cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
azidoazide azide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From azido- + azide + azide.
Coined by blogger Derek Lowe as a joke when referring to "1-diazidocarbamoyl-5-azidotetrazole"
Senses: examples: text: Next up, we have the most explosive compound ever produced, the extremely fun to say azidoazide azide.
ref: 2016 January 20, Bec Crew, “WATCH: 5 of The World's Most Dangerous Chemicals”, in Science Alert:
text: Azidoazide azide, known by its chemical formula C₂N₁₄ or as N-amino azidotetrazole, was created by the US Army and a team of German scientists in 2010.
ref: 2016 September 28, Marlese Lessing, “Weird Wednesdays: The world's most volatile substance”, in UConn Daily Campus:
text: Azidoazide azide is a member of this group and is composed predominantly of nitrogen atoms.
ref: 2017 April 3, Orla Sherwood, “Do Not Try This At Home”, in University Observer:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A very hazardous explosive inorganic heterocyclic molecule, namely 1-diazidocarbamoyl-5-azidotetrazole
Synonyms: word: 1-Diazidocarbamoyl-5-azidotetrazole
alt: 5-azido-1H-tetrazol-1-yl
word: carbonimidic diazide
onbeia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: onbeias
Senses: examples: text: Four onbeia blowers walked in front, and, in turns, sounded the great elephant's tusk, while, headed by the dreaded sable standard and moving very slowly, came the Khalifa, stern, stately, statuesque, with drawn sword. Behind, followed the gaudily-attired mulazimin, or body-servants, riding, while his black guards, veritable giants in stature, formed a compact square around him.
ref: 1897, William Le Queux, The Eye of Istar: A Romance of the Land of No Return, page 8:
glosses: An elephant's tusk trumpet.
wooden horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wooden horses
form: wooden mare
Senses: glosses: A toy horse made of wood.
glosses: Synonym of Spanish donkey (“a torture device”).
synonyms: word: Spanish donkey
extra: a torture device
Related terms: Trojan horse
wooden horses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wooden horse
unshortenable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + shortenable.
Senses: glosses: Not shortenable.
shearline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shearlines
form: shear line
Etymology: From shear + line.
Senses: examples: text: Within the monsoon regions, three systems of convergence are identified, the northern monsoon shearline, the southern monsoon shearline and the maximum cloud zone associated with the monsoon westerlies in the vicinity of the equator.
ref: 2005, M. Bonell, L. A. Bruijnzeel, Forests, Water and People in the Humid Tropics:
glosses: A line which separates regions of differing wind velocity.
shearlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shearline
shear line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shear lines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shearline.
shear lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shear line
phosphorus poisonings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphorus poisoning
elephant grasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elephant grass
Ravenna grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ravennagrass
Senses: glosses: Saccharum ravennae, a sugarcane native to southern Europe and western Asia, and known in North America as an invasive weed.
plasmocytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From plasmocyte + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to plasmocytes
Derived terms: lymphoplasmocytic
pearl spars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pearl spar
radiobeacon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiobeacons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of radio beacon.
radiobeacons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radiobeacon
turneyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of turney
turneying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of turney
balians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balian
onbeias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of onbeia
Chicago overcoats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chicago overcoat
cloming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of clome
clomed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of clome
crawl before one can walk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crawls before one can walk
form: crawling before one can walk
form: crawled before one could walk
form: crawled before one could walk
Senses: glosses: Synonym of crawl before one walks.
synonyms: word: crawl before one walks
silk serges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silk serge
granulated sugars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of granulated sugar
granulated steels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of granulated steel
Ingalagi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Belgaum district, Karnataka, India.
glosses: A village in Dharwad district, Karnataka, India.
glosses: A village in Bagalkot, India.
pass the river
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: passes the river
form: passing the river
form: passed the river
form: passed the river
Etymology: Allusion to the crossing of the river Styx, the boundary between life and Hades, in Classical Greek mythology.
Senses: examples: text: To the beautiful memory of Kenneth Grahame, husband of Elspeth and father of Alastair, who passed the river on the 6th of July, 1932, leaving childhood and literature through him the more blest for all time.
ref: 1991, Anthony Hope, edited by Humphrey Carpenter and Mari Prichard, The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pages 216–219:
glosses: To die.
Synonyms: die
on the tiles
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: a night on the tiles
glosses: Alternative form of out on the tiles.
anafront
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anafronts
Etymology: From ana- + front.
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A warm or cold front at which there is upward movement of the warm-sector air above the cold-sector air, commonly producing clouds and precipitation on the cool side of the boundary.
Related terms: katafront
anafronts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anafront
katafront
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: katafronts
Etymology: From kata- + front, coined by T. Bergeron.
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A weak frontal condition in which warm-sector air sinks relative to colder air.
Related terms: anafront
katafronts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of katafront
frontogenetical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From frontogenetic + -al, ultimately fronto- + genetic + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Therefore if Q and Vp0 are in the same direction, the frontogenetical function is positive and there is a thermally direct circulation, and vice versa (Hoskins and Pedder, 1980).
ref: 1986, Peter S. Ray, Mesoscale Meteorology and Forecasting, page 186:
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of frontogenetic.
synonyms: word: frontogenetic
make the road shorter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes the road shorter
form: making the road shorter
form: made the road shorter
form: made the road shorter
Senses: examples: text: Well, it's almost ten o'clock. I should be making the road shorter.
glosses: To get going; to make a start on one's journey.
catafront
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catafronts
Etymology: From cata- + front.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of katafront.
catafronts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catafront
Foochow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfuˈt͡ʃoʊ/
ipa: /fuːˈt͡ʃəʊ/
Forms: form: Foochows
Etymology: From the Postal Romanization of Mandarin 福州 (Fúzhōu). Doublet of Hokchiu.
Senses: qualifier: Southeast Asia
glosses: a person who traces his/her ancestry to Fuzhou or the surrounding region
Foochow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfuˈt͡ʃoʊ/
ipa: /fuːˈt͡ʃəʊ/
Etymology: From the Postal Romanization of Mandarin 福州 (Fúzhōu). Doublet of Hokchiu.
Senses: qualifier: Southeast Asia
glosses: of or relating to the Fuzhou dialect
Synonyms: Hokchiu
Derived terms: Foochowese
Foochownese
fingerstalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fingerstall
evomited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of evomit
evomits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of evomit
evomiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of evomit
devolvers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of devolver
passes the river
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pass the river
passing the river
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pass the river
passed the river
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pass the river
cross the river
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crosses the river
form: crossing the river
form: crossed the river
form: crossed the river
Senses: examples: text: He had come back over the frontier of death. nails, spears, and a cross. Today bombs, mines, torpedoes, and shells. The same death. But death has lost its sting since Jesus crossed the river.
ref: 2014, Horton Davies, Marie-Helene Davies, David Cain, How Far Down Dare I Drink?: Promises Greater Than Dreams, page 82:
glosses: Synonym of pass the river (to die)
synonyms: word: pass the river
extra: to die
inguino-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From inguinālis, from inguen + -ālis, from Latin inguen.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: inguen; groin
Biscuitgate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From biscuit + -gate.
Senses: glosses: A minor controversy of 2009, when prime minister Gordon Brown was accused of sidestepping questions about his favourite kind of biscuit during an online chat.
inguinoabdominal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inguino- + abdominal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the groin and abdomen.
duties of care
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duty of care
show in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shows in
form: showing in
form: showed in
form: shown in
Senses: examples: text: I'll be in the library. When my guests arrive, show them in, Charlie.
glosses: To lead or direct someone to an enclosed space, usually a room.
bikejoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bikejor
Israeli salad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Israeli salads
Senses: glosses: A salad of finely diced tomato, onion, cucumber, and bell peppers or chili peppers.
Israeli salads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Israeli salad
immunoscintigraphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to immunoscintigraphy.
Derived terms: immunoscintigraphically
radioimmunoscintigraphic
immunoscintigraphically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From immunoscintigraphic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of immunoscintigraphy.
bay salts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bay salt
embalming rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of embalming room
poop chutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poop chute
osteochondromata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of osteochondroma
man-arm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: man-arms
Senses: examples: text: […] what the heck do [celebrities] care if someone thinks they have man-arms? I am not a fan of man-arms. I prefer a feminine look, more like Jennifer Aniston, who is well-toned, but looks like a woman.
ref: 2002 September 24, Caryperk39, “Re: Katie Couric's Man Arms”, in alt.fashion (Usenet), message-ID <20020924153734.03011.00008036@mb-dh.aol.com>:
text: [Ramona threatens to hit Envy with a large sledgehammer.]
Envy: Wow, Ramona, isn't this kind of unfair? One swing of your burly man-arms and my little head is pasta salad.
ref: 2006, “Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness”, in Scott Pilgrim, volume 3:
glosses: A strong, manly woman's arm.
man-arms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of man-arm
umbelaps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of umbelap
raw_tags: in modern translations
umbelapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of umbelap
raw_tags: in modern translations
umbelapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of umbelap
raw_tags: in modern translations
unionbusting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: union busting
Etymology: From union + busting.
Senses: glosses: Efforts to prevent the formation or expansion of trade unions.
Related terms: unionbuster
onyx marbles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of onyx marble
alcohologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌælkəˈhɒlədʒɪst/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒɪst
Forms: form: alcohologists
Etymology: From alcohology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies alcohology.
alcohological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to alcohology.
alcohologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alcohologist
astripotent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /əsˈtɹɪpətənt/
/æsˈtɹɪpətənt/
Forms: form: more astripotent
form: most astripotent
Etymology: From Latin astripotens, likely through Middle French astripotent.
Senses: examples: text: The high astripotent auctor of all.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), MS. Harl. 2551, folio 29:
glosses: That rules the stars.
astripotent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əsˈtɹɪpətənt/
/æsˈtɹɪpətənt/
Forms: form: astripotents
Etymology: From Latin astripotens, likely through Middle French astripotent.
Senses: examples: text: I latrially venere the supernal Astripotent.
ref: 1653, Sir Thomas Urquhart, translating François Rabelais, The Romance of Gargantua and Pantagruel:
glosses: The ruler of the stars.
pussy-whipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pussy-whip
pussy-whips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pussy-whip
black drop effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black drop effect
CCOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CCO
laurel greens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laurel green
TIFFs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TIFF
plastic wood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of wood putty.
synonyms: word: wood putty
wood putty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wood putties
Senses: glosses: A substance, typically wood dust with a binder, used to fill imperfections in wood prior to finishing.
Synonyms: plastic wood
wood putties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wood putty
veganity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vegan + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Vegan wines either use non-animal product fining agents, such as kaolin (a clay) or don’t filter (“fine”) the wine using additives at all. This seems to be more common - look for “unfiltered”/“unfined” or “watch out for harmless sediments” as a possible sign of veganity!
ref: 2004 October 16, “Organic Wine: Why It’s So Good”, in Philippine Daily Inquirer, volume 19, number 311, Makati, Metro Manila, page J1:
text: Vegan police member #1: Todd Ingram, you're under arrest for veganity violation.
[…]
Vegan police member #2: We have it on record that at 12:27 this afternoon you did knowingly consume a restricted food item.
Vegan police member #1: Gelato, bitch. […] It contains milk & eggs […]
ref: 2006, “Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness”, in Scott Pilgrim, volume 3:
text: This sauce is an emulsion, meaning it won’t separate after you mix it up. In other words, it’s basically lemon tahini mayo, which is pretty special. If you add a yolk it will emulsify even thicker, but that of course would cause the dressing to lose its veganity.
ref: 2019 January 2, Ari LeVaux, “Flash in the pan: Winter greens: Hearty leaves now in season – with a trio of dressings to help you eat them up”, in Record-Journal, 152nd year, number 2, Meriden, Conn., page D1:
synonyms: veganness
glosses: The state of being vegan.
crowd control barrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crowd control barriers
Senses: glosses: A barricade erected at a public event, such as a rally or festival, to prevent people from entering certain areas.
Synonyms: crush barrier
floofs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of floof
floofs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of floof
floofing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of floof.
floofed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of floof.
spazziest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of spazzy: most spazzy
spazzier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of spazzy: more spazzy
VST
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Twitch uses Reason; synthesizer software Absynth and Reactor; Pluggo, to add special sound effects through VST plug-ins; Peak, an audio editor that lets you cut audio to the right length; and the sequencer software Ableton Live.
ref: 2005 March 10, Natalie Hanman, “Mix and match”, in The Guardian, retrieved 21 Jul 2021:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Initialism of Virtual Studio Technology.
examples: text: "The combination of large field of view, excellent image quality, and the very efficient operations scheme of the VST will produce an enormous wealth of information that will advance many fields of astrophysics," said Konrad Kuijken, head of the OmegaCAM consortium.
ref: 2011 June 8, Ian Sample, quoting Konrad Kuijken, “Brand new telescope captures Omega Nebula in all its glory”, in The Guardian, retrieved 21 Jul 2021:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of VLT Survey Telescope.
tunnel ram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tunnel rams
Senses: examples: text: Tunnel ram manifolds have a couple of big disadvantages for street use. The first is hood clearance. The usual solution to hood clearance is a big scoop that blocks your vision to the right of you. The other problem with tunnel ram manifolds is that they provide an advantage only in a limited, high-rpm range.
ref: 2003, Lee Klancher, Monster Garage: How to Customize Damn Near Anything, →ISBN, page 51:
text: The tunnel ram intake manifold is an example of an extended high-rise system.
ref: 2009, David Lewis, Chevy Small-Block V-8 Interchange Manual, 2nd Edition, →ISBN, page 114:
text: The runner placement of a tunnel ram allows a nearly straight shot to the back of the valve.
ref: 2015, David Vizard, David Vizard's Chevy Big Blocks, →ISBN, page 81:
glosses: A type of high-performance intake manifold designed to straighten the pathway of fuel/air mixture, speeding the flow to the combustion chambers.
tunnel rams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tunnel ram
inlet manifold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inlet manifolds
Senses: examples: text: As with all induction systems, the inlet manifold plays a very significant part in making sure that the air/fuel mixture is distributed as efficiently and as equally as possible to each cylinder.
ref: 2005, Des Hammill, How to Power Tune Rover V8 Engines for Road & Track, →ISBN, page 161:
glosses: Synonym of intake manifold.
synonyms: word: intake manifold
Affleck
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈæflɛk/
Forms: form: Afflecks
Etymology: Scottish habitational surname, from the village of Auchinleck, in Ayrshire.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scots.
wikipedia: Auchinleck
Derived terms: Batfleck
Afflecks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Affleck
exit code
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exit codes
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: A sequence of digits that must be dialled before the target number when placing an international call from a given country.
exit codes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exit code
Congressmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Congressman
Congressional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /kəŋˈɡɹɛʃn̩əl/
Forms: form: more Congressional
form: most Congressional
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the United States Congress.
one thing after another
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: And now my car's broken down too. It's just one thing after another.
glosses: A succession of things that are tedious, problematic, or otherwise unwanted.
Related terms: if it's not one thing it's another
one after another
ODTAA
beachhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beachhouses
Etymology: From beach + house.
Senses: glosses: A house on the beach.
beachhouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beachhouse
Paltrow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Paltrows
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Paltrows
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Paltrow
panda eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpændə(ɹ)ˌaɪz/
Etymology: Supposed to be similar in appearance to the black patches around the eyes of a giant panda.
Senses: glosses: An effect of dark rings around the eyes caused by the overapplication or smearing of eye makeup.
Related terms: english: unintentional white patches around eyes
translation: unintentional white patches around eyes
word: reverse panda
english: similar look created intentionally
translation: similar look created intentionally
word: smoky eyes
turn of foot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turns of foot
Senses: examples: text: So myth number one is that horses who finish fast in the final furlong are horses to follow because they possess a turn of foot.
ref: 2004, Alan Potts, Against the Crowd, →ISBN, page 23:
text: He had a turn of foot that could see him outsprint many a staying horse over the 2400 metres, but that was his limit.
ref: 2009, Emma Boling, Riding High, →ISBN:
text: The squareish track was flat and suited horses with a turn of foot, which exactly described the two runners that Brewer was sending there on the day following Matt's return from Sedgefield.
ref: 2009, Lyndon Stacey, Murder in Mind, →ISBN, page 155:
text: Meanwhile Charlie Bell reported the stable's latest acquisition: a very good jumper but, as far as he could determine to date, 'without a great turn of foot'.
ref: 2014, Peter O'Sullevan, Calling The Horses: A Racing Autobiography, →ISBN:
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: The ability to accelerate quickly.
examples: text: A good deal of a horse's efforts at acceleration are dissipated by the surface. On grass, a turn of foot is a powerful weapon. On dirt or the All-weather it counts for very little.
ref: 2002, Nick Mordin, Betting for a Living, →ISBN, page 51:
text: He had failed to match the lightening turn of foot of Desert Destination, but was now eating up the ground and was almost up-sides.
ref: 2003, Paddy Cummins, Green Lodge, →ISBN, page 94:
text: He felt that, as he put him in a gallop, the estimated speed they were travelling at was forty miles an hour and his turn of foot was breathtaking.
ref: 2013, B. J. Newing, The Rawlinson Family Story, →ISBN, page 102:
text: The winner then found an impressive and immediate turn of foot to accelerate away from Nichols Canyon after the second-last, and he was full value for his healthy winning margin at the line.
ref: 2016 December 29, Greg Wood, “Petit Mouchoir on course for Champion Hurdle after Leopardstown victory”, in The Guardian:
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: A burst of speed in a horse race.
examples: text: The final gear change is phenomenal. His turn of foot prodigious.
ref: 2013, John Herbert, Marathon, →ISBN, page 24:
text: Showing an unexpectedly fleet turn of foot, she ducked through to safety, smartly shutting the door in our faces just in time.
ref: 2015, P. N. Elrod, Dance of Death, →ISBN, page 58:
glosses: A burst of speed.
examples: text: The lateral turn of foot not only is the result of complicated turning movements of thigh, shank, and foot in the propulsive period, but also provides conditions for the normal transport of the limb in front after its disconnection.
ref: 1974, Vladimir Borisovich Sukhanov, General system of symmetrical locomotion of terrestrial vertebrates and some features of movement of lower tetrapods:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see turn, foot.
apostrophi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apostrophus
button it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: buttons it
form: buttoning it
form: buttoned it
form: buttoned it
Etymology: Shortened form of button one's lip.
Senses: examples: text: I don't need any advice from you, so button it.
glosses: To be quiet, stop talking.
symbololatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From symbol + -latry.
Senses: glosses: The worship of symbols.
k-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps from OK, in phrases like OK, cool; perhaps from the K prefix for kilo-, as in kilobyte.
Senses: examples: text: We have been heavily influenced by, and use the same 'zine format' as cDc and uXu. And if you think we're ripping them off.. you damn skippy! They're excellent texts and I wish to be as k-cool as them. :)
ref: 1994, Dave!, “Mind Warp! Volume #02 Release Info...”, in alt.zines (Usenet):
text: Corollary: Real pirates don't keep score.
Real pirates don't say "K-K00L", "K-AWESOME", "X10DER", "L8R0N", or anything of the sort.
Real pirates know the difference between "f" and "ph" (i.e. "philes", "phuck", "fone", etc.).
ref: 1994?, "Rabid Rasta", The Real Pirate's Guide (reposted anonymously on newsgroup alt.2600, 14 August 1994)
text: My least favorite k-rad warez d00d […] has once again plastered alt.binaries.zines with millions of bytes of pirated software using a forged address at penet.
ref: 1996, Jerod Pore, “k-rad warez d00d hits alt.binaries.zines - AGAIN”, in nwes.admin.net-abuse.misc (Usenet):
text: Oooo.... what use of sarcasm, I bow down to you almighty one. What really was the point of your 'post'. To defend your K-Rad Warez pals? You k-rad warez puppies are something else. Now run along and download the latest k-rad game and of course never use it, just be k00l and say you got it 0 hour.
ref: 1996, rj, “quake crack”, in alt.games.quake (Usenet):
qualifier: BBS and Internet slang
glosses: Used as an intensifier.
Derived terms: k-rad
Related terms: leetspeak
Penrose diagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Penrose diagrams
Etymology: From Penrose + diagram. From Roger Penrose the physicist who created the diagram method.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: a two-dimensional diagram capturing the causal relations between different points in spacetime
wikipedia: Roger Penrose
Synonyms: Carter-Penrose diagram
chemical proteomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The work of Cravatt and his colleagues on the endocannabinoid system led to interest in the then-nascent field of chemical proteomics, a multidisciplinary science that aims to develop and apply chemical tools to annotate the functions of proteins like FAAH within their native biological environment.
ref: 2016, Jennifer Viegas, “Profile of Benjamin Cravatt”, in PNAS, page 1109:
glosses: A scientific discipline devoted to elucidating protein function in a native biological setting using small molecule chemical tools.
large quasar group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: large quasar groups
Etymology: From large + quasar + group.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: An implied cosmological scale alignment of matter. An assemblage of quasars that appear to form a structure, having them closely grouped in the sky in terms of redshift and lateral placement, implying an outline of a dimmer more massive structure in which the quasars are embedded.
Synonyms: word: LQG
Coordinate terms: cosmic web
filament of galaxies
great wall
limit of greatness
Derived terms: word: LQG
underrelaxation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underrelaxations
Etymology: From under- + relaxation.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A technique useful for solving strongly nonlinear equations, similar to overrelaxation, except that the variable changes are slowed down rather than sped up.
underrelaxations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underrelaxation
underrelax
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underrelaxes
form: underrelaxing
form: underrelaxed
form: underrelaxed
Etymology: From under- + relax.
Senses: examples: text: Because of the inherent non-linearity of the discretization equation it is sometimes necessary to slow down the change in φ from one iteration to the next, i.e. underrelaxing, to avoid divergence to the solution.
ref: 2003, Hazim B. Awbi, Ventilation of Buildings, →ISBN, page 377:
text: With this modification, van Doormal and Raithby reported that it was no longer necessary to underrelax the pressure correction.
ref: 2016, Richard H. Pletcher, John C. Tannehill, Dale Anderson, Computational Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, →ISBN:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To solve using underrelaxation.
RAPCONs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RAPCON
TRACON
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TRACONs
Senses: examples: text: Since 16 location identifiers are used for a combination of airports and TRACONs, resulting in combined data, we worked with FAA to determine how to identify the number of departures and departure delays to attribute to each individual airport and TRACON in our universe.
ref: 2010, Susan Fleming, National Airspace System: Setting On-Time Performance Targets at Congested Airports Could Help Focus FAA's Actions, page 42:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Acronym of terminal radar approach control.
Related terms: RAPCON
Tocqueville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtəʊkvɪl/
ipa: /ˈtɒkvɪl/
Etymology: Borrowed from French Tocqueville.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Eure department, Normandy, France.
glosses: A commune of Manche department, Normandy, France.
glosses: A surname from French — famously held by:
François-Hippolyte Clérel de Tocqueville (1797–1877), senator of the French Third Republic
glosses: A surname from French — famously held by:
Alexis Charles Henri Clérel de Tocqueville (1805–1859), French diplomat, political scientist, historian, and author of De la Démocratie en Amérique (two volumes, 1835–1840) and L’Ancien Régime et la Révolution (1856)
Derived terms: Tocqueville effect
Tocquevillian
Related terms: Tocqueville-en-Caux
Tocqueville-les-Murs
Tocqueville-sur-Eu
jigglesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jigglesome
form: most jigglesome
Etymology: From jiggle + -some.
Senses: glosses: Characterised or marked by jiggling
TRACONs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TRACON
rapcon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rapcons
Senses: examples: text: I have visited more than half a dozen carrier training facilities, spent over 150 hours on jumpseats, piloted a Lockheed 1011 from MIA to LAX, visited numerous towers, rapcons, and centers, and discussed our commercial Air Transport System with everyone involved.
ref: 1975, John H. Reed, Transportation Safety Board, Safety Information, page 30:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of RAPCON.
tracon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tracons
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of TRACON.
rapcons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rapcon
tracons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tracon
copwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more copwise
form: most copwise
form: cop wise
form: cop-wise
Etymology: From cop + wise.
Senses: examples: text: They were copwise. Hiltz knew him from the Deutsches Haus. Smith provoked discord routinely. They were copwise.
ref: 2014, James Ellroy, Perfidia:
text: Steve went against his copwise instincts and entered the building anyway.
ref: 2015, Billy Van, Dead of Night:
text: Like streetwise residents in underpoliced neighborhoods, copwise individuals learn to reinterpret the mundane scenarios, spaces, and people found in the neighborhood.
ref: 2016, Forrest Stuart, Down, Out, and Under Arrest:
glosses: Possessing the knowledge and expertise typical of police officers; having police smarts.
cop-wise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cop-wise
form: most cop-wise
Etymology: From cop + wise (“knowledgeable”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of copwise.
cop-wise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cop-wise
form: most cop-wise
Etymology: From cop + -wise (“way; manner”).
Senses: examples: text: The three passengers were ordered out of the Hyundai by loudspeaker. Two quickly complied and exited on the right-hand side of the car in cop-wise fashion, with their hands high and visible. They were put to the ground and handcuffed.
ref: 1994, Sim B. Sitkin, Robert J. Bies, The Legalistic organization:
text: Ben's eyes said yes in a cop-wise gesture. "Good. You handle it."
ref: 2000, Cliff Chandler, The Paragons:
glosses: Befitting or resembling a police officer; coplike.
coplike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more coplike
form: most coplike
Etymology: From cop + -like.
Senses: synonyms: word: coppish
glosses: Resembling a cop; policelike.
Derived terms: uncoplike
bone folder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bone folders
form: bonefolder
Etymology: From bone + folder.
Senses: synonyms: folding bone
foldingstick
glosses: A dull-edged hand tool used to fold and crease material in crafts.
treatsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more treatsome
form: most treatsome
Etymology: From treat + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Not one of the great comedies — and far too long at two hours for any comedy — '10' gets my vote as the most painless and treatsome afternoon I have spent at the movies in quite a time.
ref: 1979, Films and Filming, volume 26:
text: After a big Sunday lunch, or a treatsome supper, I tend to serve a couple of large hunks of cheese on a board before pudding, along with crackers and a green salad (on the same plate, very French, saves on washing up).
ref: 2012, Joanna Weinberg, Cooking for Real Life:
glosses: Characterised or marked by treats; like a treat
threatsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more threatsome
form: most threatsome
Etymology: From threat + -some.
Senses: examples: text: The second act depicts the deadly combat of Be-a-Wolf and Grumble, a loathly, threatsome monster in red burlaps, and ended in the utter overthrow of the power of evil with no perceptible effort on Be-a-Wolf's part.
ref: 1903, The Vassar Miscellany, volume 33:
text: The clouds shut in once more, and a threatsome wind stirred the trees, and Fayre gave over his song and raced back to town out of the weather that was beginning to happen.
ref: 1929, Maristan Chapman, Homeplace:
glosses: Characterised or marked by threat; threatening
slowsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slowsome
form: most slowsome
Etymology: From slow + -some.
Senses: examples: text: As I was travellin' through Lecale, I heered from a beggar a slowsome tale.
ref: 1948, David Marcus, Poetry Ireland - Issues 1-19:
text: Sounds like a quick death you may think, but I done it sev'ral times an' s'prisin' slowsome it is, b'lief me.
ref: 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
glosses: Typified by slowness; characteristically slow
slowsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more slowsome
form: most slowsome
Etymology: From slow + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Moose smiled, slowsome.
ref: 1992, Stephen Dueweke, Playing Soldiers in the Dark:
text: Don't bile fast but jes' let yo' pot simper along slowsome.
ref: 2013, Frederick Douglass Opie, Hog and Hominy:
glosses: In a characteristically slow or slowsome manner; slowly
fogfall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fogfalls
Etymology: From fog + fall.
Senses: examples: text: It becomes surface water runoff through atmospheric scouring associated with rainfall and fogfall.
ref: 1998, Keith B. Hoddinott, Superfund Risk Assessment in Soil Contamination Studies: Third Volume, →ISBN:
glosses: The act or time of a cloud of fog falling over an area.
examples: text: The fogfall that lay along the crest in a cottony roll was as white as the clouds of a fairytale. Only the heads of the men in the skip were visible from where she stood just outside the door of the shaft house.
ref: 2000, Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose, →ISBN:
text: He could see it gilding the ridges westward and slowly burning the fogfall that lay over Topanga Park.
ref: 2003, Christopher Sandford, McQueen: The Biography, →ISBN, page 339:
text: Roaring in from the south and the ocean, we saw a rolling white bank of clouds falling onto the bay and the town, a thick dense curse of a fog crawling downward, a fogfall,
ref: 2011, Ariel Dorfman, Desert Memories: Desert Memories, →ISBN:
glosses: An instance (i.e. a cloud) of fog that has fallen or developed over an area.
examples: text: Approximately 1.25 miles of Virginia Highway 58 was rerouted to merge with US Highway 25E south of the gap. This photograph shows the phenomenon of the “fogfall,” when fog trapped in the meteorite crater of Middlesboro escapes [...]
ref: 2014, Martha Evans Wiley, Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, page 117:
glosses: A tumbling of fog from a higher area to a lower one, visually reminiscent of a waterfall.
value for money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The new car was good value for money.
text: Her customers always get good value for money.
text: 'With a better value for money offer for our customers we may be able to look at what we do with fares going forward.'
ref: 2019 October, Tony Miles, Philip Sherratt, “EMR kicks off new era”, in Modern Railways, page 53:
text: How can an operator be, at the same time, top for overall satisfaction and bottom for value for money? I turned to Anthony Smith for the answer, leaning on his 20 years running Transport Focus and its predecessors.
It's commuters, he explained. "You can't please commuters, you can only not displease them."
ref: 2024 October 2, Philip Haigh, “Different types of passengers require different types of fare”, in RAIL, number 1019, page 54:
glosses: A reasonable amount and quality of goods or services for the amount of money one spends.
Synonyms: word: good value
word: VFM
Related terms: money's worth
you get what you pay for
maple sugars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maple sugar
manual labors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manual labor
manual labours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manual labour
WBEs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of WBE
penal notices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penal notice
beware of the dog
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
bygly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bygly
form: most bygly
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of bigly.
bygly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bygly
form: most bygly
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of bigly.
move away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: moves away
form: moving away
form: moved away
form: moved away
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see move, away.
examples: text: I lost contact with my friend after she had moved away.
text: By Tuesday evening the track had been cleared to the three snowbound engines, and the following day, under their own steam, they were moved away; the business of relighting their fires and raising steam in such conditions is better imagined than described.
ref: 1941 April, “Notes and News: Railwaymen and Snow”, in Railway Magazine, page 178:
glosses: To go away from a place, especially when permanently changing one's residence.
mint par
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mint pars
Etymology: A clipped form of mint par of exchange.
Senses: examples: text: The difficulties which arise when universal coinage schemes are brought forward ought not to conceal from us the solid advantages which such an institution would confer on the world... The question of mint pars would no longer arise, and the specie points would be stated more simply.
ref: 1885, Charles Francis Bastable, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. XVI, "Money"
text: The equivalent, in terms of one coinage, of the quantity of pure metal contained in another standard coin, both being of the same metal, and taken at mintage weights... Mint pars are given above for Spain, Italy, Portugal, Brazil, Argentina, and Chili, although at present (1895) their actual exchanges are in terms of more or less inconvertible paper money.
ref: 1896, R.H.I. Palgrave, Dictionary of Political Economy, Vol. II, "Mint Par of Exchange"
text: We find that the rates at which one currency will exchange for another fluctuate between two limits on each side of the Mint Par, marking the points at which it becomes more profitable to send or to receive gold rather than to send or receive a credit instrument. These theoretical limits are known as the gold points.
ref: 1925, Samuel Evelyn Thomas, chapter XXIX, in Elements of Economics, page 461:
topics: business
finance
synonyms: mint par of exchange
glosses: The monetary unit of a country stated in terms of the monetary unit of a second country which uses the same metallic standard.
mint par of exchange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mint pars of exchange
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Synonym of mint par.
synonyms: word: mint par
mint pars of exchange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mint par of exchange
mint pars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mint par
manchineel tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manchineel trees
Etymology: See manchineel
Senses: glosses: A tropical American tree, Hippomane mancinella, having apple-like, highly poisonous fruit, and a sap that causes blisters on contact with the skin.
Synonyms: sense: Hippomane mancinella
word: manchioneel
sense: Hippomane mancinella
word: mancinella
sense: Hippomane mancinella
word: beach apple
specie point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: specie points
Senses: examples: text: The difficulties which arise when universal coinage schemes are brought forward ought not to conceal from us the solid advantages which such an institution would confer on the world... The question of mint pars would no longer arise, and the specie points would be stated more simply.
ref: 1885, Charles Francis Bastable, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. XVI, "Money"
topics: business
finance
glosses: Synonym of gold point.
synonyms: word: gold point
specie points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of specie point
gold point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gold points
Senses: examples: text: The New York exchange has kept hovering at only a little above the gold point.
ref: 1882 December 2, Peel City Guardian:
text: We find that the rates at which one currency will exchange for another fluctuate between two limits on each side of the Mint Par, marking the points at which it becomes more profitable to send or to receive gold rather than to send or receive a credit instrument. These theoretical limits are known as the gold points.
ref: 1925, Samuel Evelyn Thomas, chapter XXIX, in Elements of Economics, page 461:
topics: business
finance
glosses: The values above and below the mint par of two monetary units on a shared metallic standard at which it became equally cheap to import or export gold or silver bullion instead of resolving trades through credit instruments such as bills of exchange.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: 1036°C, the melting point of gold.
Synonyms: specie point
Hyponyms: gold export point
gold import point
gold points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gold point