a stub). The HST itself is named after American astronomer Edwin Hubble.
Senses: topics: aerospace
business
engineering
espionage
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: A spy satellite with a design similar to the Hubble Space Telescope.
topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A satellite of this class, with a shorter telescope tube than Hubble, similar mirror-size class, and wider field-of-view.
Coordinate terms: Hubble
FMer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FMers
Etymology: FM + -er
Senses: examples: text: The FMer realizes the increasing sophistication of the hobby.
ref: 1975, 73 Amateur Radio's Technical Journal, numbers 172-177, page 110:
glosses: An FM radio enthusiast.
FMers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of FMer
rice box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rice boxes
Senses: examples: text: Rice box, rice box, every where? Where will this mess all end? The FMer realizes the increasing sophistication of the hobby.
ref: 1975, 73 Amateur Radio's Technical Journal, numbers 172-177, page 110:
text: A morning at my local hamfest got me a low-band transceiver (everybody called it a "rice box") for what seemed to me a very reasonable price. The antenna, however, was a more difficult problem.
ref: 2002, 73 Amateur Radio Today, numbers 494-505:
glosses: A cheap Asian-made electronic device.
rice boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rice box
theke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thekes
Senses: examples: text: Apothecia lecanoroid; multilocular; each cell containing a single theke; paraphyses deficient.
ref: 1882, Edward Tuckerman, Henry Willey, A Synopsis of the North American Lichens (part 1)
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The theca of a lichen.
thekes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of theke
fish-eating crocodile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fish-eating crocodiles
Etymology: Calque of Bengali মেছো কুমির (mechō kumir).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of gharial
synonyms: word: gharial
calathidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calathidia
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: anthodium
glosses: The head of flowers borne by composites, such as the aster.
calathidia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calathidium
calathides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calathis
fidget stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fidget stones
Senses: glosses: Synonym of worry stone
synonyms: word: worry stone
comfort stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comfort stones
Senses: glosses: Synonym of worry stone
synonyms: word: worry stone
Cormode
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
soridium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soridia
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of soredium
soridia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soridium
meta-progression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: meta- + progression
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: Long-term progression, such as unlocking new items or abilities, that persists beyond individual gameplay sessions.
sensitive female chord progression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sensitive female chord progressions
Etymology: Coined by Boston Globe columnist Marc Hirsh.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A common ordering of the progression I–V–vi–IV progression as "vi–IV–I–V".
skylore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skylores
Etymology: From sky + lore.
Senses: examples: text: Modern astronomy has explained why this part of the sky is so sparsely starred and revealed facts which show that Arcturus is even more distinctive than previously thought. And there is even some twentieth-century skylore about this star.
ref: 1981 June 24, Astronomy, →ISSN, skylore, page 35, column 1:
text: Now, though, for long years now, since Amairgen learned the skylore and founded the Council of the Mages, the power drain in their magic runs only through the mage’s source, and the avarlith is not touched.
ref: 1984, Guy Gavriel Kay, The Summer Tree, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 41:
text: ibidem, page 173
roman: “Be that as it may, just before morning there came a fourth visitation to Amairgen, and this one was from the God, from Mörnir, and it was beneficent, for it taught to Amairgen the runes of the skylore that freed the mages ever after from the Mother.
text: The orientation of Teotihuacán was cosmological, its axial plan evolving from a ritual cave whose configuration matched the skylore — the mythologized astronomy — of the times.
ref: 1996, Geoffrey Cornelius, Paul Devereux, “Teotihuacán”, in The Secret Language of the Stars and Planets: A Visual Key to Celestial Mysteries, London: Pavilion, →ISBN, page 153:
text: The most important investigator of Germanic skylore was Otto Sigfrid Reuter (1876–1945). […] He then embarked on a more intensive study of the Germanic peoples and their star- and skylore. […] We still await the full redevelopment of a Germanic skylore (astronomy) and starlore (astrology), for which pioneering work was done by Robert Zoller in the Rune-Gild.
ref: 2018 November 13, Edred Thorsson, chapter 12, in Rune Might: Secret Practices of the German Rune Magicians, Rochester: Inner Traditions, →ISBN, Timing, page 140:
glosses: The study, knowledge, or science of the sky and its apparent components (heavenly bodies, constellations, etc.).
Related terms: starlore
skylores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skylore
body-dysmorphic disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: body-dysmorphic disorders
Senses: examples: text: Those who seek therapy fall along a spectrum, according to [James] Rosen, ranging from the “normative” negative body image (wanting to lose five pounds, wishing her nose were different) to the three per cent of the population who have body-dysmorphic disorder, in which normal-looking people have a disabling preoccupation with appearance.
ref: 1995 February 2, Stephanie Dolgoff, “More older women seek help to feel better about their bodies”, in The Record, Kitchener, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page D3, column 2:
text: I often hear women of her generation speak of the harshness of their school teachers back then, when the rod wasn’t spared, and the over critical parenting, backed up by a stern clergy, which was doled out to them. All of which can lead to what modern psychologists call toxic shame—self loathing which can manifest itself in depression, eating disorders and body-dysmorphic disorders, a skewed notion of unattractiveness which has women in their thousands freezing their facial muscles with Botox to stop their skin from wrinkling.
ref: 2003 March 29, Una Brankin, “The mother of all conflicts”, in Weekend Herald, volume 2, number 13, Dublin, →OCLC, page 19, columns 1–2:
text: Just be aware that body-image concerns, body-dysmorphic disorder, anorexia and bulimia are newly rampant among young men and boys in ways far different from our day, when, as kids, we remember old-timey Batman and Superman being average-proportioned guys in tights.
ref: 2019 April 10, Esther J. Cepeda, “It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s another superhero movie!”, in The Daily News, volume 97, number 8, Longview, Wash.: Lee Enterprises, →ISSN, →OCLC, page A9, column 4:
glosses: Alternative form of body dysmorphic disorder.
body-dysmorphic disorders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of body-dysmorphic disorder
browse milkvetch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Astragalus cibarius, a plant of the Western US.
coral necklace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: However there are no records of Coral-necklace being a weed of tree nurseries anywhere in England; nor have any other plantations of that date been found to have the species.
ref: 2000, Clive Chatters, Flowers of the Forest: Plants and People in the New Forest National Park:
synonyms: knotwort
glosses: A small, herbaceous, trailing plant of the species Illecebrum verticillatum.
morris off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: morrises off
form: morrising off
form: morrised off
form: morrised off
Senses: glosses: to leave; to scram.
the alpha and the omega
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of alpha and omega.
come on in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes on in
form: coming on in
form: came on in
form: come on in
Senses: glosses: Synonym of come in (“to enter”).
synonyms: word: come in
extra: to enter
thoroest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of thoro: most thoro
thoroer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of thoro: more thoro
how do you do, fellow kids
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: hello, fellow kids
Etymology: From “The Tuxedo Begins” (2012), an episode of the American television comedy series 30 Rock, wherein the character Lenny Wosniak uses the greeting after appearing undercover as an unconvincing high-schooler.
Senses: examples: text: This is the dim path where […] a legitimate candidate of the working class will be hammered over and over in an authenticity battle with a campaign that weekly releases some “How do you do, fellow kids?” embarrassment and whose Instagram manager is a woman with her own HBO series.
ref: 2016 February 2, Jeb Lund, “The Electability Spin Machine”, in Rolling Stone, New York, N.Y.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Sep 2018:
text: Five years ago, at the crisp age of 20 (how do you do, fellow kids), I hit the road for a three-hour drive from Pennsylvania to the house of my long-distance-boyfriend-at-the-time in Connecticut.
ref: 2019 October 24, Medea Giordano, “My Fellow Youths: Stop Sleeping on the GPS”, in Wirecutter, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Jul 2021:
text: Campaigns have a rich tradition of adapting to the latest technological fads, from wireless radio to television sets and, more recently, to social platforms like Facebook and Snapchat. Many of these efforts share a how-do-you-do-fellow-kids quality to them, and in an attempt to avoid appearing out of touch, the Biden campaign relies on young, digitally fluent aides to host its TikToks.
ref: 2024 April 19, Michael M. Grynbaum, “Love, Hate or Fear It, TikTok Has Changed America”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2024:
glosses: Used to criticize someone attempting to appeal to the youth as out of touch.
wikipedia: 30 Rock
The Tuxedo Begins