cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
double-handedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more double-handedly
form: most double-handedly
form: doublehandedly
Etymology: From double-handed + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Dinghies are designed to be sailed single-handedly or double-handedly, but some larger cruising dinghies may have room for four or more people on board.
ref: 2013, Barrie Smith, Jeremy Evans, Pat Manley, The Sailing Bible: The Complete Guide for All Sailors from Novice to Experienced Skipper, →ISBN:
glosses: Using two people.
examples: text: Working double-handedly also conserves your hands in large kneading strokes, for example when you are working on the adductors on the inside of the thigh.
ref: 2007, Darien Pritchard, Dynamic Bodyuse for Effective, Strain-Free Massage, →ISBN, page 168:
glosses: Using both hands at the same time.
examples: text: I said I was writing my memoirs, a choppy musical dedicated to counterpoint, without the axes of time and place, collapsing in upon itself because the notes will inevitably run out, returning, elaborating, crisscrossing, double-handedly creating variations upon a theme.
ref: 2009, Brian Castro, The Bath Fugues, →ISBN:
text: The combination of discontent and economic collapse brought about the revolution. It did not do so simply double-handedly.
ref: 2014, George Graham, The Disordered Mind: An Introduction to Philosophy of Mind and Mental Illness, →ISBN:
glosses: By means of two approaches or agents
examples: text: NATO works double-handedly against Albanians and Serbs.
ref: 2010, Nicholas C. Eliopoulos, Constantine Versus the Bankers, →ISBN, page 207:
glosses: Duplicitously or hypocritically.
doublehandedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more doublehandedly
form: most doublehandedly
Etymology: From doublehanded + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of double-handedly.
whiff-whaff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪfˌwæf/
Forms: form: whiff whaff
form: wiff-waff
Etymology: From Whiff-Waff, coined by Slazenger & Sons in 1900.
Senses: examples: text: Boris Johnson's claim ping-pong was originally a Victorian English invention called whiff-whaff has been attacked by the descendants of the world's oldest sporting and games manufacturer.
ref: [2008 September 2, Chris Irvine, “Boris Johnson in whiff-whaff ping-pong row”, in The Telegraph, retrieved 24 Nov 2020:
text: Jesus wept, there I'd been envisaging a weekend spent reading a book with only my top half hanging out of my tent, and the next thing I know I'm signed up for a spot of naked whiff-whaff. Not that Tom seemed too bothered. "I'm not bad at table-tennis," he said as we made our way to our pitch.
ref: 2010, Ben Dirs, Tom Fordyce, Karma Chameleons, →ISBN:
text: "The French looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner," he said. "We looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to play whiff-whaff." In fact table tennis was also called gossima in the early days, and, given that Gossamer is the brand name of a condom, the Mayor of London missed out on an even better joke, perhaps calculating that the Chinese wouldn't get it.
ref: 2010 July 17, Howard Jacobson, “Whiff! Whaff! The beautiful game may be coming home”, in The Independent, retrieved 24 Nov 2020:
glosses: Table tennis.
whiff-whaff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪfˌwæf/
Forms: form: whiff-whaffs
form: whiff whaff
form: wiff-waff
form: whiff whaff
form: wiff-waff
Etymology: Onomatopoeia
Senses: examples: text: Then, no one saw precisely how it happened, whiff-whaff, Lemoine's weapon flew from his hand and struck the wall with a whirr and a jangle.
ref: 1922, Stanley John Weyman, The Wild Geese, page 87:
glosses: The breathy sound of something rushing quickly; whoosh.
whiff-whaffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whiff-whaff
whiff whaff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This made whiff whaff, pom pom or gossima-as table tennis was known then—more active and interesting.
ref: 1979, Gene Brown, Indoor sports, →ISBN, page 39:
text: We looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to play whiff whaff.
ref: 2012, John Hart, The National CV of Britain: A non-PC history of Britain, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of whiff-whaff (“table tennis”).
whiff whaff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whiff whaffs
Senses: examples: text: Well, with a whiff whaff, little Georgy was back with five foot or so. Clarice turns around and shoos him out.
ref: 2011, David Smith, Saskatchewan, →ISBN, page 28:
glosses: Alternative form of whiff-whaff (“breathy sound”).
whiff whaffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whiff whaff
peppershrike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪk
Forms: form: peppershrikes
Etymology: From pepper + shrike.
Senses: glosses: Any vireo of the genus Cyclarhis, of Central and South America.
peppershrikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peppershrike
enherite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enherites
form: enheriting
form: enherited
form: enherited
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of inherit.
angle-shoot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: angle-shoots
form: angle-shooting
form: angle-shot
form: angle-shot
form: angle shoot
Senses: examples: text: After the bowler has acquired a smooth delivery he is shown how to angle-shoot for spares, the essentials of spot and line bowling, and such new techniques as finger-tip control.
ref: 1957, School Activities - Volumes 29-31, page 294:
text: He recalls, and then surpasses, his visual diversions for 'Can't Buy Me Love' in A Hard Day's Night when he chop-cuts and angle-shoots his four principal comics during their rendiction of 'Everybody Ought to Have a Maid'
ref: 1966, Films and Filming - Volume 13, page 8:
glosses: To fire or shoot from an angle.
examples: text: The floor will rule one way or another; the point isn't so much to win the ruling as to put the spotlight on the offending player so he's less likely to angle-shoot on future hands.
ref: 2006, Randy Burgess, Ultimate Guide to Poker Tells: Devastate Opponents by Reading Body Language, →ISBN, page 149:
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: To use a trick that is not explicitly prohibited by the rules, but which is used to gain unfair advantage.
examples: text: I like to think that I used my superior skill to come out on top; I don't like the idea that I had to angle-shoot to take home more money than I came with.
ref: 1996, Mason Malmuth, Blackjack Essays, →ISBN, page 205:
text: Or perhaps, unlike many firms looking for fast dividends from the disaster, Krispy Kreme didn't try to angle-shoot the tragedy. It hasn't changed its approach to business— which may well have something to do with its success.
ref: 2002, U.S. News & World Report - Volume 131, Issues 19-27, page 116:
glosses: To bend the rules; to behave in a way that is unethical but not illegal.
angle-shoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angle-shoots
form: angle shoot
Senses: examples: text: The fact that for the greater part of its length the angle-shoot has the same structure as a normal stem is what would be expected; it does not, in my opinion, prove that the former is not a transformed rhizophore.
ref: 1934, Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A side shoot that grows from the main stem stem.
examples: text: As MacPhee says, “if an angle-shoot is within the rules and plus-EV then do it!”
ref: 2010 April 22, Brett Collson, “Slowrolling: Disgraceful or Strategic?”, in Poker News Daily:
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Alternative form of angle shot.
angle-shoots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of angle-shoot
angle-shoots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angle-shoot
angle-shooting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of angle-shoot
angle-shooting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It seems harmless enough, and often is; but if experienced players are doing it, the potential is there for collusion. And collusion is more than angle-shooting -- it's outright cheating.
ref: 2006, Randy Burgess, Ultimate Guide to Poker Tells: Devastate Opponents by Reading Body Language, →ISBN, page 149:
text: We have been so used to "fast" thinking; "angle-shooting"; and rationalizing, that many have completely forgotten the art of true thinking.
ref: 2010, Father John Doe, The Golden Book of Decisions, →ISBN, page 25:
glosses: Alternative form of angle shooting.
angle-shot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of angle-shoot
angle shoot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: angle shoots
form: angle shooting
form: angle shot
form: angle shot
Senses: examples: text: Trap, although it includes some angle shooting, calls for all the targets to be thrown out ahead of the gunner at a minimum distance of 16 yards, each man firing five shots from five stations arranged in a semi-circle behind the trap house.
ref: 1964, Rod and Gun in Canada - Volume 66, page 185:
text: Jesse Martin, a very good friend of Szymaszek who was playing at the next table heard that and tried to defend Szymaszek, stating that he "plays draw games every day” and knows the rules and “he would never angle shoot."
ref: 2014 June 20, “WSOP Daily Report: Brawl In The Amazon Room, Daniel Negreanu Up and Running Heads-up”, in PokerUpdate:
glosses: Alternative form of angle-shoot.
angle shoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angle shoots
Senses: examples: text: Removal of the young developing leaves below the apical bud on the main shoot, especially when done twice, has increased branching and produced wider angle shoots, and enhanced feathering for slender spindle trees
ref: 2013, C. J. Wright, Manipulation of Fruiting, →ISBN, page 346:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of angle-shoot.
examples: text: The change will also take away one potential angle shoot at the poker tables, as it will make it easier for players to confirm their opponent's stack sizes without wondering if cash is hidden on the tables, though this is almost certainly not the reason behind the change.
ref: 2015 March 16, Ed Scimia, “MGM Folds on Cash Play At US Poker Tables”, in Cardschat News - Worldwide Gambling News:
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Alternative form of angle shot.
examples: text: The unserviceable Sea Hurricane airframe on board was placed on deck for blast trials in a low angle shoot and sustained no damage while in the centre of the deck.
ref: 2012, Dr Ben Jones, The Fleet Air Arm in the Second World War, →ISBN:
text: So off I went to find a piece of scenery to rest on while they got on with preparing for another angle shoot of the sacrifice setup.
ref: 2011, Elisabeth Sladen, Elisabeth Sladen: The Autobiography, →ISBN:
glosses: A session of shooting at an angle or a shot taken in such a session.
angle shoots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of angle shoot
angle shoots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angle shoot
angle shot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of angle shoot
angle shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angle shots
Senses: examples: text: I'll always gamble, anytime, but he's taking so many angle shots at the table it's not even funny.
ref: 2008 June 25, John Phan, “WSOP: Bracelet Winner Q and A”, in CardPlayer:
text: Angle shots are used to gain an unfair advantage in the game-to obtain information that a player shouldn't legally have yet, or to manipulate opponents. What can make angle shots so frustrating is that they are nearly always impossible to prove.
ref: 2009 May 31, Barbara Connors, “Angle-Shooting: Dishonorable Discharge”, in PokerPlayer:
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: An act performed in order to angle-shoot; a trick used to gain unfair advantage.
examples: text: Wood, number six, played strong and had little trouble defeating Elisa Morgan, 8-0, using lots of topspin and angle shots.
ref: 2015 May 6, Ashley Hudgins, “Mathews tennis improves record to 11-0”, in Gloucester Mathews Gazette Journal:
text: This is an angle shot from a low position with the camera looking upward.
ref: 2012, Ray DiZazzo, Corporate Media Production, →ISBN, page 65:
glosses: A shot taken at an angle.
angle shots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angle shot
angle shooting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of angle shoot
angle shooting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Technically, angle shooting is not cheating. Angle shooters don't break the rules-they just make it their personal mission to bend them as much as humanly possible.
ref: 2009 May 31, Barbara Connors, “Angle-Shooting: Dishonorable Discharge”, in PokerPlayer:
text: Player One then turned his cards back over and got really upset accusing Player Two of angle shooting in order to see his cards.
ref: 2006, David Apostolico, Lessons From The Felt: Advanced Strategies And Tactics For No-Limit Hold'Em Poker Tournaments, →ISBN:
glosses: Unethical behavior that is not clearly prohibited.
examples: text: Another interesting technique to use is angle shooting. Action shot obliquely appears slower than the same action viewed at right angles
ref: 1993, Donald C. Steffens, Shooting outdoor videos, page 49:
text: Early sets tended to be theatrical and flat, and, therefore, were limited in the dimensionality that would have allowed angle shooting.
ref: 2006, Frank Eugene Beaver, Dictionary of Film Terms: The Aesthetic Companion to Film Art, →ISBN, page 11:
glosses: The act of shooting at an angle.
ekagrata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit एकाग्रता (ekāgratā, “concentration, singlemindedness”).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Extreme focus on a particular point.
Related terms: ekagrya
angle shooter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angle shooters
Senses: examples: text: Technically, angle shooting is not cheating. Angle shooters don't break the rules-they just make it their personal mission to bend them as much as humanly possible.
ref: 2009 May 31, Barbara Connors, “Angle-Shooting: Dishonorable Discharge”, in PokerPlayer:
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A player who uses unfair tricks to gain advantage; one who angle-shoots.
angle shooters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angle shooter
angle-shooter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angle-shooters
Senses: examples: text: The angle-shooter here is hoping for a chance to steal the pot, but only if he sees that his opponent's hand is weak enough that she might not call a bet.
ref: 2006, Randy Burgess, Ultimate Guide to Poker Tells: Devastate Opponents by Reading Body Language, →ISBN, page 148:
glosses: Alternative form of angle shooter.
angle-shooters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angle-shooter
Bahaite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bahaites
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Baháʼite.
Bahaites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bahaite
magicless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From magic + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking magic or magical abilities.
Derived terms: magiclessness
gadsbud
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: /ɡædˈzbʌd/
Etymology: Uncertain, either a contraction of God’s blood, or of God’s body
Senses: examples: text: Don Jer. Gadsbud, and a great fortune! Ferdinand, you are a prudent young rogue, and I forgive you: and, ifecks, you are a pretty little damsel. Give your father-in-law a kiss, you smiling rogue!
ref: 1775, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Duenna, Scene VII:
glosses: An expression of surprise, shock, pleasure etc.
Synonyms: wow
wandless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From wand + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking a wand.
it's been real
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: A few minutes later, D.J. stood up from the table. "Well, it's been real," she said.
ref: 1993, Devra Newberger Speregen, Phone Call from a Flamingo, →ISBN, page 19:
glosses: An informal farewell indicating the speaker's enjoyment of the time spent together. Often used ironically.
Related terms: it's been a slice
Thingyan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈθɪnd͡ʒɑːn/
Etymology: Borrowed from Burmese သင်္ကြန် (sangkran), from Sanskrit संक्रान्ति (saṃkrānti, “passage of the sun from one celestial position to another”).
Senses: glosses: The Burmese New Year festival, celebrated from 13 to 16 April.
arabesk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arabesks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of arabesque.
faas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faa
rahu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rohu.
menopaused
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From menopause + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having been through the menopause.
menopausing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From menopause + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Going through the menopause.
womanhater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: womanhaters
form: woman-hater
form: woman hater
Etymology: From woman + hater.
Senses: examples: text: I suppose, the gentleman’s a womanhater; but, Sir, I think you ought to remember, that you had a mother: and pray, if it had not been for a woman, where would you have been, colonel?
ref: 1738, Jonathan Swift, A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, page 311:
text: From his insertion of these strictures on women, which are not the most courtly, it has been inferred that he was a womanhater; but that he was not so, appears from some of his prologues, especially from that to the ‘Knight of the Tower.’
ref: 1828, Life of William Caxton, page 25:
text: The petticoated-intrusion may be resented by a few cross-grained “theologs,” bachelors before their time, or womanhaters because some boarding-school miss has failed to fulfill their idea of fidelity.
ref: 1895–6, Florence Guertin, "The Yale Prom", in Bachelor of Arts, page 365
glosses: One who hates women or the female sex; a misogynist.
Synonyms: misogynist
manhating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more manhating
form: most manhating
Etymology: From man + hating.
Senses: glosses: Hating men; misandric.
manhating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From man + hating.
Senses: examples: text: Certainly many lesbians hate men, and there is reason to believe that manhating is important to moving out of oppression […]
ref: 1999, Marilyn Pearsall, Women and Values: Readings in Recent Feminist Philosophy:
glosses: Hatred of men.
womanhating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more womanhating
form: most womanhating
Etymology: From woman + hating.
Senses: examples: text: But these attitudes in male writers were taken for granted, accepted as sound philosophical bases, as quite normal, certainly not as womanhating, aggressive or neurotic.
ref: 1962, Doris Lessing, quoted in Liberating Literature, page 83
text: And as Germaine Greer points out, the “lay,” if finally granted, or an endless series of them, tends to make the womanhating man even more hateful and contemptuous.
ref: 1972, Konrad Kellen, The Coming Age of Woman Power, page 133:
text: I was walking across the campus of Howard University with my boyfriend, a possessive pre-med student, who later revealed himself to be a womanhating thug, when I saw his older sister, also a Howard student, coming toward us, arm in arm with her boyfriend who was visiting for the big weekend.
ref: 1993, Pearle Cleage, Deals with the Devil, page 177:
text: My own favorite is the story of Fat Tissa, who noisily celebrates the nuns’ monk patron Ananda above the much more distinguished—but also womanhating—Mahakassapa, thus bringing down the latter’s wrath on poor Ananda.
ref: 2001, Nancy Auer Falk, Unspoken Worlds: Women's Religious Lives, page 203:
glosses: Hating women.
womanhating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From woman + hating.
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile, womanhating as a recourse of the powerless is sapping strength from black communities, and our very lives.
ref: 1984, Audre Lorde, “I Am Your Sister”, in Let Nobody Turn Us Around, page 520:
text: Remember when you think about sex that men often use it to express power, control, womanhating and violence.
ref: 1993, Pearle Cleage, Deals with the Devil, page 18:
text: Men bond through the womanhating they display in each other's presence through jokes or sexual harassment or stories of conquest.
ref: 1993, Sheila Jeffreys, The Lesbian Heresy, page 161:
glosses: Hatred of women; misogyny.
integrating resource
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: integrating resources
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
information-science
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A publication that is updated by means of changes that are incorporated into the whole without another discreet instance being created.
bend the rules
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bends the rules
form: bending the rules
form: bent the rules
form: bent the rules
Etymology: A metaphor where, instead of breaking the rules, the rules are only being "bent", lessening the effect.
Senses: examples: text: Such a mechanism could preserve individuals with mainly prosocial inclinations by enabling them to bend the rules in minor ways without suffering from guilt and without losing out in competition with free-riders.
ref: 2008, Robert A. Hinde, Bending the Rules: The Flexibility of Absolutes in Modern Life, →ISBN:
synonyms: stretch the rules
glosses: To do something that is not normally allowed but is also not explicitly prohibited.
bends the rules
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bend the rules
bending the rules
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bend the rules
bent the rules
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bend the rules
morning breath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morning breaths
Senses: glosses: Fetid breath noticeable shortly after waking up, caused by dryness in the mouth.
lyssomanine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lyssomanines
Senses: glosses: A jumping spider of the subfamily Lyssomaninae.
spartaeine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spartaeines
Senses: glosses: A jumping spider of the subfamily Spartaeinae.
dendryphantine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dendryphantines
Senses: glosses: A jumping spider of the subtribe Dendryphantina.
euophryine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: euophryines
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Euophryinae.
Senses: glosses: A jumping spider of the subfamily Euophryinae.
dryhanded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dryhanded
form: most dryhanded
Senses: examples: text: This sex blackmailer and dryhanded public virgin was lunching secretly each week with the East Coast spokesman for organized crime, Frank Costello, in N.Y. Central Park's Tavern on the Green (according to the Time magazine obituary).
ref: 1981, Geoffrey Rips, Anne Janowitz, Nancy Joyce Peters, The Campaign against the underground press, page 33:
glosses: Alternative form of dry-handed.
Lady Days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lady Day
Lady-day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lady-days
Senses: examples: text: It ended in my moving into the house next Lady-day, and starting in practice on very much the same conditions as he had suggested.
ref: 1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Resident Patient:
glosses: Alternative form of Lady Day.
room for doubt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Eventuality.
brown studies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: She was all right. The abuse she was suffering wouldn't hurt her. The bright sun would forget all about it. The smoggy sky would turn brown studies to gold. (What crap.)
ref: 2007, W. Schmitz, The Violet Catastrophe, →ISBN, pages 33–34:
text: Verville, author of Moyen de Parvenir, and others equally well known, among whom we will specially mention the Sieur Descartes, because he was a melancholy genius, and devoted himself more to brown studies than to drinks and dainties, a man of whom all the cooks and confectioners of Tours have a wise horror, shom they despise, and will not hear spoken of, and say, "Where does he live? if his name is mentioned.
ref: 2007, Honoré de Balzac, Droll Stories, →ISBN, page 3:
text: She was pensive, she drooped; more than once she sighed unromantically through her nose; she went off into brown studies;
ref: 2011, Stella Gibbons, White Sand and Grey Sand, →ISBN, page 275:
glosses: plural of brown study
rooms for doubt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: At least it is accepted that the traditional view is not fully and universally accepted. There are still rooms for doubt.
ref: 1997, K. K. Velukutty, Heritages to and from Aryabhatta, page 129:
glosses: plural of room for doubt
emptyhandedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: empty-handedness
Etymology: From emptyhanded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Basehart offers it again, "Here, cousin," and dances away again, leaving Bolingbroke accused by his own emptyhandedness.
ref: 1962, Bolingbroke society, Drama Survey - Volume 2, page 202:
glosses: The state of having nothing in one's hands.
examples: text: Now on account of my emptyhandedness and want of means, I am unable to provide for the law charges and remuneration of attorneys and counsel and such matters and without appointing a protector over me, it is impossible to meet the costs and charges of the suits, and of the attorneys and counsel an my personal expense, and rent of the house which I now occupy, and the wages of servants &c.
ref: 1912, T. A. Venkasawmy Row, The Indian Decisions (Old Series): Being a Verbatim Reprint of the Reports of Cases Decided by the Late Suprmem Courts and the Sudder Dewanny Adawluts in India, Volume 3, page 194:
glosses: Poverty or lack of possessions and resources.
examples: text: Oh, the beauty and heavenliness of a home where the empty-handed guest is not the less but the more welcome for his emptyhandedness!
ref: 1896, Third Biennial, General Federation of Women's Clubs, page 278:
glosses: Lack of anything to offer
examples: text: Talk with those here who vainly seek work, who suffer daily the humiliation of emptyhandedness.
ref: 1939, Social Work Today - Volumes 7-8:
glosses: The lack of something one sought to acquire.
examples: text: And the clanging call of the general alarm rasped you to battle stations, night and day, from sleep and from meals, always with the same emptyhandedness of failure in the end.
ref: 2014, Nathan Miller, The U.S. Navy: A History, Third Edition, →ISBN, page 208:
glosses: Failure to accomplish a task or mission.
examples: text: ...Mills had first spoken his gibberish of good intention, always careful, though they did not travel in armor, to lean down from their mounts to shake hands in the trendy new symbol of emptyhandedness and unarmedness that they'd picked up on their travels.
ref: 1982, Stanley Elkin, George Mills: a novel, page 7:
glosses: Lack of a weapon; the state of being unarmed.
empty-handedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From empty-handed + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: 'I ain't stole nothing of his.' He made a broad gesture with his arms to demonstrate his empty-handedness.
ref: 2014, John Cheever, Falconer, →ISBN:
text: For in their succourless empty-handedness, they, in the heathenish sharked waters, and by the beaches of unrecorded, javelin islands, battled with virgin wonders and terrors that Cook with all his marines and muskets would not willingly have dared.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:
text: On the other hand, let's say you've assumed the two of you aren't on gift giving terms yet. Then, out of the blue, your empty-handedness is met by a lavish gift.
ref: 2013, Karen J. Pine, Simonne Gnessen, Sheconomics, →ISBN:
text: When I got inside and started stripping off my coat and boots, she greeted me, curious about my empty-handedness. “You didn't find a tree?”
ref: 2007, David Valdes Greenwood, A Little Fruitcake: A Childhood in Holidays, →ISBN:
text: His enemies, of course, were quick to inform the king of his empty-handedness upon his return, and no doubt their interpretation that the expedition had been a total failure was believed by the king.
ref: 1977, Bailey Wallys Diffie, Foundations of the Portuguese Empire, 1415-1580, →ISBN, page 266:
text: It is the cultivation of "empty-handedness," allowing the whole body and the mental energy to be devoted in a single pointed way, though operating through different movements, toward resisting violence without the intention of destroying the opponent.
ref: 2011, George Mattson, The Way of Karate, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of emptyhandedness.
emptyhandedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more emptyhandedly
form: most emptyhandedly
form: empty-handedly
Etymology: From emptyhanded + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an emptyhanded state or manner.
empty-handedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more empty-handedly
form: most empty-handedly
Etymology: From empty-handed + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of emptyhandedly.
flexy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛksi
Forms: form: flexier
form: more flexy
form: flexiest
form: most flexy
Etymology: From flex + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Up front, a new softer "floating" cuff and a tapered rib— both for easier flex. At the rear, a new lightweight and responsive back. ... that cradles the calf In short, everything Hank hankered for. The Avanti's shell has our softest, flexiest plastic yet.
ref: 1975 Sep, Ski, volume 40, number 1, page 24:
text: If the pedal can't flex, the shoe can't—no matter how flexy it may be just out of the box. Besides, the part of your foot that's behind the pedal can't flex while you're pedaling, because your foot mechanics won't allow it.
ref: 2012, Grant Petersen, Just Ride: A Radically Practical Guide to Riding Your Bike - Page 32:
glosses: Implying or indicating an ability, capacity, or tendency to flex; flexible; bendy.
Synonyms: bendsome
ooja
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oojas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oojah (“thing whose name is unknown”).
will to power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: will-to-power
Etymology: Calque of German Wille zur Macht.
Senses: examples: text: Yet the driving force of the whole process from humblest plant to possible superman is will to power, will not to be, but to be more.
ref: 1915 April, William Mackintire Salter, “Nietzsche's Moral Aim and Will to Power”, in International Journal of Ethics, volume 25, number 3, page 377:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: élan vital
glosses: The vital energy in all living things which propels them to seek to grow, create, and thrive.
examples: text: But he had a certain acrid courage, and a certain will-to-power. In his own small circle he would emanate power, the single power of his own blind self.
ref: 1915, D. H. Lawrence, England, My England:
text: By far the greater part of Mr. Johnson's book is concerned with precisely that, the will to power, as it has been made manifest since the end of World War I—first in Europe, then on a rising scale in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and the United States.
ref: 1983 June 26, Robert Nisbet, "The Will to Power" (book review of Modern Times: A History of the World from the 1920s to the 1980s by Paul Johnson), New York Times (retrieved 11 May 2015)
text: By sacrificing human life to serve their radical visions, by abandoning every value except the will to power, they follow in the path of fascism, Nazism and totalitarianism.
ref: 2001 Sep. 20, George W. Bush, address to the U. S. Congress (quoted in "The Bush Speech: How to Rally a Nation" by Frank Pellegrini, Time, 21 Sep. 2001)
synonyms: libido dominandi
self-aggrandizement
glosses: The forceful desire, especially in human beings, to aggressively overcome, conquer, and dominate others.
will-to-power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of will to power.
auriscalpiums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of auriscalpium
auriscalpia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of auriscalpium
Atlantic pomfrets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Atlantic pomfret
atoll fruit doves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atoll fruit dove
Banamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The mare is given an anti-inflammatory medication (Banamine, flunixin meglumine).
glosses: A brand of flunixin meglumine.
Suckerville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Suckersville
Etymology: From sucker + -ville.
Senses: glosses: A location full of gullible people.
Petit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Petit.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
tallow trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tallow tree
sapayoa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sapayoas
Etymology: From the New Latin genus name, Sapayoa.
Senses: glosses: A passerine bird of the species Sapayoa aenigma found in lowland rainforests in Panama and northwest South America.
Synonyms: broad-billed sapayoa
crusaderist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From crusader + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Supporting crusaderism.
Scottify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Scottifies
form: Scottifying
form: Scottified
form: Scottified
Etymology: From Scot + -ify.
Senses: glosses: To make Scottish.
Scottifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Scottify
Scottifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Scottify
Scottified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Scottify
postbourgeois
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌpəʊstˈbʊəʒwɑː/
Etymology: From post- + bourgeois.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a period of society following the decline of the bourgeoisie
raw_tags: in Marxist philosophy
tessellar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tesselar.
orgasmical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more orgasmical
form: most orgasmical
Senses: glosses: Synonym of orgasmic.
synonyms: word: orgasmic
frownless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈfɹaʊnləs/
Etymology: From frown + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a frown.
Derived terms: frownlessly
vaporated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vaporate
vaporates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vaporate
vaporating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vaporate
Brennerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Brennerian
form: most Brennerian
Etymology: From Brenner + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Yosef Haim Brenner (Hebrew: יוסף חיים ברנר; 1881–1921), Russian-born Hebrew-language author and one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew literature.
folk religionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: folk religionists
Etymology: From folk religion + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who follows a folk religion.
electrical storm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrical storms
Senses: glosses: Synonym of thunderstorm.
synonyms: word: thunderstorm
Tonkawa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tonkawas
form: Tonkawa
Etymology: From Wichita tonkaweya (“those who stay together”), compare Tonkawa Tickanwa•tic (“(a) genuine people”).
Senses: glosses: A member of a Midwestern Native American tribe indigenous to present-day Oklahoma and Texas.
Tonkawa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Wichita tonkaweya (“those who stay together”), compare Tonkawa Tickanwa•tic (“(a) genuine people”).
Senses: glosses: The extinct language once spoken by these people.
glosses: A city in Kay County, Oklahoma, United States.
visceromotor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From viscero- + motor.
Senses: glosses: Relating to or controlling movement in the viscera, noting the sympathetic nerves innervating the viscera, especially the intestines.
veratrized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of veratrize
veratrized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: These facts, however, do not prove that the convulsions in the veratrized frog are not spinal, but only show that there is a state of excitation of the muscles.
ref: 1877, Horatio Charles Wood, A Treatise on therapeutics, page 160:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Treated with veratrine.
vasotribe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vasotribes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of angiotribe.
synonyms: word: angiotribe
angiotribe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angiotribes
Senses: glosses: An instrument for controlling hemorrhages
Synonyms: vasotribe
Related terms: angiotripsy
angiotribes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angiotribe
staphylotome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staphylotomes
Etymology: From staphylo- + -tome.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of uvulatome.
synonyms: word: uvulatome
staphylotomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of staphylotome
utriform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more utriform
form: most utriform
Etymology: From Latin uter (“bag, bottle”) + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Shaped like a bag or leather bottle.
uniceptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uniceptors
Etymology: From uni- + ceptor.
Senses: glosses: A receptor that has only a haptophore group or a haptophore and a zymophore group, but no complementophile group.
uniceptors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uniceptor
zymophores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zymophore
urethrectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urethrectomy
urarthritis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uro- + arthritis.
Senses: glosses: Gouty inflammation of a joint.
urase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of urease.
ults
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ult
ults
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ult
uratosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From urate + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any morbid condition due to the presence of urates in the blood or tissues.
ulnad
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From ulno- + -ad.
Senses: examples: text: Excise the ulnar anlage and perform a corrective radial osteotomy for ulnad deviation of the wrist
ref: 2016, Musculoskeletal Key, Upper Limb:
text: Orangutan fingers possess a “double-locking” mechanism (Napier, '60), and a slight ulnad shift in the axis of the hand which results in lengthened phalanges
ref: 2006, Cross-sectional geometry of the hand and foot bones of Hominoidea and its relationships with locomotor behavior:
text: [Profundus muscle] Draws the carpus thenad and ulnad, and draws the proximal phalanges of the fingers thenad.
ref: 1832, The Edinburgh Encyclopædia, Volume 1:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: thenad
antonyms: radiad
glosses: Toward the ulna.
urinable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From urine + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being excreted in the urine.
uroammoniac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uro- + ammoniac.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to or containing uric acid and ammonia.
haptophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haptophores
Etymology: From hapto- + -phore.
Senses: glosses: The stable, non-poisonous element of a toxin that enables it to bind to an antitoxin and become neutralized.
Related terms: zymophore
isocellular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + cellular.
Senses: glosses: Composed of cells of equal size or of similar character.
intragyral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + gyral.
Senses: glosses: Within a cerebral gyrus.
intralocular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + locular.
Senses: glosses: Within the loculi of any structure or part.
intertubercular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + tubercular, or, inter- + tubercul(um) + -ar.
Senses: glosses: Between tubercles.
examples: text: intertubercular plane
glosses: Between tubercles.
Between the left and right iliac tubercles; across or through them.
synonyms: transtubercular
intervalvular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + valvular.
Senses: glosses: Between valves.
intervascular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + vascular.
Senses: glosses: Between blood vessels.
Cozumel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mayan Ah Cuzamil Peten, translating as "the island of swallows."
Senses: glosses: A resort island in the Caribbean Sea, off the northeastern coast of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula.
Derived terms: Cozumel thrasher
Liwan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 荔灣 /荔湾 (Lìwān).
Senses: glosses: A district of Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
unmundane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmundane
form: most unmundane
Etymology: From un- + mundane.
Senses: glosses: Not mundane.
fertilizin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fertilize + -in.
Senses: glosses: A hypothetical substance supposed to be the active agent in fertilization, having two side chains, one reacting with the sperm, the other with the ovum.
Derived terms: antifertilizin
heterologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heterology
nonridged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + ridged.
Senses: glosses: Not ridged.
even-handedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more even-handedly
form: most even-handedly
Etymology: From even-handed + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of evenhandedly.
uridrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uro- + hidrosis.
Senses: glosses: The excretion of urea or uric acid in the sweat.
urethylane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: methyl carbamate
methylurethane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From methyl + urethane.
Senses: glosses: methyl carbamate
urocyanin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uro- + cyanin?
Senses: glosses: A blue pigment sometimes observed in the urine in certain diseases, especially scarlet fever.
methylcarbamate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From methyl + carbamate.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of methyl carbamate.
urofuscohematin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urofuscohaematin
Senses: glosses: A red pigment derived from hematin, occurring in the urine.
urofuscohaematin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of urofuscohematin.
unflippant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unflippant
form: most unflippant
Etymology: From un- + flippant.
Senses: glosses: Not flippant.
urostealith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urostealiths
Senses: glosses: A fatty kind of renal calculus.
urostealiths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urostealith
urospectrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A pigment found in the urine, possibly the same as urohematoporphyrin.
urohaematoporphyrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of urohematoporphyrin.
urocystic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From urocyst + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the urinary bladder.
Kamtok
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cameroon talk.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Cameroonian Pidgin English.
synonyms: word: Cameroonian Pidgin English
urotoxicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urotoxicities
Etymology: From uro- + toxicity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being urotoxic.
urotoxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uro- + toxic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the poisonous character of the urine.
Derived terms: urotoxic coefficient
urotoxic unit
Related terms: urotoxicity
urotoxin
urotoxic coefficient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urotoxic coefficients
Senses: glosses: The number of urotoxic units per kilogram of body weight excreted in twenty-four hours.
urotoxic unit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urotoxic units
Senses: glosses: The amount of urotoxin necessary to kill an animal weighing one kilogram.
Synonyms: urotoxy
Tbilisian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Tbilisian
form: most Tbilisian
Etymology: From Tbilisi + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Tbilisi.
Tbilisian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tbilisians
Etymology: From Tbilisi + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Tbilisi.
Tbilisians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tbilisian
urotoxic units
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urotoxic unit
urotoxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urotoxies
Senses: glosses: urotoxic unit
urotoxies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urotoxy
uroxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: alloxantin
utriculoplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From utriculo- + -plasty.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: An operation for reducing the size of the uterus by excision of a wedge-shaped longitudinal strip the entire thickness of the wall of the organ.
ursin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: arbutin
urocystis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of urocyst.
synonyms: word: urocyst
Eurocratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Eurocratic
form: most Eurocratic
Etymology: From Euro- + -cratic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to Eurocracy.
Eurocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of Euro- + bureaucracy
Senses: glosses: The bureaucracy associated with the European Union.
lysogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lyso- + -genesis.
Senses: glosses: The production of lysins.
lactosuria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lactose + -uria.
Senses: glosses: The presence of lactose in the urine.
leprophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lepraphobia
Etymology: From leprosy + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: I therefore entreat you to beware of the lepro-phobia that appears to be coming upon us.
ref: 1889, Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay, number 12, page 123:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: An irrationally excessive fear of Hansen's disease (leprosy) and lepers.
examples: text: Do not treat for leprosy unless the diagnosis is established. Nothing is harder to cure than leprophobia.
ref: 1973, Anthony Bryceson et al., Leprosy for Students of Medicine, page 40:
glosses: Deep-seated loathing or hatred of lepers.