cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
despirit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: despirits
form: despiriting
form: despirited
form: despirited
Etymology: From de- + spirit.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dispirit.
synonyms: word: dispirit
despirits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of despirit
despiriting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of despirit
despirited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of despirit
despirited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more despirited
form: most despirited
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dispirited.
synonyms: word: dispirited
atomic power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of nuclear power, normally sense 1.
synonyms: word: nuclear power
word: normally sense 1
cowardess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cowardesses
Etymology: From coward + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: […] he began to yell and insult me, calling me a cowardess, a bugger, and a broken-bottomed whore.
ref: 2016, John M. Hunt, The Vacant See in Early Modern Rome: A Social History of the Papal Interregnum:
glosses: A female coward.
shopstead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shopsteads
form: shopsteading
form: shopsteaded
form: shopsteaded
Etymology: Blend of shop + homestead
Senses: examples: text: Many of the previously vacant commercial buildings along Baltimore Street have been "shopsteaded" (the commercial equivalent to homesteading).
ref: 1983, I-83 Construction from Gay St to I-95, Baltimore:
text: The city offered businesses the option to “shopstead,” a program that rented storefronts for $1 per square foot per year, renewable for up to forty-seven years (Jordan 1986).
ref: 2011 Fall, Jennifer Ryan, “Beale street blues? tourism, musical labor, and the fetishization of poverty in blues discourse”, in Ethnomusicology, volume 55, number 3:
glosses: To buy and renovate abandoned shop facilities that are offered for sale inexpensively as part of an urban renewal policy.
shopstead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shopsteads
Etymology: Blend of shop + homestead
Senses: examples: text: The program is supported by merchants, who see abandoned storefronts in neighborhood shopping strips as hurting their business, and by neighborhood residents, who have been given a say in what types of businesses they want in the shopstead properties.
ref: 1978, “Carter Reveals New Urban Policy”, in Land Use Law & Zoning Digest, volume 30:
text: While renovating shopsteads, residents and city officials discovered artists needed affordable housing they could adapt for large, open studios.
ref: 1994 January 30, Lorraine Mirabella, “Residents fought razing and created model of renewal Washington Hill's REBIRTH”, in The Baltimore Sun:
text: This means that there must be an identifiable market for goods and services in the shopstead area.
ref: 2010, Edward J. Blakely, Nancey Green Leigh, Planning Local Economic Development: Theory and Practice, →ISBN:
glosses: A commercial building that has been or is being renovated as part of a shopsteading program.
shopsteads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shopstead
shopsteads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shopstead
shopsteaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shopstead
cowardesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cowardess
shopsteading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The policy tools range from land banking and infrastructure provision to townscaping and shopsteading (Stokvis, 1984; Blakely, 1989).
ref: 1991 December 10, Steven C Deller, James C McConnon Jr, John Holden, Kenneth Stone, “The measurement of a community's retail market”, in Journal of the Community Development Society:
text: It was such a success in Baltimore, Maryland, that the city expanded the concept in 1977 to create shopsteading.
ref: 1997, Robert E. Stipe, Antoinette Josephine Lee, The American Mosaic: Preserving a Nation's Heritage, →ISBN, page 127:
text: Low-cost financing, access to venture capital, expanding shopsteading programs, and providing fee waivers are some productive approaches.
ref: 2010, Carol O'Cleireacain, The Orphaned Capital, →ISBN:
text: The success of shopsteading hinges on two main factors, the first of which is the availability of vacant properties in areas that have considerable potential for economic revitalization.
ref: 2010, Edward J. Blakely, Nancey Green Leigh, Planning Local Economic Development: Theory and Practice, →ISBN:
glosses: The sale by the government of abandoned shops to entrepreneurs who are willing to renovate them and operate there, as part of an urban revitalization policy.
shopsteading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shopstead
shopsteader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shopsteaders
Etymology: From shopstead + -er.
Senses: examples: text: But Joseph Fuccl, a shopsteader who put $30,000 into a new pizza parlor, has no regrets.
ref: 1979 November 30, The Cincinnati Enquirer, page 82:
text: Cut—and—cover construction will not extend to the area in front of the shopsteaders' businesses.
ref: 1987, Baltimore Northeast Corridor Alternative Transit Improvements:
text: Shortly after settlement, the shopsteaders must begin improving the property.
ref: 2010, Edward J. Blakely, Nancey Green Leigh, Planning Local Economic Development: Theory and Practice, →ISBN:
glosses: An entrepreneur who buys and renovates an abandoned shop as part of a shopsteading program.
shopsteaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shopsteader
I don't want to buy anything
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: I don't want to buy anything
Related terms: I don't want it
I don't care
I'm not interested
I don't want to talk about it
time traveller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time travellers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of time-traveller.
time travellers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of time traveller
phone monkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phone monkey
wowie
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: wowee
Senses: examples: text: Papyrus: 'Wowie!! My lessons are already working!!'
ref: 2015 September 15, Toby Fox, Undertale, Linux, Microsoft Windows, OS X:
glosses: Synonym of wow.
synonyms: word: wow
Derived terms: wowie kazowie
wowie zowie
he he he
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: A laugh.
hee hee hee
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: -iː
Senses: glosses: A laugh.
comradess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comradesses
Etymology: From comrade + -ess.
Senses: glosses: Female equivalent of comrade.
dadly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: dadlier
form: more dadly
form: dadliest
form: most dadly
Etymology: From dad + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: By the light of the kerosene lamp, she washed the dishes while Cody dried them. The humdrum domesticity of the task didn't defuse the sexual vibe between them, but Noah harrumphed from time to time in a dadly way to make sure both were aware of his presence in the cabin.
ref: 2005, Janet Dailey, Let's Be Jolly:
text: “Night, son,” my dad says, and he gives my chicken-bone shoulder a dadly squeeze. He's pretty cool, my dad!
ref: 2015, Sally Warner, EllRay Jakes The Recess King!:
text: Peter finished his pancakes and tried his best not to come up the stairs with the dadliest questions, complete with the “I'm knocking to respect your privacy but I'm asserting my responsibility as a parent and coming in anyway!” He saw a weird thing.
ref: 2016, Nessa Cannon, And Then There's You:
synonyms: dadlike
fatherly
paternal
glosses: Of, relating to, or typical of a dad (father).
momly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more momly
form: most momly
form: mumly
Etymology: From mom + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Once fretting about momly things like education, health care, poor folks and breathing air with no detectable color or texture—girlie-man Democratic stuff—security moms have moved on to bigger frights.
ref: 2010, Lois Duke Whitaker, Voting the Gender Gap:
text: I could see her as a guardian, very momly.
ref: 2011, Gina Robinson, Pink Slipper:
glosses: Typical of a mom; momlike.
Derived terms: momliness
ill-directed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: misdirected
momlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more momlike
form: most momlike
Etymology: From mom + -like.
Senses: examples: text: "It's nice to see you again, dear," Mom said in her most momlike voice, but I noticed her giving Lindsay this steady, questioning look.
ref: 1988, Karle Dickerson, Best Friend Blues, page 83:
text: “Watch it, you're being all momlike. Smart, professional moms aren't supposed to be that way.”
ref: 2008, Richelle Mead, Storm Born:
glosses: Like, resembling, or typical of a mom.
sidecast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sidecasts
form: sidecasting
form: sidecast
form: sidecast
form: sidecasted
form: sidecasted
form: side-cast
form: side cast
Etymology: From side + cast.
Senses: examples: text: The dragline sidecasts material into a 'wet' stockpile located on-shore, immediately adjacent to the excavation.
ref: 1976, Barbers Point Harbor, Oahu: Environmental Impact Statement:
text: Areas where sidecasting would be done are typically steep.
ref: 1997, Juneau Access Improvements: Environmental Impact Statement:
text: According to the record, this piece of equipment rides on tracks (similar to a bulldozer) rather than on wheels, and it sidecasts excavated material directly into a dump truck.
ref: 2005, United States Environmental Protection Agency: Environmental Appeals Board, Environmental administrative decisions:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To eject waste material that has been excavated or dredged to the side, rather than hauling it away.
examples: text: I bait his hook with a plump and squirmy shrimp. With one arm, he sidecasts between two spindly roots.
ref: 2015, Ana Veciana-Suarez, Birthday Parties in Heaven, →ISBN:
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: To cast a fishing line at an angle of 90 degrees using a special type of reel that rotates on its rod.
sidecast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sidecasts
form: side-cast
form: side cast
Etymology: From side + cast.
Senses: examples: text: In areas of moderate slopes, recontouring can be accomplished by salvaging sidecast deposited during road construction.
ref: 1994, Lamefoot Mine Environmental Impact Statement, Supplement to the Kettle River Key Project Expansion:
text: The site does not conflict with the proposed road right-of-way, but could be indirectly impacted by sidecast or disturbance of hydrologic flow. Sidecast would impact the site by permanently disturbing habitat and/or eliminating plants.
ref: 1997, Final Environmental Impact Statement: Umpqua National Forest (N.F.), Stewart Mining Operation:
text: In contrast, tree growth has been found to be higher on displaced material such as berms and sidecasts compared with the harvested undisturbed soils.
ref: 2006, Rattan Lal, Encyclopedia of Soil Science - Volume 2, →ISBN, page 1380:
text: Removing the sidecast barrier material also could facilitate passage of rainbow trout through the reach to access spawning and rearing habitat and the portion of the spring-water fed thermal refugia that are upstream of the sidecast barrier.
ref: 2007, Klamath Hydroelectric Project, FERC Project No. 2080-027, Oregon and California:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Debris left next to a construction site from sidecasting.
examples: text: Accordingly, alternative dredge plants were analyzed, including pipeline, hopper, and the conventional sidecast dredge.
ref: 1979, Lockwoods Folly Inlet: Environmental Impact Statement, page 35:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mode of using a suction dredge that sidecasts the material that is dredged up using a pipeline to the bank or by jetting.
examples: text: When fishing for drummer off the rocks with a sidecast reel, have the drag set at about 50 per cent of the breaking strain to start with.
ref: 2005, Gary Brown, Beach and Rock Fishing, →ISBN:
text: Giving the design even more of an Aussie edge, the name of the largest Australian manufacturer of sidecasts — Alvey — has become a generic title for this type of reel, just as Esky has come to mean insulated cooler.
ref: 2010, Steve Starling, Fishing For Dummies, →ISBN:
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A type of reel with a spool that rotates on a fixed base through 90 degrees to allow sidecasting.
examples: text: The first sub-column is used as a factor column, the second for take-off figures, the third for extensions, the fourth for locations, and the fifth for sidecasts.
ref: 1999, Paul K. Marsden, Basic Building Measurement, →ISBN, page 12:
text: Calculate the 'sidecasts' that are likely to be used, e.g. centre lines, floor to ceiling heights, room dimensions.
ref: 2013, Sean D. C. Ostrowski, Measurement using the New Rules of Measurement, →ISBN:
topics: drafting
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A calculation or figure that is listed in a table beside a drawing that gives a value which cannot be read directly from the drawing.
sidecasts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sidecast
sidecasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sidecast
sidecasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of sidecast
deathsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more deathsome
form: most deathsome
Etymology: From death + -some.
Senses: examples: text: He was just Calvin's type, Terry knew: skinny bones and deathsome pallor, but spiced up with a smartass twist to his lips.
ref: 1994, Poppy Z. Brite, Drawing Blood:
text: The Monongahela Valley in western Pennsylvania was a wild and deathsome place when I entered the world in 1782.
ref: 2007, Broos Campbell, The War of Knives:
text: But I'm lying as I be / Under a deathsome tree
ref: 2016, Jack Kerouac, Scattered Poems:
glosses: Having the characteristic of death; alluding to or suggesting death
side-cast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: side-casts
form: side-casting
form: side-cast
form: side-cast
form: side-casted
form: side-casted
Senses: examples: text: Currently, the annual grading practice has been to side-cast graded materials along the roadside.
ref: 2005, Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest (N.F.), Jarbidge Canyon: Environmental Impact Statement, page 20:
text: And the Excavators sat on these while they side-casted all the mud out of the center of the channel, it worked well.
ref: 2011, Robert Watkins, A Face In The Crowd, →ISBN, page 133:
glosses: Alternative form of sidecast.
side-cast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: side-casts
Senses: examples: text: Side-cast reels are inherently very robust with few moving parts to break or wear out.
ref: 2008, The Complete Guide To Surfcasting, →ISBN, page 29:
glosses: Alternative form of sidecast.
side-casts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of side-cast
side-casts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of side-cast
side-casting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of side-cast
side-casted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of side-cast
side cast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: side casts
form: side casting
form: side cast
form: side cast
form: side casted
form: side casted
Senses: examples: text: The Comprehensive Plan indicated that material excavated from the canals would be side casted and shaped along side the canal.
ref: 2001, Central and Southern Florida Project, Water Preserve Areas, Broward: Environmental Impact Statement:
glosses: Alternative form of sidecast.
side cast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: side casts
Senses: examples: text: When you false-cast with a side cast, your 9:00-to-1:00 power strokes can be nearly parallel to the water instead of perpendicular to it.
ref: 2007, Tom Rosenbauer, Orvis Fly-Fishing Guide, →ISBN:
text: The side cast has many uses; probably the most common is when you are faced with an overhanging tree and need to get your fly underneath—hopefully because there is a large fish there!
ref: 2009, Simon Gawesworth, Single-Handed Spey Casting, →ISBN, page 126:
glosses: Alternative form of sidecast.
side casts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of side cast
side casts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of side cast
side casting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of side cast
side casted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of side cast
livesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more livesome
form: most livesome
Etymology: From live + -some. Compare lifesome.
Senses: examples: text: What said a respectable female inhabitant of the town, when placing her female relatives and guests in good positions for the show? "We shall have a good day, they have a fine livesome creature."
ref: 1839, David Mushet, The Wrongs of the Animal World:
text: If gainst my will, what sorrow will availe? / O livesome death, O sweete and pleasant ill, / Against my minde how can thy might prevaile?
ref: 1979, Colin Crouch, The Politics of Industrial Relations:
text: He tenderly bowed to the twinkling girl. “Yours,” said Zeus, “to have and to hold.” Epimetheus took Pandora's hand, to escort his livesome doll away.
ref: 2005, Nigel Jonathan Spivey, Songs on Bronze:
text: [...]—with emergent meanings as performed both by the woman Stephen meets and by the objects with which she is associated: a “livesome” room, copious easy chair, and a huge doll with its legs splayed promiscuously.
ref: 2015, Stephen Watt, "Something Dreadful and Grand":
glosses: Having the characteristics of life or of being alive; indicative of life or of living; livable
easy peasy pumpkin peasy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: extended form of easy peasy
cut the Gordian knot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuts the Gordian knot
form: cutting the Gordian knot
form: cut the Gordian knot
form: cut the Gordian knot
Senses: examples: text: Yet there were so many difficulties in assigning a natural explanation, that, to the day of her death, she remained in great doubt on the subject, and much disposed to cut the Gordian knot by admitting the existence of supernatural agency.
ref: 1828, Walter Scott, chapter II, in My Aunt Margaret's Mirror:
glosses: To solve a seemingly intractable problem by using a simple solution that is unconstrained by the assumptions that underpin the usual attempts to solve that problem.
Related terms: Hobson's choice
cut sigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cut sig
Caliphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Caliph
choir schools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of choir school
beat as one
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /biːt əz ˈwɒn/
ipa: /bit əz ˈwʌn/
Forms: form: beats as one
form: beating as one
form: beat as one
form: beaten as one
form: beat as one
Senses: examples: text: Thou, too, delightest in the freshness and the bloom; thine eye follows and answers mine in its admiration of the beautiful, and our hearts beat as one to the music and gladness of nature.
ref: 1851 August, “N. P. W.”, “A Love Letter, Supposed to have been Written for the ‘Home Journal’”, in Henry Bacon, editor, The Ladies’ Repository, volume XX, Boston, Mass.: Published by A. Tompkins, 38 Cornhill, published 1852, →OCLC, page 63, column 2:
text: It is all very fine to talk about love in a cottage, two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one, and all that sort of thing; but in any cottage that love wouldn't turn up his nose at there is very substantial rent to pay, and, even waiving the usual contingences, at least two mouths to be filled, that the most perfect singleness of thought, the most thorough union of hearts, can never make one.
ref: 1867 December 14, “Match-making”, in The Round Table: A Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Society, and Art, volume VI, number 151, New York, N.Y.: The Round Table Association, 132 Nassau Street, →OCLC, page 393:
text: The Deus vult of the crusaders was no longer uttered with one voice from hearts beating as one. The Allah Khbur of the Saracens was the utterance of faith that was firm unto death.
ref: [1890?], W[illiam] C[owper] Prime, “The Cross is Lost”, in Holy Cross: A History of the Invention, Preservation, and Disappearance of the Wood Known as the True Cross, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, Crown Buildings, 188 Fleet Street, →OCLC, page 111:
text: Their hearts had once beaten as one. How was it possible that she could still be here if her sister was not?
ref: 2002, Elissa Kyle, My Soul to Keep: A Collection of Short Stories from the Heart, page 33:
text: Two voices raised together call to the hearts of everyone and let them beat as one. And in that single heart beat is the unity of love proclaimed and given welcome.
ref: 2009, Helen Schucman, A Course in Miracles:
text: It was one of those rare and seldom-experienced times when the disciples of the Lord are perfectly united, when every heart beats as one, and when the same Spirit burns in every bosom. . . .
ref: 2012, Randal S. Chase, New Testament Study Guide, Pt. 2:
text: Their souls will yearn to beat as one, once again and this can only be done by the sealing of the bond.
ref: 2014, Holly Newhouse, The Twin Souls:
text: Asriel: Right now, I can feel everyone's hearts beating as one. They're all burning with the same desire.
ref: 2015 September 15, Toby Fox, Undertale, Linux, Microsoft Windows, OS X:
glosses: To share the same feelings.
raw_tags: of hearts
Related terms: as one
font stack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: font stacks
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
web-design
glosses: The list of fonts a CSS stylesheet instructs a web browser to use.
tigerly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tigerly
form: most tigerly
Etymology: From tiger + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: So it appears that it's good to do tigerly things except when those tigerly "instincts" conflict with the choreography of a good show.
ref: 1999, Jane Desmond, Staging Tourism:
text: But my brain that had become tigerly was not as sharp as my human brain had been.
ref: 2014, Manoj Das, The Lady Who Died One And A Half Times:
text: He further impresses me with the fact that it is the only fruit tigerly enough for tigers to crave.
ref: 2016, Gisèle Villeneuve, Rising Abruptly:
glosses: Relating to or resembling a tiger
Related terms: tigerish
tigerlike
shoutily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more shoutily
form: most shoutily
Etymology: From shouty + -ily.
Senses: examples: text: But this topic comes up so often, and so shoutily, that we might as well get it out of the way early on or we'll all be fighting for the rest of the book and we'll never even get to G.
ref: 2015, Tara Flynn, Giving Out Yards: The Art of Complaint, Irish Style:
glosses: In a shouty manner.
for the love of fuck
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: for the love of fuck !
form: for the love of Fuck
Etymology: Dysphemistically modelled after for the love of God. The word fuck is personified.
Senses: glosses: Expresses exasperation.
Related terms: for the love of
for the love of God
areíto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: areítos
form: areyto
Senses: examples: text: What did an areíto actually entail? The sixteenth-century chroniclers tell us that areítos recited histories, which were transmitted through the generations.
ref: 2005, Peter E. Siegel, Ancient Borinquen: Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Native Puerto Rico:
text: In early encounters, the Spanish were welcomed and entertained by the Taíno, who arranged areítos in their honor as a type of elite hospitality.
ref: 2005, Nicholas J. Saunders, The Peoples of the Caribbean: An Encyclopedia of Archaeology and Traditional Culture:
glosses: A type of performance and ceremony of the Taíno people of the Caribbean.
avtur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: avturs
form: AVTUR
form: AvTur
Etymology: From aviation turbine fuel.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Jet fuel (fuel used by aircraft turbine engines).
Hypernyms: aviation fuel
Coordinate terms: avgas
Dak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Daks
Etymology: Clipping of Dakota.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Dakota.
Stow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstaʊ/
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A village in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT4544).
glosses: A village and civil parish in West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SK8881).
glosses: The alternative spelling of Stowe in Shropshire, England.
glosses: A small town in Oxford County, Maine, United States.
glosses: A town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
glosses: A city in Summit County, Ohio, United States.
Derived terms: word: Stow Bedon
word: Stow cum Quy
word: Stow Maries
word: Stow-on-the-Wold
alt: near Stow, Lincolnshire
word: Sturton by Stow
word: West Stow
hell if I know
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: the hell if I know
form: to hell if I know
Etymology: Likely an ellipsis of earlier the hell if I know itself from earlier to hell if I know.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of I don't know.
synonyms: word: I don't know
Related terms: hell if I care
Somma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sommas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Somma.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
wappened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wappened
form: most wappened
Etymology: From wap (“to engage in sexual intercourse”).
Senses: qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: Deflowered; not a virgin.
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: Wanton; immoral; unchaste; lewd.
examples: text: This is it / That makes the wappened widow wed again / She, whom the spi-house and ulcerous sores / Would cast the gorge at, this embalms and spices / To th' April day again.
ref: c. 1605–1606, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, act 4, scene 3:
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: Foundered; worn-out; exhausted; broken.
Synonyms: sense: wanton
word: promiscuous
sense: exhausted
word: fatigued
KYS
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Person 1: I hate that guy
Person 2: bruh he ain't do anything wrong kys hater
related: word: kys
glosses: Initialism of kill yourself.
wapping cove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wapping coves
Etymology: From wap (“to engage in sexual intercourse”) + cove (“man”).
Senses: qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: A man who frequently hires prostitutes.
Synonyms: prostitute's client
Related terms: english: prostitute
translation: prostitute
word: wapping dell
english: brothel
translation: brothel
word: wapping ken
english: prostitute
translation: prostitute
word: wapping moll
english: prostitute
translation: prostitute
word: wapping mort
wapping ken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wapping kens
Etymology: From wap (“to engage in sexual intercourse”) + ken (“house”).
Senses: qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: A brothel.
Synonyms: brothel
Related terms: english: prostitute's client
translation: prostitute's client
word: wapping cove
english: prostitute
translation: prostitute
word: wapping dell
english: prostitute
translation: prostitute
word: wapping moll
english: prostitute
translation: prostitute
word: wapping mort
wapping kens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wapping ken
wapping coves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wapping cove
fucknigga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuckniggas
Etymology: From fuck + nigga.
Senses: examples: text: That fucknigga talks big on social media but keeps quiet in real life.
glosses: A weak, pretentious man.
Related terms: fuccboi
fuck boy
sum of parts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sums of parts
Senses: examples: text: The whole is greater than the sum of parts.
glosses: Alternative form of sum of its parts.
examples: text: "sum of parts" is a sum of parts.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sum, of, parts.
sums of parts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sum of parts
asking for a friend
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: “Oh, please, like we'd ever believe that whole 'I'm asking for a friend' routine.”
ref: 2015, Belle Payton, Even the Score, page 70:
text: How many more of these #debates do we have to suffer through? Asking for a friend. — Eva Amurri Martino (@TheHappilyEva)
ref: 2016 October 9, “Celebrities React to Presidential Town Hall Debate 2016”, in Just Jared:
text: "So what really is "in the shooting motion" rule?!?!?" James wrote on Twitter. "Asking for a friend @OfficialNBARefs."
ref: 2018, "Lakers survive Ball's gaffe to beat Thunder in OT". — LeBron James (@KingJames)
glosses: Indicates that a question is embarrassing by pretending to be posing the question on behalf of another person.
half mast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Union flags will be flown at half mast on UK Government Buildings from today until 2000hrs 14 October.
ref: 2016 October 13, Department for Culture, Media & Sport and Foreign & Commonwealth Office, "Flag-flying from UK government buildings for the death of the King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand", GOV.UK, Government Digital Service
glosses: Alternative form of half-mast.
frigg
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: -ɪɡ
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of frig.
pie iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pie irons
Senses: glosses: An electrical device for making sandwiches.
Synonyms: sandwich toaster
sandwich maker
pudgy pie iron
jaffle iron
years young
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He is 85 years young.
glosses: Years old.
Coordinate terms: decades young
yesish
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪʃ
Etymology: From yes + -ish.
Senses: glosses: An expression of half-hearted or partial agreement.
Aegisthus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɪˈd͡ʒɪsθəs/
Etymology: From Latin Aegisthus, from Ancient Greek Αἴγισθος (Aígisthos).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The murderer of Agamemnon and lover of his wife Clytemnestra.
washer-dryer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: washer-dryers
form: washer dryer
form: washer/dryer
Senses: glosses: A machine that combines a washing machine and clothes dryer.
sidechannel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sidechannels
form: side-channel
Etymology: From side + channel.
Senses: examples: text: VLSI circuits are open to sidechannel attacks which disclose information about its internal state to an adversary.
ref: 2005, Subhamoy Maitra, C.E. Veni Madhavan, Ramarathnam Venkatesan, Progress in Cryptology - INDOCRYPT 2005, →ISBN:
text: Timing attacks are an example of sidechannel analysis: examining ways a device can inadvertently transmit information, in addition to its official I/O channels.
ref: 2007, Sean Smith, John Marchesini, The Craft of System Security, →ISBN:
text: Due to their non-invasive, non-harming manner, and the rarely available and the yet more rarely implemented proper countermeasures, sidechannel attacks are a particularly dangerous attack method against many vehicular IT security mechanisms.
ref: 2009, Marko Wolf, Security Engineering for Vehicular IT Systems, →ISBN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: security
glosses: An indirect source of information about what a system is doing, such as execution time, version number, etc.
examples: text: Juvenile growth and survivorship is likely to be reduced by cumulative losses of pool volume and sedimentation of shallow rearing areas such as stream margins and sidechannels.
ref: 2001, Bitterroot National Forest (N.F.), Burned Area Recovery, Final Environmental Impact Statement:
text: Among all 16 fish, eight showed an association with sidechannel habitat during the spring, being either located in a sidechannel or residing in the mainstem within one habitat unit of where a sidechannel flowed into the mainstem.
ref: 2007, Travis B. Sanderson, Habitat Diversity and Access to Tributaries are Important to Adult Snake River Cutthroat Trout Residing in the Salt River, Wyoming (MS thesis, University of Wyoming), →ISBN:
text: However as the two sidechannel transients are markedly different, because the flow is asymmetric, the value of fitting the model data to the average sidechannel transient is questionable.
ref: 2013, Geoff Bearne, Marc Dupuis, Gary Tarcy, Essential Readings in Light Metals, Aluminum Reduction Technology, →ISBN:
glosses: A small branch from the main flow of a river, hydraulic system, or electronic circuit.
sidechannels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sidechannel
side-channel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: side-channels
Senses: examples: text: Security against side-channel attacks is especially significant in situations where ciphers are implemented in hardware like smart cards or tamper-resistant devices, where secrets are meant to be closely guarded and thus no room for compromise via leakage of secrets.
ref: 2006, Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Joachim Posegga, Daniel Schreckling, Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications, →ISBN:
text: This attack has been applied by Klima et al. to popular realworld implementations of the SSL protocol by incorporating an additional side-channel which was a version number check over PKCS#1 plaintext [17].
ref: 2012, Sara Foresti, Moti Young, Fabio Martinelli, Computer Security -- ESORICS 2012, →ISBN:
text: For simple power analysis, we explore whether or not instructions can lead to consistently distinguishable side-channel information, and if so, how the side-channel characteristics differ.
ref: 2016, Bhavani Thuraisingham, XiaoFeng Wang, Vinod Yegneswaran, Security and Privacy in Communication Networks, →ISBN, page 290:
glosses: Alternative form of sidechannel.
An indirect source of information about what a system is doing.
examples: text: The primary concerns in the development of side-channel habitat are channel stability, potential for deposition and burial, and disturbance of existing riparian and wetland habitats.
ref: 1998, Sacramento River Bank Projection Project, Implementation of Streambank Protection for the Lower American River:
text: Access to side-channels by baseflows (i.e., the side-channel entrance is just barely inundated) does not necessarily create 1+ coho habitat, although seepage into side-channel segments may have created important habitat toward the lower portions of some side-channels.
ref: 2006, Hydropower Relicensing, Clackamas River Hydroelectric Project: Environmental Impact Statement:
text: We have constructed such a system with a side-channel pump (Fig.7).
ref: 2012, Felix Unger, Assisted Circulation 3, →ISBN:
text: Once inside the side-channel, sediment was swept to the left hand side of the channel by the vortex.
ref: 2016, George Constantinescu, Marcelo Garcia, Dan Hanes, River Flow 2016, →ISBN, page 108:
glosses: Alternative form of sidechannel.
A branch from the main flow
Coordinate terms: back channel
side-channels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of side-channel
AREs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ARE
leaning boards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leaning board
CFCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CFC
HCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of HC
HCs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of HC
ECTS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: education
glosses: Initialism of European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System.
topics: endocrinology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of European Calcified Tissue Society.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of European Computer Trade Show.
ECTS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of engine coolant temperature sensor.
glosses: Initialism of elementary cognitive task(s).
Oamaru
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large town bordering the Pacific Ocean in North Otago, New Zealand.
medium-speed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more medium-speed
form: most medium-speed
Senses: glosses: That operates, moves or takes place at a normal speed.
Neo Faliro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city southeast of Athens in the Attica prefecture Greece.
Related terms: Palaio Faliro
Master John Goodfellow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Master John Goodfellows
Senses: examples: text: Hold!—showing his long codpiece—this is Master John Goodfellow, that asks for lodging!—and with that would have embraced her; but she began to cry out, yet not very loud.
ref: 1653, François Rabelais, Thomas Urquhart, Peter Antony Motteux, “XXI.—How Panurge was in love with a lady of Paris.”, in The Works of Rabelais, volume II, published 1894:
text: As she approached Mick, the machine-bed was wound down and Mick heaved his Master John Goodfellow out of his capacious slacks and laid it out for her perusal, just as he had done with me.
ref: 2007, Vic Reeves, Me Moir, →ISBN, page 225:
glosses: The penis.
Synonyms: penis
irreticence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: irreticences
Etymology: From ir- + reticence, apparently coined by Virginia Woolf in Mrs. Dalloway.
Senses: examples: text: Quite unmoved these travellers sit reading—Thomas Hardy, perhaps—bridging abysses, preserving continuity, a little contemptuous of the excitement which is moving those who feel themselves liberated from one civilization, launched upon another to such odd gestures, such strange irreticences.
ref: 1923 June 6, “To Spain”, in The New Republic, volume 35, page 39:
glosses: Unreservedness; the property of being irreticent.
irreticent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more irreticent
form: most irreticent
Etymology: From ir- + reticent.
Senses: glosses: Unreserved, not reticent.
Related terms: irreticence
karyorrhexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of karyorrhexis
PMF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of primary myelofibrosis, a myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN).
splattergun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: splatterguns
Senses: examples: text: With splitting fingernails he scratched up various soils from his long-abandoned bridal bed, plus shirt-pocketsful of hardness-eight gravel to serve as splattergun projectiles.
ref: 1999, Tom Bradley, Kara-Kun, Flip-Kun, →ISBN, page 267:
text: Bess had been a sort of a gift to replace my trusty splattergun, Bessie, lost in the far north.
ref: 2014, RJ Hore, Murder In The Rouge Mort, →ISBN, page 24:
text: Where he didn't have to keep looking at the door and seeing the old guy coming in with the shotgun, Jesus, seeing him just like he was there, that face with its downdrawn lines and a splattergun short enough to hide under his cheap sport coat, cut back beyond the choke so that the pattern spread a yard for every foot, clear the whole restaurant like a firehose.
ref: 2016, Loren D. Estleman, Roses Are Dead, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of splatter-gun.
splattergun
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: ...techniques were somewhat clumsy, and involved firing DNA-coated gold or tungsten particles arbitrarily into cultured plant cells, this 'splattergun' effect has been largely superseded by the more precise 'Agrobacterium' technique.
ref: 2002, J. H. Trienekens, S. W. F. Omta, Paradoxes in Food Chains and Networks, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of splatter-gun.
splatterguns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of splattergun
apples of love
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apple of love
apple crooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apple crook
apple borers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apple borer
apple seeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apple seed
apple aphids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apple aphid
apple-wives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apple-wife
applications programs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of applications program
apple-bees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apple-bee
applicates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of applicate
apple mints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apple mint
apple-berries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apple-berry
applesquires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of applesquire
appointment diaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of appointment diary
apple cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apple cake
apple-pies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apple-pie
apple-pies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of apple-pie
apples of Grenada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apple of Grenada
AppleScripts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of AppleScript
apple aphides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apple aphis
apple-trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apple-tree
apple-greens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apple-green
Apple taxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Apple tax
apple-polishers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apple-polisher
appetitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of appetition
application programmes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of application programme
apple-crooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apple-crook
splatter-gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: splatter-guns
form: splattergun
form: splatter gun
Etymology: From splatter + gun.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Vee here has his Makarov and his Sicilian splatter-gun on the sling there, plus what, exactly, is that? Looks like an AK47 frame, but what the hell is that barrel?
ref: 2000, Harold Covington, Slow Coming Dark: A Novel of the Age of Clinton, →ISBN:
text: "That splatter-gun won't avail thee none, old man,” Bianca said.
ref: 2011, Rodolphus, The Wolf Doth Grin, →ISBN:
text: Fading in on the screech of a magnificently over-wrought electric guitar, the drums arrive like a splatter-gun, the riff chewed up and spat out without ceremony over six-and-a- half minutes of angry hell.
ref: 2011, Malcom Dome, Mick Wall, Metallica: The Music and the Mayhem, →ISBN:
text: Foliar application with splatter-gun.
ref: 2013, Robert L Reid, The Manual of Australian Agriculture, →ISBN, page 377:
glosses: A shotgun, assault weapon, or other gun that repeatedly fires quickly and in an imprecise fashion.
splatter-gun
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: splattergun
form: splatter gun
Etymology: From splatter + gun.
Senses: examples: text: Encourage the 'splatter-gun' effect: The aim here is literally to 'splatter' thoughts onto the page, in a similar way to the stream of consciousness (see Chapter 7).
ref: 2004, Sue Cowley, Getting the Buggers to Think, →ISBN, page 61:
text: It could therefore be argued that Hitchin – and Kwo, and Siratori – are only able to produce not only the kind of writing they specialise in, but also the volume of work that is, intentionally or otherwise, integral to their splatter-gun approach because of the technology available now.
ref: 2011, Edward S. Robinson, Shift Linguals: Cut-up Narratives from William S. Burroughs to the Present, →ISBN:
text: His past was a patchwork splatter-gun portfolio of überglamorous and harrowing, as he and his mother lurched from squalor to splendour, depending on her moods and who she was squiring.
ref: 2012, Veronica Henry, The Long Weekend, →ISBN:
text: Rather than taking a splatter-gun approach, Stuart decided to target his efforts on a career within the actuarial industry.
ref: 2012, Peter Hawkins, No Regrets on Sunday: The Seven-Day Plan to Change Your Life, →ISBN:
text: That's when they just let go and do the multidirectional splatter-gun thing on an employer who's been asking for it. Who doesn't love hammering those out at the end of a long day?
ref: 2016, Matt Potter, F**k You And Goodbye: The History of the World in Resignation Letters, →ISBN:
glosses: Not systematic; Characterized by trying many different things.
splatter-guns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of splatter-gun
appraisal costs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of appraisal cost
apron-strings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apron-string
APYs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of APY
appropriationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of appropriationist
apterygotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apterygote
approved schools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of approved school
approximabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of approximability
April foolers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of April fooler
appurtenaunces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of appurtenaunce
APTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of APT
APUD cells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of APUD cell
approximation algorithms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of approximation algorithm
apron flashings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apron flashing
apprentises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apprentise
appurtenaunts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of appurtenaunt
Apulians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Apulian
Aq Qoyunlus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aq Qoyunlu
aquae vitae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aqua vitae
AQs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of AQ
aquæ vitæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aqua vitæ
AQMDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of AQMD
Arab straps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Arab strap
aquods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aquod