cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
clothes press
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛs
Forms: form: clothes presses
Senses: synonyms: presser
coordinate_terms: iron#Noun
glosses: A device consisting of two heated panels that can be closed together used to smooth out wrinkles in clothes.
glosses: A wardrobe or closet in which clothes are kept.
clothes presses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clothes press
charcoal iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charcoal irons
Senses: glosses: A type of box iron into which heated coals are placed.
charcoal irons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of charcoal iron
cissupremacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cis-supremacy
Etymology: From cis- + supremacy, by analogy with white supremacy.
Senses: examples: text: To fight this systemic oppression — including transphobia, cis-centrism, cis-supremacy and trans-misogyny — it is essential we support the self-determination of all people oppressed by coercive, non-consensual gender assignments.
ref: 2012, “OWS Must Resist Cis-Supremacy and Trans-Misogyny”, in Amy Schrager Lang, Daniel Lang/Levitsky, editors, Dreaming in Public: Building the Occupy Movement, page 129:
text: Cisgender directors and writers cannot be the judge of what an authentic trans portrayal looks like because of their socialization in cis­supremacy.
ref: 2015, Aryeh Conrad, "Towards a Truer Representation: Transphobic Casting Politics and the Cis-Gaze in Film", paper submitted to the University of Puget Sound, page 10
text: In that context where cissexism and cissupremacy are the oppressions in question, a cisgender woman would not count as a marginalized person.
ref: 2016, Nora Berenstain, “Epistemic Exploitation”, in Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, volume 3, number 22, page 570:
glosses: Ideology that regards cis people as superior to other people (including trans people, nonbinary people, and genderfluid people), or diminishes the rights or interests of those who are not cis.
glosses: Behavior (individual or systemic) in which cis people are privileged over other people in society (trans people, nonbinary people, genderfluid people).
Coordinate terms: straight supremacy
white supremacy
Related terms: cissupremacist
antitrans
antitransgender
transphobic
transprejudice
cis-supremacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cissupremacy.
regag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: regags
form: regagging
form: regagged
form: regagged
Etymology: From re- + gag.
Senses: examples: text: "Fingerprints. I'll have to throw this away with the stuff that gets burnt. And anyhow we have to regag her."
ref: 1974, Mendal W. Johnson, Let's go play at the Adams, page 215:
text: I had half a mind to leave him like that, and as soon as he started offering excuses I threatened to regag him.
ref: 2007, Jim DeFelice, Leopards Kill, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 220:
text: But when it comes time to regag her, she snaps her head around and spits and hisses like a mad thing.
ref: 2012, Donna Jo Napoli, Hush: An Irish Princess' Tale, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 131:
glosses: to put a gag back into someone's mouth.
reverse forecast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reverse forecasts
Senses: topics: gambling
games
glosses: A combination of two forecast bets to select the first and second place winners of a race in any order.
reverse forecasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reverse forecast
unchiefly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unchiefly
form: most unchiefly
Etymology: From un- + chiefly.
Senses: glosses: Not chiefly; not befitting a chief.
pompless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pompless
form: most pompless
Etymology: From pomp + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without pomp.
wendeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: wend + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wend
trickleth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: trickle + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of trickle
unwindeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: unwind + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unwind
fally-aparty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fally-aparty
form: most fally-aparty
Etymology: From fall apart + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Lucy scowled at him, jabbing a fork in his direction and trying not to smile. 'It's your fault – my cakes aren't usually so . . . fally-aparty.'
ref: 2015, Kerry Wilkinson, Down Among the Dead Men, page 315:
text: As I had the pleasure of eating potatoes almost every day for three months in Ireland I came to realise that the only potato they like is a flour ball — sweet, fluffy and fally-aparty, cooked in the skin, peeled at the table and helped down with a forkful of butter.
ref: 2016, Peta Mathias, Burnt Barley, unnumbered page:
text: […] He's keeping money flowing in, but really what he wants is some half-cocked mechanical solution to your kind's fally-aparty problems.”
ref: 2019, Stephen Kozeniewski, Braineater Jones, unnumbered page:
glosses: Tending to fall apart.
laugh before breakfast, cry before supper
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: It is unwise to be complacently happy because things may get worse.
Related terms: laugh and grow fat
belanja
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈlɑnd͡ʒɑ/
ipa: /-d͡ʒə/
ipa: [bəˈland͡ʒa]
Forms: form: blanja
Etymology: From Malay belanja.
Senses: examples: text: Actually, what I don’t understand about girls is why they expect us to belanja them all the time. Why can’t they belanja us?
ref: 1981, Robert Yeo, Prize-winning Plays: Volumes 1-4, Federal Publications, page 37:
text: Belanja Eat, launched April 10, is a pay-it-forward initiative that lets you belanja (or treat) someone to a hawker meal.
ref: 2020 April 19, Chelsea Kiew, Hannah Bock, “Virus Vigilantes: Doing good in trying times”, in The Straits Times, Singapore: Singapore Press Holdings Limited, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2024:
text: If only Kei could belanja them some good cold stuff in this heat.
ref: 2023, Aishah Zainal, Hades, Gerakbudaya Enterprise, →ISBN:
glosses: To give someone a treat.
spoilerettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spoilerette
gate-keepy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: gate-keepier
form: gate-keepiest
form: gatekeepy
Etymology: From gate-keep + -y.
Senses: examples: text: "Something that has always bothered me about this kind of hobby is that there is, of course the occasional person ... who gets kinda gatekeepy with the hobby. Part of the tabletop culture ... is the community of it. So why would you want ... people scared away from enjoying your hobby? […]
ref: 2018 November 19, David Escobedo, “Tabletop game shop welcomes players”, in The BG News, Bowling Green State University, page 12:
text: And I think that was really helpful because it was respectful to me and my gender to not be like gatekeepy or anything like that.
ref: 2018, anonymous, quoted in Holly Brown, "Blessing Or BS?: Examining The Therapy Experiences Of Transgender And Gender Nonconforming Clients Obtaining Referral Letters For Gender Affirming Medical Treatment", dissertation submitted to the University of Kentucky, page 43
text: I know that a lot of people in the queer community have had concerns with queer groups being gate-keepy or not being open to anyone who isn’t a cis white male, […]
ref: 2019, Tyler, quoted in Jacyie Weeks, "The Las Vegas Gaymers", Therapy, December 2019, page 18
glosses: Engaging in, characteristic of, or related to gatekeeping.
Synonyms: gatekeepery
gatekeepy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gatekeepy
form: most gatekeepy
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gate-keepy.
gate-keep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gate-keeps
form: gate-keeping
form: gate-kept
form: gate-kept
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gatekeep.
Derived terms: gate-keepy
orthohantavirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthohantaviruses
Senses: glosses: Any member of the genus Orthohantavirus of single-stranded, enveloped, negative-sense RNA viruses.
Related terms: hantavirus
orthohantaviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orthohantavirus
American warbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: American warblers
Senses: glosses: Any bird of New World family Parulidae.
American warblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of American warbler
trademarker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trademarkers
Etymology: From trademark + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who trademarks something.
trademarkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trademarker
stirrup stocking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stirrup stockings
Senses: examples: text: He could let me have a pair of coarse, but clean, stirrup-stockings, if I pleased.
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CCXXXII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
glosses: A type of stocking with no foot, just a strap passing under the foot.
stirrup stockings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stirrup stocking
calceolarioside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calceolariosides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of phenolic glycosides present in plants of the genus Fraxinus.
calceolariosides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calceolarioside
camrelizumab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + [Term?] + -li- (“immunomodulating”) + -zumab (“humanized monoclonal antibody”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A particular anticancer drug.
chloroindene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chloroindenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any chloro derivative of an indene
chloroindenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chloroindene
collagenopathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Relating to a collagenopathy
collembolid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collembolids
Senses: glosses: Any springtail of the subclass Collembola.
Related terms: collembolous
collembolids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collembolid
corneosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corneosomes
Senses: glosses: A form of desmosome present in the cornea
corneosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corneosome
corticision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corticisions
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: An incision into the cortical bone
corticisions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corticision
corynoxine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The alkaloid methyl (E)-2-[(3R,6'R,7'S,8'aS)-6'-ethenyl-2-oxospiro[1H-indole-3,1'-3,5,6,7,8,8a-hexahydro-2H-indolizine]-7'-yl]-3-methoxyprop-2-enoate used in Chinese medicine
counterargumentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterargumentations
Etymology: From counter- + argumentation.
Senses: glosses: The presentation of counterarguments
darolutamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -lutamide (“nonsteroid antiandrogen”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An antiandrogen used against prostate cancer.
echocontrast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The contrast in an ultrasound image
ecofactual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or characteristic of an ecofact
electroradiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + radiology.
Senses: glosses: A combination of the use of electrology and radiology
emicizumab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -ci- (“cardiovascular”) + -zumab (“humanized monoclonal antibody”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A chimeric bispecific antibody used in the treatment of haemophilia.
entoptychine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entoptychines
Senses: glosses: Any gopher of the genus Entoptychus
entoptychines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entoptychine
mustiphinis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mustiphini
quintoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quintoon
nagamaki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nagamakis
form: nagamaki
Etymology: From Japanese nagamaki (nagamaki), from ながまき, from 長巻 (“long wrapping”), from 長 (“long”)+巻 (“winding”), from having a long wrapped handle.
Senses: glosses: A type of Japanese sword; a single-edged curving blade with a handle comparable in length to that of the blade, whose blade is length is usually comparable to other regular Japanese swords, though other longer ones also were made.
Coordinate terms: daisho
katana
naginata
nihonto
nodachi
tachi
tanto
wakizashi
nagamakis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nagamaki
Liouville-Arnold theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Liouville-Arnold theorem
Etymology: Named after Joseph Liouville and Vladimir Arnold.
Senses: glosses: In dynamical systems theory, a theorem stating that if, in a Hamiltonian dynamical system with n degrees of freedom, there are also known n first integrals of motion that are independent and in involution, then there exists a canonical transformation to action-angle coordinates in which the transformed Hamiltonian is dependent only upon the action coordinates and the angle coordinates evolve linearly in time. Thus the equations of motion for the system can be solved in quadratures if the canonical transform is explicitly known.
Bes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /bɛs/
Forms: form: Bisu
Senses: examples: text: The god Bes occurred so early in the human imagination that it reaches back to the earliest of human settlements along the Nile.
ref: 2009, Molefi Kete Asante, Ama Mazama, editors, Encyclopedia of African Religion, SAGE, →ISBN, page 121:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An ancient Egyptian god, the protector of households and mothers, children and childbirth.
Coordinate terms: Beset
Related terms: Ibiza
kiddiwink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kiddiwinks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kiddywink.
kiddiwinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kiddiwink
Teposcolula Mixtec
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Although Los Reyes provides little information about Coixtlahuaca Mixtec, he devotes several paragraphs to notable differences between Yanhuitlan and Teposcolula Mixtec.
ref: 2008, Michael Swanton, “Multilingualism in the Tocuij Ñudzavui Region”, in Maarten E.R.G.N. Jansen, Laura N.K. van Broekhoven, editors, Mixtec Writing and Society = Escritura de Ñuu Dzaui, Amsterdam: KNAW Press, page 352:
glosses: The variety of Mixtec formerly spoken at San Pedro y San Pablo Teposcolula, Oaxaca, Mexico.
entrectinib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A particular anticancer drug
ethnoculinary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ethno- + culinary.
Senses: glosses: Relating to ethnic cookery
ethnoculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethnocultures
Etymology: From ethno- + culture.
Senses: glosses: The culture of an ethnic group
Related terms: ethnocultural
exergonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being exergonic
exfoliome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exfoliomes
Etymology: Blend of exfoliated + -ome
Senses: glosses: An exfoliated transcriptome
Related terms: exfoliomic
exfoliomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to an exfoliome
extrafibrillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of extrafibrillar.
extrapenumbral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + penumbral.
Senses: glosses: Outside of a penumbra
extremisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extremisations
Etymology: From extreme + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of extremization.
fibromyxoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fibromyxomas
form: fibromyxomata
Etymology: From fibro- + myxoma.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of myxofibroma.
ficuseptine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ficuseptines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of alkaloids present in some species of fig
flavesone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The insecticidal cyclic ketone 2,2,4,4-tetramethyl-6-(2-methylpropanoyl)cyclohexane-1,3,5-trione present in some essential oils
fluoroionophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluoroionophores
Etymology: From fluoro- + ionophore.
Senses: glosses: Any fluorescent ionophore
kitty cruises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kitty cruise
furcasternum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: furcasternums
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: The posterior part of an insect sternum bearing the furca
Related terms: furcasternal
fluoroionophores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluoroionophore
furcasternal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the furcasternum of an insect
high-visibility
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more high-visibility
form: most high-visibility
Senses: synonyms: hi-vis
glosses: Made of a reflective or fluorescent material that can be easily seen.
raw_tags: of clothing
examples: text: We continue to carry out constant high-visibility deployments at stations where there is crowding and where non-compliance is most prominent, always working closely with railway staff to ensure any public disorder or anti-social behaviour is dealt with promptly.
ref: 2020 April 22, “Network News: BTP chief pays tribute to rail staff and BTP officers”, in Rail, page 10:
glosses: Denoting something intended to attract attention and be noticed.
inescapeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inescapeable
form: most inescapeable
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard spelling of inescapable.
galcanezumab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -ne- (“neural”) + -zumab (“humanized monoclonal antibody”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A monoclonal antibody against CGRP used to treat migraine.
gemycircularvirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gemycircularviruses
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Gemycircularvirus of DNA viruses.
geohelminthiasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geohelminthiases
Etymology: From geo- + helminthiasis or geohelminth + -iasis.
Senses: glosses: Infestation with geohelminths.
geolimnological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From geo- + limnological.
Senses: glosses: geological and limnological
germinivirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of geminivirus.
glycopeptidases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glycopeptidase
haemoconcentrator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haemoconcentrators
Etymology: From haemo- + concentrator.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hemoconcentrator.
hemoconcentrator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemoconcentrators
Etymology: From hemo- + concentrator.
Senses: glosses: Something that hemoconcentrates
haemodiafilter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haemodiafilters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hemodiafilter.
hemodiafilter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemodiafilters
Senses: glosses: A filter used in hemodiafiltration
helocrene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helocrenes
Senses: glosses: A spring that originates in a marsh
Related terms: helocrenic
helocrenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of helocrene
helocrenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a helocrene
official gazette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈfɪʃəl ɡəˈzɛt/
Forms: form: official gazettes
Senses: glosses: A periodical publication that has been authorised to publish public or legal notices.
Synonyms: government gazette
official bulletin
official journal
official monitor
official newspaper
heneicosapentaenoate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of heneicosapentaenoic acid
heneicosapentaenoic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The omega-3 fatty acid (6Z,9Z,12Z,15Z,18Z)-henicosa-6,9,12,15,18-pentaenoic acid
Related terms: heneicosapentaenoate
heteroperception
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heteroperceptions
Etymology: From hetero- + perception.
Senses: glosses: The perception of traits in other people
Related terms: autoperception
heteropycnotics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heteropycnotic
hexamerized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hexamerize
hexamerized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Formed into a hexamer
horsegram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horsegrams
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of horse gram.
humidimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: humidimeters
Senses: glosses: An electronic (digital) hygrometer
hyperconductive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + conductive.
Senses: glosses: Exceptionally conductive
Related terms: hyperconductivity
hand sanitiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hand sanitisers
Senses: examples: text: Staff at Govia Thameslink Railway's Horsham maintenance depot have filled 1,000 bottles of hand sanitiser for distribution to sites across its network, including to the Letchworth distribution team.
ref: 2020 April 22, “Network News: GTR depot bottles hand sanitiser”, in Rail, page 11:
glosses: Non-Oxford British spelling of hand sanitizer.
hypoeosinophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypoeosinophilias
Etymology: From hypo- + eosinophil + -ia.
Senses: glosses: a marked decrease in the eosinophil count in the bloodstream
animal heat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: [T]he work on animal heat, also strongly influenced by Priestley, led to the oxidation-respiration papers by Lavoisier and his collaborators, Laplace and Seguin.
ref: 2004, Robert E Schofield, The Enlightened Joseph Priestley, Pennsylvania State University, published 2004, page 130:
topics: sciences
glosses: The heat generated in the body of a living animal.
bannum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banna
Etymology: From Latin bannum.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ban (“gathering for war; mulct or penalty”).
synonyms: word: ban
extra: gathering for war; mulct or penalty
pro-rail
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pro-rail
form: most pro-rail
Etymology: From pro- + rail.
Senses: examples: text: Simpson concluded with a five-point plan to boost rail freight: a pro-rail freight public policy; a supportive planning system; cost neutrality for customers; investment in rolling stock, management systems and facilities; and investment in network electrification.
ref: 2020 April 22, “Network News: Simpson: more electrification vital to decarbonised rail freight”, in Rail, page 13:
glosses: In support of rail transport or travel.
time-barred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From time + barred.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: That can not be brought to court because the time period set down in a statute of limitations has passed.
Related terms: time-bar
law of contradiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Synonym of law of noncontradiction.
synonyms: word: law of noncontradiction
non-unique
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + unique.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nonunique.
Bowes Park
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban area of London in Barnet borough and Haringey borough, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3091).
ungodly hour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ungodly hours
Senses: examples: text: at an ungodly hour
text: When Ramcharan came to open the door, he thought within himself, "Who is it that knocks at this ungodly hour? Is it the pious hermit? Most likely so. But we have had quite an adventure to-night, and I am not going to open the door at this unearthly hour, till I see who knocks at it."
ref: 1875, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, chapter 7, in Manmatha Nath Ray Chowdhury, transl., Chandra Shekhar, published 1904:
text: I suggested that we talk about it at a less ungodly hour. “Five A.M. is not an ungodly hour, baby. I call it studio time, although it's been a while since I got up at that hour to make a movie,” she said in a more agreeable tone.
ref: 2013, Peter Evans, Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
glosses: A very early or late time of day.
Related terms: wee hours
small hours
until all hours
ungodly hours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ungodly hour
till all hours
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of until all hours.
drive someone mad
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drives someone mad
form: driving someone mad
form: drove someone mad
form: driven someone mad
Senses: glosses: Synonym of drive someone crazy.
synonyms: word: drive someone crazy
drive someone nuts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drives someone nuts
form: driving someone nuts
form: drove someone nuts
form: driven someone nuts
Senses: glosses: Synonym of drive someone crazy.
synonyms: word: drive someone crazy
policeism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From police + -ism.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:policeism.
glosses: An ideology or political practice that favors extensive, especially oppressive, policing.
to the fullest
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of to the full.
policism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:policism.
glosses: Alternative form of policeism.
drive someone insane
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drives someone insane
form: driving someone insane
form: drove someone insane
form: driven someone insane
Senses: glosses: Synonym of drive someone crazy.
synonyms: word: drive someone crazy
policingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From policing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […] usually means passing plenty of pills in paper cups, and not just one. Why I have known psychiatrists - who have protectingly, politely and policingly pressured/prescribed 25 pills per day for the psychiatric "patient"/substitute person ...
ref: 1972, Leonard Roy Frank, Sherry Hirsch, Wade Lee Hudson, Madness Network News Volume #1, MNN Redux, page 29:
text: I asked him if it was necessary and he said yes and he rather policingly escorted me out the front door and into the back of a waiting patrol car.
ref: 2012 May 7, Dan Clore, “Drug Warriors Jail Injured Woman for "Forging" a Legimate Prescription”, in soc.rights.human (Usenet):
text: The insistence upon silence within these stilled spaces, as perhaps within a Quaker chapel, is such as to impose (self-policingly) its own unexamined […]
ref: 2014, Clark Lunberry, Sites of Performance: Of Time and Memory, Anthem Press, →ISBN, page 110:
text: This has led fandom to ask whether the use of “Mary Sue” is self-policingly sexist; after all, mainstream genre stories regularly feature special teenage boys who save the world.
ref: 2017, Francesca Coppa, The Fanfiction Reader: Folk Tales for the Digital Age, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 47:
glosses: In a policing manner; in a way that polices.
Pupel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pupels
Senses: glosses: A surname.
ichnotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ichnotypes
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A footprint of a type specimen (especially an extinct one)
ichnotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ichnotype
idiobiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From idio- + biology.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The study of biological individuals
Related terms: idiobiological
idiobiologist
imidazopyrimidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imidazopyrimidines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A bicyclic heterocycle composed of an imidazole ring fused to one of a pyrimidine; any derivative of such a compound, many of which have a biochemical function
imidazopyrimidines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imidazopyrimidine
Osage Nation
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Osage Nation
Senses: glosses: The sovereign nation of the Osage people; a Midwestern Native American nation of the Great Plains.
glosses: The government of the Osage people.
glosses: Osage County.
immunometabolome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunometabolomes
Etymology: From immuno- + metabolome.
Senses: glosses: An immunometabolic metabolome
immunopreventive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From immuno- + preventive.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to immunoprevention
Holb
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Holbs
Senses: glosses: A surname.
immunovirologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From immuno- + virologically.
Senses: glosses: In an immunovirological manner
independance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Another reaſon may be the ſame which was alledged for the ſpirituality of the ſoule, namely independance in operation, and therefore conſequently in Being upon the body. And that Independance is manifeſt, Firſt, becauſe the acts of the ſoule are educ’d immediately in it ſelfe, without the Intercedence of any organ whereby ſenſitive faculties work.[…]And from the latter of thoſe two Principles, which I ſpake of, namely, that the quality of the Being may be gathered from the Nature of the Operation, Ariſtotle inferres the ſeparability and independance of the underſtanding on the Body, in the third de Anima afore-named:[…]
ref: 1640, Edvvard Reynoldes, “Of the Soules immortality proved by its simplicity, independance, agreement of Nations in acknowledging God and duties due unto him, dignity above other Creatures, power of understanding things immortall, unsatiablenesse by objects Mortall, freenesse from all causes of corruption”, in A Treatise of the Passions and Facvlties of the Soul of Man. With the severall Dignities and Corruptions thereunto belonging., London: […] R. H. for Robert Bostock, […], pages 407–408 and 418:
text: Therein he proved the ſuperiority of the Council above the Pope, and the independance of Kings.
ref: 1687, “The Explication of the Vision of the Six First Seals, according as it is in the sixth Chapter of the Revelation”, in The Accomplishment of the Scripture Prophecies, or the Approaching Deliverance of the Church. […], London, translation of original by Peter Jurieu, page 57:
text: The Presbyterians ſhould follow them in this Pretence, as they do in the Severity of their Procedures, that at leaſt they might be Conſequential; for they are as impatient of Contradiction as the Jeſuits, from whom they have borrowed moſt of their beloved Tenets, and Arguments by which they endeavour to ſupport them; Eſpecially their opinion concerning Kings, and the Independance of Clergymen upon the Secular Powers.
ref: 1691, “The Preface”, in Presbyterian Inquisition; As it was lately Practised against the Professors of the Colledge of Edinburgh. […], London: […] J. Hindmarsh […], pages 14–15:
text: BRITISH LIBERTY. / RELIGION. MORALITY. / LOYALTY OBEDIENCE TO THE LAWS INDEPENDANCE PERSONAL SECURITY JUSTICE INHERITANCE PROTECTION PROPERTY INDUSTRY NATIONAL PROSPERITY / HAPPINESS
ref: 1792, The Contrast: Which Is Best, (image):
text: The Honourable John Yates, this new friend, had not much to recommend him beyond habits of fashion and expense, and being the younger son of a Lord with a tolerable independance; […]
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XIII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 251:
glosses: Obsolete form of independence.
glosses: Misspelling of independence.
infantaricin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infantaricins
Etymology: From Latin infantarius m (“infantry”) + -cin (“bacteriocin-forming suffix”), named after translingual Streptococcus infantarius m.
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of bacteriocins produced by a strain of Streptococcus infantarius
infantaricins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infantaricin
latticize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: latticizes
form: latticizing
form: latticized
form: latticized
Senses: glosses: To voxelate or pixelate; To represent a space region with voxels, or a surface with pixels.
Related terms: latticization
proctiger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proctigers
Etymology: From proct- + -i- + -ger.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: The terminal segment of an insect's abdomen, containing the anus.
proctigers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proctiger
epiproct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛpɪpɹɑkt/
ipa: /ˈɛpɪpɹɒkt/
Forms: form: epiprocts
Etymology: epi- + Ancient Greek πρωκτός (prōktós)
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Either of the lateral lobes of the proctiger.
Marchwood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in New Forest district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU3810).
glosses: A neighbourhood of Lionville, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Lionville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Originally named Welsh Pool, but renamed after the local Red Lion Inn.
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Holybourne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Alton parish, East Hampshire district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU7340).
Humby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
circumversion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)ʒən
Etymology: Possibly from circum- + verse + -ion, compare traverse.
Senses: examples: text: Rotation through 360°, which occurs in all Muscomorpha, is called circumversion.
ref: 1981, Manual of Nearctic Diptera, volume 1, →ISBN, page 56:
glosses: Rotation by a full circle.
waggable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more waggable
form: most waggable
Etymology: From wag + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Note : In Scenes II and XI, music is called for, and this is furnished by the Volunteer Firemen's Band, led by Eddie Simpson, who wears waggable whiskers and is always two notes behind his colleagues as to melody.
ref: 1928, Agnes Porter, Edith S. Isaacs, Rose Albert, Copy, 1928: four full-length plays, page 306:
text: If you lean strongly to emulation of the dog, you may decide to give the beast a waggable tail. That would require only a single double-windlass mechanism.
ref: 1984, Nels Winkless, If I had a robot--: what to expect from the personal robot, page 65:
text: Unlike the tails of most mammals, it isn't as much a flexible appendage as it is a fixed extension of the body, hardly more waggable than a nose or an ear.
ref: 1984, Bil Gilbert, In God's Countries, page 7:
text: Indeed, human tongues are waggable, not in the same way that dogs' tails are waggable – human tongues are waggable in far more complex ways, including being mis-waggable and disingenuously waggable – but their dynamic patternings, their synergies of meaningful movement, are articulations on par with comsigns in the animate world at large: synergies of meaningful movement and articulate "signs" – including signs int he form of words – that virtually all in the species are capable of performing and understanding.
ref: 2012, Ad Foolen, Ulrike M. Lüdtke, Timothy P. Racine, Moving Ourselves, Moving Others, page 51:
glosses: Capable of wagging.
cement works
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cement works
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
glosses: A factory where building cement (for concrete) is manufactured.
Coordinate terms: sense: type of works
word: works § Hyponyms
wainful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wainfuls
form: wainsful
Etymology: From wain + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Farmer John and his comfortable wainful, has the best of my Lord Grateswel, in his uncomfortably aristocratic coach,—for “First come first served,” is the Grasmere Sports' motto.
ref: 1879, Routledge's Every Girl's Annual, page 302:
text: It is a pleasant picture to dwell on ; the farm, a small state. in itself, with the mowers and gleaners singing about the last wainful of corn ;
ref: 1896, Twentieth Century - Volume 16, page 9:
text: They were guided "by a man in a long smock with girdle and scarf of green," and drew "a wainful of children dressed as woodland gods, tossing daisies and field flowers as they went along."
ref: 1972, Alf Evers, The Catskills: From Wilderness to Woodstock, page 542:
text: It's not just the English wine, he's doing hay-wain rides around les vignes where exactly the wainful of hay is supposed to have come from on a farm covered in grapevines I can't tell you– pick-and-press days, bottle-your-own sessions, with labels for the kiddies to colour in, Christmas wine clubs, cheese and wine-tasting nights with a band and dancing.
ref: 2008, Catriona McCloud, Straight Up:
glosses: A quantity that fills a wain; wagonful.
wainfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wainful
wainsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wainful
xeriphilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more xeriphilic
form: most xeriphilic
Etymology: From xeri- + -philic.
Senses: examples: text: Operating within this Australian context, a sacred ecology—which I define as a state of plant-animal-human souls in dynamic exchange with the material landscape—embodies the qualities of antipodean plant life: unique, endemic, ancient, adaptive, xeriphilic, and sensorial.
ref: 2017, John Ryan, Plants in Contemporary Poetry:
glosses: Adapted to or preferring arid environments.
yawlsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yawlsmen
Etymology: From yawl + -s- + -man.
Senses: examples: text: When the sun has sunk behind the Yorkshire wolds, its work begins; the lamp is lighted, and the clockowrk wound. Then the watch pacing the steamer's deck, Jack Collier taking his 'trick at the wheel, ' and the bluff yawlsman riding to his nets far out at sea, will see a tiny point of light grow and grow , until a brilliant beam of brightness flashes acrsss the darkness, and then dies down again and leaves all black awhile.
ref: 1885 August 15, “Round Flamborough Head”, in Chambers's Journal, volume 62, number 85, page 513:
text: This deduction of nearly one hundred million herrings shot away with the lives of the kittiwakes and gulls every season, under one line of cliffs alone, is a rough, unscientific perhaps, but nevertheless effective popular argument for the good cause, and should make the owners of the Sarah Jane, the Two Brothers, and every other North Sea yawlsman rub their chins reflectively and reconsider their ill-will towards the birds, or their willingness to show the gentlemen of the Sheffield furnaces and the Midland cotton mills the breeding-places of the fair while fowl that supply the life and pleasure of the great north seas.
ref: 1887, Edwin Lester Linden Arnold, Bird Life in England, page 225:
text: Yawlsmen on the herrin run reported that Abrusio-bound ships were diverting to Cherrieros and even Pontifidad.
ref: 2010, Paul Kearney, Hawkwood and the Kings:
text: This was finally effected by yawlsmen from the gunboats who were expert in shooting the rapids, and after several attempts succeeded in getting both off safely, but nearly exhausted.
ref: 2016, Charles A. Willison, A Boy's Service Under Sherman in the Civil War:
glosses: One who sails a yawl.
Related terms: yawler
yawlsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yawlsman
weight room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weight rooms
Senses: glosses: A room containing exercise equipment for weight training.
zunana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zunanas
Senses: examples: text: The reserve vanished which in other times would have kept the youthful maiden to the seclusion of the zunana, and she flew to the abode of Mr. Woodburne, entreating the guardianship of his wife, and her assistance in obtaining an interview with B'howanee.
ref: 1836, Samuel Carter Hall, The Amulet:
text: She is the daughter of a European merchant, and is accomplished for an inhabitant of a zunana, as she writes and speaks Persian fluently, as well as Hindoostanee ; and it is said that she is teaching the King English, though when we spoke to her in English, she said she had forgotten it, and could not reply.
ref: 1858, Sir William Henry Sleeman, A Journey Through the Kingdom of Oude in 1849-1850:
text: For the year 1875 both, branches of this society supported thirty-two missionaries' wives and single lady missionaries, sixty-six native Bible readers, zunana visitors and teachers, beside a large number of orphans and schools.
ref: 1876, Jeannette L. Hauser, The Orient and Its People, page 70:
glosses: The women's quarters in an Arab household; harem.
zunanas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zunana
metafic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metafics
Etymology: From meta- + fic.
Senses: examples: text: In metafics, Janeites make hypotheses on the sources of inspiration for the novels, wonder how the world would have been without Jane, and imagine a TV talk show where Austen herself interviews her characters.
ref: 2008, Roberta Grandi, “Web Side Stories: Janeites, Fanfictions, And Never Ending Romances”, in Ingrid Hotz-Davies, Anton Kirchhofer, Sirpa Leppänen, editors, Internet Fictions, page 35:
text: A few days later, the fan who sparked this discussion added her own voice to the debate with a metafic (that is, a fic about fandom) called 'The Girl Who Did Not Know Angst.'
ref: 2014, Veerle Van Steenhuyse, “Oh, the Angst! Emotional Immersion in Jane Austen Fan Fiction”, in Tawnya Ravy, Eric Forcier, editors, Words, Worlds, Narratives: Transmedia and Immersion:
text: This fic is considered a metafic, a fic about fanfiction and fandom, and usually metafic is satirical like this one.
ref: 2016, Layanne Malluhi, "Fanfiction and the Transgression of Fandom Communities", thesis submitted to Georgetown University, unnumbered page
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fanfic with metafictional elements, focusing on fan fiction, fandom, or creators.
examples: text: The difference between this kind of "metafic" and objectionable "actor-fic" is that the metafic is still concentrated on the characters and the fictional world, with just a bit of the actors/real world (or other characters/other ficworld) stirred in for added interest, and usually humor. Objectionable "actor-fic" is fiction about the actors in the real world.
ref: 2000 May 2, lee burwasser, “Re: HAD question - "actor-fic"”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):
text: Depends. The blatantly obvious Mary-Sue-as-Metafic/Parody can be great, or it can be tiresome.
ref: 2002 April 11, Becky C., “Re: A question about Mary Sue stories...”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative (Usenet):
text: User umqra1895 comments that the author “poke[d] fun and [paid] homage to the wide fanfic universe” with this fic, which is essentially what metafic does.
ref: 2016, Layanne Malluhi, "Fanfiction and the Transgression of Fandom Communities", thesis submitted to Georgetown University, unnumbered page
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Such fan fiction collectively.
dead dropping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dead drop
dead dropped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dead drop
dead-drop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dead-drops
form: dead-dropping
form: dead-dropped
form: dead-dropped
Senses: examples: text: The agent had to dead-drop the locker key to the PGU by some simple means, such as by taping it underneath a predesignated park bench, where it could be retrieved unobtrusively, usually by an officer under illegal cover.
ref: 2007, Ion Mihai Pacepa, Programmed to Kill:
text: Last week, he 'dead-dropped' some pictures of the last dozen or so relatively new arrivals to Moscow and their assigned cars.
ref: 2011, Robert W. Swanson, The Russian Shoot, page 174:
text: Upon arriving in Setauket, Roe would dead-drop the information in a box in the middle of a field owned by Woodhull. Woodhull took the secrets to Brewster, who delivered them to Major Tallmadge.
ref: 2020, H. Keith Melton, Robert Wallace, Spy Sites of New York City, page 11:
glosses: Alternative form of dead drop.
dead-drops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dead-drop
dead-dropping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dead-drop
dead-dropped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dead-drop
binaristic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From binarist + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: It should be pointed out that Jakobson upheld his binaristic conception with absolute consistency: in one of his last Prague lectures (1938) he also undertook a thorough binaristic classification of consonant phonemes, dividing their opposition in terms so far unknown: forward-flanged vs backward-flanged […]
ref: 1994, Philip A. Luelsdorff, The Prague School of Structural and Functional Linguistics, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 17:
text: While it may be politically advantageous (and empirically accurate) to reject the racially binaristic thinking of the 1960s civil rights era, it is nevertheless the case that blacks remain the poorest racial minority in the United States per capita, […]
ref: 2004, Mike Hill, After Whiteness: Unmaking an American Majority, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 34:
synonyms: binarist
glosses: Exhibiting or advocating binarism.
Derived terms: binaristically