cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
as the twig is bent, so is the tree inclined
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: From the Epistles to Several Persons (1732): "'Tis education forms the common mind, Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined."
Senses: glosses: A person's formative experiences in youth influence their character during adulthood.
wikipedia: Epistles to Several Persons
catches a Tartar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of catch a Tartar
catching a Tartar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of catch a Tartar
caught a Tartar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of catch a Tartar
Heruli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: Herules
Herulians
glosses: An early Germanic people, mentioned by ancient Roman authors as one of several "Scythian" groups raiding Roman provinces in the Balkans and the Aegean Sea, attacking by land and sea.
Herule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Herules
Senses: glosses: A member of the Heruli (an early Germanic people).
Herules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Herule
Herulian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Herulians
Senses: glosses: A member of the Heruli (an early Germanic people).
Herulian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Herulian
form: most Herulian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to these people.
Herulians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Herulian
HERVs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of HERV
self-praise is no recommendation
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Empty boasting reflects poorly on the qualities of the braggart.
Hesione
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Any of various women in Greek mythology, especially the Trojan princess who was the daughter of King Laomedon.
automatic differentiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: autodifferentiation
glosses: Exact differentiation of functions represented in program code by inspecting the code (as opposed to mere evaluation) and repeated application of the chain rule.
hetericism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From heteric + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Heteric spelling.
Xizhi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shēʹjûʹ
Forms: form: Hsichih
form: Sijhih
form: Shihchih
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 汐止 (Xìzhǐ).
Senses: examples: text: Few people know about Du Yuesheng’s monument, situated in the picturesque village of Xizhi, not far from Taipei. The huge arch of grey stone is quite imposing. Its four-character inscription praises the dead man’s “loyalty” and “personal integrity,” and even proudly lists the names of his children!
ref: 1990, Jules Nadeau, “The United Bamboo triad: disgrace of a nation”, in Twenty Million Chinese "Made in Taiwan", Montréal Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 272:
text: Sources said the company has only met with lenders on a NT$12bn five-year financing from August 2011 for a commercial building project in New Taipei City’s Xizhi District.
ref: 2014 June 6, Carol Zhong, “TRLPC -Taiwan: Farglory meets with lenders as chairman faces bribery charges”, in Jacqueline Poh, Prakash Chakravarti, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 03 Mar 2023, FINANCIALS:
text: In the video, the facility in Xizhi District in North Taiwan’s New Taipei City can be seen hoisting around a dozen newborn babies, each in their own cot, when the room starts to shake.
ref: 2019 April 19, John Feng, “Brave nurses launch daring rescue op to protect newborn babies during earthquake”, in Daily Mirror, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2019:
text: Those incidents included a landslide at the entrance of the An-Tai Tunnel in Taipei's Neihu District, a landslide in New Taipei's Xi-Zhi District that resulted in the evacuation of 100 people from housing in the area.
ref: [2022 October 17, “CEOC Reports 268 Incidents as Rain Batter Island”, in International Community Radio Taipei, archived from the original on 03 Mar 2023, Realtime News:
text: Instead of buying a ticket to Hualien, Lu appeared to purchase a ticket to New Taipei City's Xizhi District.
At 3 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon, police were able to pinpoint Lu's location to an internet cafe in Xizhi, reported UDN.
ref: 2023 February 14, Keoni Everington, “Prison escapee caught in New Taipei internet cafe”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 15 Feb 2023, Society:
glosses: A district of New Taipei City, Taiwan.
Synonyms: sense: from Japanese
word: Shiodome
crab markets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crab market
unfreakishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unfreakishly
form: most unfreakishly
Etymology: From un- + freakishly.
Senses: examples: text: So it would probably be wise to be content with trying to establish some such more modest conclusion as that the power of multiplication possessed by any unfreakishly composed human population is so great that it could not be exercised unchecked for very long.
ref: 1957 May, Antony Flew, “The Structure of Malthus’ Population Theory”, in The Australasian Journal of Philosophy, volume 35, number 1, page 12:
text: The sound hole in a cello, an upper-case Caslon Old Style S, an approaching swan, a swiftly twirling sea lion reversing direction, fifty elephants with heads touching the ground as honoring majesty in Thailand—these symbolize fashion rightness as unfreakishly right as Siam is distant from Manhattan.
ref: 1967 November 4, Marianne C[raig] Moore, “In Fashion Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow”, in Herbert Mitgang, editor, America at Random: from The New York Times’ Oldest Editorial Feature, “Topics of the Times,” a Century of Comment on America and Americans, New York, N.Y.: Coward-McCann, Inc., published 1969, →LCCN, section I (America and the Americans), page 68:
text: Baba (who hardly has her fair share of the best music) was attractively, and unfreakishly, presented by Eva Gilhofer.
ref: 1968, Opera, volume 19, page 831:
text: When he thought about those kids being freaks, though, he immediately also thought, No offense, because those kids couldn’t help being so freakishly smart or gifted or whatever, the same way Dev couldn’t help being highly, but unfreakishly, smart.
ref: 2008, Marisa de los Santos, Belong to Me, William Morrow, →ISBN, page 33:
glosses: Not freakishly.
Clam Falls
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Apparently named after falls on the Clam River (Wisconsin).
Senses: glosses: A town and unincorporated community therein, in Polk County, Wisconsin, United States.
wikipedia: Clam River (Wisconsin)
heterochromy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of heterochromia.
heterodromy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The property of being heterodromous.
heterogametism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From heterogamete + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The condition of an organism that produces heterogametes.
white party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white parties
Senses: qualifier: recreational drugs
glosses: The use of cocaine with other people
PFIC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pē'fĭk
ipa: /ˈpiːfɪk/
Forms: form: PFICs
Senses: topics: economics
government
sciences
taxation
glosses: Acronym of passive foreign investment company.
Razihi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Razih
form: Naẓīri
Etymology: From Razihi رزيحي (Rāziḥī).
Senses: glosses: One of the two last Old South Arabian languages left; it is spoken in Yemen.
Dongyin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɔŋ.jɪn/
ipa: /dɒŋ-/
enpr: do͝ongʹyǐnʹ
Forms: form: Tungyin
Etymology: From Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 東引 (Dōngyǐn).
Senses: examples: text: The Military Trail Challenge is taking place in Dongyin Township on the Matsu Islands, a chain that sits directly next to China and is on Taiwan’s first line of defense.[…]
At the end of the race, all contestants will be rewarded with a feast of the local specialties and Dongyin Township’s special sorghum liquor.
ref: 2020 June 19, Shirley Lin, “VIDEO: More than 1000 sign up for military-style obstacle course race”, in Radio Taiwan International, archived from the original on 28 Jun 2020:
text: SOUNDS OF GUNFIRE[…]
"We're very used to these sounds," said Dongyin township chief Lin Te-chien, as he observed Wednesday's drills.
ref: 2022 March 16, Sarah Wu, Yimou Lee, Ben Blanchard, “On Taiwanese island, drills underscore strategic importance and vulnerability”, in Gerry Doyle, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 16 Mar 2022:
glosses: A rural township in Lienchiang County, Taiwan, in the Matsu Islands.
examples: text: Taiwan's minor islands offer numerous opportunities. Matsu National Scenic Area, especially Dongyin Island, is excellent for spotting migrants between mid-April and mid-May and again from mid-September to mid-October.
ref: 2014, Steven Crook, Taiwan (Bradt Guides), 2nd edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 76:
text: The army and navy have purchased six sets of the short-range weapons systems to be in part deployed on Lienchiang County’s Dongyin Island (東引) and Kinmen County’s Wuchiu Island (烏坵).
The Chinese-language United Daily News (UDN) yesterday reported that the Wuchiu system is expected to be deployed by June, while the system in Dongyin should become operational by the end of this year.
ref: 2022 April 11, Kayleigh Madjar, “Deployment of short-range defense systems moved up”, in Taipei Times, archived from the original on 10 Apr 2022:
text: Anita Tsai, who runs a restaurant in Dongyin, Matsu’s northernmost island, shared the same frustrations over the frequent internet disruptions. “At its worst, it took me five minutes to watch a ten-second video,” said Tsai.
ref: 2023 March 9, Meaghan Tobin, Vic Chiang, “Internet outage has Taiwan worried about threat from Chinese sabotage”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2023, Asia:
synonyms: Tungyung
glosses: An island of Dongyin, Lienchiang County, Taiwan.
Coordinate terms: Xiyin
Hsiyin
Lugang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 鹿港 (Lùgǎng).
Senses: examples: text: Changhua County has expanded its YouBike public bike rental system to the historic tourist hotspot of Lukang (Lugang) Township, marking the third city or town in the central county to be serviced by the popular transportation option.
ref: 2014 December 22, “YouBike launched in historic town of Lukang, Changhua”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 05 Jan 2025, Society:
text: Ko Si-chi in 2006 with his photo of the Longshan Temple in Lugang, Changhua County
ref: 2020 June 6, Matthew Strong, “Top Taiwan photographer Ko Si-chi passes away at 90”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2020, Culture:
glosses: Alternative form of Lukang.
marineresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marineress
Faifi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fayfiya
form: Ḫawlāniya
form: Lahja
Senses: glosses: One of the two last Old South Arabian languages still spoken alongside Razihi. There are around 50,00 speakers and is spoken in Yemen and also a village in Saudi Arabia.
Suret
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Assyrian
shrikethrush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shrikethrushes
form: shrike-thrush
form: shrike thrush
Etymology: Compound of shrike + thrush, from the resemblance to European shrikes (genus Lanius) and thrushes (genus Turdus).
Senses: glosses: A songbird of the genus Colluricincla.
Derived terms: Arafura shrikethrush
Bower's shrikethrush
grey shrikethrush
little shrikethrush
Mamberamo shrikethrush
rufous shrikethrush
sandstone shrikethrush
Sepik-Ramu shrikethrush
sooty shrikethrush
Tagula shrikethrush
variable shrikethrush
Waigeo shrikethrush
Lovecraftiana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Lovecraft + -iana.
Senses: glosses: Objects, materials, or documents relating to H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937), American author of fantasy, horror, and science fiction.
pteraspidomorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pteraspidomorphs
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the Pteraspidomorphi, an extinct class of early jawless fish.
pteraspidomorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pteraspidomorph
cannon cocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cannon cockers
Senses: examples: text: A 'Cannon Cocker' is the lowest form of existence that there is in the Army. It is hot, dirty, dangerous, loud and continuous.
ref: 2009, Billy Hall, Bulletproof: In Vietnam, page 103:
text: “I guess we need to take these guys in,” a cannon cocker said. I met Smith's eyes, and he shook his head. Neither of us was much interested in taking the prisoners back to base.
ref: 2011, Kris Alexander, Servants of the Light:
text: I subsequently taught enough artillerymen at Quantico, and the Naval War College to make that statement, and today, even in the war on terror, I would ensure that my chief of staff was a cannon cocker!
ref: 2012, Dr. George A. Baker III, The Making of a Marine-Scholar, page 561:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A member of the military who fires guns; a soldier involved in gunnery.
cannon cockers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cannon cocker
tristeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tristness
Etymology: From triste + -ness. Compare Middle English trystenes.
Senses: examples: text: I think I have somewhere met with the observation that nobody ever leaves paris but with a degree of tristeness.
ref: 1785 June 6, Abigail Adams, edited by Julian P. Boyd, Mina R. Bryan, and Elizabeth L. Hutter, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, volume 8 (25 February to 31 October 1785), Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, published 1990, page 178:
text: This gloomy tristeness reigns triumphant over most of the streets, except when a review, or some other public occasion, attracts the population of the provinces.[…]; and, owing to there being no theatres, concerts, balls, or merry-making, an air of indescribable tristeness pervaded every thing, rendered still more melancholy by the number of people attired in that mournful garb which told of the loss of some beloved relative, or valued friend.[…]Solitude had usurped the throne of gaiety; gloom and tristeness were the substitutes for mirth and music:[…]
ref: 1836, Sketches of Germany and the Germans, with a Glance at Poland, Hungary, & Switzerland, in 1834, 1835, and 1836, volume I, London: Whittaker & Co., pages 67, 127, and 282:
text: Opposite Simone the cat and the sportive Georgette were having a low-voiced conversation about the tristeness of a monsieur of their acquaintance.
ref: 1927, Jean Rhys, “Mannequin”, in Ann Reit, editor, The World Outside: Collected Short Fiction About Women at Work, New York, N.Y.: Four Winds Press, published 1977, →ISBN, page 138:
glosses: Sadness.
hexadecahedroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexadecahedroids
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The 16-cell or hexadecachoron.
hexadecahedroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hexadecahedroid
relentful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more relentful
form: most relentful
Etymology: From relent + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: I'm kinda relentful to recommend a tnt or so, seeing as they are really cpu dependant, and i don't know the requirments on one.
ref: 1999 January 23, Dragon7x, “My worthless p133”, in 3dfx.products (Usenet):
glosses: hesitant, reluctant
examples: text: Ye lisping Flatteries, and obsequious Glances/Relentful Musics, and attractive Dances,
ref: 1598, George Chapman, Hero and Leander:
text: A captain usually laments about a players retirement but nevers persuades with such a relentful approach.
ref: 2002 September 26, Nikhil Shah, “Nehra out, Ganguly wants Srinath back”, in rec.sport.cricket (Usenet):
text: Personally, I can't see why english Canada has always been so relentful towards Quebec. We are being told that we are a NECESSARY CONDITION FOR CANADA'S SURVIVAL, but what about francophones needs to assure their own survival in north america?
ref: 1996 November 1, Benoit Caron, “La question referendaire”, in soc.culture.quebec (Usenet):
glosses: merciful, forbearing
Hitchslap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hitchslaps
Etymology: Blend of Hitchens + bitch slap
Senses: examples: text: The articles Christopher Hitchens dedicated to these real-life skirmishes left his readers in little doubt as to which side he was on. His “Hitchslap” putdowns of Islam and every other religious group or utterance are as caustic as they are uncompromising.
ref: 2018, Iain Ellis, Humorists vs. Religion, page 11:
text: A few years after the creation of YouTube in 2005, the site was full of 'Hitchslap' videos, showing the master either wittily insulting interlocutors or simply stating his abhorrence of their views with great vehemence.
ref: 2020, Ben Burgis, Conrad Bongard Hamilton, Matthew McManus, Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson:
text: As an aside, my favourite Hitchslap is from a public debate in which he was challenged on the subject of prayer by a venerable cleric. When confronted with the question of whether he, a self-proclaimed antitheist and libertarian, had ever prayed, he happily conceded that yes, once, he had done so. For a hard-on.
ref: 2021, Graham Bullen, The Broch, page 45:
glosses: A devastating put-down characteristic of Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011), British-American author and journalist.
Hitchslaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hitchslap
Tanacross
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An Athabaskan language spoken in Alaska.
glosses: A village in Alaska.
hexadactyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexadactyles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hexadactyl.
hexadactyles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hexadactyle
Deg Xinag
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: an Athabaskan language spoken in Alaska
Related terms: Deg Xit'an
Holikachuk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: an extinct Athabaskan language spoken in Alaska
glosses: an abandoned village in Alaska
hierophancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The role or the work of a hierophant.
Higginsite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Higginsites
Etymology: From Higgins + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Holy Ghost and Us Society, a millenarian religious sect, under its local minister George W. Higgins in Maine, United States.
Higginsites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Higginsite
silvestral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more silvestral
form: most silvestral
Etymology: From Latin silvestris + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Dealing with the subject in a very able and interesting manner Mr Pettigrew grouped the British plants in the following way:—1st, rock plants; 2nd, marsh plants; 3rd, plants that love shade; 4th, silvestral plants; 5th, riparian plants; 6th, gregarious plants and a mixed race, detailing the natural order, genus, &c., of the several groups that go to make up the British flora.
ref: 1899 February 27, The Bristol Mercury, volume CXXX, number 15,849, page 5:
text: Quite a considerable number of low-level Eur-Asian species have succeeded, partly with human assistance, in rounding the great mountain-masses on the west and north-west, and established themselves as components of a flora which is derived mainly from the south and the east; while the paucity of the silvestral species indicates that the mountains have proved an effective barrier on the north to the direct passage of Eur-Asian plants.
ref: 1927, Journal of Botany: British and Foreign, page 102:
text: But in the busy summer months of fields and pastures it is a farm woodlot which sees little of its owner, or, indeed, of any other two-legged silvestral traveler.
ref: 1948 August 14, “The Summer Woodlot”, in Dayton Daily News, volume 72, number 22, Dayton, Ohio, page 4:
text: It is interesting that the "vibratum ensem" to which Merlin refers in his warning (1. 380) is in practice "cornua cervo" (1. 467), rather appropriate to his silvestral life;
ref: 1988, Carol E. Harding, Merlin and Legendary Romance, Garland, →ISBN, page 83:
text: He had been pleased to find further evidence of ‘tree-consciousness’ in the city of Prague itself. It was, however, at the centre of Soviet power that he found the silvestral theme really coming into its own.[…]He opens his report to this international and ecologically minded constituency by establishing that China’s interest in silvestral matters stretched far back into antiquity. Waterways and roads had been planted with elms and willows during the Sui dynasty (581–618), and mature trees were moved from distant forests ‘to grace the palaces’. Kublai Khan himself had been a man of trees, who believed, if Marco Polo is correct, that ‘those who plant trees are rewarded with long life’.
ref: 2010, Patrick Wright, Passport to Peking: A Very British Mission to Mao’s China, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, pages 177 and 379:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a forest or wood.
hierophantes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hierophant
highbelia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Lobelia spicata, the pale spiked lobelia.
fowl paralysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Marek's disease.
synonyms: word: Marek's disease
Saskatoon berry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Saskatoon berries
Etymology: From Cree ᒥᓵᐢᐠᐘᑑᒥᓇ (misaaskwatoomina).
Senses: glosses: Amelanchier alnifolia, a shrub with edible berry-like fruit.
Synonyms: pacific serviceberry
alder-leaf shadbush
chuckley pear
pigeon berry
Related terms: Saskatoon
back-to-school night
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back-to-school nights
Senses: topics: education
glosses: An informational event in the evening where students' guardians meet their students' teachers and are introduced to the routine, curriculum, policy, etc.
granddaughterly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more granddaughterly
form: most granddaughterly
form: grand-daughterly
Etymology: From granddaughter + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Our excursion to Topsham would, we supposed, prove a very disagreeable business to him; but we knew it would result very agreeably for us, and so, though with a good deal of maidenly compunction and granddaughterly compassion on Julia’s part, we out[-]voted him.
ref: 1868, Edward E[verett] Hale, If, Yes, and Perhaps. Four Possibilities and Six Exaggerations, with Some Bits of Fact., Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, page 81:
text: Mabel had gone (it was a small service of granddaughterly duty, that had from long habit become an institution at Castle Roy) to her grandfather’s sanctum, with a cup of the beverage he loved, namely, a half cupful of weak green tea, filled to the brim with clotted cream.
ref: 1871, [Matilda Charlotte Houstoun], chapter XXIX, in Wide of the Mark, volume II, London: Tinsley Brothers, page 269:
text: I don’t think she can really care for him, except just in a grand[-]daughterly (what a horrid word to write!) sort of way.
ref: 1881, “Rita” [pen name; Eliza Humphreys], “Extracts from Clarice Norburton’s Journal”, in Fragoletta, volume II, London: Tinsley Brothers, page 12:
text: But I felt I was missing something, a link to the older generation. I thought it would be nice to have an elder to talk to, someone who could lay a little life wisdom on me as I reciprocated with granddaughterly attentions.
ref: 1997 March 21, Bobbi Olson, “Forgotten Treasure: She sought a little wisdom. She found L.A.’s Auntie Mame.”, in Los Angeles Times, page E1:
glosses: Relating to or characteristic of a granddaughter.
grand-daughterly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more grand-daughterly
form: most grand-daughterly
Senses: examples: text: Our excursion to Topsham would, we supposed, prove a very disagreeable business to him, but we knew it would result very agreeably for us, and so, though with a good deal of maidenly compunction and grand-daughterly compassion on Julia’s part, we out-voted him.
ref: 1842, [Edward Everett Hale], “The South American Editor”, in The Boston Miscellany of Literature and Fashion, volume I, number VI, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Bradbury, Soden & Co., page 268:
text: “[…]Some young ladies are quite apt to be fascinated by elderly gentlemen who know the world and still take an interest in society.” “Yes,—a filial sort of interest, a 'grand-daughterly reverence and respect. The sight of gray hair is a wonderful antidote to any tenderer feeling.”
ref: 1859 April, “Bulls and Bears”, in The Atlantic Monthly. A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics., volume III, number XVIII, Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company; London: Trübner and Company, chapter XXIII, page 417:
text: It would not be putting too fine a point on it to say Dr McBride has ample time to look up any grand-daughterly queries, or indeed perform any other family duties now that his spectacular and now disgraced career is, finally, over.
ref: 1996 July 7, Peter Wilmoth, “The damnation of William McBride”, in The Sunday Age, number 359, section “Agenda”, page 1:
glosses: Alternative form of granddaughterly.
Deg Xit'an
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Deg Hit'an
Senses: synonyms: word: Ingalik
glosses: An Athabaskan people of Alaska that speak the Deg Xinag language.
Related terms: Anvik
Deg Hit'an
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Deg Xit'an.
Anvik
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Alaska which is home to the Deg Xit'an people.
Bulqan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bulghan
form: Bulgan
Senses: glosses: A village and municipality in Azerbaijan.
rederivable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rederive + -able or re- + derive + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Any complicated formulas needed (and not easily rederivable) will be given in the exam — so no crib sheets are allowed.
ref: 2010s, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University, Course Announcements, retrieved 11 May 2022:
glosses: That can be rederived.
Related terms: deducible
derivable
rewashable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rewash + -able or re- + washable.
Senses: examples: text: rewashable filter
text: rewashable mask
glosses: That can be rewashed.
Related terms: word: reusable
english: in practice, often synonymous, as most items that are washable are rewashable; the latter word gives connotative emphasis to repeated reuse
translation: in practice, often synonymous, as most items that are washable are rewashable; the latter word gives connotative emphasis to repeated reuse
word: washable
foetuses in foetu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foetus in foetu
intellectually disabled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more intellectually disabled
form: most intellectually disabled
Senses: glosses: Having an intellectual disability.
Synonyms: word: fucked in the head
word: mentally challenged
word: mentally ill
word: mentally retarded
word: mental retardation
word: shit-for-brains
word: shit for brains
fuckwaddery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: stupidity, foolishness; to behave like a fuckwad
Synonyms: fucktardery
fuckwittery
Abdollah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Iranian Persian عبدالله ('abdollâh), from Arabic عَبْد اللَّٰه (ʕabd allāh, literally “slave of God, servant of God”).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Persian male given name عبدالله ('abdollâh)
frasser
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of frass: more frass
frassest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of frass: most frass
defaitism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Dutch defaitisme, Finnish defaitismi, French défaitisme, or Swedish defaitism.
Senses: examples: text: Now that's defaitism -- cheer up Janne, maybe some day we *will* get rid of these patronizing, moralizing humbugs :-) ?
ref: 1992 February 10, Fredrik.Ostman, “Swedish Double Standard (Gambling)”, in soc.culture.nordic (Usenet), retrieved 11 May 2022:
text: Don't all enviros have moments of defaitism from time to time?
ref: 1998 August 13, Fenris, “Archived Message for Future Inhabitants”, in sci.environment (Usenet), retrieved 11 May 2022:
text: Women react to adversity differently from what we'd expect, and different women react in different ways. Sometimes they express their insecurity by various forms of defaitism, escape and by being intimidated by the whole thing rather then by investing more effort, what u might have expected.
ref: 1999 September 24, Steph, “In love with woman with intercultural baby! HELP”, in soc.couples.intercultural (Usenet), retrieved 11 May 2022:
text: There is neither need for patronising nor defaitism IMO.
ref: 1999 November 13, Ron Ploeg, “Talking to Jackson about the state of the movie”, in alt.fan.tolkien (Usenet), retrieved 11 May 2022:
text: Any attempts to try to negotiate with the New Order of the US or to make deals with it are simply to be regarded as defaitism and appeasement. Everybody out there, take heed of the warnings of history.
ref: 2002 December 1, Nes, “In wake of Predator success, U.S. weighs assassination options”, in alt.politics.bush (Usenet), retrieved 11 May 2022:
text: Address munging is defaitism and doesn't bother spammers the least. But it is hostile to communication.
ref: 2003 April 7, Jukka K. Korpela, “longest thread”, in news.groups.questions (Usenet), retrieved 11 May 2022:
qualifier: non-native speakers' English
glosses: Defeatism.
if it looks, swims, walks and quacks like a duck, then it's probably a duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.
Laugerman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Laugermans
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Angells
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Angell
Basora
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Basoras
Etymology: Borrowed from Catalan Basora.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Catalan.
Tadevosyan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tadevosyans
form: Tadevosian
form: Tadevossian
form: Tadewosyan
form: Tadewosian
form: Tatevosyan
form: Tatevosian
form: Tatewosian
form: Tateossian
Etymology: Borrowed from Armenian Թադեւոսյան (Tʻadewosyan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Tadevosyans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tadevosyan
Tatevosyan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tatevosyans
Etymology: Variant of Tadevosyan.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Tatevosyans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tatevosyan
Brevilles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Breville
Laugermans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Laugerman
Basoras
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Basora
Rush River
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unclear for the rivers. The places are probably named after the rivers.
Senses: glosses: A number of rivers and places in the United States:
A river in Minnesota, which joins the Minnesota River.
glosses: A number of rivers and places in the United States:
A river in Virginia, which joins the Thornton River
glosses: A number of rivers and places in the United States:
A river in Wisconsin, which joins the Mississippi River.
glosses: A number of rivers and places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Sibley County, Minnesota, on the South Branch of the Rush River.
glosses: A number of rivers and places in the United States:
A town in St. Croix County, Wisconsin.
Kyllo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kyllos
Etymology: Borrowed from Finnish Kyllö.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Finnish.
Laffitte
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Laffittes
Etymology: Borrowed from French Laffitte.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Laffittes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Laffitte
Kyllos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kyllo
Lannen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lannens
Etymology: Variant of Lennon.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Kvamme
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kvammes
Etymology: Borrowed from Norwegian Kvamme.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Norwegian.
Kvammes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kvamme
Lannens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lannen
Kostenko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kostenkos
Etymology: Borrowed from Ukrainian Костенко (Kostenko).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Ukrainian.
Koscinski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Koscinskis
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Kościński.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Koscinskis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Koscinski
Kostenkos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kostenko
Kaman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kamans
Etymology: Variant of Kamman.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Petreas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Petrea
Kamans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kaman
Papandreas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Papandrea
Phys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Phy
Oclair
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Oclairs
Etymology: Altered spelling of French Auclair.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Ortigoza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ortigozas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Ortigoza; this surname is predominantly found in Paraguay.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Ortigozas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ortigoza
Oclairs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Oclair
McGary
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McGarys
Etymology: Variant of McCary.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Gibson County, Indiana, United States.
Sickles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sickleses
Etymology: Possibly an altered form of German Sickel.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Caddo County, Oklahoma, United States.
Sickleses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sickles
McGarys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McGary
DiSalvos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of DiSalvo
Tabareses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tabares
the Fifth Beatle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fifth Beatles
Senses: glosses: Any of various men who worked closely with the Beatles, including George Martin, Pete Best, Stuart Sutcliffe, and Billy Preston.
triunitarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Triunitarianism
form: tri-unitarianism
form: Tri-unitarianism
form: Tri-Unitarianism
Etymology: From triunitarian + -ism, from triune.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
synonyms: trinitarianism
Trinitarianism
glosses: Trinitarianism; the Christian doctrine which asserts that God's nature is triune.
Related terms: trinitarian
Trinitarian
triunitarian
Triunitarian
trinity
Trinity
triunity
Triunity
rimpull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rimpulls
Etymology: From rim (“of a wheel”) + pull (noun).
Senses: examples: text: With the double-reduction hubs we were double the available wheel power, or rimpull, so we should have been able to double the load.
ref: 2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 180:
glosses: The amount of tractive force located where the driving wheels contact the surface on which they travel.
rimpulls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rimpull
skeyns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skeyn
Wabeno
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and census-designated place therein, in Forest County, Wisconsin, United States.
Medinipur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Midnapore
form: Mednipur
Senses: glosses: A large city in West Bengal, India.
glosses: The Medinipur region of West Bengal that includes West Medinipur, East Medinipur and Bankura.
glosses: Medinipur division of West Bengal
Midnapore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Medinipur
form: Mednipur
Etymology: Borrowed from Bengali মেদিনীপুর (medinīpur).
Senses: glosses: A large city in West Bengal, India.
Mahdiqoli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Persian مهدیقلی (mahdiqoli), from Old Anatolian Turkish.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Persian male given name مهدیقلی (mahdiqoli)
unrecuperable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrecuperable
form: most unrecuperable
Etymology: From Middle English onrecuperable; equivalent to un- + recuperable.
Senses: examples: text: If now, Sir, it mought like you in approvyng your benevolent mynde towad me, wherein I doo specially trust, to sett furth with your gentill report unto the Kinges highness my true hart and diligent indevour in his graces service, to my importable charges and unrecuperable decay of my lyving, onlas his highness relieve me with his abundaunt and graciouse liberalitie;
ref: 1534/5, Thomas Elyot, quotee, “Life of Elyot”, in Henry Herbert Stephen Croft, editor, The Boke Named The Gouernour, volume I, London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., published 1880, page cxvi:
text: He is concededly the dead weight on the ticket, and he has made his party as unrecuperable as his own fortunes.
ref: 1874 October 29, “The Decline of Dix, and the Reason for It”, in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, volume 35, number 257, Brooklyn, N.Y.:
text: As the tale trundles on to its downbeat ending, via crosses and double-crosses at Tilbury Docks, we are left in little doubt as to the unrecuperable sadnesses of J’s life, standing in the tattered ruins of his existence.
ref: 2001 May 5, “I is a gangsta”, in The Guardian, London; Manchester, section “Saturday Review”, page 10:
glosses: Not recuperable.
Synonyms: irrecuperable
Derived terms: unrecuperably
pushes over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of push over
pushing over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of push over
pushed over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of push over
pulled up on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pull up on
pulls up on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pull up on
pulling up on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pull up on
unrecuperably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unrecuperably
form: most unrecuperably
Etymology: From unrecuperable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: And yet we are so far from the Elizabethans in that our post-Saussurian understanding of language, with its foregrounding, not to say fetishizing, of inbuilt structural difference and deferral—both that between signs themselves and that between the sign and any fully determinate meaning, let alone external reference—is so radically and unrecuperably counter-enactive.
ref: 1985, Howard Felperin, Beyond Deconstruction: The Uses and Abuses of Literary Theory, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 181:
text: Unrecuperably dead, he cannot fulfill the hero’s economic function.
ref: 2012, Hyon Joo Yoo, “Transnational Cultural Production and the Politics of Moribund Masculinity”, in Cinema at the Crossroads: Nation and the Subject in East Asian Cinema, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 99:
text: To be Indian-like appears to signal a site of ethical impossibility, an unrecuperably undemocratic enmeshment with the land that leaves one as stuck temporally as one is spatially.
ref: 2014, Mark Rifkin, Settler Common Sense: Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance, University of Minnesota Press:
glosses: In an unrecuperable manner.
Synonyms: irrecuperably
Highlandman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Highlandmen
Etymology: From Highland + -man.
Senses: glosses: A male Highlander.
Highlandmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Highlandman
higglery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The trade or goods of a higgler.
Hieracian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hieracian
form: most Hieracian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Hierax (ascetic).
Hieracian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hieracians
Senses: synonyms: Hieracite
glosses: A religious follower of Hierax.
Hieracite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hieracites
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Hieracian.
synonyms: word: Hieracian
Hieracites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hieracite
Hieracians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hieracian
hieromonach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hieromonachs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hieromonk.
synonyms: word: hieromonk
hieromonachs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hieromonach
hightoby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hightobies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of high toby.
high toby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high tobies
Senses: glosses: The high road.
hightobies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hightoby
high tobies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of high toby
Koyukuk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Alaska.
glosses: A river in the city of Koyukuk.
Derived terms: Yukon-Koyukuk
microduct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microducts
Etymology: From micro- + duct.
Senses: glosses: A very small duct, typically in bundles, for the installation of microduct fibre optic cables.
microducts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microduct
microconductors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microconductor
microconductivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microconductivities
Senses: glosses: The quality or degree of being microconductive.
microconductivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microconductivity
toby box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toby boxes
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A box containing a service (fibre optic microducts, mains water, etc.) set into the street or verge for connection to a property, typically containing a shutoff valve to allow for maintenance at the connected property.
toby boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toby box
topicalizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: topicalizers
Etymology: From topicalize + -er.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word or construct that serves to topicalize.
topicalizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of topicalizer
2 for 1
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of BOGO.
synonyms: word: BOGO
buy one, get one
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of BOGO.
synonyms: word: BOGO
buy one, get one free
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of BOGO.
synonyms: word: BOGO
two for the price of one
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of BOGO.
synonyms: word: BOGO
annihilatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more annihilatingly
form: most annihilatingly
Etymology: From annihilating + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to annihilate.
alcohol use disorders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alcohol use disorder
antimentalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + mentalism.
Senses: examples: text: Skinner's obstinate antimentalism appears as his major flaw, if not his capital sin. To them, it definitely leaves him behind, alien to the current advances of psychology, […]
ref: 1993, Marc Richelle, B. F. Skinner: A Reappraisal, page 103:
text: Brown's second argument is in one sense irreproachable with respect to all four versions of antimentalism.
ref: 1995, Between the Species: A Journal of Ethics, volumes 11-12, page 93:
text: Within Bloomfieldian antimentalism, the recognition of discursive structures as rule-governed entails interpretation. An analyst must discuss what makes a narrative “good” – satisfying to its creators and hearers.
ref: 2009, Haruko Momma, Michael Matto, A Companion to the History of the English Language, page 609:
glosses: Opposition to mentalism.
Celtic harp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Celtic harps
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A triangular frame harp traditional to the Celtic nations of northwest Europe.
Celtic harps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Celtic harp
cowboy action shooting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: word: CAS
word: western action shooting
glosses: A competitive shooting sport that originated in southern California in the early 1980s, in which competitors use various different kinds of gun in Old West-themed courses, aiming for time and accuracy.
western action shooting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cowboy action shooting.
synonyms: word: cowboy action shooting
internal condom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: internal condoms
Senses: synonyms: female condom
;
femidom
hypernyms: condom
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contraceptive#Noun
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device#Noun
coordinate_terms: external condom
male condom
condom
;
diaphragm
;
IUD
intrauterine device
glosses: A device that is inserted into the vagina or anus during sexual intercourse as a barrier contraceptive to reduce the risk of sexually transmitted infections and unintended pregnancy.
internal condoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of internal condom