cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
narangi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: narangis
Senses: examples: text: It has a fruit called Sontara that resembles narangi but with better colour and sweeter.
ref: 1989, Mohammad Azhar Ansari, Geographical Glimpses of Medieval India, volume 3:
text: A few drinks of lemon juice or narangi juice will certainly give some relief in acute menorrhagia.
ref: 2006, Dr. Rajeev Sharma, Herbal Home Remedies, page 42:
text: Kamraks and narangis, are in season during winter; ambles, badhals, mountain grape, phalsas, labhiras, during summer, and kaits, pakars, karmar, jamans, karaundas, jhanbiris, during the rains.
ref: 2018, Versha Gupta, Botanical Culture of Mughal India: (Ad 1526–1707):
glosses: A variety of orange (fruit).
narangis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of narangi
APIC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: APICs
Senses: examples: text: When dealing with interrupt problems, try disabling APIC support.
ref: 2020, chapter 11, in The FreeBSD Handbook:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller.
APICs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of APIC
Legionary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Legionaries
Senses: glosses: a member of the Legion of Christ, a Roman Catholic religious institute
P mitrale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From P (“P wave”) + New Latin mitrāle, neuter singular of mitrālis (“relating to a mitre; mitral”), from mītra (“mitre”) + -ālis. So named because it often appears as a consequence of mitral valve disease.
Senses: topics: cardiology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A broad and bifid P wave on an electrocardiogram, most commonly observed in lead II, usually caused by enlargement of the left atrium.
Related terms: P pulmonale
P biatriale
P pulmonale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From P (“P wave”) + New Latin pulmōnāle, neuter singular of pulmōnālis (“relating to the lungs; pulmonary”), from pulmō (“lung”) + -ālis. So named because it often appears as a consequence of pulmonary disease.
Senses: topics: cardiology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A high, narrow and peaked P wave on an electrocardiogram, most commonly observed in leads II and III, usually caused by enlargement of the right atrium.
Related terms: P mitrale
P biatriale
monopropylene glycol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monopropyleneglycol
form: mono-propylene glycol
Etymology: From mono- + propylene + glycol. Compare polypropylene glycol.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of propylene glycol, propandiol
synonyms: word: propylene glycol
word: propandiol
Derived terms: word: MPG
Related terms: word: glycol
english: MEG
translation: MEG
word: monoethylene glycol
english: PPG
translation: PPG
word: polypropylene glycol
word: propylene
english: PG
translation: PG
word: propylene glycol
polypropylene glycol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polypropylene glycols
Etymology: From polypropylene + glycol. From poly-+propylene. From propyl+-ene. From prop(ane)+-yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A polymer of propylene glycol.
Synonyms: word: PPG
Derived terms: word: PPG
Related terms: english: EG
translation: EG
word: ethylene glycol
word: glycol
english: PEG
translation: PEG
word: polyethylene glycol
word: polypropylene
word: polypropylene oxide
word: propyl
word: propylene
english: PG
translation: PG
word: propylene glycol
word: propylene oxide
monoethylene glycol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monoethyleneglycol
form: mono-ethylene glycol
Etymology: From mono- + ethylene + glycol. Compare polyethylene glycol.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ethylene glycol, ethandiol
synonyms: word: ethylene glycol
word: ethandiol
Derived terms: word: MEG
Related terms: word: ethylene
english: EG
translation: EG
word: ethylene glycol
word: glycol
english: MPG
translation: MPG
word: monopropylene glycol
english: PEG
translation: PEG
word: polyethylene glycol
Marilao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Bulacan, Philippines.
glosses: A surname from Tagalog
Meycauayan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Maycawayan
Etymology: From Spanish Meycauayan, from Tagalog may- + kawayan.
Senses: glosses: A city in Bulacan, Philippines.
Obando
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: Meronyms: Binuangan, Catanghalan, Hulo, Lawa, Pag-asa, Paliwas, Panghulo, Salambao, San Pascual, Tawiran — barangays of Obando
glosses: A municipality of Bulacan, Philippines.
Pandi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Bulacan, Philippines.
Norzagaray
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: Meronyms: Bangkal, Baraka, Bigte, Bitungol, Friendship Village Resources, Matictic, Minuyan, Partida, Pinagtulayan, Poblacion, San Lorenzo, San Mateo, Tigbe — barangays of Norzagaray
glosses: A municipality of Bulacan, Philippines.
Baliuag
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈliwəɡ/
Senses: glosses: A city in Bulacan, Philippines.
organonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more organonic
form: most organonic
Etymology: From organon + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to an organon.
glosses: Having the characters of an organon.
depersonate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: depersonates
form: depersonating
form: depersonated
form: depersonated
Etymology: From de- + person + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Is there not a tendency to speak of the operation of the Holy Spirit as that of an influence, rather than an agency — to depersonate or impersonate Him?
ref: 1847, The Biblical review, and Congregational magazine:
text: In "St. Simeon Stylites" (1833), camparably, the monologist's obsession with gaining a sanctified fame leads him to depersonate himself into the very stone pillar on which he sits, the epithet by which he has his identity: he names himself, "I, Simeon of the pillar, by surname / Stylites, among men; I, Simeon, / The watcher on the column till the end" (lines 158-60).
ref: 1993, Herbert F. Tucker, Critical essays on Alfred Lord Tennyson, page 101:
text: The fantasy of robotic masses expresses a complex desire, to embody and depersonate at the same time.
ref: 2014, Despina Kakoudaki, Anatomy of a Robot:
glosses: To depersonalize; to remove the status of a person.
depersonates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of depersonate
depersonating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of depersonate
depersonated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of depersonate
formal heresy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: formal heresies
Etymology: Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin haeresis fōrmālis.
Senses: topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
coordinate_terms: material heresy
glosses: The teaching or expression of an opinion in the conscious knowledge that it is contradictory to the teachings of the Church, and as such heretical.
formal heresies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of formal heresy
throws a kiss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of throw a kiss
throwing a kiss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of throw a kiss
thrown a kiss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of throw a kiss
threw a kiss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of throw a kiss
Wilkinsonianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Wilkinsonian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The religious beliefs and practices of the Quaker preacher Jemima Wilkinson, known as the Public Universal Friend, and of the Society of Universal Friends.
Related terms: Wilkinsonian
dephilosophise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dephilosophises
form: dephilosophising
form: dephilosophised
form: dephilosophised
Senses: examples: text: The theory to repsychologise the philosophical account should not be misunderstood with an idea to dephilosophise it.
ref: 2007, Meera Chakravorty, Consciousness, Time, and Praxis, page 35:
text: He was a man full of contradictions: an intensely private man who lived and flourished through his realtionships with others; a German patriot who demanded that post-war Germany acknowledge its own guilt and restore itself from the basis of that acknowledgement; a psychiatrist who rejected the psychiatric categorisation of mental disorder; a philosopher who sought to dephilosophise philosophy.
ref: 2015, Jon Nixon, Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Friendship, page 86:
text: While Carter adheres to the circularity of Plato's Cave analogy by beginning and ending her novel in cinematic caves, Carter uses this cyclicity to deconstruct Plato's philosophy—to dephilosophise.
ref: 2016, Heidi Yeandle, Angela Carter and Western Philosophy, page 41:
glosses: Alternative form of dephilosophize.
dephilosophises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dephilosophise
dephilosophising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dephilosophise
dephilosophised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dephilosophise
dephilosophize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dephilosophizes
form: dephilosophizing
form: dephilosophized
form: dephilosophized
Etymology: From de- + philosophy + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: If we dephilosophize the sciences - what is left - earth, air, and water.
ref: 1984, Kathleen M. Wheeler, German Aesthetic and Literary Criticism:
text: Furthermore, there has been a historical tendency in medicine to "dephilosophize" and shift from "armchair speculation" to the discovery of “a web of invariances that form the basis for today's control of Somatic man.".
ref: 1995, Peter Augustine Lawler, A Question of Values: Johan Galtung's Peace Research, page 56:
text: By viewing his task in this way, as John Hinde puts it, 'Burckhardt was not just trying to dephilosophize history; he wanted to aestheticize it in order to capture the whole of human society and history as an aesthetic product in which art and free spiritual creativity have world-making significance.'
ref: 2004, Richard Franklin Sigurdson, Jacob Burckhardt's Social and Political Thought, page 123:
glosses: To remove philosophy (from): to replace abstract models with objective observation and concrete description.
examples: text: Opinion again, while improved, interesting as it may be to its holders, has no special interest for philosophy; to press philosophy into its service is to dephilosophize it.
ref: 1872 November, Shadworth H. Hodgson, “The Future of Metaphysic”, in The Contemporary Review, volume 20, page 831:
text: Philosopher, dephilosophize yourself, and then take off your clothes. Oh, God, what self-esteem, what ignorance, what malice, what shrunken thinking, and all in one person!
ref: 1963, The Atlantic Monthly - Volume 212, page 71:
text: They have helped me to "dephilosophize," to shun the allures of culture and to place myself on the margin of convictions acquired through long philosophical inquiry on the subject of scientific thinking.
ref: 1973, Vernon W. Gras, European literary theory and practice, page 266:
text: To dephilosophize or unphilosophize, to embrace the insult of being 'unphilosophical' as one's own, because the alternative of being recognized as 'proper' comes at the cost of also being a cliche.
ref: 2009, John Mullarkey, Refractions of reality: philosophy and the moving image, page 214:
glosses: To make or become unphilosophical.
dephilosophizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dephilosophize
dephilosophizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dephilosophize
dephilosophized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dephilosophize
rulesless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rulesless
form: most rulesless
Etymology: From rules + -less.
Senses: examples: text: WoD and to a lesser degree Shadowrun (IMHO the -real- innovation in RP. :) give me problems cause they give you -some- rules, but not enough to help and more than you need for a truly rulesless game.
ref: 1996 August 30, Jens Hage, “Exile (A review of sorts)”, in alt.games.whitewolf (Usenet):
glosses: Without rules.
badge of honor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: badges of honour
form: badge of honour
Senses: examples: May 19, 2020, Donald Trump, daily briefing
I view [the fact USA has the world's highest number of cases of coronavirus] as a badge of honor.
glosses: An outward sign that signifies some distinction.
Derived terms: wear as a badge of honor
Calabanga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Camarines Sur, Philippines.
unattractives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unattractive
intentioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of intention
pair of forceps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pairs of forceps
Senses: glosses: Synonym of forceps.
synonyms: word: forceps
pairs of forceps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pair of forceps
supramitral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supra- + mitral.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Above the mitral valve.
prevalvular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + valvular.
Senses: glosses: In front of a valve.
travel adapters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of travel adapter
travelholic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: travelholics
Etymology: From travel + -holic.
Senses: examples: text: Armed with a Minolta camera, creative spirit and love of nature, Yang, a salesman, is a self-confessed travelholic. What amazes others is that he always travels alone and that's just the way he likes it.
ref: 2004, Beijing Review, volume 47, numbers 32–52, page 32:
glosses: A travel enthusiast.
travelholics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of travelholic
CD drive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CD drives
Senses: topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An optical drive used for reading data from and possibly writing data on a compact disc.
Synonyms: compact disc drive
Related terms: CD burner
DVD drive
Blu-ray drive
HD DVD drive
DVD drive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DVD drives
Senses: topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An optical drive used for reading data from and possibly writing data on a DVD.
Related terms: CD drive
CD burner
DVD burner
Blu-ray drive
HD DVD drive
Blu-ray drive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Blu-ray drives
Senses: topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An optical drive used for reading data from and possibly writing data on a Blu-ray disc.
Related terms: Blu-ray burner
CD burner
CD drive
DVD burner
DVD drive
HD DVD drive
travel book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: travel books
form: travelbook
form: travel-book
Etymology: From travel + book.
Senses: glosses: A book about travelling to a certain region, such as a memoir or guide book.
travel books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of travel book
HD DVD drive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HD DVD drives
Senses: topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An optical drive used for reading data from and possibly writing data on an HD DVD.
Related terms: Blu-ray burner
Blu-ray drive
CD burner
CD drive
DVD burner
DVD drive
travelbook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: travelbooks
Senses: examples: text: Among anthropologists old ethnographic descriptions and travelbooks have a bad reputation. With the exception of ethnohistorians, anthropologists make little use of these sources for ethnographic research because of their reputed lack of reliability.
ref: 1991, Jean Kommers, “Between Structure and Context: Sources, Source Criticism, and Alterity Studies”, in Raymond Corbey, Joep Leerssen, editors, Alterity, Identity, Image: Selves and Others in Society and Scholarship, Amsterdam: Rodopi B.V., →ISBN, page 109:
glosses: Alternative spelling of travel book.
travelbooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of travelbook
tough bananas
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tough cookies.
synonyms: word: tough cookies
tough tarts
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tough cookies.
synonyms: word: tough cookies
tough sledding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A situation in which it is difficult to proceed.
Langtonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /læŋˈtəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /læŋˈtoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Langtonians
Senses: glosses: Someone from Kirkcaldy.
glosses: A student or alumnus of Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys in Canterbury, Kent, England.
knock down a peg
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knocks down a peg
form: knocking down a peg
form: knocked down a peg
form: knocked down a peg
Senses: glosses: Synonym of take down a notch.
synonyms: word: take down a notch
engineerish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more engineerish
form: most engineerish
Etymology: From engineer + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: They were dressed informally in jeans and shirts with open collars, and were similar in bearing—soft-spoken, friendly, distinctly engineerish.
ref: 1995, Craig Canine, Dream Reapers: The Story of an Old-Fashioned Inventor in the High-Tech, High-Stakes World of Modern Agriculture, New York, NY: Knopf, →ISBN, page 219:
glosses: Characteristic of an engineer.
Athenianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈθiː.ni.ən.ɪzəm/
Etymology: From Athenian + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: In what degree these descendants show that their Athenianism is subordinate to the thought of the Epistle or the Epistle subordinate to Athenianism is a subject we need not here search into.
ref: 1936, Vacher Burch, The Epistle to the Hebrews: Its Sources and Message, page 7:
text: Also the 'Athenian society' requires that this actual world exemplifies a certain systematic scheme, amid which 'Athenianism' is realizable.
ref: 1990, Stephen T. Franklin, Speaking from the Depths: Alfred North Whitehead's Hermeneutical Metaphysics of Propositions, Experience, Symbolism, Language, and Religion:
text: Dunton seems to expect that his readers will find the conventions of Athenianism amusing or endearing rather than disappointing, frustrating or deceitful.
ref: 2015, Rebecca Bullard, The Politics of Disclosure, 1674-1725: Secret History Narratives, page 75:
text: In the volume's dedication, he defines Athenianism as novelty and locates its origins in his friendship with Rowe[…].
ref: 2018, Emrys D. Jones, Victoria Joule, editors, Intimacy and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Literary Culture: Public Interiors, Springer, →ISBN, page 204:
glosses: The veneration of the culture of ancient Athens and the attempt to emulate some of its characteristics.
Marucellian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to Francesco Marucelli
DOCS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DoCS
form: D.O.C.S.
form: D. O. C. S.
Senses: glosses: Acronym of department of correctional services.
Synonyms: english: bureau of corrections
translation: bureau of corrections
word: BOC
english: bureau of correctional services
translation: bureau of correctional services
word: BOCS
english: bureau of penitentiaries
translation: bureau of penitentiaries
word: BOP
english: bureau of prisons
translation: bureau of prisons
word: BOP
english: correctional services
translation: correctional services
word: CS
english: department of corrections
translation: department of corrections
word: DOC
english: department of penitentiaries
translation: department of penitentiaries
word: DOP
english: department of prisons
translation: department of prisons
word: DOP
amphistomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: amphistomatic
lanceoloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lanceoloid
form: most lanceoloid
Senses: examples: text: Carex rosea generally has ovoid-lanceoloid perigynia with a length-width ratio of 2.0-2.5:1, and is non-rhizomatous as well.
ref: 1987 December 24, “Carex socialis (Cyperaceae): A New Record for the Atlantic Coastal Plain”, in Castanea, volume 52, number 4, page 311:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Three-dimensional, narrow at both ends with the widest part below the middle.
quadricolour
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In addition he invented a quadricolour camera, dividing the spectrum into four, the cold colours being taken on one side and the warm on the other side of a stereoscopic camera.
ref: 1939, The Photographic Journal, volume 79, page 161:
text: The crest of the Dominion of Canada on the cover is in quadricolour letterpress.
ref: 1941, Stephen Leacock, Canada: The Foundations of Its Future, page 265:
text: Helgoland, Novara and Sankt Georg at Tivat (Cattaro Bay) on 10 January 1919, flying the provisional Yugoslav quadricolour (red-white-blue-red) flag.
ref: 2020 March 30, Spoils of War: The Fate of Enemy Fleets after the Two World Wars, →ISBN, page 28:
glosses: Alternative spelling of quadricolor.
juridical act
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: juridical acts
Senses: qualifier: civil law
glosses: Any conduct by a person intended to create, modify, transfer, preserve, or extinguish a right, obligation, or legal relationship.
Synonyms: juristic act
legal act
Hyponyms: legal transaction
Coordinate terms: juridical fact
party trick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: party tricks
Senses: synonyms: parlour trick
glosses: A trick that could be performed at a party for entertainment.
examples: text: C++ has a great party trick here: The preceeding ^([sic]) line might be in a different file!
ref: 2007, Pete Goodliffe, Code Craft: The Practice of Writing Excellent Code, page 163:
text: He summarised the situation to me in RAIL 612: "The railway is expanding. Sooner or later, after every engineering party trick, we run out of capacity."
ref: 2020 May 6, Philip Haigh, “Just one more stop on the long journey to HS2 fulfillment [sic]”, in Rail, page 64:
synonyms: parlour trick
glosses: A clever or tricky behavior.
Related terms: party game
sells the pass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sell the pass
selling the pass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sell the pass
party tricks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of party trick
holy doodle
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: An expression of surprise.
Synonyms: wow
slap my ass and call me Judy
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: (Between bites of taco shells, he does manage to sample one of Monica's dishes, and he likes it well enough to shout, "Slap my ass and call me Judy!") April 17, 1995: Monica and Fake Monica (the woman who stole her credit cards) audition ...
ref: 1996, Amy Paulsen, True Friends, HarperCollins, →ISBN:
text: “But both of the girls are positive that they'll want their own rings when they get engaged,” Mrs. Candell goes on, “so I decided my diamond is there for Jack whenever he wants it. And...he wants it.” Well, slap my ass and call me Judy! Better yet ...
ref: 2012, Wendy Markham, Slightly Engaged, Harlequin, →ISBN:
synonyms: butter my butt and call me a biscuit
slap my ass and call me Sally
glosses: An expression of astonishment upon learning something unbelievable; chiefly something positive.
LTAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LTA
Ledburn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Mentmore parish, Buckinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SP9021).
Mentmore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, previously in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP9019).
on-topic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more on-topic
form: most on-topic
form: on topic
Senses: glosses: Related to the matter under discussion.
on topic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more on topic
form: most on topic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of on-topic.
Europeanity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From European + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Rejecting the “Europeanity” and “Africanity” they see in Négritude, Créolité pleads for an internal vision of the Caribbean focused on the French Caribbean realities: “Lavision intérieure,” which can be reached by writing in Creole.
ref: 2011, Edgard Sankara, Postcolonial Francophone Autobiographies:
text: When setting criteria for "performative whiteness," both the degree of cultural assimilation, and value system adaptation (such as practicing Christianity, for example) of the applicants, as well as the initial Europeanity of the kin-group was weighed.
ref: 2013, Kristin Henrard, The Interrelation between the Right to Identity of Minorities and Their Socio-Economic Participation, page 141:
text: The discourse of Europeanity is one that combines 'we' with a collective political identity beyond the state. The emergence of the Europeanity discourse coincided with the end of the Second World War, when the legitimacyof state power and its ability to regulate human collectivity came into question.
ref: 2014, R. Coman, T. Kostera, L. Tomini, Europeanization and European Integration:
glosses: The quality or characteristic of being European.
Synonyms: Europeanness
Coordinate terms: Africanity
Africanness
Asianity
Asianness
eagle stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eagle stones
Senses: examples: text: Of the many different types the aetites or eagle stone was probably the best known.
ref: 2005, Barbara Freitag, Sheela-na-gigs: Unravelling an Enigma:
text: I knew I worried them, but I felt fine, and although I told myself it was foolish, I kept the eagle stone with me at all times.
ref: 2008, Kathleen Givens, Kilgannon:
text: From that day on, Green kept his powerful eagle stone stowed away and “wrap in a leaf from the Bible.” Those who possessed an eagle stone were reputed to be able to attract not only game but “almost any object you can name.”
ref: 2012, Ras Michael Brown, African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry, page 165:
text: A case that proves an exception to this rule is his discussion of the so-called “eagle stone” in which he expresses his skepticism about its magical qualities.
ref: 2013, George R. Rapp, Archaeomineralogy, page 6:
glosses: Alternative form of eaglestone.
eagle stones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eagle stone
eagle-stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eagle-stones
Senses: examples: text: THIS is the aetites, or eagle-stone, of which there is a great variety, and to which many virtues were ascribed by the ancients. When I shewed a picture of the eagle-stone to a bramhǔn who was sitting with me, without informing him what it was, he exclaimed—'This is the Shalgramǔ!' and added, (jocularly) — 'Oh! then, Englishmen will be saved, as they have the shalgramǔ amongst them.'
ref: 1815, William Ward, A View of the History, Literature, and Religion of the Hindoos:
text: The victor carried the eagle-stone to the shore of Solway, and placed it on the summit of his castle: on the third morning, the eagle was seen perched upon it, and there it continued to live for several centuries, till one of the lords rebelled against his king, and burned the abbey of Dundrenan; the eagle then disappeared, and was seen no more.
ref: 1826, Allan Cunningham, Paul Jones, page 89:
text: The eagle-stone was another lusus naturae as to its supposed virtue and origin, being only found in the nests of eagles which could not breed without their aid.
ref: 1880, William Jones, History and mystery of precious stones, page 20:
glosses: Alternative form of eaglestone.
eagle-stones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eagle-stone
ebriate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ebriate
form: most ebriate
Etymology: From Latin ebrius (“drunk”).
Senses: examples: text: One moment the retailer of tea, sugar, rum, and tobacco; the next, the ebriate solace of her ebriate mate.
ref: 1843, John Hood, Australia and the East, page 319:
text: Acme then her head reflecting, Kiss'd her sweet youth's ebriate eyes, With her rosy lips connecting Looks that glistened with replies.
ref: 1847 June, Aquilius, “Horæ Catullianæ”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 61, number 380, page 704:
text: Here before lords of the brain, why and till when, foolishly vain, Sett'st thou forth, crown of the feast, drunkard, thy soft ebriate strain?
ref: 1876, P. Whalley, “Translations from the Díwán of ZíB-un-nisá Begam, poetically styed 'Makhfí, duahter of the Emperor Aurangzíb”, in Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, volume 45, number 3, page 310:
glosses: Drunk; intoxicated.
ebriate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ebriates
form: ebriating
form: ebriated
form: ebriated
Etymology: From Latin ebrius (“drunk”).
Senses: examples: text: Their seductive colouring ebriates, and libertinism reigns triumphant.
ref: 1783 January, “The Congress of Cythera”, in The European Magazine: And London Review, volume 3, page 32:
text: Make me with Thy stripes sore-stricken, With Thy cross my spirit quicken— Ebriate—but not with wine: Cheer me, and with mercy brighten, Shield me, and my darkness lighten, When the Day of Doom shall shine.
ref: 1852, “Stabat Mater”, in William John Blew, Henry John Gauntlett, editors, The Church Hymn and Tune Book, page 19:
glosses: To intoxicate.
ebriate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ebriates
Etymology: From Latin ebrius (“drunk”).
Senses: examples: text: The fact that it had been given for religious purposes would seem to point to its being spent on good and charitable works, such as hospitals, bridges, improvement of the dwellings of the poor, especially in large cities , foundation of asylums for ebriates, and the like.
ref: 1877, The Twentieth Century - Volume 1, page 705:
glosses: A drunkard.
ebriates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ebriate
ebriates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ebriate
ebriating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ebriate
ebriating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ebriating
form: most ebriating
Senses: examples: text: […]; their Liquors diſtilling from Vines that are not ebriating, which ſhall never offend the Brain;
ref: 1698, John Fryer, “The Present State of Persia. Chap. XIII. Of Their Bookmen and Books; of Their Religion and Religious Worship; of Their Notions in Philosophy; of Heaven and Hell: Their Astronomers, Physicians, and Lawyers.”, in A New Account of East-India and Persia, in Eight Letters. Being Nine Years Travels, Begun 1672. And Finished 1681. […], London: […] R[obert] R[oberts] for Ri[chard] Chiswell, letter V (Travels into Persia), page 385:
text: They love gross riot, turbulence, and noise, The Bacchanalian's ebriating mirth, And when the autumn of their lives creeps on, Their wit has vansh'd, and their strength is gone!
ref: 1830, William Hone, The Every-day Book and Table Book:
glosses: Intoxicating.
Toks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tok
eccentrize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eccentrizes
form: eccentrizing
form: eccentrized
form: eccentrized
Etymology: From eccentric + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Tigerism has for a long time been on the increase among writers; for since it has been the fashion in the great world to take up any scribbler who has libelled, fought, or eccentrized himself into notice, the spoiled child of the season has found it easier to outrer the dress and deportment of a gentleman for the occasion, than to assume it: in other words, the public make lions of these men; and they, by a slight transformation, make themselves tigers.
ref: 1836, The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal:
text: It is clear from any study of this kind that whether from inertias or resistances , society feels a need to eccentrize innovations and innovators, to burlesque and caricature them, to incarcerate them securely in a folklore.
ref: 1945, RMR, Rocky Mountain Review - Volume 10, page 174:
text: And while she accuses other critics of a normalizing of a literary work which eventuates in a failure to comprehend it, she seems to eccentrize to such an extent that obfuscation prevails.
ref: 1983, College literature - Volume 10, page 84:
glosses: To make eccentric.
eccentrizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of eccentrize
eccentrizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of eccentrize
eccentrized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of eccentrize
Zukor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zukors
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Zukors
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Zukor
Astors
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Astor
Landises
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Landis
Rumford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rumfords
Etymology: Variant of Romford.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Rumford fireplace
Rumford furnace
Rumfords
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Rumford
Neills
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Neill
Jonassons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Jonasson
mistahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mistah
gen'l
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gen'l
form: most gen'l
form: genl
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of general.
gen'l
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gen'ls
form: genl
Senses: examples: text: "And yeah comes the ownah of dis place — Gen'l O'lando Jackson–th' no-tor-ious fightah!"
ref: 1924, The Fighting Coward:
glosses: Abbreviation of general.
gen'ls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gen'l
SpaceForce
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Finally, you don’t have to be a soothsayer to understand that the China/US conflict can lead to an acceleration of the climate and worldwide economic crisis. Who is worrying about that in Washington or Beijing? Not SpaceForce. They are apolitical.
ref: 2020, Frank Pournelle, Spaceforce Update As China Outmatches US:
text: SpaceForce, she said. SpaceForce would change my life, and right now, my life seriously needed a change.
ref: 2015, J. Naomi Ay, Amyr's Command:
text: The experts hoped that this would give SpaceForce a fighting chance over Eden. Simon felt a thrill course through him as the two alien vessels swelled in his sights.
ref: 2012, Mark E. Burgess, The Battle for Eden:
glosses: Alternative form of Space Force.
youah
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: examples: text: But you keep youah house here, youah Newport villa, youah château at Cannes. Whereas, if you broke the will and secured youah dower, youah income would not permit such extravagances.
ref: 1918, George Bronson-Howard, Birds of Prey: Being Pages from the Book of Broadway, page 84:
text: "Put away youah money! Eve'ything is free heah."
ref: 1924, The Fighting Coward:
text: "Mahry Lou, Ah'm not foolin' wid yo'. — Youah cuhrtain dah at mah windah, youah baid spread hyah on ma bed, youah sham hyah on ma pillah, youah rug hyah on ma floo', youah good rockin' chahr obah dah ...
ref: 1991, Angelina Weld Grimké, Selected Works of Angelina Weld Grimké, Oxford University Press on Demand, →ISBN, page 344:
text: I will keep youah camp. I will clean the animals of the hunt. I will make the hides soft. I will bring the wood and keep the fahr. One day—I bring you a son—and you will happy.” Starr put his arms down around her shoulders.
ref: 2009, Phillip Obenchain, Refrain of the Night Wind, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 363:
text: 2016, Mary A. Livermore, The Story of My Life: Sunshine and Shadows of Seventy Years, BIG BYTE BOOKS
Debbie jess yit, Ike Martin, quit youah stealin', an' of you doan, de ole Dragon '11 cotch you in de woods some dark night! Ben Solger, stop youah lyin'!”
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of your.
eve'ything
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: "Put away youah money! Eve'ything is free heah."
ref: 1924, The Fighting Coward:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of everything.
cap'in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cap'ins
Senses: examples: text: "That's Cap'in Blackie! The notorious killah!"
ref: 1924, The Fighting Coward:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of captain.
Related terms: cap'n
cap'ins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cap'in
cyclopess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclopesses
Etymology: From cyclops + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: After winding a handkerchief around the turnkeys and changing the key two or three times, posting me behind the chair to hold Mrs. Cyclop's disordered caput, he introduced the drawers, making sure that he was outside the cavern .. On looking around I saw the Doctor picking himself up from an opposite side of the room, and the impending Cyclopess fairly roaring around the room, knocking over chairs, candle-stands and tables as though they were children's toy furniture .. for the female Cyclops was fairly roaring with intolerable pain, holding both hands to her jaw, crazy with her sufferings
ref: 1866, Lenderman, Lenderman's Thousand Characters and Ten Thousand Practical Facts from Common Life, page 213-214/480:
text: a voice that seemed to come from the large curly-haired head of the black Cyclops or Cyclopess on which his own hairless head was resting .. The immense liquid eye of the black Cyclopess drawing him into its depths.
ref: 2002, Julián Ríos, Monstruary, pages 8/27:
glosses: A female cyclops.
Spaceforce
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: “It is, Captain Gray,” a European Spaceforce admiral told him. “Operation Cygni, a joint European-American scientific and first-contact expedition to the star Deneb."
ref: 2018, Ian Douglas, Bright Light, →ISBN:
text: Sure, there wasn't a shortage of Spaceforce personnel who didn't envy him. With a cushy post as one of four aides-de-camp to the Supreme Commander of the Spaceforce, his future was secure.
ref: 1981, James R. Berry, Quas Starbrite, →ISBN:
text: I won't now. Spaceforce will pick him up.
ref: 1961, Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Door Through Space:
glosses: Alternative form of Space Force.
killah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: killahs
Senses: examples: text: "That's Cap'in Blackie! The notorious killah!"
ref: 1924, The Fighting Coward:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of killer.
killahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of killah
ownah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ownahs
Senses: examples: text: "And yeah comes the ownah of dis place — Gen'l O'lando Jackson–th' no-tor-ious fightah!"
ref: 1924, The Fighting Coward:
text: "Ownah? Man, dey ain't no ownah! Dem chickins is wild. Dem's prairah chickins, man, prairah chickins."
ref: 1929, Forest and Stream:
text: He called the ownah right away on the telephone, an when the ownah got down there he found out that all the cash money had been took outa the safe.
ref: 1967, William Matthews Johnson, The House on Corbett Street: A Novel of Negro Stirrings Amid Discontent:
text: We took ouah name from ouah ownah, and we lived in a cabin way back of the big house, me and mah pappy and mammy and two brothahs..
ref: 2017, Work Projects Administration, THE VOICES FROM THE MARGINS: Authentic Recorded Life Stories by Former Slaves from 17 American States: True Life Stories from Hundreds of African Americans in South about Their Life in Slavery and after the Liberation, e-artnow, →ISBN:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of owner.
ownahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ownah
yeahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yeah
fightah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fightahs
Senses: examples: text: "And yeah comes the ownah of dis place — Gen'l O'lando Jackson–th' no-tor-ious fightah!"
ref: 1924, The Fighting Coward:
text: Daddy was da main crime fightah. I was his sidekick.
ref: 2002, Rodney Morales, When the Shark Bites, University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, page 340:
text: A feral untamed fightah, bravah thahn any I've known since, present company accepted.
ref: 2006, Paul Dean Coker, The Figurehead, Paul Dean Coker, →ISBN, page 224:
text: Gen'ral Buell, f'om all I heah, is a good fightah, but slow.
ref: 2018, Joseph Altsheler, The Sword of Antietam, B&R Samizdat Express, →ISBN:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of fighter.
fightahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fightah
yo've
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: "When yo' can make a man sit down, yo've got him!"
ref: 1924, The Fighting Coward:
glosses: Contraction of you have.
Synonyms: word: you've
stone bow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stone bows
form: stonebow
form: stone-bow
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stone, bow. (a bow made of stone; a sculpture)
glosses: A type of man-portable one-person crossbow, which throws rocks (or similar projectiles) instead of bolts (“arrows”). Sometimes used as a hunting bow.
cunnel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cunnels
Senses: examples: text: “'Bery well,” ses de Cunnel, ...
ref: 1892, Outing, page 444:
text: “Well sah, we done de secum hole in six an de Cunnel like to bus' wif excitement cause he ain never done hit befo' in less'n 'leven,—an we done de third in eight cause de Cunnel tuk fouah putts from bout six foot,—-an de fou'th in fouah an Ah ...
ref: 1918, Golfers Magazine, page 61:
text: "Captain Blackie, this is my friend, the notorious Cunnel Blake."
ref: 1924, The Fighting Coward:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of colonel.
cunnels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cunnel
Wordsworths
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Wordsworth
bettah
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: non-rhotic; expecially Received Pronunciation; non-rhotic; expecially Received Pronunciation
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of better.
bettah
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: qualifier: non-rhotic; expecially Received Pronunciation; non-rhotic; expecially Received Pronunciation
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of better.
Lo'd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: "Tom Rumford! By the Lo'd it is! We drove you, a coward, from 'Magnolia'—and you dare come back and humiliate me?"
ref: 1924, The Fighting Coward:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of Lord.
Zimbalist
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zimbalists
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Zimbalists
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Zimbalist
Dwan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dwans
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Dwans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dwan
Swickard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Swickards
Etymology: Americanized spelling of German Schwickardt.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Swickards
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Swickard
Dinus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
MacWilliams
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: McWilliams
McWilliams
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: McWilliams and his capsule task force continued with an impressive show.
ref: 1981, Army Trainer, volume 1, number 1, page 37:
glosses: A surname.
Related terms: MacWilliams
McWilliam
Goosson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Sikes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
mathetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈθɛtɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Senses: glosses: Relating to mathetics
Leeford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈli.fəɹd/
Senses: glosses: A surname.
pair of tweezers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pairs of tweezers
Senses: glosses: Tweezers; an instrument for grasping and handling small objects.
Synonyms: tweezers
circlejerking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of circlejerk
circlejerked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of circlejerk
Internet fora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Internet forum
forumers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forumer
tbf
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of TBF.
WW3
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -iː
Forms: form: WWIII
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of World War III.
anti-authoritarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anti-authoritarian
SDW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of seven dirty words.
SDW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SDWs
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of spin-density wave.
glosses: Initialism of static discharge wick.
SDW
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Six-Day War.
glosses: Initialism of South Downs Way.
SDWs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SDW
Torvalds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɔːrvɔːldz/
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish Torvalds, constructed from Torvald.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Memery
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.