cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hand to mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text
Hundreds of thousands of Syrians shelter beneath UN canvas in Jordan. In the irrigated fields of As Safi, these refugees survive hand to mouth, picking tomatoes for $11 a day.
text: Don’t abuse a laborer who is destitute and needy, whether he is a fellow Israelite or a foreigner living in your land and in your city. Pay him at the end of each workday; he’s living from hand to mouth and needs it now. If you hold back his pay, he’ll protest to GOD and you’ll have sin on your books.
ref: 2018, “Deuteronomy 24”, in Eugene H. Peterson, transl., The Message Deluxe Gift Bible, Tyndale House Publishers, →ISBN, page 196:
text: "Meanwhile, we are sitting here starving. Let's not beat about the bush - we are absolutely living hand to mouth now on TfL.
ref: 2020 July 15, Mike Brown talks to Paul Clifton, “Leading London's "hidden heroes"”, in Rail, page 42:
glosses: In a hand-to-mouth manner.
razor-wired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text
Sweating under the sun, we scale the barren eastern scarp of the Great Rift Valley (Area B), edging carefully around controversial, razor-wired Israeli settlements (Area C).
glosses: Surrounded with razor wire
kick-step
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kick-steps
Etymology: From kick + step.
Senses: topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A dance move in which the dancer first kicks a foot in the air in front of the opposite leg (often while bending the knee slightly on that leg) and then puts the foot down shifting balance on to it.
examples: text: The kick-step she'd used to make steps out of the play area, was necessary to keep from sliding while walking across a slope.
ref: 2014, Marlene Collins, Quiet Savage, →ISBN, page 235:
glosses: A hiking technique for managing loose soil where the hiker first aggressively kicks the ground, digging a foothold, before shifting weight onto the foot.
kick-step
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kick-steps
form: kick-stepping
form: kick-stepped
form: kick-stepped
Etymology: From kick + step.
Senses: examples: 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text
Arms draped on shoulders, kick-stepping in circles, they swing bottles of wine. Purpled thumbs cork the bottles. The wine leaps and jumps behind green glass.
topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To dance using a kick-step.
glosses: To hike using a kick-step.
cook pot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cook pots
Senses: examples: 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text
His teenage wife, Fatimah, a shy, smiling girl in a filthy gown, rocked her sick baby under a plastic tarp. She cooked tomatoes pilfered from nearby fields. We ate from a sooty cook pot.
glosses: Alternative form of cookpot.
poculiforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poculiform
normal mode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: normal modes
Senses: topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: A mode of an oscillating system in which all parts of the system move sinusoidally with the same frequency and with a fixed phase relation. The motion described by the normal modes is called resonance.
normal modes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of normal mode
one hundred thousand
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: synonyms: hundred thousand
lakh
glosses: The cardinal number 100,000.
circumspections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circumspection
Moodle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Moodles
form: moodle
Senses: examples: text: Many Moodles exist throughout the education sector.
ref: 2010, George Veletsianos, Emerging Technologies in Distance Education, page 202:
text: Moodles are relatively new Web 2.0 tools, thus there is not an abundance of empirical research regarding them.
ref: 2013, Kris Helge, Laura McKinnon, The Teaching Librarian: Web 2.0, Technology, and Legal Aspects, page 16:
text: Interviewee C did a one-hour lecture to introduce the DGBL topic using Moodles – a blind learning approach.
ref: 2019, Anna Visvizi, Miltiadis D. Lytras, Akila Sarirete, Management and Administration of Higher Education Institutions in Times of Change, page 160:
glosses: Modular object-oriented dynamic learning environment.
Moodle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Moodles
form: Moodling
form: Moodled
form: Moodled
form: moodle
Senses: examples: text: Over the years, many teachers have developed instructional content using Moodle (anyone who Moodles is a Moodler!).
ref: 2011, William N. Bender, RTI in Middle and High Schools:
text: Happy Moodling!
ref: 2014, Jaswinder Singh, How to use Moodle 2.7, page iii:
text: One day, classroom students are accessing the Cloud as well as Skyping, and the next day they are Moodling.
ref: 2015, Allan A. Glatthorn, Floyd Boschee, Bruce M. Whitehead, Curriculum Leadership:
glosses: To use a Moodle, either as a teacher or as a student.
soarable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more soarable
form: most soarable
Etymology: From soar + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The outer third of the wing of a vulture consists of the wing tips. The inner two-thirds of the wing are cambered (when the wing is extended), and are concerned with lifting effort in unsoarable air and with lifting and tractive effort in soarable air.
ref: 1912, Flight:
glosses: Suitable for soaring.
unsoarable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsoarable
form: most unsoarable
Etymology: From un- + soarable.
Senses: examples: text: The outer third of the wing of a vulture consists of the wing tips. The inner two-thirds of the wing are cambered (when the wing is extended), and are concerned with lifting effort in unsoarable air and with lifting and tractive effort in soarable air.
ref: 1912, Flight:
glosses: Not suitable for soaring.
kappacism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From kappa + -cism (phenomenon related to a specific phoneme).
Senses: glosses: faulty pronunciation of the consonant /k/
gammacism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gamma + -cism (phenomenon related to a specific phoneme).
Senses: glosses: faulty pronunciation of the consonant /g/
Derived terms: paragammacism
keirospasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cheirospasm.
kinesipathist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kinesipathists
Etymology: From kinesipathy + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A practitioner of kinesipathy.
kinesipathists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kinesipathist
keratogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From kerato- + genetic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to keratogenesis.
keratogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From kerato- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to keratogenesis.
keratogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From kerato- + -genesis.
Senses: glosses: The formation of keratin.
Whitney's theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Introduced by Hassler Whitney (1907–1989), American mathematician.
Senses: examples: text: Whitney's theorem can be extended to hypergraphs.
glosses: A theorem stating that two connected graphs are isomorphic if and only if their line graphs are isomorphic, with a single exception: K₃, the complete graph on three vertices, and the complete bipartite graph K_(1,3), which are not isomorphic but both have K₃ as their line graph.
wikipedia: Hassler Whitney
Nernstian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Nernst + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Walther Nernst (1864–1941), German physicist who helped to establish the modern field of physical chemistry and contributed to electrochemistry, thermodynamics and solid-state physics.
Related terms: Nernst equation
fluctuation theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A theorem dealing with the relative probability that the entropy of a system that is currently away from thermodynamic equilibrium (i.e. maximum entropy) will increase or decrease over a given amount of time.
Synonyms: FT
Nernst equation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nernst equations
Etymology: Named after the German physical chemist Walther Nernst, who formulated it.
Senses: glosses: An electrochemical equation that relates the reduction potential of a half-cell (or the total voltage, i.e. the electromotive force, of the full cell) at any point in time to the standard electrode potential, temperature, activity, and reaction quotient of the underlying reactions and species used.
wikipedia: Walther Nernst
Nernst equations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nernst equation
unmelt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unmelts
form: unmelting
form: unmelted
form: unmelted
Etymology: From un- + melt.
Senses: examples: text: Eggs break, but do not unbreak; candles melt, but they don't unmelt; memories are of the past, never of the future; […]
ref: 2008, Arieh Ben-Naim, Entropy Demystified, page 208:
text: A snowflake does not unmelt.
ref: 2002, Dale Bick Carlson, Kishore Khairnar, In and Out of Your Mind: Teen Science: Human Bites, page 76:
glosses: To undergo the process of melting in reverse.
unmelts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unmelt
unburn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unburns
form: unburning
form: unburned
form: unburned
Etymology: From un- + burn.
Senses: examples: text: Similarly, you cannot 'unstir' the sugar from a cup of coffee once it has been dissolved, and you never see a pile of ash in the fireplace 'unburn' to become a log of wood again.
ref: 2002, Jim Al-Khalili, Black Holes, Wormholes and Time Machines, page 122:
text: In your class last year we learned that increase in entropy is why matches burn but never unburn, why cans rust but never unrust, and why engines are never perfectly efficient.
ref: 2009, Bradley Harris Dowden, The Metaphysics of Time: A Dialogue, page 122:
glosses: To undergo the process of burning in reverse.
unburning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unburn
unburns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unburn
splay tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: splay trees
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A self-balancing binary search tree with the additional property that recently accessed elements are quick to access again.
splay trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of splay tree
Kuiper cliff
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The 1:2 resonance, beyond which few objects are known; it may be the outer edge of the classical Kuiper belt or just the beginning of a broad gap.
Peccei-Quinn theory
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Formulated by Roberto Peccei and Helen Quinn.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A proposal for the resolution of the strong CP problem. It proposes that the QCD Lagrangian be extended with a CP-violating term known as the θ parameter, and that this should be a dynamic field rather than a constant value. It also predicts the existence of particles called axions.
wikipedia: Helen Quinn
Roberto Peccei
Cooley-Tukey algorithm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after J. W. Cooley and John Tukey, who popularised the original algorithm of Carl Friedrich Gauss.
Senses: glosses: A common recursive fast Fourier transform algorithm.
Knaster-Tarski theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Knaster-Tarski theorem
Etymology: Named after Bronisław Knaster and Alfred Tarski.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: Tarski's fixed-point theorem
glosses: A theorem stating that, if L is a complete lattice and f : L → L is an order-preserving function, then the set of fixed points of f in L is also a complete lattice. It has important applications in formal semantics of programming languages and abstract interpretation.
parity games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parity game
parity game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parity games
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
game-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A type of game played on a directed graph whose nodes are coloured by priority.
Karatsuba multiplication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Karatsuba multiplications
Etymology: Eponymous, from Anatolii Alexeevitch Karatsuba + multiplication.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Multiplication by means of the Karatsuba algorithm.
Karatsuba multiplications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Karatsuba multiplication
Karatsuba algorithm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Karatsuba algorithms
Etymology: Discovered by Anatolii Alexeevitch Karatsuba in 1960 and published in 1962.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A fast multiplication algorithm that reduces the multiplication of two n-digit numbers to at most n^(log ₂₃)≈n^(1.585) single-digit multiplications.
Toom-Cook algorithm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Andrei Toom and Stephen Cook.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A multiplication algorithm that multiplies large integers by recursively splitting them into smaller parts and performing operations on the parts.
Schönhage-Strassen algorithm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Developed by Arnold Schönhage and Volker Strassen in 1971.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An asymptotically fast recursive multiplication algorithm for large integers.
oomycotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oomycote
vacuum catastrophe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: astronomy
cosmology
natural-sciences
glosses: The disagreement of over 100 orders of magnitude between measured values of the vacuum energy density and the theoretical zero-point energy suggested by a naïve application of quantum field theory.
Related terms: ultraviolet catastrophe
oxygen catastrophe
vacuum aspirations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vacuum aspiration
subnervose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + nervose.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Partly or somewhat nervose.
subfastigiately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From subfastigiate + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: H. praténse, Koch. Diœcious (in European specimens pseudomonœcious, Bryol. Europ.); stems ascending, divided, subfastigiately branched; branches sparingly ramulose cauline leaves subcomplanate, decurved at the apex (those of the branches secund-falcate), ovate-lanceolate, minutely serrulate above; capsue cernuous, incurved-oblong; operculum convex-conic.
ref: 1856, William Starling Sullivant, The musci and hepaticæ of the United States east of the Mississippi River, page 674:
text: Flowers in spirally-disposed 3-flowered clusters on the branches of a simply subfastigiately branched spadix, the female flower between and below two males.
ref: 1877, J. G. Baker, Flora of Mauritius and the Seychelles, page 383:
text: An erect slender herb, sparingly subfastigiately branched; branches towards their tips finely downy with hooked hairs.
ref: 1902, Sir George King, Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula, page 132:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: In a subfastigiate manner.
subfastigiate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + fastigiate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Partly or somewhat fastigiate.
thot
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Scots thoucht, thocht, thoth, from Middle English thought, thouȝth, þauȝt, þauȝth, a variant (probably through combination with that, as in though that) of though, thogh (“though”). More at though.
Senses: examples: text: Thoᵗ he wes wicht he wes not wyss.
ref: 1568, Christis Kirk on Grene, section 266:
glosses: Alternative form of though.
thot
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Etymology: From Scots thoucht, thocht, thoth, from Middle English thought, thouȝth, þauȝt, þauȝth, a variant (probably through combination with that, as in though that) of though, thogh (“though”). More at though.
Senses: examples: text: ...Ffor, wer ȝe foursum in a flok,
I compt ȝow noᵗ a leik,
Thoᵗ I had rycht noᵗ bot a rok
To gar ȝour rumpill reik
ref: c. 1560, Alexander Scott, Poems, "Ffollowis the Justing and Debait...", line 147
roman: Behynd;...
glosses: Alternative form of though.
thot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thots
Etymology: Variant of thought (q.v.) first attested in Scots c. 16th century but since spread through all English dialects.
Senses: examples: text: Perceauing me in thot perplex'd.
ref: 1611, William Mure, Miscellaneous Poems, ii, line 13:
text: much beset with wicked thots saturday night
ref: 1742 Edmund S. Morgan, The Gentle Puritan: A Life of Ezra Stiles, 1727-1795
glosses: Nonstandard form of thought.
thot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Variant of thought (q.v.) first attested in Scots c. 16th century but since spread through all English dialects.
Senses: examples: text: Sorry if u thot i was being rude just bcoz i typed in Caps. I was just trying to make myself clear.
ref: 2006 July 27, KS, “Permanent Resident Card Renewal”, in misc.immigration.canada (Usenet):
glosses: Nonstandard form of thought; simple past and past participle of think.
thot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /θɒt/
ipa: /θɑt/
rhymes: -ɒt
homophone: thought (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: thots
form: thotty
Etymology: An acronym of that ho over there (or possibly a variant such as thirsty hoes over there, that ho out there, or thirsty hoes out there). It was popularized or possibly originated by rappers, particularly Chief Keef, in Chicago around late 2011 or early 2012.
Senses: examples: text: ...the appearance of the word “thot” in the whole mess shows how much it’s morphed into the same kind of word as “slut”—a catch-all way to put any woman in her place by suggesting that she’s somehow too sexual. But, of course, it’s a game women can’t win, because if you’re not obviously sexual enough to be called a “thot,” then you’re simply going to be disparaged for failing to be sexy enough.
ref: 2014 June 23, Amanda Marcotte, “Let's Put an End to 'THOT': The Misogynistic Phrase That's Sweeping the Nation”, in The Daily Beast:
text: That's why we're counting on you, Black Twitter, to continue the innovations in the field of slang. Never has black slang been appropriated so quickly. The other day, I heard two middle-aged white dudes calling each other thots. That word is gone.
ref: 2017 May 8, Roy Wood Jr., “State of Black Shit”, in The Daily Show:
text: While Kjellberg struggled to keep his eyes off their chests, he "jokingly" called women in the video “stupid Twitch thots,” a derogatory term for women that stands for “that ho [whore] over there.”
ref: 2018 May 25, Samantha Cole, “Pewdiepie^([sic]) Is Teaching His Audience that Women Are Asking For It”, in Motherboard:
glosses: A slut, a woman who is sexually promiscuous.
Synonyms: promiscuous woman
Derived terms: e-thot
gym thot
Insta-thot
thottery
tradthot
rounder-upper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rounder-uppers
Senses: glosses: One who rounds up.
Related terms: fixer-upper
whomperjawed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɒm.pə(ɹ).d͡ʒɔːd/
ipa: /wɑm.pɚ.d͡ʒɔd/
ipa: [wɑ̃m.pɚ.d͡ʒɑɒ̯d]
Forms: form: whomper-jawed
form: whopperjawed
Etymology: Ealiest known use is from 1942 (see quotations), and it was first mentioned in 1931. Possibly from an alteration of earlier whopperjawed, wopperjawed, wapper-jawed, ultimately related to wapper jaw (“a projecting underjaw”) (1825).
Senses: examples: text: The pending bill as it stands presents another whomper-jawed, lopsided, cross-eyed picture.
ref: 1942 September 30, U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library, Legislative History, Public Law 729 - 77th Congress, Chapter 578 - 2d Session, H.R. 7565, page 7893, column 3:
text: Honestly, I felt pretty wolfish that time. I didn’t have a thing to defend myself with but my fist. But I was much of a man, and he was a little gangling, bandy-legged, whomper-jawed, worthless specimen of humanity.
ref: 1942, Salomon Alexander Wright, My Rambles as East Texas Cowboy, Hunter, Fisherman, Tie-Cutter, Austin, Texas: Texas Folklore Society, page 92:
glosses: Askew, amiss; not fitting, moving or working properly.
flesh-fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flesh-flies
Senses: examples: text: (FERDINAND) I am, in my condition,
A prince, Miranda; I do think, a king;—
I would not so!—and would no more endure
This wooden slavery than to suffer
The flesh-fly blow my mouth.
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 III, scene i]:
glosses: Alternative form of flesh fly.
nomocratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nomocratic
form: most nomocratic
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to nomocracy.
Derived terms: nomocratically
nomocratically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more nomocratically
form: most nomocratically
Etymology: From nomocratic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Shall it be governed theocratically by irrational beliefs and clerical arbitrariness, or nomocratically by rational laws and civic right?
ref: 1904 [1899], Ernst Haeckel, translated by Joseph McCabe, Wonders of life, published 1905:
glosses: In a nomocratic manner.
ba dum tss
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: At press time, HipCityVeg was buying burgers from McDonald's and making a “healthy” (Ba Dum Tss) profit.
ref: 2013, "Report: HipCityVeg Admits Wrongdoing, Hopes To Reopen As 40th Street McDonald's", 34th Street (joke issue), 5 December 2013, page 19
text: 9. The thought. It counts! *ba dum tss*
ref: 2014, "Top Ten Worst Gifts", The Union (Milpitas High School, Milpitas, California), Volume 26, Issue 3, December 2014, page 5
text: All in all, the column was so weak and bitter that it's probably being served at Dunkin' Donuts (ba dum tss).
ref: 2015 February 5, Eleanor Hildebrandt, “The true scourge of Super Bowl XLIX”, in The Heights, volume 96, number 6, Boston College, page 97:
glosses: Alternative form of ba-dum ching.
cubemate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cubemates
Etymology: From cube + mate.
Senses: glosses: A coworker who shares the same cubicle.
cubemates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cubemate
swirliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From swirly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being swirly.
keratographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From keratography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to keratography.
Derived terms: videokeratographic
keratogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keratograms
Etymology: From kerato- + -gram.
Senses: glosses: A diagnostic image produced by keratography.
keratograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keratogram
unmannings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unmanning
keratography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From kerato- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: medical diagnostic imaging of the cornea
Derived terms: keratographic
videokeratography
Related terms: keratograph
kraurotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Cancers that originate from a kraurotic vulva are somewhat more benign in their course.
ref: 1920, William Phillips Graves, Gynecology, page 291:
glosses: Relating to, or exhibiting, kraurosis.
go for the throat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes for the throat
form: going for the throat
form: went for the throat
form: gone for the throat
Senses: synonyms: go for the jugular
go for the jugular vein
go for the kill
glosses: To exert an unrestrained, aggressive effort, especially by assailing an opponent's or victim's area of greatest vulnerability.
4G
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
mobile-telephony
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: Abbreviation of 4th generation, a cellular phone communication standard.
Related terms: 0G
1G
2.5G
2.75G
2G
3G
3G+
5G
bath cube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bath cubes
Senses: glosses: bath salts in the form of a cube that dissolves when placed in water
bath cubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bath cube
bath pearl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bath pearls
Senses: glosses: bath salts in the form of a small sphere that dissolves when placed in water
bath pearls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bath pearl
sky lantern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sky lanterns
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: Chinese lantern
synonyms: Kongming lantern
hypernyms: lantern#Noun
glosses: An ornament consisting of a small hot air balloon made of paper, with an opening at the bottom where a small fire is suspended.
Related terms: aerogami
sky lanterns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sky lantern
bibliophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From biblio- + -phagy.
Senses: glosses: The habit of voracious reading
Related terms: bibliophage
Sturla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Icelandic.
Zenoness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Zeno + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Zenoness, which refers to the situation that the system has infinite many “mode switches” in finite time, is a well-known phenomenon arising in multi-mode ( hybrid) systems. In general, there are a number of smooth dynamics in a hybrid system.
ref: 2007, Lanshan Han, Topics in Differential Variational Systems, ProQuest, →ISBN, page 20:
text: A player is responsible for the Zenoness of an execution if she is "elected" infinitely many times for her choosing the smallest delay. A coalition is responsible for Zenoness if at least one of its member is.
ref: 2007, Luís Caires, Vasco T. Vasconcelos, CONCUR 2007 - Concurrency Theory: 18th International Conference, CONCUR 2007, Lisbon, Portugal, September 3-8, 2007, Proceedings, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 456:
text: As it has been previously discussed, this may be complicated by the fact that these solutions may exhibit complex phenomena such as non-continuability of solutions or deadlock, beating or livelock, and Zenoness.
ref: 2011, Alfonso Baños, Antonio Barreiro, Reset Control Systems, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 63:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The state of being Zeno.
Related terms: hypertask
supertask
undecidability
Zeno's paradox
tetilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetillas
Senses: examples: text: The [...] cheeses are mild and buttery, and loved by children because tetilla is almost spreadable.
ref: 2010, Patricia Michelson, Cheese: Exploring Taste and Tradition, Gibbs Smith, →ISBN:
text: The flavor of tetilla cheese is clean and smooth, and it melts beautifully. making it a perfect quesadilla cheese.
ref: 2012, Rafael Palomino, Fiesta Latina: Fabulous Food for Sizzling Parties, Chronicle Books, →ISBN:
text: This is a light salad made with tetilla cheese.
ref: 2014, Malcolm Coxall, Traditional Vegetarian Tapas Recipes of Spain, Malcolm Coxall, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Tetilla (“cheese”).
tetillas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetilla
Gmails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gmail
Gmails
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Gmail
Gmailing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Gmail
Gmailed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Gmail
Zenonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zenoism
Etymology: From Zeno + -ism, with the terminal "n" from Ancient Greek Ζήνων (Zḗnōn).
Senses: glosses: The philosophy of Zeno of Citium; stoicism.
examples: text: While synthesizing a controller for timed automata one should be careful not letting any of the players win by "Zenonism", that is, by preventing the time from progressing as does the Tortoise in its race against Achilles.
ref: 1995, Eugene Asarin et al., “Symbolic controller synthesis for discrete and timed systems”, in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 999, pages 1–20:
text: Zenonism (which regards the continuum as composed of points) was defended on various occasions in the Jesuit context, and was also repressed and condemned a number of times.
ref: 1998, Paolo Rossi, “I Punti Di Zenone: Una Preistoria Vichiana”, in Nuncius, volume 13, number 2, page 377:
text: […] Nietzsche's thinking on time was mediated by Boscovich, which in turn was an attempt to take further and refine the insights of Leibniz and Newton and, perhaps most significant of all, to go beyond various kinds of Zenonism […]
ref: 2000, Keith Ansell Pearson, “Nietzsche’s Brave New World of Force”, in Kairos: A Journal of Philosophy, volume 9:
glosses: A philosophical framework in which a finite continuum is regarded as an infinite number of discrete elements.
Derived terms: Zenoist
Zenonist
Zenoism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Zenonism.
Zenonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zenonists
Senses: glosses: A follower of Zenonism.
Synonyms: word: Zenonian
word: stoic
Zenonist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Zenonist
form: most Zenonist
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Zenonism.
Synonyms: word: Zenonic
word: Zenonian
word: stoic
Zenoist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zenoists
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Zenonist.
Zenoist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Zenoist
form: most Zenoist
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Zenonist.
Zenonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /zɪˈnəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /zɪˈnoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Zenonian
form: most Zenonian
Etymology: From Latin Zēnōn (also Zēnō) or its etymon Ancient Greek Ζήνων (Zḗnōn) + -ian. By surface analysis, Zenon + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to any of various people named Zeno or Zenon, or to their philosophies.
Synonyms: word: Zenonic
word: Zenonist
word: stoic
word: Zeno
Zenonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /zɪˈnəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /zɪˈnoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Zenonians
Etymology: From Latin Zēnōn (also Zēnō) or its etymon Ancient Greek Ζήνων (Zḗnōn) + -ian. By surface analysis, Zenon + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A follower of any of various people named Zeno or Zenon.
Synonyms: word: Zenonist
word: stoic
Zenonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Zenonic
form: most Zenonic
Etymology: From Zeno + -ic, with the terminal "n" from Ancient Greek Ζήνων (Zḗnōn).
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to any of various people named Zeno, or to their philosophies.
Synonyms: word: Zenonian
word: Zenonist
word: stoic
word: Zeno
salt the mine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: salts the mine
form: salting the mine
form: salted the mine
form: salted the mine
Senses: examples: text: He then discovered that Lovell had salted the mine with ore from the Little Pittsburgh.
ref: 1989, John Burke, The Legend of Baby Doe: The Life and Times of the Silver Queen of the West, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 53:
text: They then salted the “mine” with these gems, which the first expert dug up and brought to San Francisco.
ref: 2000, Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power, Penguin Books, page 159:
text: Smith had merely dug a shaft, salted the mine with a good grade ore, in order to lure Jeremiah into purchasing.
ref: 2014, Harriet Hudson, The Wooing of Katie May, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
text: "Ferraz then salted the mine with the quality diamonds from Angola," Kubu continued, "making it look as though De Beers had made a mistake."
ref: 2010, Michael Stanley, A Carrion Death, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see salt, the, mine.
examples: text: "Yes. I thought it would be a shrewd move to salt the mine." I didn't get this. She seemed to me an aunt who was talking in riddles.
ref: 1954, P.G. Wodehouse, Bertie Wooster Sees It Through, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 86:
text: “Salting the mine. We'll salt the mine.” Egan still didn't seem to understand. “You college boys, all that training and you can't see the nose on your face. We'll plant a body.”
ref: 2005, Paul Lindsay, The Big Scam: A Novel of the FBI, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 275:
text: Historians are duty bound never to salt the mine of history by the creation of ersatz facts introduced to fulfill their preconceived ideas.
ref: 2006, Steven T. Katz, Alan Rosen, Elie Wiesel, Obliged by Memory: Literature, Religion, Ethics, Syracuse University Press, →ISBN, page 64:
text: His rationale was the same: these were amenities that a salesperson needed to salt the mine and make the right impression on customers.
ref: 2007, Ira Nottonson, Forming a Partnership : And Making It Work, Entrepreneur Press, →ISBN, page 4:
glosses: To set up a confidence trick; to plant false evidence of the value of something.
salts the mine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of salt the mine
salting the mine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of salt the mine
salted the mine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of salt the mine
McGurk effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: McGurk effects
Etymology: First described in 1976 in a paper by Harry McGurk and John MacDonald.
Senses: glosses: A perceptual phenomenon where, when the auditory component of one sound is paired with the visual component of another sound, a third and different sound is perceived.
McGurk effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of McGurk effect
McGurk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McGurks
Etymology: Variant of McGuirk.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Derived terms: McGurk effect
thots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thot
latron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: latrons
Etymology: From Latin latrō (“mercenary, brigand”). Doublet of ladrone.
Senses: glosses: A robber or brigand; one who plunders.
Related terms: latronage
latrociny
Taliesin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtælˈiɛsɪn/
ipa: [talˈjɛsɪn]
Senses: glosses: An early Brythonic poet of Sub-Roman Britain whose work has possibly survived in a Middle Welsh manuscript, the Book of Taliesin.
theocratize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: theocratizes
form: theocratizing
form: theocratized
form: theocratized
Senses: glosses: To bring under religious rule.
theocratized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of theocratize
theocratizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of theocratize
theocratizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of theocratize
tourist guide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tourist guides
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tour guide.
synonyms: word: tour guide
tourist guides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tourist guide
suprasegment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suprasegments
Etymology: From supra- + segment.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Any suprasegmental feature of language.
suprasegments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suprasegment
lupes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lupe
quartes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quarte
bullionaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bullionaires
Etymology: Blend of bullion + billionaire
Senses: glosses: One who feels wealthy by owning precious metals.
glosses: One who measures wealth as a weight of precious metals.
bullionaires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bullionaire
the cat's out of the bag
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: It is too late. Particularly used of secrets that have been exposed.
Synonyms: the genie's out of the bottle
Related terms: let the cat out of the bag
spill the beans
vardzak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vardzaks
Etymology: From Armenian վարձակ (varjak).
Senses: glosses: a female comedy actor, dancer and singer in ancient and medieval Armenia
Related terms: gusan
vardzaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vardzak
rhetological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rhetology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to rhetology.
accelerationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əkˌsɛl.əˈɹeɪ.ʃə.nɪ.zm̩/
ipa: /ækˌsɛl.əˈɹeɪ.ʃə.nɪ.zm̩/
ipa: /ɪkˌsɛl.əˈɹeɪ.ʃə.nɪ.zm̩/
Forms: form: accelerationisms
Etymology: From acceleration + -ism. Usage as “support for accelerating capitalism” attributed to Benjamin Noys, 2010s.
Senses: examples: text: Land (2011) has brought forward the notion of accelerationism: Rather than halting the onslaught of capital (such as by defending a welfare state or defending the right to work), accelerationism is a philosophical and political strategy that strives to exacerbate its processes to bring forth its inner contradictions and thereby hasten its destruction, […]
ref: 2013, Jonas Andersson Schwarz, Online File Sharing: Innovations in Media Consumption, Routledge, →ISBN, page 20:
text: The new accelerationisms instead concentrate primarily on constructing a conceptual space in which we can once again ask what to do with the tendencies and machines identified by the analysis […]
ref: 2014, Robin Mackay, Armen Avanessian, “Introduction”, in #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader:
text: Meanwhile, over the same half century, almost entirely unnoticed by the media or mainstream academia, accelerationism has gradually solidified from a fictional device into an actual intellectual movement: a new way of thinking about the contemporary world and its potential.
ref: 2017 May 11, Andy Beckett, “Accelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 02 Mar 2025:
glosses: The idea that either the prevailing system of capitalism, or certain technosocial processes that historically characterised it, should be expanded and accelerated in order to generate radical social change.
examples: text: Accelerationism was the most fundamental transformation of the Phillips approach into an expectational format. It hypothesized that inflation will become increasingly rapid in any maintained situation in which unemployment lies below some critical, or “natural,” rate.
ref: 1975, Arthur Melvin Okun, “Inflation: Its Mechanics and Welfare Costs”, in Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, volume 6, number 2:
text: For the period through 1984, there is weak support for accelerationism, though the linear fit is mainly due to the disinflationary impact of high unemployment, which no one disputes, not the inflationary effects of prosperity.
ref: 1998, James K. Galbraith, “Comments”, in Inflation, Unemployment, and Monetary Policy, page 66:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The theory that excessively low unemployment accelerates inflation.
Derived terms: effective accelerationism
Related terms: accelerationist
e/acc
accelerationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accelerationist
accelerationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accelerationists
Etymology: From acceleration + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Accelerationists argue that technology, particularly computer technology, and capitalism, particularly the most aggressive, global variety, should be massively sped up and intensified – either because this is the best way forward for humanity, or because there is no alternative. […] Occasionally, accelerationists have held teaching posts at universities. […] “We all live in an operating system set up by the accelerating triad of war, capitalism and emergent AI,” says Steve Goodman, a British accelerationist who has even smuggled its self-consciously dramatic ideas into dance music, via an acclaimed record label, Hyperdub.
ref: 2017 May 11, Andy Beckett, “Accelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 02 Mar 2025:
antonyms: decelerationist
glosses: A proponent of accelerationism.
Derived terms: effective accelerationist
accelerationist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more accelerationist
form: most accelerationist
Etymology: From acceleration + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: accelerationist politics
text: The aesthetics at play were a bit antidemocratic, accelerationist, what have you; and mainstream coverage of the trend from this past spring cited propaganda experts on its allegedly alarming implications.
ref: 2022 August 11, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “Stop Putting Lasers in Joe Biden’s Eyes”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 20 Aug 2022:
glosses: Relating to accelerationism.
Chur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kuːɹ/
Senses: glosses: A town, the capital of Graubünden canton, Switzerland.
wikipedia: Chur
uncultivatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncultivatable
form: most uncultivatable
Etymology: From un- + cultivatable.
Senses: glosses: uncultivable
butterfly kiss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butterfly kisses
Senses: examples: text: She worked her eyelashes and made butterfly kisses on my cheeks.
ref: 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely:
text: One of these was the butterfly kiss, given by fluttering the eyelashes against the skin of the recipient.
ref: 2003, Jennifer J. Rombalski, A Personal Journey in Understanding Physical Touch as a Nursing Intervention, Journal of Holistic Nursing, March 2003, vol. 21, no. 1, (page 80)
glosses: Fluttering one's eyelashes against someone's skin.
examples: text: Alexandros kisses her goodbye, a butterfly kiss on the lips, Aloé kisses her the same way. Beautiful child, Ethel thinks. Goodbye, Alexandros.
ref: 2005, Christos H. Papadimitriou, Turing: A Novel about Computation, page 6:
text: Then he felt a butterfly kiss settle upon his cheek.
ref: 2009, Ivey Nance, There's Trouble Brewing, page 5:
glosses: A very light kiss.
dissolvible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dissolvible
form: most dissolvible
Etymology: From dissolve + -ible.
Senses: examples: 1868, Rev. J. Gorle, An Analysis of Pearson on the Creed
Can we think that such material and mortal, that such inunderstanding souls, should be furnished with bodies of so long permansion, and our spirits joined to flesh so suddenly dissolvible, were it not that they lived but once […]
glosses: Obsolete form of dissolvable.
butterfly kisses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butterfly kiss
anglocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anglocentric
form: most anglocentric
Etymology: From anglo- + -centric.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Anglocentric.
anglocentrism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Anglocentrism.
indiscerptible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more indiscerptible
form: most indiscerptible
Etymology: From in- + discerptible.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of indiscerpible.
Derived terms: indiscerptibility
low profiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of low profile
hydropick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hydropick
form: most hydropick
Senses: examples: text: […] continual drinking is most convenient to the distemper of an hydropick body, though most disconvenient to its present welfare.
ref: 1640, Edward Reynolds, A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man:
glosses: Obsolete form of hydropic.
marscapone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of mascarpone.
SCF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SCFs
Senses: qualifier: quantum chemistry
glosses: Initialism of self-consistent field.
Mexican Spanish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A set of variations of the Spanish language as spoken in Mexico and in some parts of the United States and Canada, where there are communities of Hispanic origin influenced by North American Spanish-speaking media.
mexxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Diminutive with -y.
Senses: glosses: The recreational drug methoxetamine.
mascarpones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mascarpone
mellifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mellify
mellifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mellify
mellified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mellify
mellified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: embalmed in honey
glosses: honeyed
fractalesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fractalesque
form: most fractalesque
Etymology: From fractal + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Reminiscent of fractal patterns.
Buybull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Buybulls
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of buybull.
downvoter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downvoters
Etymology: From downvote + -er.
Senses: antonyms: upvoter
glosses: One who downvotes.
upvoter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upvoters
Etymology: From upvote + -er.
Senses: antonyms: downvoter
glosses: One who upvotes.
upvoters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upvoter
downvoters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of downvoter
pretribulation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + Tribulation.
Senses: topics: Christianity
synonyms: word: pretrib
glosses: Before the Tribulation.
Family Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A public holiday in South Africa, Vietnam, Vanuatu, and parts of Canada, the United States, and Australia, intended to allow people to spend time with their families.