cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
exquisiteness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exquisitenesses
Etymology: From exquisite + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: One horror of motherhood lies in the moments when she can see both the exquisiteness of her child and his utter inconsequence to others.
ref: 2022, Jennifer Egan, The Candy House, Corsair, page 326:
glosses: The degree or property of being exquisite.
extemporaneousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From extemporaneous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The degree or property of being extemporaneous.
extremeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extremenesses
Etymology: From extreme + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The degree or property of being extreme.
extramural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ʊəɹəl
Forms: form: extra-mural
Etymology: From Latin extramuralis, from extra (“outside”) + muralis (“of a wall”).
Senses: examples: text: [...] a notable acquisition at Chiswick is a machine, believed to be unique of its type, which has been designed and constructed under an extramural research contract at the University of Nottingham for studying fatigue in railway axles.
ref: 1961 February, “Talking of Trains: New L.T. research laboratory”, in Trains Illustrated, page 76:
glosses: Taking place outside the walls of an institution, especially a school or university or prison.
glosses: Describing teaching of students who are not resident at such an institution.
Derived terms: extramurally
extraterritorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛk.stɹəˌtɛ.ɹɪˈtɔː.ɹi.əl/
Etymology: From extra- + territorial.
Senses: examples: text: Panikkar’s study was primarily aimed at providing a survey of Western imperialism in Asia from CE 1498 to 1945. Christian missions came into the picture simply because he found them arrayed always and everywhere alongside Western gunboats, diplomatic pressures, extraterritorial rights and plain gangsterism.
ref: 1998, Sita Ram Goel, Niyogi Committee Report on Christian Missionary Activities:
text: Shepard: Do you know anything about Spectres?
Avina: The term Spectre is derived from the branch of Special Tactics and Reconnaissance. Each Sepctre agent is hand-picked by the Council.
Avina: Their primary role is preserving galactic stability and resolving volatile situations that cannot be handled through normal political channels.
Avina: In this role, they are granted extraterritorial rights and jurisdictions. Spectres answer to no law or authority except the Council itself.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Presidium Tourism Terminal I:
glosses: Of a section of territory: not subject to the laws of the local country.
Derived terms: extraterritoriality
extraterritorialize
extraterritorially
exudation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exudations
Etymology: From exude + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: In severe burns, the body loses large amounts of nitrogen, in the urine and by exudation from the burned body surface.
ref: 1943 August 16, “Out of the Fire”, in Time:
glosses: The act or process of exuding.
examples: text: Major Pendennis, having read with difficulty his nephew’s name under Mr. Warrington’s on the wall of No. 6, found still greater difficulty in climbing the abominable black stairs, up the banisters of which, which contributed their damp exudations to his gloves, he groped painfully until he came to the third story.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 29, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: The car was parked in close to the rustic fence, under the lime trees, and their sticky exudations had already stippled the windscreen.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 7, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
glosses: Something that is exuded.
proxemics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From prox- + -emics (as in phonemics). Coined by American anthropologist Edward T. Hall in 1963.
Senses: examples: text: Proxemics refers to the personal distance that individuals prefer to keep between themselves and other individuals and is an important element of nonverbal communication.
ref: 2007, Thomas N. Ingram, Professional Selling: A Trust-Based Approach, page 123:
glosses: The study of the effects of the physical distance between people in different cultures and societies.
Hypernyms: nonverbal communication
Coordinate terms: chronemics
haptics
kinesics
vocalics
Derived terms: proxemical
extoll
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: extolls
form: extolling
form: extolled
form: extolled
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of extol.
black raspberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black raspberries
Senses: hypernyms: berry#Noun
coordinate_terms: blackberry
glosses: Either of two particular species of raspberry that are native to North America; a plant or berry of the species.
Rubus leucodermis
synonyms: blackcap raspberry
blue raspberry
whitebark raspberry
blackcap
black cap
black cap raspberry
hypernyms: berry#Noun
coordinate_terms: blackberry
glosses: Either of two particular species of raspberry that are native to North America; a plant or berry of the species.
Rubus occidentalis
synonyms: wild black raspberry
thimbleberry
scotch cap
glosses: Rubus coreanus, native to Korea, Japan, and China; a plant or berry of the species.
coordinate_terms: blue raspberry
red raspberry
glosses: A flavor (of candy, beverage, chewing gum, or dessert) that is inspired by and named for this fruit and is conventionally dyed black or nearly black.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Rubus coreanus
word: Korean black raspberry
ablations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbleɪ.ʃn̩s/
ipa: /æbˈleɪ.ʃn̩s/
Senses: glosses: plural of ablation
eventing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eventings
Etymology: From event + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Chiacchia had to relearn the basics of walking and tying his shoes, but is now back competing in eventing.
ref: 2009 February 23, Katie Thomas, “Equestrian Rider’s Recovery Serves as Reminder of Sport’s Danger”, in New York Times:
glosses: An equestrian event which comprises dressage, cross-country, and showjumping; a similar event using motor cars
examples: text: The concept behind eventing is fairly simple. With eventing, you have two pieces of code. For example, you might have a script that is running based on a scheduled task. That script might encounter some condition and can raise (or signal) an event, perhaps that it has completed its work. A second bit of code, perhaps a second script running on that same system, can register for events.
ref: 2011, Thomas Lee, Karl Mitschke, Mark E. Schill, Windows PowerShell 2.0 Bible:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The ability of one system or part of a program to send notifications to another, by raising events.
examples: text: The corollary of this, as Whorf points out, is that thinkings and feelings to do with 'eventings' in the world are located there, out in the world in which the eventing takes place - as a natural part of the whole into which they are interwoven.
ref: 1993, John Shotter, Conversational Realities: Constructing Life Through Language:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
glosses: The occurrence of an event.
Derived terms: three day eventing
eventing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From event + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of event
yoghourt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yoghourts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of yogurt.
high-definition television
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high-definition televisions
Senses: glosses: Any or all of several formats of television system having a higher resolution than traditional ones
glosses: A television set that employs such a system
Synonyms: HDTV
Related terms: standard-definition television
bed down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beds down
form: bedding down
form: bedded down
form: bedded down
Senses: examples: text: 2006, Temple Grandin, Jennifer Lanier and Mark Deesing, Low Stress Methods for Moving and Herding Cattle on Pastures, Paddocks and Large Feedlot Pens, Department of Animal Sciences, Colorado State University
The herd will tend to stay where the calves bed down.
text: Through the woods, and frosted moors
Past the snow-caked hedgerows I
Bed down upon the drifting snow
Sleep beneath the melting sky.
ref: 2004, Nick Cave, Spell:
text: The horses will bed down once they get in the stable.
text: The tent was an uncomfortable place to bed down.
glosses: To lie down to sleep for the night, usually of livestock or machinery, or of people when sleeping somewhere worse than normal, often camping or in prison.
examples: text: We'll bed down the cattle and head into town.
glosses: To put an animal to rest for the night.
examples: text: Who has she been bedding down with?
glosses: To sleep with or sleep alongside (a person or pet).
examples: text: A habit can easily become bedded down.
text: The new batch of employees soon bedded down.
glosses: To or become make permanent, fixed or wedded to a particular setup, way of thinking, style or manner.
vision panel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vision panels
Senses: glosses: A small window in a door which allows people to look through without opening the door.
unholy alliance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A play on the name of the "Holy Alliance" (a coalition of Russia, Austria, and Prussia formed in 1815), used in 1855 for Western European alliances with the Ottoman Empire against the interests of Russia, Greece, and most of the Balkans.
Later uses were more literally just unholy + alliance, such as the use in the 1912 US Progressive Party platform, which was quoted by Theodore Roosevelt in his autobiography:
: "To destroy this invisible Government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day."
Senses: glosses: A coalition among seemingly antagonistic groups, especially if one is religious, for ad hoc or hidden gain. (See examples.)
Related terms: strange bedfellows
totora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Schoenoplectus californicus subsp. tatora, a subspecies of the giant bulrush sedge, found in South America.
legua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leguas
Etymology: From Spanish legua (“Spanish league”) and Portuguese légua (“Portuguese league”), from Late Latin leuga and leuca (“Gaulish league, distance of one hour's walking”), from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *lougā. Doublet of league.
Senses: glosses: Spanish league, a traditional Spanish unit of distance equivalent to about 4.2 km.
glosses: Portuguese league, a traditional Portuguese unit of distance, variously reckoned as 4444.4, 5555.6, or 6172.8 m.
Synonyms: sense: Spanish unit
word: Spanish league
sense: Spanish unit
english: Spanish contexts
translation: Spanish contexts
word: league
sense: Portuguese unit
word: Portuguese league
sense: Portuguese unit
english: Portuguese contexts
translation: Portuguese contexts
word: league
Coordinate terms: sense: Spanish unit
word: pie (1⁄15,000 legua)
sense: Spanish unit
word: vara (1⁄5000 legua)
sense: Spanish unit
word: estado (1⁄2500 legua)
sense: Spanish unit
word: estadal (1⁄1250 legua)
sense: Spanish unit
word: cordel (1⁄100 legua)
sense: Spanish unit
word: milla (1⁄3 legua)
sense: Portuguese unit
word: estadio (1⁄24 legua)
sense: Portuguese unit
word: milha (1⁄3 legua)
sense: Portuguese unit
word: degree (18, 20, or 25 leguas)
vetches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vetch
prissiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prissinesses
Etymology: From prissy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being excessively prim or proper.
Related terms: prissily
prissy
privatize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹaɪvətaɪz/
Forms: form: privatizes
form: privatizing
form: privatized
form: privatized
form: privatise
Etymology: From private + -ize.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: To release government control (of a business or industry) to private industry.
examples: text: If the compiler allocates a privatized variable to a register, it must examine whether the variable is live after the termination of the while-loop.
ref: 1997, David Sehr, Utpal Banerjee, David Gelernter, Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing: 9th International Workshop, page 184:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To render (a variable, etc.) private in scope.
examples: text: The neoliberal, privatizing version of health in which everyone is responsible for themselves, despite disparities in resources.
ref: 2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 129:
glosses: To render a thought or an idea, private in scope.
Synonyms: denationalize
Derived terms: privatization
privatizer
self-privatize
privatized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of privatize
prizefight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prizefights
Etymology: From prize + fight – the term prize originally referred to rank advancement, not a monetary prize.
Based on Renaissance English Prize Playing (16th century) within the Company of Maisters of the Science of Defence [sic] – public rank advancement fights within the organization, wherein the “prize” was rank advancement. The company later became defunct, while the term was revived in late 17th century for public shows of street fighters, which eventually developed into modern boxing.
In modern times, reinterpreted to mean “a fight for a (monetary) prize”.
Senses: examples: text: “Regrettable though it may be, fighting is a basic human interest and previous attempts to outlaw professional boxers in other countries have failed to stamp out illegal prizefights,” the paper said in an editorial.
ref: 1976 July 4, Ian Stewart, “Boxer's Death Stirs In in Australia”, in The New York Times:
text: At its heart, the story is fairly familiar from prizefight fiction, one of betrayal - and self-betrayal - in which a once-promising athlete confronts his failure.
ref: 1988 August 27, Mel Gussow, “Review/Theater; A Fading Prizefighter Confronts His Facade”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A professional boxing match, in which two boxers compete for a prize (usually money).
wikipedia: Company of Masters
Prize Playing
Related terms: word: prizefighter
word: prizefighting
word: prizing
prizefights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prizefight
prizewinner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prizewinners
form: prize winner
Etymology: From prize + winner.
Senses: glosses: A person or thing that wins a prize.
prizewinners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prizewinner
prizewinning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prizewinning
form: most prizewinning
form: prize-winning
Etymology: From prize + winning.
Senses: examples: text: You must taste her prizewinning cobbler.
glosses: Having won at least one prize.
Sandwich Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named in 1778 by Captain James Cook in honour of the First Lord of the Admiralty, John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich.
Senses: examples: text: […]I should be sorry to form an unworthy estimate of that of my own circle, though I have several times met with the foregoing confusion, as well as the following and other equally ill-informed questions, one or two of which I reluctantly admit that I might have been guilty of myself before I visited the Pacific: “Whereabouts are the Sandwich Islands? They are not the same as the Fijis, are they?
ref: 1875, Isabella L. Bird, The Hawaiian Archipelago:
glosses: An early name for the archipelago of nineteen Hawaiian Islands.
wikipedia: James Cook
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
Related terms: word: sandwich
word: Sandwich
english: Manuae Island
translation: Manuae Island
word: Sandwich Island
word: South Sandwich Islands
pro-am
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pro-ams
Etymology: From a contraction of professional and amateur.
Senses: glosses: A competition in which both professional and amateur competitors participate.
glosses: An amateur who engages in some activity at a professional or near-professional level of skill or competence.
probing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more probing
form: most probing
Senses: examples: text: He was unsettled by her probing questions.
text: He was not sure he wanted too probing an inquiry into the state of his health.
ref: 1953, Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel:
glosses: That investigates or explores deeply; that attempts to elicit information that is concealed.
probing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: probings
Senses: examples: text: Rooney was the subject of some mischievous probing from the Russia media before the game as they suggested his retreat into midfield was a measure of his declining powers.
ref: 2016 June 11, Phil McNulty, “England 1-1 Russia”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: The action of investigating or exploring.
Synonyms: exploring
investigating
questioning
Derived terms: probing amendment
probing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of probe
probings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of probing
prognoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɒɡˈnəʊsiːz/
ipa: /pɹɑɡˈnoʊsiz/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Late Latin prognōsēs.
Senses: glosses: plural of prognosis
prognoses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɒɡˈnəʊsiːz/
ipa: /pɹɑɡˈnoʊsiz/
ipa: /pɹɒɡˈnəʊzɪz/
ipa: /pɹɑɡˈnoʊzɪz/
ipa: /pɹɒɡˈnəʊsiːz/
ipa: /pɹɑɡˈnoʊsiz/
Etymology: From prognose + -es.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prognose
procurable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From procure + -able.
Senses: examples: text: One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter III, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Able to be procured.
Synonyms: obtainable
reductio ad absurdum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /rɪˈdʌk.ti.əʊ æd əbˈsɜː.dəm/
ipa: /rɪˈdʌk.ti.oʊ æd əbˈsɝ.dəm/
Forms: form: reductio ad absurdums
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin reductiō ad absurdum.
Senses: examples: text: “You, gentlemen, as representatives of that institution which recognizes only truths that are deduced from reductio ad absurdums will probably have no difficulty in perceiving the truth of this absurdity and hence be ready to excuse the outcome of it—my absence.”
ref: 1894, Flora Helm, “Concerns a Talk in Which Anarchy and Love Are Blended”, in Between Two Forces: A Record of a Theory and a Passion, Boston, Mass.: Arena Publishing Company. […], pages 149–150:
text: Constructing representations out of atoms that are already themselves representations cannot address the origins of the atoms per se. Careful pursuit of such approaches has yielded bizarre reductio ad absurdums such as the implication that virtually all concepts that human beings are capable of having are already in the genes.
ref: 1998, Mark H. Bickhard, “Constructivisms and Relativisms: A Shopper’s Guide”, in Michael R[obert] Matthews, editor, Constructivism in Science Education: A Philosophical Examination, Dordrecht; Boston, Mass.; London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, →ISBN, page 106:
text: One way to argue against a position is to demonstrate that it proves too much. Proponents of an HWR analysis of negligence may insist that the conceptual and normative arguments that have been directed against their project ultimately generate reductio ad absurdums suggesting that I have proved too much.
ref: 2009, Michael S. Moore, “Normative Problems in Applying the Harm-within-the-Risk Test to Crimes/Torts of Negligence”, in Causation and Responsibility: An Essay in Law, Morals, and Metaphysics, Oxford University Press, published 2010, →ISBN, section III (The First Blind Alley: The Attempt to Replace Proximate Causation with Culpability as a Prerequisite for Legal Liability), page 208:
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: apagoge
proof by contradiction
reduction to the absurd
glosses: The method of disproving a statement by assuming the statement is true and, with that assumption, arriving at a blatant contradiction.
Derived terms: reductio ad Hitlerum
reductio ad Stalinum
pacifically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pacifically
form: most pacifically
Etymology: From pacific + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: The water shone pacifically; the sky, without a speck, was a benign immensity of unstained light; the very mist on the Essex marshes was like a gauzy and radiant fabric, hung from the wooded rises inland, and draping the low shores in diaphanous folds.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 194:
glosses: In a calm or quiet manner.
examples: text: To arrange and compose pacifically, the differences which may arise between the Federal States; and, should the same not succeed, to point out to the Supreme Chief the measures which should be adopted to re-establish peace and harmony […]
ref: 1828, British and Foreign State Papers, page 962:
glosses: In a soothing manner.
Synonyms: sense: in a calm manner
word: calmly
sense: in a calm manner
word: mildly
sense: in a calm manner
word: quietly
sense: in a soothing manner
word: soothingly
pailful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pailfuls
form: pailsful
form: paileful
form: pailfull
Etymology: From pail + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Here's neither buſh, nor ſhrub to beare off any weather at all: and another Storme brewing, I heare it ſing ith' winde: yond ſame blacke cloud, yond huge one, lookes like a foule bumbard that would ſhed his licquor: if it ſhould thunder, as it did before, I know not where to hide my head: yond ſame cloud cannot chooſe but fall by paile-fuls.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 9:
text: Some say that instead of a bowl of milk on the table, it was a pailful on the kitchen-floor fresh from the cow.
ref: 1896, Clifton Johnson, “Snakes”, in What They Say in New England (non-fiction), Boston, Massachusetts, United States: Lee and Shepard Publishers, page 99:
text: McGrath's lounge was a vast brownish room, with a beige ceiling of heavy plaster divided into squares […] and finally swabbed with pailfuls of gilt.
ref: 1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther, published 1974, page 118:
glosses: The amount that fills, or would fill, a pail.
pailfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pailful
Tourette syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after French physician Georges Gilles de la Tourette.
Senses: examples: 1999, Breslin M.A., editor. Enforcing the Civil Rights of Air Travelers With Disabilities: Recommendations for the Department of Transportation and Congress. National Council on Disability, Washington, DC, p. 8,
Tourette syndrome is a condition characterized by involuntary vocalizations exacerbated by stress.
topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: A neurological disorder characterized by the presence of physical and vocal tics.
Synonyms: Tourette's syndrome
Tourette's disorder
Gilles de la Tourette syndrome
Tourette's
Derived terms: Touretter
ppt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ppt
Senses: glosses: Initialism of parts per trillion.
synonyms: mul:‰
permille
per mille
glosses: Initialism of parts per thousand.
Related terms: %
percent (10²)
‱
permyriad (10⁴)
ppm (10⁶)
ppb (10⁹)
ppq (10¹⁵)
cul-de-sacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cul-de-sac
lixiviant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lixiviants
Senses: glosses: A liquid medium used in hydrometallurgy to selectively extract the desired metal from the ore or mineral.
hydrometallurgy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hydro- + metallurgy.
Senses: glosses: The field of extractive metallurgy involving the use of aqueous chemistry for the recovery of metals from ores, concentrates, and recycled or residual materials.
Derived terms: biohydrometallurgy
Related terms: hydrometallurgical
hydrometallurgically
nailbat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nailbats
form: nail bat
form: nail-bat
Senses: examples: text: It helps a BUNDLE if Cloud is equipped with barely any materia except Restore + Nail Bat, and Tifa is equipped with barely any materia + Tiger Hand.
ref: 1997 September 20, Luke Drelick, “Need help in Temple of the Ancients:”, in alt.games.final-fantasy (Usenet):
text: What size nail is in the nailbat?
ref: 1997 November 27, Unright, “Need help with Final Fantasy 7?”, in alt.games.final-fantasy (Usenet):
text: 2000, Mar 6: "He of the Red Glasses", how many nails does it take? [ot], alt.gothic, Usenet
Or just a baseball bat with a (long) nail in it. Long live the Nailbat! It will smite you with much smite!
text: 2000, Apr 8: Matt, 10,000 Promises anyone?, alt.fan.backstreet.boys, Usenet
Tell the toaster oven you love and appreciate it, then have at it with a nail bat while it sleeps lest it sway the eggbeater and blender its way.
text: you just sodomized all my chances with a nailbat.
ref: 2001 March 18, Grim Serrator, “Catastrophe?”, in alt.music.mdfmk (Usenet):
text: Did Sean really not remember me, not even threatening me with a knife or his home-made nail-bat?
ref: 2003, John Logan, Bringing Something Back:
glosses: A baseball bat with a nail or nails in it, as a weapon.
pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsjuː.dəʊˌsjuː.dəʊˌhaɪ.pəʊ.pæɹ.əˈθaɪ.ɹɔɪd.ɪzəm/
ipa: /ˌsuː.doʊˌsuː.doʊˌhaɪ.poʊ.pæɹ.əˈθaɪ.ɹɔɪd.ɪzəm/
Etymology: From pseudo- (“false”) + pseudohypoparathyroidism.
Senses: examples: text: Because Gαs is paternally imprinted in certain hormone target tissues, maternal inheritance of AHO leads to multihormone resistance [pseudohypoparathyroidism type 1a (PHP1a)], whereas paternal inheritance leads to AHO alone [pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (pseudoPHP)]. Classically, the obesity in AHO is described as occurring similarly in both conditions.
ref: 2007, Dominique N. Long, Sarah McGuire, Michael A. Levine, Lee S. Weinstein, Emily L. Germain-Lee, Body Mass Index Differences in Pseudohypoparathyroidism Type 1a Versus Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism May Implicate Paternal Imprinting of Gαs in the Development of Human Obesity: Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, volume 92, number 3, pages 1073–1079:
topics: medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: euparathyroidism
hyperparathyroidism
hypoparathyroidism
pseudohypoparathyroidism
glosses: A mild inherited condition in which the sufferer has symptoms similar to those of pseudohypoparathyroidism.
Synonyms: pseudoPHP
Coordinate terms: Albright hereditary osteodystrophy
pseudohypoparathyroidism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + hypoparathyroidism.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: euparathyroidism
hyperparathyroidism
hypoparathyroidism
pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism
glosses: A condition caused by resistance to the parathyroid hormone.
colcannon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colecannon
Etymology: From Irish cál ceannann (literally “white-faced cabbage”).
Senses: glosses: A traditional Irish dish made from mashed potatoes and cabbage or kale, with scallions, butter, salt and pepper added.
extractive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪksˈtɹæktɪv/
rhymes: -æktɪv
Forms: form: more extractive
form: most extractive
Etymology: From extract + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: Certain branches of industry are conveniently designated extractive: e.g., agriculture, pastoral and mining pursuits, cutting of lumber, etc.
ref: 1874, John Elliott Cairnes, Some Leading Principles of Political Economy, newly Expounded:
glosses: That serves to extract something
examples: text: The extractive industry consists of any operations that remove metals, mineral and aggregates from the earth. Examples of extractive processes include oil and gas extraction, mining, dredging and quarrying.
ref: 2014, BusinessDictionary.com:
glosses: That withdraws natural resources by extraction
examples: text: Thirty grains of extractive matter.
ref: 1796, Richard Kirwan, The Manures Most Advantageously Applicable to the Various Sorts of Soils:
glosses: Able to be extracted
Derived terms: agroextractive
extractive distillation
extractively
extractiveness
extractive principle
extractivism
extractivist
nonextractive
extractive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪksˈtɹæktɪv/
rhymes: -æktɪv
Forms: form: extractives
Etymology: From extract + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Something that may be extracted
glosses: The substance left behind after something has been extracted
autogenously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more autogenously
form: most autogenously
Etymology: From autogenous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an autogenous manner; spontaneously
Osaka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊˈsɑːkə/
ipa: /əʊˈsækə/
ipa: /oʊˈsɑːkə/
ipa: /oʊˈsækə/
rhymes: -ɑːkə
rhymes: -ækə
Forms: form: Ōsaka
Etymology: From Japanese 大(おお)阪(さか) (Ōsaka, literally “large hill”) — the slope up to the Uemachi Plateau, where Osaka Castle sits.
Senses: examples: text: And Osaka comes alive in the warm months of summer and fall as the locals take to their outdoor restaurants, flock to festivals and cheer on the hometown baseball team, the Hanshin Tigers.
ref: 2005 October 9, Ken Belson, “Going to Osaka”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 23 Mar 2021:
glosses: The capital city of Osaka Prefecture, Japan.
glosses: A prefecture on the island of Honshū, Japan.
examples: text: Naomi Osaka, a Japanese professional tennis player, also responded to the NHK post with a popular gif of “Family Feud” host Steve Harvey expressing bewilderment.
ref: 2020 June 9, Yoko Wakatsuki, Eric Cheung and Jack Guy, “Japanese broadcaster takes down controversial Black Lives Matter anime”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname from Japanese.
Derived terms: Osakan
tasto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tasti
Etymology: From Italian.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A key or similar part of a musical instrument that is touched to produce a sound
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: key of a keyboard
Related terms: capotasto
sul tasto
tasto solo
Maroon Spirit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Deep Patwa
glosses: An archaic Creole once spoken by the Maroon people of Jamaica during rituals of spirit possession.
Doppler sonar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: doppler
hypernyms: sonar
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glosses: A form of sonar that uses the Doppler effect to detect moving underwater objects; used especially by fishermen.
dead meat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɛd ˈmiːt/
Senses: glosses: A corpse of a slaughtered animal.
examples: text: We'll be dead meat if anyone catches us smoking.
synonyms: dead duck
glosses: Someone in danger of being killed or severely punished.
Related terms: double-dead meat
chromite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A dark brown mineral species with the formula FeCr₂O₄.
glosses: Any member of the chromite-magnesiochromite series that is a mixed oxide of iron, magnesium and chromium with the formula (Fe,Mg)Cr₂O₄. It is a commercial source of chromium.
Synonyms: ferrochromite
Derived terms: chromitite
ferrochromite
magnesiochromite
orthochromite
zincochromite
chrysoberyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪs.ə(ʊ)ˌbɛɹ.ɪl/
ipa: /ˈkɹɪs.əˌbɛɹ.əl/
Forms: form: chrysoberyls
Etymology: From Latin chrysoberyllus, from Ancient Greek χρῡσοβήρυλλος (khrūsobḗrullos, “gold beryl”), from χρυσός (khrusós, “gold”) after its color, and βήρυλλος (bḗrullos, “beryl”), equivalent to chryso- + beryl.
Senses: examples: text: Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are diamond, ruby and sapphire, emerald and other gem forms of the mineral beryl, chrysoberyl, tanzanite, tsavorite, topaz and jade.
ref: 2012 March 24, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2012, page 128:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A vitreous mineral, often pale green, a mixed oxide of aluminium and beryllium with the chemical formula BeAl₂O₄, used as a gemstone.
chrysocolla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɹɪs.əʊˈkɒl.ə/
ipa: /ˌkɹɪs.əˈkɑl.ə/
Forms: form: chrysocollas
Senses: examples: text: Eat chysocolla, advised the author, the Sheik Nefzawi. It is the size of a mustard-grain.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 63:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A vitreous silicate mineral that is a minor ore of copper, with the chemical formula (Cu²⁺,Al)₂H₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O.
chrysotile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪs.ə.tɪl/
Forms: form: chrysotiles
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: white asbestos
glosses: A fibrous silicate mineral with the chemical formula Mg₃(Si₂O₅)(OH)₄; a form of serpentine asbestos.
Derived terms: orthochrysotile
parachrysotile
infrakingdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infrakingdoms
Etymology: From infra- + kingdom.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A taxonomic category sometimes inserted below subkingdom.
asconoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ascon + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the form of a simple ascon
raw_tags: of a sponge
Winnie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪni/
rhymes: -ɪni
homophone: whinny
Etymology: Diminutives + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: Minnie and Winnie
Slept in a shell.
Sleep, little ladies!
And they slept well.
ref: 1880, Alfred Tennyson, Minnie and Winnie:
text: And I became Winnie, which Jimmy Louie said was a lively and lucky-sounding name. "Win, win, win," he said.
ref: 1991, Amy Tan, The Kitchen God's Wife, Vintage Books, →ISBN:
text: Mrs Conchita Warren is an unusual name, I thought as I cycled towards Limehouse. Most local women were Doris, Winnie, Ethel (pronounced Eff) or Gertie.
ref: 2002, Jennifer Worth, Call the Midwife, Phoenix, →ISBN, page 127:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Winifred or, less often, of Winona.
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Winston.
glosses: A census-designated place in Chambers County, Texas, United States, named after Fox Winnie, a railroad contractor.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Nottoway County, Virginia, United States.
Derived terms: Winnie the Pooh
Winnie-the-Poohish
Related terms: Winnie the Pooh
fausty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: faustier
form: faustiest
Senses: glosses: fusty
diaconate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diaconates
Senses: glosses: The rank of a deacon.
glosses: Deacons considered as a group; a body or board of deacons.
examples: text: “[…] This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment.” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: The period of office of a deacon.
Derived terms: word: permanent diaconate
word: transitional diaconate
word: archidiaconate
word: subdiaconate
milliards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milliard
hausse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /(h)oʊs/
Forms: form: hausses
Etymology: From French hausse.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A kind of graduated breech sight for a small arm or cannon.
Related terms: hausse-col
danseur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɑːnˈsɝ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
Forms: form: danseurs
Etymology: From French danseur.
Senses: glosses: A male ballet dancer.
Related terms: danseur noble
premier danseur
dauphinoise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɔːfɪnˈwɑːz/
Etymology: French dauphinoise, from the Dauphiné area of France, near the Italian border, whence this dish comes.
Senses: synonyms: gratin dauphinois
glosses: A dish of sliced potatoes baked in milk, cream and cheese.
wikipedia: Annecy
gratin dauphinois
boulanger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boulangers
Etymology: From Surinamese Dutch boulanger, from French beringène, from Arabic بَاذِنْجَان (bāḏinjān), from Persian بادنجان (bâdenjân). Doublet of aubergine.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:boulanger.
glosses: Eggplant; aubergine.
triple jumper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triple jumpers
form: triple-jumper
Senses: topics: athletics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An athlete who competes in the triple jump.
high jumper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high jumpers
form: high-jumper
Etymology: From high jump + -er.
Senses: topics: athletics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An athlete who competes in the high jump.
long jumper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long jumpers
Senses: glosses: An athlete who competes in the long jump.
hurdler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hurdlers
Etymology: From hurdle + -er.
Senses: glosses: An athlete who competes in the hurdling event.
pole vaulter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pole vaulters
form: pole-vaulter
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, with a world record‐holder or Olympic champion in almost every race, with six milers who have broken 4 minutes, eight high jumpers who can top 7 feet and seven pole vaulters who have cleared 17 feet, there is no way guessing how many Olympic champions‐elect will be on display in the hatbox over Penn Station.
ref: 1972 January 28, “Sports of The Times”, in The New York Times:
topics: athletics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An athlete who competes in the pole vault.
horseless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From horse + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The stealthy Apaches waited until their pale-face friends were well asleep, and then with a piece of cow-hide, hard and thin, sawed out a section of the adobe wall, at the other end of the corral, and in the morning Los Americanos found themselves horseless and muleless.
ref: 1877, James F. Rusling, The Great West and Pacific Coast..., p. 402
glosses: Without a horse.
Derived terms: horseless carriage
horselessness
herder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɜːdə/
ipa: /ˈhɝːdɚ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)də(ɹ)
Forms: form: herders
Etymology: From Middle English herder, herdere, hurder (attested as a surname), an alteration of Middle English herde (“herder, herdsman”), from Old English hyrde, hierde (“herder”), from Proto-West Germanic *hirdī, from Proto-Germanic *hirdijaz, equivalent to herd + -er. Doublet of herd ("herder"), as in cowherd, goatherd, shepherd, etc.
Senses: synonyms: word: herd
word: herdsman
glosses: One who herds.
Derived terms: botherder
bot herder
cowherder
goatherder
share-herder
share herder
sheepherder
swineherder
hair-raising
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hair-raising
form: most hair-raising
form: hair raising
form: hairraising
Senses: glosses: Causing fear or anxiety; scary.
Synonyms: hair-curling
Derived terms: hair-raiser
hair-raisingly
Related terms: eyebrow-raising
let one's hair down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lets one's hair down
form: letting one's hair down
form: let one's hair down
form: let one's hair down
Senses: examples: text: Cut loose, let your hair down honey / Unwind, turn the lights down low / Relax, let's uncork the stopper / Come to papa, come on let's go
ref: 1962, Roy Bennett, Sid Tepper, “Relax”, performed by Elvis Presley:
text: He should help himself before he tries to help someone else. If he's afraid someone will know him he should move to a new residence and let his hair down and join us swingers.
ref: 1981 February 14, Richard Credill, “Take Him By The Hand”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 29, page 5:
text: All week long I've been keepin' my cool / But tonight I'm gonna let my hair down / And get down with these down home blues
ref: 1982, George Jackson, “Down Home Blues”, performed by Z. Z. Hill:
glosses: To relax and enjoy oneself.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see let, one's, hair, down.
Related terms: put one's feet up
many a
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Forms: form: many an
Senses: examples: text: There is many a true word spoken in jest.
text: Many a flower is born to blush unseen.
text: Know then that God, to the end He be not thought, / A powerless judge, here plagueth many a fault, / And many a fault leaves here unpunished, / That men may also His last judgment dread.
ref: 1608–1641, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, edited by Theron Wilber Haight, The Divine Weeks of Josuah Sylvester, Waukesha, Wis., USA: H. M. Youmans, published 1908, page 150:
text: If the 250,000 miners, which threaten to stop work, go out on strike there is likely to be many an idle mill beside the water courses and many a factory with silent spindles.
ref: 1908 April 11, “The Coal-Miners and the Wage-Scale”, in The Literary Digest, volume 36, number 15, page 507:
text: So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,[…]a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
ref: 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
text: Many a crime has being committed in its name: there are some being committed now.
ref: 1914, David Lloyd George, The Great War, Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, Limited, page 3:
text: Danny Boyle's T2 Trainspotting is everything I could reasonably have hoped for—scary, funny, desperately sad, with many a bold visual flourish.
ref: 2017 January 19, Peter Bradshaw, “T2 Trainspotting review—choose a sequel that doesn't disappoint”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Being one of a large number, each one of many; belonging to an aggregate or category, considered singly as one of a kind.
Derived terms: word: many a mickle makes a muckle
word: many a time
word: many a time and oft
word: many a time and often
word: many a times
word: many a times
word: there's many a good tune played on an old fiddle
word: there's many a slip between the cup and the lip
word: there's many a slip twixt cup and lip
word: there's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip
Related terms: a fair booty makes many a thief
many another
nary a
go wild
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes wild
form: going wild
form: went wild
form: gone wild
Senses: examples: text: Brazil scored, and the crowd went wild!
glosses: To become very noisy and excited.
glosses: To go ahead; do as one pleases (used to grant permission for or to give endorsement of a suggestion or proposal, especially when the speaker is not interested in the outcome of the proposal).
examples: text: The policeman's first two shots went wild before he took down the gunman with his third.
glosses: To land or pass wildly off-target.
raw_tags: of a ranged weapon shot
Synonyms: sense: in the imperative
word: go nuts
sense: in the imperative
word: knock oneself out
big boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of big boy
big boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: If you think you can do better than the big boys of electronic engineering, then good luck.
text: Joe said: “You big boys ought to find a farm,
And make good farmers, and leave other fellows
The city work to do. There's not enough
For everybody as it is in there.”
“God!” one said wildly, and, when no one spoke:
“Say that to Jimmy here.[…]
ref: 2016 November 24, Robert Frost, The Collected Poems of Robert Frost (Classic Thoughts and Thinkers), Book Sales, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 143:
glosses: The people or bodies with the most influence and/or power.
if looks could kill
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: In aphorism 64, section 2 of Friedrich Nietzsche's 1878 book Human, All Too Human, Nietzsche writes that "If looks could kill, we would long ago have been done for."
In chapter 16 of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula in a diary entry of Dr. Seward, he notes about the undead Lucy Westenra that "If ever a face meant death--if looks could kill--we saw it at that moment."
An ellipsis (anapodoton) for an expression such as "If looks could kill, her look would have led to the death of the person she was looking at."
A possible origin of the phrase comes from the legend of Medusa, who had the power to turn anyone who looked at her into stone.
Senses: glosses: Used to characterize a look of strong hostility
too big for one's boots
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: too big for one's britches
glosses: Far less important or capable than one thinks or claims oneself to be.
Related terms: out of one's depth
Holyhead
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒlihɛd/
Senses: glosses: A town and community with a town council on Holy Island, in the county of Anglesey, Wales (OS grid ref SH2482).
glosses: A surname.
dreadfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dreadful
bitterroot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bitterroots
form: bitter-root
form: bitter root
Etymology: From bitter + root.
Senses: glosses: Lewisia rediviva, a small, low, pink flower with a yellow center.
glosses: Apocynum androsaemifolium (fly-trap dogbane).
glosses: Gentiana lutea (great yellow gentian, bitterwort)
Synonyms: sense: Lewisia rediviva
word: Oregon bitterroot
bitterroot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: bitter-root
form: bitter root
Etymology: From bitter + root.
Senses: glosses: Having bitter roots.
Derived terms: bitterroot buckwheat
bitterroot milkvetch
bitter root draba