cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
thermoanalytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thermo- + analytic.
Senses: examples: text: That was because until recent years there was only a small amount of information about the reaction kinetics and mechanism of thermochemical processes, and on the other hand, suitable supplementing methods such as gas chromatography and mass spectrometry for comparative investigation, were still being developed for application to thermoanalytic methods.
ref: 1975, W. Flaig, H. Beutelspacher, E. Rietz, Soil Components: Volume 1: Organic Components, Springer-Verlag, Chapter 1, "Chemical Composition and Physical Properties of Humic Substances"
text: However, the application of thermoanalytic methods is limited to substances having a start temperature of evaporation at atmospheric pressure not far below 200 °C. Otherwise there is the risk that evaporation in the gas flow will begin at room temperature and thus the correct start temperature of evaporation (zero point of the TGA curve) cannot be ascertained.
ref: 1995, Heinz Kopsch, Thermal Methods in Petroleum Analysis, VCH, page 3:
text: The instrument measures simultaneously the temperature of heating, the thermogravimetric (TG), the differential thermogravimetric (DTG) and the thermoanalytic (DTA) curves of the same sample.
ref: 2004, György Bárdossy, János Fodor, Evaluation of Uncertainties and Risks in Geology: New Mathematical Approaches for their Handling, Springer, page 141:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of thermoanalytical.
supratetramer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supratetramers
Etymology: From supra- + tetramer.
Senses: glosses: A supraoligomer composed of tetramers
Related terms: supratetrameric
supratrimer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supratrimers
Etymology: From supra- + trimer.
Senses: glosses: A supraoligomer composed of trimers
Related terms: supratrimeric
supratetrameric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supra- + tetrameric.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or composed of supratetramers
supratrimeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supra- + trimeric.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or composed of supratrimers
synarthrotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From syn- + arthrotic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to synarthrosis
tannoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Resembling, or composed of tannins.
tannoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tannoids
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tannin.
synonyms: word: tannin
taurodont
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or characterised by taurodontism
Derived terms: hypertaurodont
hypotaurodont
mesotaurodont
tenogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From teno- + -genesis.
Senses: glosses: The generation of tenocytes and development of tendon tissue
Related terms: tenogenic
tenuivirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenuiviruses
Senses: glosses: Any virus of the genus Tenuivirus that causes various plant diseases
tenuiviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenuivirus
Gucheng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: go͞oʹchǔngʹ
Forms: form: Ku-ch'eng
form: Kucheng
form: Ku-ch'êng
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 古城 (Gǔchéng).
Senses: glosses: A district of Lijiang, Yunnan, China.
Gucheng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: go͞oʹchǔngʹ
Forms: form: Ku-ch'eng
form: Kucheng
form: Ku-ch'êng
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 穀城 /谷城 (Gǔchéng).
Senses: examples: text: Here we may cite the example of the Tungsheng Agricultural Producers’ Co-operative in Kucheng County, Hupeh Province. Nine crops, mostly vegetables, were planted in 1954 on each of the twenty-eight mou singled out. The per-mou yield was 20,000 catties for vegetables and 500 for maize, a yield that could only be obtained from as many as eleven “1,000-catty” mou.
ref: [1959 September, Tung Ta-lin [董大林], “Co-operation Preceding Mechanization”, in Agricultural Co-operation in China [中国农业合作化的道路] (China Knowledge Series), 2nd edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 45:
english: 中国农业合作化的道路
translation: 中国农业合作化的道路
text: The industrialization of tea production in Wushan Town of Gucheng County, Xiangfan City, provides another example of the benefits generated by improved rural roads. The dispersed tea-growing fields in the area are now linked by modern roads, allowing the formation of an integrated tea growing base of 1,700 hectares.
ref: 2007 December, Huanzhi Liu, “New Roads to Prosperity in Central China”, in China Today, volume 56, number 12, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 78:
text: The Party Secretary and the Mayor of Gucheng County, Hubei Province were removed from their positions for using public funds to buy expensive cars within their administrative jurisdictions.
ref: 2014, Qingli Meng, “Findings: The Three Stages of Corruption in China”, in Corruption in Transitional China: A 33-Year Study, Wolf Legal Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 131:
glosses: A county of Xiangyang, Hubei, China.
Japanizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Japanize
Japanized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Japanize
Japanizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Japanize
thermospermine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An isomer of spermine that is present in many plants
threadsnake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: threadsnakes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thread snake.
thylacoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of thylakoid.
transcarbamylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transcarbamylations
Etymology: From trans- + carbamylation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any reaction that moves a carbamyl group from one place/molecule to another
trichocephalosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trichocephaloses
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A form of helminthiasis caused by the whipworm Trichocephalus trichiurus
ultrafamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of ultramafic.
vibrioplankton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of virioplankton.
viroimmunological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From viro- + immunological.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to viroimmunology
waterstrider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waterstriders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of water strider.
waterstriders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waterstrider
xylobiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From xylo- + -biotic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: That lives in/on wood
zooplanktophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That eats zooplankton
relicing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛ.lɪk.ɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of relic
reliced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛ.lɪkd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of relic
light the touch-paper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lights the touch-paper
form: lighting the touch-paper
form: lit the touch-paper
form: lit the touch-paper
form: lighted the touch-paper
form: lighted the touch-paper
form: light the blue touchpaper
Senses: glosses: To stir people up; to cause anger or excitement.
time freight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time freights
Senses: examples: text: No. 92 is drifting down into Burlington with time freight in 1946.
ref: 1959, Steam's Finest Hour, edited by David P. Morgan, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 14 (photo caption)
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Freight for movement on regularly scheduled trains providing expedited service and a guaranteed delivery time.
examples: text: The Mike on Canadian Pacific time freight for the coast is given a helping hand west from Revelstoke to Clanwilliam, B.C., 8 miles, by Selkirk 5930.
ref: 1959, Steam's Finest Hour, edited by David P. Morgan, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 112 (photo caption)
text: To expedite its time freights, the North Western had its famous Class H, or 4-8-4-type engines, built by Baldwin in 1929.
ref: 2000, Iowa Railroads: The Essays of Frank P. Donovan, Jr., by H. Roger Grant, University of Iowa Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A train carrying time freight.
time freights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of time freight
ODR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ODRs
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Initialism of Ogden discount rate.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of octal data rate.
ODR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Initialism of One Definition Rule.
ODRs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ODR
put to the torch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts to the torch
form: putting to the torch
form: put to the torch
form: put to the torch
Senses: synonyms: set fire to
set alight
burn down
torch
glosses: To set on fire.
Coordinate terms: put to the sword
mastersmith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mastersmiths
Etymology: From master + smith.
Senses: glosses: master blacksmith
glosses: Experienced blade maker
mastersmiths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mastersmith
sign of life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: signs of life
Senses: glosses: An indication that someone is alive; vital sign.
examples: text: to show sign of life
text: The empty rooms felt less like a millionaire members’ club than a museum.
By midafternoon, the President-elect’s imminent arrival had stirred signs of life. Discreetly placed speakers offered up selections from Trump’s personally curated 2,000-song playlist. A handful of transition honchos and soon-to-be Administration officials arrived, perching on overstuffed sofas and huddling in corners.
ref: 2024 December 12, Eric Cortellessa, “Donald Trump 2024 TIME Person of the Year”, in Time, archived from the original on 22 Dec 2024:
glosses: An indication that someone is present.
sequantitative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: An initial sequantitative determination of EPM—1 in 20 sera of healthy donors and 28 patients with gastrointestinal tumors revealed that all sera of healthy donors contain high levels, in contrast to the majority of tumor sera (20/28) which had low or no detectable levels.
ref: 1987, Gastroenterology - Volume 92, page 1371:
text: The favorable reliability and objectiveness of this evaluation system appear to be due to partly, at least, introducing a sequantitative mycological assessment criterion.
ref: 2000, Kenji Nagino, Hiroshi Shimohira, Masatoshi Ogawa, Katsuhisa Uchida, Hideyo Yamaguchi, “Comparison of the therapeutic efficacy of oral doses of fluconazole and griseofulvin in a guinea pig model of dermatophytosis”, in The Journal of Antibiotics, volume 53, number 2:
text: Figure 1 Confirmation of microarray results by sequantitative RT-PCR analysis.
ref: 2005 January, Sophie Vasseur, Cédric Malicet, Ezequiel L Calvo, Jean Charles Dagorn, Juan L Iovanna, “Gene expression profiling of tumours derived from rasⱽ¹²/E1A-transformed mouse embryonic fibroblasts to identify genes required for tumour development”, in Molecular Cancer, volume 4, number 4:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Pertaining to the quantitative analysis of autocorrelation in sequence data.
term assurance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TA
Senses: topics: business
insurance
glosses: Life insurance that pays out a lump sum benefit on the death of the life assured within the term of the policy, and nothing on survival to the end of the term.
Hyponyms: decreasing term assurance
increasing term assurance
level term assurance
decreasing term assurance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DTA
Senses: topics: business
insurance
glosses: Term assurance with a sum assured that decreases over the term of the contract.
Coordinate terms: increasing term assurance
level term assurance
level term assurance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LTA
Senses: topics: business
insurance
glosses: Term assurance with a sum assured that remains level over the term of the contract.
Coordinate terms: decreasing term assurance
increasing term assurance
increasing term assurance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
insurance
glosses: Term assurance with a sum assured that increases over the term of the contract.
Coordinate terms: decreasing term assurance
level term assurance
sum assured
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sums assured
form: SA
Senses: topics: business
insurance
glosses: The amount of benefit that an insurance contract pays out to a beneficiary on the occurrence of a contingent insured event.
jackspeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From jack + -speak.
Senses: glosses: British naval slang
sums assured
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sum assured
Harry hotlips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Harry hotlips
Senses: glosses: The marine fish Plectorhinchus gibbosus
snipiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From snipey + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: ...for several shooting seasons it remained a likely place, though it grew only grass, and there was no visible snipiness about it.
ref: 1902, The Spectator - Volume 87, page 310:
text: A good duck call is a necessity (the siren variety has served me best), and if one picks and tries among the bone' whistles sold for snipe, he will come upon one with just the right pitch of snipiness for yellowlegs and black-bellies.
ref: 1920, Country Life - Volume 37, page 40:
text: He could calculate the influence of moon and wind on the snipe-mind. He could guess whether a red or a black bog suited snipiness at the moment.
ref: 1923, Shane Leslie, Doomsland, page 68:
glosses: The property of being full of, characteristic of, or attractive to snipe.
examples: text: The jaws are long, powerful and devoid either of snipiness or of exaggeration in length.
ref: 1934, Dogs and Their Management, page 38:
text: The jaws should be medium length and powerful and free from snipiness.
ref: 1997, Heather Wiles-Fone, The Ultimate Labrador Retriever, →ISBN, page 91:
text: I don't think the judges will rate Max for lippiness and snipiness the way some of us might.
ref: 2016, Doug Jordan, The Maxim Chronicles, →ISBN, page 130:
glosses: Resemblance to a snipe's beak; the property of being long, narrow, and pointed; beakiness.
raw_tags: of an animal's head
bellyboarding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: belly boarding
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bodyboarding.
synonyms: word: bodyboarding
critical illness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CIC
Senses: topics: business
insurance
glosses: Insurance that pays out a lump sum benefit on the diagnosis of a serious (life-threatening) illness in the life assured within the term of the policy, and nothing on death or healthy survival to the end of the term.
Synonyms: dread disease
living assurance
trauma insurance
serious illness insurance
fluffy duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluffy ducks
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of cocktails made with advocaat.
Related terms: box of fluffy ducks
accelerated critical illness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: On the assumption that any illness covered by the critical illness portion of the insurance is potentially terminal, this is equivalent to a term assurance contract whose benefit payment is brought forward (accelerated) to the point of diagnosis of terminal illness, rather than waiting for actual death.
Senses: topics: business
insurance
glosses: Insurance that pays out a lump sum benefit on either the death or diagnosis of a serious (life-threatening) illness in the life assured within the term of the policy, and nothing on healthy survival to the end of the term.
snipey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: snipier
form: snipiest
Etymology: From snipe + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The fowler wends his way at dusk to some favourite "snipey" spot, and beats the ground while he carries the net about three feet off the earth.
ref: 1897, Hugh Alexander Macpherson, A History of Fowling:
text: He knew the snipey corners for five miles round, and could move unerringly on the tuft or ditch where the wisp of birds would be found.
ref: 1923, Shane Leslie, Doomsland, page 68:
text: Started early with the Doc for the island and soon get to the snipey place.
ref: 2015, Kellen Cutsforth, Buffalo Bill, Boozers, Brothels, and Bare-Knuckle Brawlers, →ISBN:
glosses: Full of or attractive to snipe.
examples: text: Curiously, some of the best fox-killers I have encountered lacked the bull terrier heads of the type bred by Breay, and some were decidedly mousy in appearance, with narrow, snipey jaws.
ref: 1998, Brian Plummer, The Fell Terrier, →ISBN, page 30:
text: Lack of chin, too narrow, snipey muzzle
ref: 2000, Shirlee Kalstone, Poodle Clipping and Grooming: The International Reference, →ISBN, page 59:
text: There is a slight degree of chiseling under the eyes, but not so much as to result in a weak or snipey foreface.
ref: 2009, Richard G. Beauchamp, Bichon Frise, →ISBN, page 10:
glosses: Resembling the bill of a snipe; long, thin, and pointed; beaky;
raw_tags: of an animal's head
examples: text: You don't have to be so snipey, you know.
ref: 2001, Penelope Miller, Yesterday's Sorrow, →ISBN, page 181:
text: I was a very mean, snipey, overbearing person who gets murdered at the end.
ref: 2009, Rosemary Jackson, Rosey's Ramblings, →ISBN, page 143:
text: And I don't mean to sound snipey but Gemma and me have both been working really hard lately – I was in the salon from half-seven this morning and I didn't finish till seven this evening, and I bet Gemma had an equally long day.
ref: 2011, Katie Price, Angel Uncovered, →ISBN, page 173:
glosses: Having a tendency to snipe; given to nasty or cutting comments.
beakiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From beaky + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: But I don't think beakiness goes well with a baby bonnet.
ref: 1878, Judy, Or the London Serio-comic Journal - Volume 22, page 271:
text: The beakiness of the spout reciprocates the beakiness of the bird.
ref: 1985, Peter Dormer, Alison Britton, David Cripps, Alison Britton: a view, page 15:
text: She became a momentary captive of Campbell's, wondering where was his beakiness, his surliness?
ref: 2002, Helen Duncan, Kate Rice: Prospector, →ISBN, page 119:
text: The landscape softens where the border line on the map begins, and the grizzled faces of Afghans, whose heads are sloppily swathed in white turbans, are replaced by the angular beakiness of Pakistanis, who wear narrow slippers and have the thin scornful moustaches of magicians and movie villains.
ref: 2011, Paul Theroux, The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia, →ISBN:
text: I saw him in one 'turn' or 'do', lying back on the bed, toothless, all beakiness of nose and chin, eyes sunken as if they were not shuddering and blinking in a fearful way.
ref: 2013, M. Wormald, N. Roberts, Terry Gifford, Ted Hughes: From Cambridge to Collected, →ISBN, page 202:
glosses: The property of being beaky.
wallbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wallboxes
form: wall box
Etymology: From wall + box.
Senses: glosses: A post box or letter box set into a wall.
glosses: A unit placed on a restaurant table etc. allowing customers to make selections from a jukebox without leaving their table.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
masonry
glosses: A socket set into a wall to support a shaft or beam.
wallboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wallbox
snipy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: snipier
form: snipiest
Senses: examples: text: The wind was blowing almost a storm as we arrived at our first ground -- a good-sized lake, with broad moory flats, sprinkled with bulrushes and sedgy grass stretching down to the water's edge, and looking uncommonly snipy.
ref: 1858, The New sporting magazine - Volume 35, page 85:
text: To all this I agreed, and having borrowed a gun from one of my Rifle Officer friends, and a good stock of ammunition, I joined my two new friends at funfire in the morning, and after driving about 6 miles, I saw some very snipy-looking fields, got down, my companions promising to call for me about 11 o'clock on their way back.
ref: 1897, John Tyndall, Pioneer Planter, Voyager and Explorer, page 20:
text: Some however, say it is the result of a capricious disposition which induces them to leave "snipy places" for other spots, but though possible, I am, after many years careful observation, inclined to disagree.
ref: 1936, Geoffrey Alton, Craig Herklots, The Hong Kong Naturalist - Volumes 7-8, page 8:
glosses: Alternative form of snipey.
Full of or attractive to snipe.
examples: text: The muzzle is strong and squared off, never snipy.
ref: 1993, Pure-bred Dogs, American Kennel Gazette - Volume 110, page 146:
glosses: Alternative form of snipey.
Long, narrow, and pointed.
examples: text: On 16 December 1878 Marian went to court to prove the will, an ordeal which even the usually snipy George Simpson though she should have been spared.
ref: 2001, Kathryn Hughes, George Eliot: The Last Victorian, →ISBN, page 330:
glosses: Alternative form of snipey.
Prone to sniping.
streamstyle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: streamstyles
form: streamstyling
form: streamstyled
form: streamstyled
Etymology: From stream + style.
Senses: examples: text: Streamstyled in the manner of the Hudsons, these lightweights were unusually capable for their size.
ref: 1959, Steam's Finest Hour, edited by David P. Morgan, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 113, referring to Canadian Pacific 4-4-4s
text: And then there's Rutland, so far behind the others in motive power that it was obliged to streamstyle a 1911 2-8-0 with Stephenson gear when its Whippet hotshot was introduced in 1938.
ref: 1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 11:
glosses: to give something a streamlined style.
Related terms: streamline
streamstyled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Though they were exceeded in weight by at least two classes of U.S. 2-8-4's, the T1's were nevertheless stout mountain battlers - and (in the case of 5920-5935) were the only streamstyled 10-coupled power ever built.
ref: 1959, Steam's Finest Hour, edited by David P. Morgan, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 113, referring to Canadian Pacific 2-10-4s
glosses: having a streamlined style.
streamstyled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of streamstyle
reactable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reactable
form: most reactable
Etymology: From react + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to react chemically; reactive.
unreactable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unreactable
form: most unreactable
Etymology: From un- + reactable.
Senses: glosses: Not tending to react chemically; unreactive.
geodistributed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more geodistributed
form: most geodistributed
Etymology: From geo- + distributed.
Senses: glosses: Spread across multiple geographical regions.
geodispersed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more geodispersed
form: most geodispersed
Etymology: From geo- + dispersed.
Senses: glosses: Spread across multiple geographical regions.
geodistribution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geodistributions
Etymology: From geo- + distribution.
Senses: glosses: The property of being geodistributed.
geodistributions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geodistribution
geodiverse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more geodiverse
form: most geodiverse
Etymology: From geo- + diverse.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting geodiversity.
microlighting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From microlight + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The recreational activity of flying in a microlight.
blockorama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blockoramas
Senses: glosses: Synonym of blocko (“type of community party”).
synonyms: word: blocko
extra: type of community party
blockoramas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blockorama
milkshaked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of milkshake
milkshaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of milkshake
countyism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From county + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Localism among Irish-Americans, based on the Irish counties they originated from.
transmissioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From transmission + -ed.
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Having a specified kind of transmission.
barcade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑɹˈkeɪd/
Forms: form: barcades
Etymology: Blend of bar + arcade. A chain of arcade bars by this name first opened in Brooklyn in 2004.
Senses: examples: text: Glen “Hooping Cough” Hodges is proprietor and manager of Nine Chakras, the new retro gaming barcade in town.
ref: 2019, Darren Johnson, Darren Johnson's Best Short Stories of 2018:
text: For a good time in the evening, hit up a barcade, a nightspot that's puntastically exactly what it sounds like — a bar with a ton of old-school coin-operated pinball and arcade cabinets (I'd bet my quarters there's one near you).
ref: 2020, Sam Maggs, The Fangirl's Guide to the Universe: A Handbook for Girl Geeks, page 42:
text: Gaming itself becomes a destination event, taking place at barcades and board game cafes.
ref: 2020, Terri Toles Patkin, Matthew Wilhelm Kapell, Who's in the Game?, page 27:
glosses: A bar (drinking establishment) equipped with video arcade games.
barcades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barcade
fandangle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fandangles
Etymology: Perhaps an alteration of fandango, equivalent to fandango + -le (diminutive suffix); or influenced by dangle.
Alternatively, Geoffrey Dearson, in The Devonshire Dialect Dictionary (2022), suggests a blend of fandango + bangle.
Senses: glosses: A piece of nonsense or foolishness.
glosses: A trinket or ornament.
Synonyms: sense: trinket
word: also: Thesaurus:trinket
fandangles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fandangle
Garrisonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Garrison + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The abolitionist beliefs of William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879), American journalist, suffragist, and social reformer.
customary international law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: customary international laws
Senses: glosses: The aspect of international law involving the principle of custom.
customary international laws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of customary international law
Morrison table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Morrison tables
Etymology: Named after Herbert Morrison, then British home secretary.
Senses: glosses: An indoor air-raid shelter in the form of a heavy steel table that people could shelter beneath, also generally usable as furniture.
wikipedia: Herbert Morrison
Morrison tables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Morrison table
Morrison shelter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Morrison shelters
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Morrison table.
synonyms: word: Morrison table
Morrison shelters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Morrison shelter
LNER
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Initialism of London North Eastern Railway.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Initialism of London and North Eastern Railway.
LNER
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LNERs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of liquid neutral earthing resistor.
falooda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faloodas
Etymology: Eventually borrowed from Persian فالوده (fâlude).
Senses: glosses: A cold dessert originated in Iran and also popular in the Indian subcontinent, traditionally made from rose syrup and vermicelli.
skybound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more skybound
form: most skybound
Etymology: From sky + bound or sky + -bound.
Senses: examples: text: Venusian colonists may be skybound because the surface is too hot.
glosses: confined to the sky
glosses: headed towards the sky
BNSF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: BNSF Railway, formerly named the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway, which was formed in a merger from Burlington Northern Railroad and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in 1996.
aleksandrovite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named in honour of Stanislav Mikhailovich Aleksandrov (1932-2012), a Russian geochemist, geologist and mineralogist
Aleksandrov + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A colourless monoclinic mineral containing calcium, lithium, silicon, potassium, oxygen, tin, and flourine.
alexkhomyakovite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Alex + Khomyakov + -ite. Named in honour of Russian mineralogist Alexander Petrovich Khomyakov (1933–2012).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hexagonal mineral containing carbon, calcium, potassium, chlorine, oxygen, hydrogen, and sodium.
Related terms: khomyakovite
calcio-olivine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: After the mineral's high calcium content and its similarity to the olivine series.
calcio- + olivine
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An orthorhombic mineral containing calcium, silicon, and oxygen.
Mountains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mountain
loading gauge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loading gauges
Senses: examples: text: In Russia, where experiments on a considerable scale have been made with condensing, the railways have the considerable advantage of a loading gauge 17 ft. high (the biggest in the world), as compared with the British 13 ft. or slightly over.
ref: 1946 January and February, “The Why and The Wherefore: Condensing Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 62:
text: The first "K" class 4-8-4 appeared in 1932. Designed and built in New Zealand, these are probably the biggest non-articulated locomotives possible within the loading gauge.
ref: 1954 August, J. B. Snell, “The New Zealand Government Railways—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 561:
text: The total of wagons generally conforming to Continental standards but specially built to our loading gauge so that they are capable of use on the ferry routes is now 8,000.
ref: 1960 March, “Talking of Trains: London-Paris in four hours”, in Trains Illustrated, page 134:
text: The coaches are similar to those of the Hampshire diesel-electric units, which went into service in September, 1957, but have 8ft 6in wide bodies, instead of 9ft, because of loading gauge limitations on the South Eastern Division.
ref: 1962 December, “The Oxted Line diesel-electric multiple-units”, in Modern Railways, page 383:
text: But there is a continuing distinction between the loading gauge (the size of the trains) of the deep-level Tube trains and the loading gauge of the cut-and-cover trains. The latter are bigger - as big as main-line trains.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 33:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The maximum permitted height and width for a rail vehicle, governed by clearances in tunnels, under bridges and past lineside structures.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A physical structure, often a metal frame above a railroad track, to check the maximum height and width of a vehicle.
loading gauges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loading gauge
Challengers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Challenger
perniones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɝniˈoʊniz/
enpr: pûrniōʹniz
ipa: /ˌpɜːniˈəʊniːz/
Forms: form: pernios
Etymology: Latin perniones.
Senses: glosses: plural of pernio
optimize out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: optimizes out
form: optimizing out
form: optimized out
form: optimized out
Senses: examples: text: The loop that counts from 1 to 1,000,000 is optimized out by the compiler, because nothing happens inside the loop and the value is not used afterwards.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To omit (some portion of program logic) through optimization, when it is found to be unused or unnecessary.
geodimetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: measurement with a geodimeter
pessimization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pessimizations
Etymology: From pessimize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of pessimizing, or making something worse.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A change to program code that makes it less efficient, the opposite of an optimization.
pessimizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pessimization
coal train
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coal trains
Senses: examples: text: Some interesting facts have recently been made known by the L.N.E.R. concerning the 178-ton Garratt 2-8-0 + 0-8-2 engine No. 2395, which since construction in 1925 has spent the whole of its working life banking coal trains up the 3 miles of 1 in 40 between Wentworth junction and West Silkstone, on the Worsborough branch, near Barnsley.
ref: 1942 March, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes”, in Railway Magazine, page 93:
text: Out in Ohio on test on level, tangent track a single 2-6-6-6 once moved a 160-car, 14.083-ton coal train to 19 miles per hour from a standing start in 1 mile and 6 minutes, and had it rolling 29 miles per hour within a total elapsed time of 11 minutes.
ref: 1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 61:
text: One of the biggest flows of traffic through Trent consists of coal trains from Toton to Castle Donington or Willington power stations (on the Castle Donington branch) or to the Birmingham area, with two or three trains to Chaddesden.
ref: 1961 March, Warren Smith, “The problems of train regulation - a study of operation at Trent”, in Trains Illustrated, page 169:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: a freight train which carries a single commodity: coal.
coal trains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coal train
general paralysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of general paresis of the insane.
synonyms: word: general paresis of the insane
hypnogenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypnogenous
form: most hypnogenous
Etymology: From hypno- + -genous.
Senses: glosses: Inducing sleep.
glosses: Inducing hypnosis.
sensile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Capable of affecting the senses.
panscan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panscans
form: pan-scan
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Whole-body CT-based imaging, usually used to evaluate injuries in polytrauma patients.
Related terms: pan and scan
panculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pancultures
form: pan-culture
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Microbiological cultures of blood, urine, sputum and stool in search of an offending pathogen.
panculture
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pancultures
form: panculturing
form: pancultured
form: pancultured
form: pan-culture
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To investigate using a panculture.
T-pose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: T-poses
form: T pose
Etymology: Originally a default pose for video game characters, but spread into real-life usage. Named as such because the person's body resembles the letter T.
Senses: examples: text: But most importantly: As we previously established, the T-pose is just a blueprint for constructing the physical anatomy of the character.
ref: 2015 May 26, Ferdinand Engländer, “The T-pose – all about this mighty blueprint”, in Animator Island:
text: In order to perform a “T-Pose,” one stands as tall as possible, extends his or her arms outright (in order to form the letter T), and usually does so in an effort to intimidate.
ref: 2018 May 16, "The Classy Libertarian", “Not Only Is the “T-Pose” Racist, It’s Also Violent”, in Medium, archived from the original on 16 May 2018:
text: After unposing the rays for all frames they obtain a visual hull that constrains the body shape in a canonical T-pose.
ref: 2020, Marcus Magnor, Alexander Sorkine-Hornung, Real VR – Immersive Digital Reality (page 198)
glosses: A pose in which one stands rigidly with one's arms held out horizontally at shoulder height and parallel to the ground.
T-pose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: T-poses
form: T-posing
form: T-posed
form: T-posed
form: T pose
Etymology: Originally a default pose for video game characters, but spread into real-life usage. Named as such because the person's body resembles the letter T.
Senses: examples: text: In 2018, T-posing has become something kids do in real life.
ref: 2018 May 15, Jay Hathaway, “How the ‘T-pose’ became a meme”, in The Daily Dot:
glosses: To stand rigidly with one's arms held out horizontally at shoulder height and parallel to the ground.
T pose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: T poses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of T-pose.
T pose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: T poses
form: T posing
form: T posed
form: T posed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of T-pose.
wall-flower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wall-flowers
Senses: examples: text: A polypetalous corolla is either cruciform, as in a wall-flower, rosaceous, papilionaceous, as in the pea kind, or incomplete, when some parts found in analogous flowers are wanting.
ref: 1809, William Nicholson, “BOTANY”, in The British Encyclopedia, or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; […], volume I (A … B), London: Printed by C[harles] Whittingham, […]; for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], →OCLC, column 1:
text: The wall-flower—the wall-flower! How beautiful it blooms' It gleams above the ruined tower, Like sunlight over tombs;
ref: 1829, Alaric Alexander Watts, The Poetical Album: And Register of Modern Fugitive Poetry:
text: The upper part of the wall was more gaudily attired, in all the variations of green moss, yellow and blue creepers, and the dark red of the wall-flower.
ref: 1835, Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, The Christian Lady’s magazine, page 2:
glosses: Alternative form of wallflower.
wall-flowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wall-flower
wall flower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wall flowers
Senses: examples: text: Of the biennials, the same may be said of the stock July-flower, sweet William, and wall flower ; only the former of these plants does not always live through the winter.
ref: 1813, Charles Marshall, A Plain and Easy Introduction to the Knowledge and Practice of Gardening, page 289:
text: I was not what we called a wall flower.
ref: 2008, Kenneth D. Ransom Sr., Shout Your Way Out!, →ISBN, page 30:
glosses: Alternative form of wallflower.
T-poses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of T-pose
T-poses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of T-pose
wall flowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wall flower
T poses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of T pose
T poses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of T pose
T-posing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of T-pose
T posing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of T pose
T-posed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of T-pose
T posed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of T pose
vocates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vocate
vocating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vocate
vocated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vocate
fruitened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fruiten
fullened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fullen
fullening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fullen
fullens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fullen
actinobolism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin actinobolismus, from Koine Greek ἀκτινοβόλος (aktinobólos, “emission of rays”) + -ismus. Ἀκτινοβόλος is from ἀκτίς (aktís, “ray”) + βόλος (bólos, “a throw”). First attested in the 1650s.
Senses: examples: text: Here is the only difference betwixt the Actinobolism of Light and Sounds; that the one is performed in time imperceptible, though not instantaneous: the other in moments distinguishable, which are more or less according to the degrees of distance betwixt the sonant and audient.
ref: 1654, Walter Charleton, A Fabrick of Science Natural, upon the Hypothesis of Atoms […], page 210:
glosses: Radiation; emission or projection.
Hebi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: hǔʹbēʹ
Forms: form: Ho-pi
form: Hopi
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鶴壁 /鹤壁 (Hèbì).
Senses: examples: text: But she said authorities in her native Henan province seized her passport this week, visited her home several times and told her not to leave the city of Hebi, where she lives. Officials also told her to inform her hosts that she is “too sick to attend” the meeting, she said.
ref: 2014 October 23, Simon Denyer, “China bars AIDS activist from traveling despite talk of ending discrimination”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Oct 2014, Asia & Pacific:
text: Beijing resident Hu Yongwei bought more than a dozen apartments in the small central Chinese city of Hebi for about $31,000 in all, betting they will be financially more rewarding than other investments.
ref: 2023 June 16, Liangping Gao, Marius Zaharia, “Cheap 'like cabbage' apartments in some Chinese cities draw buyers, and caution”, in Muralikumar Anantharaman, editor, Reuters, sourced from BEIJING/HONG KONG, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2023, China:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Henan, China.
Synonyms: Hao-pi
+1s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of +1
salvationary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more salvationary
form: most salvationary
Etymology: From salvation + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: […] formulas of belief […] are only salvationary when they become the outward expression of a surcharged soul whom divine truth has emancipated.
ref: 1898 July, Maria Weed, “A Millennium League”, in The Midland Monthly, volume 10, number 1, Des Moines, Iowa, page 86:
text: Mugson had a rich Uncle Archie who had married a lady evangelist. “Aunt Tibbie is so keen on saving souls,” he told us, “she is positively dangerous. She regards every one of us as a prospect for her salvationary lust; although she has not really saved Uncle Archie, as it would be detrimental to his business.”
ref: 1945, Robert W. Service, Ploughman of the Moon: An Adventure into Memory, New York: Dodd, Mead, Book 3, Chapter 8, p. 120:
text: International organization […] was here portrayed as a magic spell that would make all previous politics and diplomacy obsolete. ¶ These salvationary hopes were based on the illusion that the American-Soviet-British alliance, which had won World War II, would command the future.
ref: 1998, Abba Eban, chapter 8, in Diplomacy for the Next Century, New Haven: Yale University Press, page 123:
glosses: Relating to or providing salvation.
Synonyms: salvatic
tally-man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tally-men
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tallyman.
tally-woman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tally-women
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tallywoman.
meant to
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: You're meant to wash up after yourselves, don't leave it for me.
glosses: supposed to, obliged to, ought to
holds it together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hold it together
holding it together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hold it together
held it together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hold it together
holds together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hold together
holding together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hold together
held together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hold together
'keet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 'keets
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of keet.
'keets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 'keet
abaecins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abaecin
acinoductal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From acino- + ductal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to an acinar duct
actinocyclid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: actinocyclids
Senses: glosses: Any sea slug of the family Actinocyclidae
actinocyclids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of actinocyclid
acylhydrazide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acylhydrazides
Etymology: From acyl + hydrazide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The hydrazide of a carboxylic acid
acylhydrazides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acylhydrazide
interchoanal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + choanal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Between choanae
acylsugar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acylsugars
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any acyl ester of a sugar
acylsugars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acylsugar