cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
titanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: titanisms
Etymology: From Titan + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: We will do well not to understand too quickly what is being fought there beneath curse and entreaty, prayer and blasphemy, as our own; not to classify it too nimbly as an ancient version of one of our modern religious titanisms.
ref: 1980, Gerhard von Rad, God at Work in Israel, page 202:
text: For Cerny, too, modern subjectivism, specifically moral subjectivism, is also the source of titanism.
ref: 1989, Erazim Kohák, Jan Patočka, Jan Patocka: Philosophy and Selected Writings, page 141:
text: Sexual titanism is always weakness.
ref: 1990, Stanley B. Winters, T.G.Masaryk (1850-1937): Volume 1: Thinker and Politician, page 80:
text: Critics have argued that Frankenstein is a protest against Romantic titanism, against the masculine aggressiveness that lies concealed beneath the dreams of Romantic idealism.
ref: 1993, Audrey Fisch, Anne K. Mellor, Esther H. Schor, The Other Mary Shelley: Beyond Frankenstein, page 89:
glosses: Nonconformism; rebellion against prevailing social and artistic conventions, especially when it involves grandiosity or hubris.
titanisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of titanism
anti-hacker
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anti-hacker
form: most anti-hacker
Senses: examples: text: The end of 1988 - November 2, to be exact -marked the beginning of a new surge in anti-hacker sentiment.
ref: 1994, Dennis Fiery, Secrets of a Super Hacker, The Knightmare, 1994:
text: But when the anti-hacker crackdown thinks of hacker pods as part of a conspiracy, it is fundamentally misrecognizing the nature of hacker groupings.
ref: 2004, Alexander R. Galloway, Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization:
glosses: Alternative form of antihacker.
anti-hacker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-hackers
Senses: examples: text: Apparently an 'anti-hacker' who also plays chess was more of a temptation than someone of Vogle's unique temperament could bear.
ref: 2016, Travis L. Salisbury, Defender: A Scottish American Fairy Tale:
text: Derby had been a revelation: people her own age who liked her (She had friends!) and a relationship (Sex! Not embarrassing!) with a funny, polite boy who had studied Computer Science and was now working as an anti-hacker for the same evil multinational corporation that he had hacked when he was a post-grad, because of course that was what happened to every good hacker — coerced to work for the devil under threat of a long jail sentence or extradition.
ref: 2019, Kate Atkinson, Big Sky, →ISBN, page 73:
glosses: Alternative form of antihacker.
examples: text: Indeed anti-hackers in England in 1863 were attacked with the gibe that they objected to hacking because 'too many of the members of the clubs began late in life and were too old for that spirit of the game that was so fully entered into at the public schools and by public school men in after life'.
ref: 2013, J.A. Mangan, The Cultural Bond: Sport, Empire, Society, page 115:
text: Both sides try to assure themselves of radical differences because they undertake similar actions. For example, Bernie Cosell was a USA commercial computer systems manager and one of the most vehement anti-hackers encountered in this study, yet he admitted that he hacked. once or twice over the years.
ref: 2017, Cyberspace Crime, page D.S wall:
glosses: One who is opposed to hacking (any sense).
anti-hackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anti-hacker
Snapchats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Snapchat
Snapchats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Snapchat
Snapchatting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Snapchat
Snapchatted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Snapchat
man bun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: man buns
Senses: examples: text: He had a man bun, pseudo-Viking style, and was wearing a tool belt and a harness.
ref: 2019, Kate Atkinson, Big Sky, →ISBN, page 113:
glosses: Alternative form of man-bun.
man buns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of man bun
flying freehold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flying freeholds
Etymology: From the idea that the "ground" on which the freehold estate stands is above the actual ground, and hence that the freehold is flying.
Senses: examples: text: These flying freehold rights are more trouble than they are worth because all sorts of complicated covenants and easements have to be confirmed to ensure that there are no doubts over who is responsible for roof repairs and to guarantee that there are no arguments over access.
ref: 1994, Justice of the Peace & Local Government Law:
text: We have made a modification whereby we have 'taken' part of the loft of one to give to next door (this enables us to gain easy access to loft space and therefore create another bedroom). This now protrudes over next door by about 5ft. I understand this has created a situation known as 'flying freehold', which apparently makes a property difficult to sell and to mortgage.
ref: 2004, Sarah O'Grady, The Complete Guide to Buying and Selling Property:
text: This approach to the freehold estate seems, however, to be an unnecessary complication and it has been pointed out for centuries that there is no real justification for the view that there is some difficulty involved in creating a flying freehold.
ref: 2018, Judith-Anne MacKenzie, Aruna Nair, Textbook on Land Law, page 618:
topics: law
glosses: The freehold of property in an upper storey above a lower storey that belongs to a different freehold; the converse of creeping freehold.
flying freeholds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flying freehold
Kroc
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
hypertrophically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hypertrophically
form: most hypertrophically
Senses: glosses: In a hypertrophic manner.
filing clerks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filing clerk
guilt complexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guilt complex
leaf-miner fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaf-miner flies
form: leaf miner fly
Etymology: From leaf + miner (the larva feeds on leaves from the inside) + fly.
Senses: glosses: A fly in the family Agromyzidae, most larvae of which are leaf miners on various plants.
elagolix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A gonadotropin-releasing hormone antagonist (GnRH antagonist) medication used to treat pain associated with endometriosis.
Kilsheelan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Irish Cill Sioláin.
Senses: glosses: A village in County Tipperary, Ireland.
Suir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Irish An tSiúir, Abhainn na Siúire.
Senses: glosses: A river in County Tipperary, County Kilkenny and County Waterford, Ireland, which flows into the Celtic Sea near Waterford.
Derived terms: Carrick-on-Suir
Otatara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /əʊtɑːtɑːɹɑː/
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: glosses: A scattered suburb to the west of Invercargill, Southland, New Zealand.
discrete category
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discrete categories
Senses: topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A category whose morphisms are all identity morphisms.
Lombardstown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a family named Lombard + -s- + town; in Irish Baile Lombaird.
Senses: glosses: A village in County Cork, Ireland.
frogspeak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Frogspeak.
frog speak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Frogspeak.
Frog speak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Frogspeak.
frog-speak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Frogspeak.
Frog-speak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Frog + -speak.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Frogspeak.
ground frost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ground frosts
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: The condition of air temperature dropping below the freezing point at or near ground level.
glosses: Ice produced by the direct deposition of water vapor on grass, trees and other objects in freezing conditions.
synonyms: tjaele
glosses: The frozen upper level of soil, caused by the air temperature dropping below the freezing point for a lengthy period of time; in temperate climates the soil thaws completely for the summer and in cold climates it may develop to permafrost.
commie block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commie blocks
Senses: examples: text: The hospital was made up of grey, old-style Commie blocks.
ref: 2010, Mick Flynn, Bullet Magnet: Britain's Most Highly Decorated Frontline Soldier, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
text: The hotel was a former Commie-block, converted into a cheap 0-star hotel with broken windows, dirty dishes and uncomfortable single beds.
ref: 2011, Marco Villa, 21:30 OLD COMPTON FAIR BLUE 6 FEET, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 81:
text: Grunting with effort, his heavy pack weighing him down, he propelled himself over the wall into the grounds of the commie block.
ref: 2012, Chris Hunter, Steve Cole, Tripwire, Random House, →ISBN, page 105:
text: Allcock was one of about forty Tesco people who eventually came out to join Walastyan, who admits to having felt isolated in his 'commie block' flat.
ref: 2013, Sarah Ryle, The Making of Tesco: A Story of British Shopping, Random House, →ISBN:
glosses: A large apartment complex, especially in former Eastern Bloc countries of Eastern Europe, characterized by concrete and rectangular cuboids, similar to a plattenbau.
mono diet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mono diets
form: monodiet
Senses: glosses: A fad diet that involves eating only one food.
mono diets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mono diet
fad diets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fad diet
Oola
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Irish Úlla, Uibhle.
Senses: glosses: A village in County Limerick, Ireland.
abatement ab initio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A common law legal doctrine stating that the death of a defendant who is appealing a criminal conviction vacates the conviction.
Rathcool
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rathcoole
Etymology: From Irish Ráth Cúil.
Senses: glosses: A village in County Cork, Ireland.
Straffan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Irish Teach Srafáin, Strafáin, An Cluanini.
Senses: glosses: A village in County Kildare, Ireland (Irish grid ref N 9229).
Birdhill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: In Irish Cnocán an Éin Fhinn
Senses: glosses: A village in County Tipperary, Ireland.
Buttevant
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Barry family motto Boutez-en-Avant; Irish Cill na Mallach may be unrelated.
Senses: glosses: A town in County Cork, Ireland (Irish grid ref R 5409).
ubiquiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ubiquiters
Etymology: From Latin ubique (“everywhere”) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Frequently they are widely distributed forms (ubiquiters) which require high concentrations of easily assimilable nutrients.
ref: 1985, Gerhard Rheinheimer, Aquatic Microbiology, page 185:
glosses: A microorganism that can be found in most types of environment.
examples: text: Let me be aquent off your mynd heirin with the first for I can not be ane ubiquiter, and all is one to me quhither I be at hom or abrod, bot louk ye to the touns best and worst and I sal obay, bot as said is let me know in tym.
ref: 1634-44, Aberdeen (Scotland). Town Council, Aberdeen Council Letters::
text: If one go to Germany, he will be an Ubiquiter, and in Rome a Papist, in Scotland a Christian, — in as many places as many forms.
ref: 1844, William Maxwell Gunn (ed), Select works of Robert Rollock:
glosses: A ubiquitarian.
ubiquiter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ubiquiter
form: most ubiquiter
Etymology: From Latin ubique (“everywhere”) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: In the pigwashes prepared with well-waters of high nitrate-content —under certain conditions— the different ubiquiter, facultative anaerobe saprophyte soil-bacteria reduce the nitrate to nitrite in sufficient quantity to poison the animals.
ref: 1959, XVIth International Veterinary Congress, Madrid, 21-27 May, 1959:
glosses: Ubiquitous, widespread.
ubiquiters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ubiquiter
ubiquitism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin ubique (“everywhere”) + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The offers of several Lutheran divines—opponents of ubiquitism —to write a reply, were declined by the Bishops.
ref: 1885, Edmund De Schweinitz, The History of the Church Known as the Unitas Fratrum, page 417:
text: This note is then immediately followed by a discussion about another process of 'usurpation' in connection with place: that of transubstantiation and the doctrine of ubiquitism.
ref: 1999, Jas Elsner, Jaś Elsner, John Elsner, Voyages and Visions: Towards a Cultural History of Travel, page 112:
text: She argues this in express critique of Luther's “ubiquitism” that supposedly stretches Jesus out everywhere.
ref: 2015, Paul R. Hinlicky, Beloved Community: Critical Dogmatics after Christendom, page 604:
topics: Christianity
lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The belief that the human nature of Christ is omnipresent.
Cloughjordan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cloghjordan
Etymology: From Irish Cloch Shiurdáin.
Senses: glosses: A village in County Tipperary, Ireland.
Dundrum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Irish Dún Droma.
Senses: glosses: An outer suburb of Dublin, Ireland (Irish grid ref O 1727).
glosses: A village in County Tipperary, Ireland (Irish grid ref R 9645).
glosses: A village in County Down, Northern Ireland, near Dundrum Bay (Irish grid ref J 4036).
Farranfore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Irish An Fearann Fuar.
Senses: glosses: A village in County Kerry, Ireland.
Kilmallock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /kɪlˈmælək/
Etymology: From Irish Cill Mocheallóg.
Senses: glosses: A small town in County Limerick, Ireland (Irish grid ref R 6127).
Knocklong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Irish Cnoc Loinge.
Senses: glosses: A village in County Limerick, Ireland.
victimage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: victimages
Etymology: From victim + -age.
Senses: examples: text: It was a source of murmuring discontent to her, in the first years of an intelligent girlhood, to feel how entirely they (for it was always 'they' in her thought) had been shut out from the fairer social world, the victims of she scarcely knew what, but helpless in that victimage, and utterly weak to master circumstances.
ref: 1851 October, Caroline Chesebro, “Hearts of Oak”, in Knickerbocker, Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, volume 38, page 399:
text: Constant victimage to a feeble stomach while instrumenting Tannhäuser. (1845.)
ref: 1903, The Lancet, page 306:
text: Exploration of the victim's history can bring about the insight that the victimage is more than coincidence and that he has had a part in promoting it.
ref: 2014, Herbert S Strean, Psychoanalytic Approaches With the Hostile and Violent Patient:
glosses: The state of being a victim.
examples: text: What is so terrible about victimage is that, invariably, one man's guilt, or a group's guilt, results in some other person's or persons' injury or death.
ref: 1983, William H. Rueckert, Kenneth Burke and the Drama of Human Relations, page 151:
text: Both aesthetic and social logic motivate the victimages.
ref: 1990, Richard Schechner, Willa Appel, By Means of Performance, page 215:
text: Victimage and populism work in conjunction.
ref: 1994, Argumentation and Advocacy:
text: In Girard's view, culture generally, and especially a military culture, involves the displacement of mimetic rivalry to a hierarchical pattern of dominance, and finally to a unanimous victimage (Girard 1987: 126, 128), a mechanism of transference that empowers political propaganda (Girard 1987: 140).
ref: 2014, Luther H. Martin, The Mind of Mithraists, page 26:
text: This book views the war on terrorism from Kenneth Burke's perspective— dramatism and the related concept of victimage ritual —and the problematic of ruling liberal societies.
ref: 2016, Michael Blain, Power, Discourse and Victimage Ritual in the War on Terror:
glosses: The act of scapegoating a person or group in order to avoid societal guilt.
victimages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of victimage
Millstreet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Irish Sráid an Mhuillinn.
Senses: glosses: A small town in County Cork, Ireland.
Mountrath
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Irish Maighean Rátha.
Senses: glosses: A small town in County Laois, Ireland (Irish grid ref S 3594).
villicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: villicates
form: villicating
form: villicated
form: villicated
Senses: examples: text: But our Baths now inflame, villicate and distress ; and the Air which we draw, is a Mixture of Air and Water, disturbs the whole Body, tosses and displaces every Atom, till we quench the fiery Particles, and allay their Heat.
ref: 1684–1685, Plutarch, translated by Matthew Morgan et al., Plutarch's Morals - Volume 3, John Gellibrand, translation of original in Ancient Greek, page 460:
text: Thro' all my inmost nerves, like lightning, darts Her baleful shafts, and kills without a wound : With tort'ring rack thrice villicates my foe, With hideous accent thrice I scream, and feel Her whole divinity enrag'd within.
ref: 1756, “The Gout”, in The Gentleman's Magazine (London, England), volume 26, page 584:
text: Now, that the Poison cannot be attributed to the Resin it contains, as this Author asserts throughout his Treatise, appears to me manifest; for upon an Analysis, the Power of Action consists in a volatile Salt, minutely blended with a corrosive Oil; which being expanded over the whole Stomach, villicates and inflames the nervous Membrane thereof, communicating her Affects to the Brain, even to the Destruction of Life ; unless overcome by Art.
ref: 1763, An Essay on the Effects of Opium. Considered as a poison, page 31:
glosses: To do damage (to).
villicates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of villicate
villicating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of villicate
villicated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of villicate
entry-phone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entry-phones
Senses: examples: text: He presses the buzzer on the entry-phone, and if l haven't answered in about ten seconds he buzzes again.
ref: 2006, Nicola Birkner, AIDS Narratives, page 171:
text: Half an hour later, the flat's entry-phone buzzed and Adam released the front door.
ref: 2011, Frank Durham, The White Crow, page 46:
text: No one expected the entry-phone. When we saw people going up the front path they always knocked, or pressed the illuminated button that activated tubular bells. Finally, getting no answer, they would look around and see the entry-phone.
ref: 2012, Jan Mark, They Do Things Differently There:
text: Unfortunately there do not appear to be any hard data to show the effect on crime or the cost-effectiveness of entry-phone installations generally.
ref: 2012, R.V.G. Clarke, T. Hope, Coping with Burglary: Research Perspectives on Policy, page 141:
glosses: Alternative form of entryphone.
entry-phones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entry-phone
entry phone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entry phones
Senses: examples: text: Her third-floor flat in the old Edwardian house had no entry phone or intercom system.
ref: 2010, Tania Carver, The Creeper:
text: There was the sound of buzzing, an entry phone maybe, then the lift doors droned.
ref: 2012, Annie Hauxwell, In Her Blood, page 122:
text: I rang the entry phone and gave my name; the lock was released and I was told to go to the first floor, where her housekeeper, Carmen Vargas, met me and led the way to the drawing room.
ref: 2013, Ava Gardner, Peter Evans, Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations:
glosses: Alternative form of entryphone.
entry phones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entry phone
Leninesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Leninesque
form: most Leninesque
Etymology: From Lenin + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: This was in part due to the organization's reputed Leninesque discipline, dedication, and revolutionary lifestyle.
ref: 2007, Namhee Lee, The Making of Minjung, page 254:
text: The piece of art portrayed South African President Jacob Zuma in a proud, Leninesque pose with his genitalia exposed.
ref: 2012, Lyombe Eko, New Media, Old Regimes, page 369:
text: He was approached afterward by one of ZSKA's senior sabermen, a very tall fellow with a long face and elegant, Leninesque mustache and goatee, who asked if he would mind one more duel.
ref: 2014, Dan Pollock, Duel of Assassins, page 105:
glosses: Reminiscent of Vladimir Lenin.
drinks o'clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: On one occasion I saw him standing behind the bar so vividly that at first glance I thought it was my husband, Stu, preparing for drinks o'clock!
ref: 2013, Barbara Parks, Embracing the Spirits, page 29:
text: When it's drinks o'clock, pour ice into a cocktail shaker as well as 350 ml/12 fl oz/1½ cups of the drink mixture.
ref: 2014, Jonas Cramby, Tex-Mex From Scratch:
text: That afternoon, ahead of the usual drinks o'clock in the Muromets bar, he took the fire bucket into his room, carefully counted out the fag ends and tipped the contents onto a spread newspaper.
ref: 2016, John Lawton, The Unfortunate Englishman:
glosses: The time to begin social drinking.
Sobal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sobals
Etymology: From Belarusian Со́баль (Sóbalʹ), from Belarusian со́баль (sóbalʹ, “sable”). Doublet of sable.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Belarusian surname Со́баль (Sóbalʹ).
dead pan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dead pan
form: most dead pan
Senses: examples: text: This master comedian of dead pan delivery, perfect timing and the supreme usage of the pause to milk the audience laughter, actually started in vaudeville as a “class act” with his playing the violin and a partner as a pianist.
ref: 2005, Eddie Garrett, I Saw Stars in the 40's and 50's, page 26:
text: He was happy to acknowledge the outstanding ovation with his dead pan face and speak in his unique French Canadian accent.
ref: 2008, Richard Joseph O'Prey, Recollections in Tranquility, page 199:
text: I can't imagine that Jesus could have inspired and led crowds of people with a serious dead pan expression; it is more likely he had a sense of humor, and endless love for people.
ref: 2014, Michele Ziemke, Confessions of a Lukewarm Christian, page 14:
glosses: Alternative form of deadpan.
dead pan
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dead pan
form: most dead pan
Senses: examples: text: Here a young man, perhaps sixteen, is sitting with his back to the rock among some ferns playing a guitar, dead pan.
ref: 1995, William Carlos Williams, Christopher MacGowan, Paterson:
text: He had a long hang-dog sort of face and a cropped hair style that he claimed, dead pan, was a relic of his days at West Point.
ref: 2012, Jessica Stirling, The Blue Evening Gone:
text: 'I thought it was to drink. It wasn't until I sobered up and returned that I realized why I belong here. Umm . . . what were you going to do? I mean if I took even longer to return?' 'Become professors,' she said dead pan.
ref: 2012, Roger Lhooms, Dweller, page 593:
glosses: Alternative form of deadpan.
dead pan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead pans
Senses: examples: text: At the lower levels men do not fight calmly and they are not reassured by commanders affecting the manner of an undertaker or the dead pan of a poker player.
ref: 2000, S. L. A. Marshall, Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command, page 139:
text: Allen's brilliant piece tells, in dead pan, the story of a trio of crackpot scientists who are seeking a remedy for the embarrassing and dangerous human problem of choking on food in public restaurants.
ref: 2014, D. W. Rajecki, Comparing Behavior: Studying Man Studying Animals:
text: Keaton's face ranked almost with Lincoln's as an early American archetype; it was haunting, handsome, almost beautiful, yet it was irreducibly funny. No other comedian could do as much with the dead pan.
ref: 2015, James L. Neibaur, Arbuckle and Keaton, page 20:
glosses: Alternative form of deadpan.
dead pan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dead pans
form: dead panning
form: dead panned
form: dead panned
Senses: examples: text: “It's a psychic, capable of spying, using out-of-body experiences, stuff like that,” Van Pelt dead panned.
ref: 2003, Walker O'Brien, The Empire of the Dead, page 81:
text: "Well, that explains everything," Zippy dead panned.
ref: 2004, Lisa Ray Turner, The Maybe Saint, page 121:
text: This is a picture of me delivering the punch line. I violated one of my own basic rules by failing to "dead pan."
ref: 2007, James F. Gill, Speaking of Gill: Insights into Public Speaking, page 28:
glosses: Alternative form of deadpan.
dead pans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dead pan
dead pans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dead pan
dead panning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dead pan
dead panned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dead pan
dead-pan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dead-pan
form: most dead-pan
Senses: examples: text: He stared for a few seconds, then asked with a dead-pan expression, “And some chiange?”
ref: 2000, Nelson Williams, Jr., Blood Double, page 96:
text: Jimbo had seen many drifters in all his years, and they all had that dead-pan look in their eyes.
ref: 2004, Donna Robie, One Quiet Night: Murder in New Hampshire, page 30:
text: It might be better to see the title almost as comic, in its dead-pan announcement of an Important Political Issue.
ref: 2015, Mark Ravenhill, Citizenship, page 5:
glosses: Alternative form of deadpan.
dead-pan
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dead-pan
form: most dead-pan
Senses: examples: text: There was his left-hand head talking and sort of yapping that silly laugh of his, dead-pan, while the right-hand head was all creased up with giggle lines.
ref: 2007, Frederik Pohl, Platinum Pohl:
text: Dead-pan, he took down Matthew's broken explanations, shook his hand warmly, refused a drink and a plaster for his leg, and ran for the first public call-box as hard as he could go.
ref: 2012, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Night and Silence, Who is Here?:
text: "Why would you think that?" asked Daisy, dead-pan.
ref: 2015, Robin Stevens, Arsenic For Tea:
glosses: Alternative form of deadpan.
dead-pan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead-pans
Senses: examples: text: They are the eerie half-human attendants at anything that is new on Broadway — the dead-pans of the Theatre Guild openings.
ref: 1936, Edmund Wilson, Travels in Two Democracies, page 51:
text: The older people have “Japanesey” dead-pans, whereas many of the American generation can display a great variety of emotions facially.
ref: 1940, Louis Adamic, From Many Lands, page 224:
text: Good coarse romantic-adventure nonsense, exploiting the expressive dead-pans of Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell, a young man and a young woman who would probably enjoy doing in real life what they have to do here for RKO.
ref: 1971, Manny Farber, Negative Space: Manny Farber on the Movies, page 58:
glosses: Alternative form of deadpan.
dead-pan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dead-pans
form: dead-panning
form: dead-panned
form: dead-panned
Senses: examples: text: "I've long admired men who have risen from humble beginnings," Mulholland says, and then dead-pans: "Dr. Laffer was educated at Yale."
ref: 1983, Rod McQueen, The Money-spinners:
text: Thus, "I know where I am," Bartleby dead-pans, when offered better food during his final incarceration.
ref: 1999, Gabriel Brahm, The Post-human Condition:
text: 'I don't have a black tie,' she dead-panned. He didn't laugh.
ref: 2012, Jackie Collins, American Star:
glosses: Alternative form of deadpan.
downhill ice cross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of icecross downhill.
dead-pans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dead-pan
dead-pans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dead-pan
dead-panning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dead-pan
dead-panned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dead-pan
choke-hold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choke-holds
Senses: examples: text: As Simon's obnoxious protest began to draw local attention, the bouncer slipped up behind him and repeated Mike's earlier choke-hold . . . with escalated force.
ref: 2004, Michael Pinchot, Panamanian Tundra, page 145:
text: “Woman,” Philip interrupted her, “how do you expect them to be able to talk when you have them in a choke-hold?”
ref: 2011, Chike Momah, The Jericho Wall, page 156:
text: In The World Crisis, his 1927 history of the First World War, he had called the struggle between British sailors and German U-boats 'in scale and in stake the greatest conflict ever decided at sea', and he remembered all too clearly the dreadful choke-hold of the 1917 German submarine blockade.
ref: 2011, Nicholas Rankin, Ian Fleming's Commandos:
glosses: Alternative form of chokehold.
choke-holds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of choke-hold
lets sleeping dogs lie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of let sleeping dogs lie
letting sleeping dogs lie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of let sleeping dogs lie
scrag-ends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scrag-end
four score and ten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the Bible, in which King David is supposed to have lived three score and ten (70) years.
Senses: examples: text: Our four score and ten are a mere twelve or thirteen years to a dog.
ref: 2010, Jay Cassell, The Best Hunting Stories Ever Told, page 540:
text: I have completed my four-score-and-ten, but physical age seems to be less important than life insurance statistics would indicate.
ref: 2014, Ernest Dichter, Getting Motivated, page ix:
text: when I was in the Army there were some guys who said they'd rather die in combat— go down fighting— than live out their four score and ten.
ref: 2019, Kate Atkinson, Big Sky, →ISBN, page 300:
glosses: A human lifespan.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see four, score, ten. 90.
de-arrest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: de-arrests
form: de-arresting
form: de-arrested
form: de-arrested
Etymology: From de- + arrest.
Senses: examples: text: Around midday, a 28-year-old local man was briefly arrested after he came close to the prime minister's group who had just left the Civic Hall in Leeds. No threats were made, and after the man's details were checked, he was de-arrested and allowed on his way.
ref: 2014 October 27, BBC, “Jogger in PM security alert had 'no idea' what happened”, in BBC News:
text: There was no harm in arresting the man, Reggie supposed, she could always de-arrest him later if it turned out he hadn't actually committed a crime, although what were the chances of that, given the circumstances they all found themselves in?
ref: 2019, Kate Atkinson, Big Sky, →ISBN, page 306:
text: There is a question mark over how disruptive that was, in the great scheme of things, but it was enough for the police to arrest and handcuff him, later to de-arrest him on the understanding that he would be questioned in the future.
ref: 2022 September 12, Zoe Williams, “Why are people getting arrested in Britain for being republicans?”, in The Guardian:
text: During the main pro-Palestinian protest march, a further man was arrested for assault during an altercation between protesters and counter protesters in order to prevent a breach of the peace. After officers fully reviewed footage provided of the incident he was later de-arrested.
ref: 2024 March 9, Metropolitan Police, “Update on Met public order policing on 9 March”, in Policing operation, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2024:
glosses: Alternative form of dearrest.
de-arrests
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of de-arrest
de-arresting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of de-arrest
de-arrested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of de-arrest
Illuminatus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Illuminati
form: Illuminatuses
Etymology: From Latin illūminātus.
Senses: glosses: A member of any of various societies, sects or other people claiming religious or intellectual enlightenment.
A member of the early church who had received baptism and been given a lighted taper as a symbol of the spiritual illumination they had received.
glosses: A member of any of various societies, sects or other people claiming religious or intellectual enlightenment.
A member of a Spanish sect of the sixteenth century, who believed that, by means of prayer, they had attained so perfect a state as to have no need of ordinances, sacraments, good works, etc.; the Alumbrados or Perfectibilists.
glosses: A member of any of various societies, sects or other people claiming religious or intellectual enlightenment.
A member of certain associations in Europe who combined to promote social reform in pursuit of perfection; especially one originated in 1776 by Adam Weishaupt.
glosses: A member of any of various societies, sects or other people claiming religious or intellectual enlightenment.
A member of an obscure sect of French familists.
glosses: A member of any of various societies, sects or other people claiming religious or intellectual enlightenment.
A member of the Hesychasts, Mystics, and Quietists.
glosses: A member of any of various societies, sects or other people claiming religious or intellectual enlightenment.
A member of the Rosicrucians.
examples: The methods of control used by "Ming the Merciless, Ruler of the Universe" in the 1980 film Flash Gordon are a metaphor for what some perceive to be the influence of the Illuminati on the real world.
glosses: A member of an alleged global elite secret society which has as its ultimate objective the subjugation of humanity (world domination or New World Order).
Illuminatuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Illuminatus
nonconception
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonconceptions
form: non-conception
Etymology: From non- + conception.
Senses: examples: text: With this formulation, the probability of nonconception is simply the product of the day-specific failure probabilities multiplied across all days where there was intercourse.
ref: 1996, Biometrics, page 946:
text: A long period of nonconception, usually the two or three years after marriage, leads to worries of a possible medical problem in the couple.
ref: 2005, Vinita Bhargava, Adoption in India: Policies and Experiences, page 86:
text: In the case of nonconception, there is a loss of an enormous amount of possible future good but there is no victim of the loss, no existing individual whose good it would have been.
ref: 2002, Jeff McMahan, The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life:
text: For all these reasons, I assume that nonconception is better than a constantly neutral life.
ref: 2019, Espen Gamlund, Carl Tollef Solberg, Saving People from the Harm of Death, page 112:
glosses: A failure to conceive; The aftermath of sexual intercourse in which there is no fertilization of an egg by sperm.
examples: text: It is to a nonconception of this plain truth, namely, that money is as much a marketable commodity as any of those things for which it is given in exchange, that we must ascribe the ignorance that prevails concerning the laws by which its value and its distribution are regulated, and of the consequences which follow when the natural operation of these laws is disturbed.
ref: 1836, The Monthly Review, page 384:
glosses: An unthought concept.
nonconceptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonconception
non-conception
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-conceptions
Senses: examples: text: Josie had already been pregnant when they married, so Marlee would still exist (the non-conception of beloved children always a stumbling block to the if-I-could-live-my-life-over-again fantasy).
ref: 2019, Kate Atkinson, Big Sky, →ISBN, page 329:
glosses: Alternative form of nonconception.
non-conceptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-conception
churchload
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: churchloads
form: church-load
Etymology: From church + load.
Senses: examples: text: And when I raised my eyes for the first time I really did see a throng of people, a massive churchload of them, and I faltered again, but only for a moment.
ref: 2005, Paul Shepherd, Larry Woiwode, More Like Not Running Away:
glosses: A quantity that fills a church; a churchful.
churchloads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of churchload
church-load
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: church-loads
Senses: examples: text: Not a church-load of people in their finery with all their expectations.
ref: 2019, Kate Atkinson, Big Sky, →ISBN, page 338:
glosses: Alternative form of churchload.
church-loads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of church-load
threds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thred
replicatability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of replicability.
synonyms: word: replicability
SARS-CoV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SARS-CoVs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus.
glosses: Abbreviation of Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus, a species of SARS-associated coronavirus
Synonyms: SARS
Hypernyms: alt: Coronavirus
word: CoV
Related terms: CoV
MERS-CoV
nCoV
Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus
goalied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of goalie
Aristippan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Aristippan
form: most Aristippan
Etymology: From Aristippus + -an.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Aristippian, of or related to Aristippus of Cyrene or Aristippus the Younger.
Aristippan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aristippans
Etymology: From Aristippus + -an.
Senses: synonyms: Aristippian
Cyrenaic
Cyrenian
Cyrenean
hypernyms: word: person
word: wanton
glosses: Alternative form of Aristippian, an adherent of Cyrenaicism, the school of philosophy founded by Aristippus of Cyrene and codified by Aristippus the Younger.
Aeschylian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Aeschylian
form: most Aeschylian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Aeschylean.
eighter from Decatur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ada from Decatur
Senses: topics: gambling
games
glosses: An eight in the game of craps.
Ada from Decatur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eighter from Decatur.
unibrowed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From unibrow + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having a unibrow.
adshell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adshells
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of adshel.
adshells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adshell
adshel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adshels
form: adshell
Etymology: From a brand name.
Senses: topics: advertising
business
marketing
glosses: A kind of large poster for display at a bus shelter.
adshels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adshel
Akerlofian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Akerlofian
form: most Akerlofian
Etymology: From Akerlof + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to George Akerlof (born 1940), American economist.
advice and consent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: In enacting formulae of bills and in other legal or constitutional contexts, the situation where a weak executive branch of a government enacts something previously approved of by the legislative branch or where the legislative branch concurs and approves something previously enacted by a strong executive branch.
strike a false note
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: strikes a false note
form: striking a false note
form: struck a false note
form: struck a false note
Senses: examples: text: But she crossed out “I do understand”; it struck a false note. Henry could not bear to be understood.
ref: 1910, E. M. Forster, chapter 28, in Howards End, New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, page 293:
text: He dressed in a mannered fashion with turned-back cuffs and double slits to his coat, bow-ties and fancy waistcoats. He made a good-living, wine-and-food-society impression in which only the slow, rather cunning blue eyes struck a false note.
ref: 1960, Ian Fleming, “From a View To a Kill”, in For Your Eyes Only, London: Jonathan Cape:
text: He knew what stories to whisper and when not to tell stories at all and knew, too, when the business was over, never to make reference to what had been said. ¶ Put simply this was a man who had learned never to strike a false note.
ref: 2000, Alan Bennett, “The Laying On of Hands”, in The Laying On of Hands: Stories, New York: Picador, published 2002, page 71:
glosses: To give the impression of being insincere, incongruous or inappropriate.
affiliateship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: affiliateships
Etymology: From affiliate + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The role or status of affiliate.
affiliateships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of affiliateship
aftermarketing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of aftermarket
aftermarketed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of aftermarket
double criminality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A condition found in many extradition treaties, requiring the crime committed in the jurisdiction requesting extradition to also be a crime in the jurisdiction that one is to be extradited from.
Synonyms: dual criminality
TIPS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TIPSes
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt.
impl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impls
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Clipping of implementation.
supply priest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supply priests
Senses: topics: Catholicism
Christianity
qualifier: Anglicanism
glosses: A priest not assigned to a particular parish who is available to substitute temporarily for a parish priest who is ill, on vacation, or otherwise unavailable.
Bravos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bravo
Fethard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Irish Fiodh Ard.
Senses: glosses: A small town in County Tipperary, Ireland.
glosses: A village in County Wexford, Ireland, also known as Fethard-on-Sea.
professionalizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: professionalizers
Etymology: From professionalize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who professionalizes.
professionalizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of professionalizer
commoditizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commoditizers
Etymology: From commoditize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who commoditizes.
commoditizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of commoditizer
Sallins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Irish Na Solláin.
Senses: glosses: A town in County Kildare, Ireland (Irish grid ref N 8923).
Nanzi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 楠梓 (Nánzǐ).
Senses: examples: text: Residents in Kaohsiung’s Nanzi District were briefly without power on Sunday morning (June 11) after a voltage suppressor was damaged by lightning.
ref: 2023 June 11, Duncan DeAeth, “Power outage in Kaohsiung affects 5,000 homes”, in Taiwan News, sourced from Taipei (Taiwan News), archived from the original on 25 Jul 2024, Society:
glosses: Alternative form of Nanzih.
Cadoxton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Saint Cadoc or Cadog + -ton.
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Barry, Vale of Glamorgan borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST1269).
glosses: An electoral ward in Blaenhonddan community, Neath Port Talbot borough county borough, Wales.
glosses: Ellipsis of Cadoxton-juxta-Neath: a village in Blaenhonddan community, Neath Port Talbot borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SS7699).
xey
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: Xey could not help but hesitate. What if xey failed?
ref: 2018 September 30, Jeanne Morningstar, “MISC: Finale”, in rec.arts.comics.creative (Usenet):
text: Dismounting from xeir horse, xey approached stealthily, not making a sound […]
ref: 2025, Michel Nieva, Dengue Boy, page 56:
glosses: they (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.
Related terms: other attested gender-neutral pronouns
Kirkintilloch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic.
Senses: glosses: A town in East Dunbartonshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS6573).
Lenzie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in East Dunbartonshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS6572).
supply priests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supply priest