cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Liberty Grove
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Randolph County, Alabama.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Cecil County, Maryland.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Lawrence County, Tennessee.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Dallas County, Texas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town, now flooded, in Delta County, Texas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Door County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A suburb of Sydney in the City of Canada Bay, New South Wales, Australia.
dies back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of die back
died back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of die back
Stanovoy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Russian Станово́й (Stanovój).
Senses: glosses: A mountain range in Sakha Republic and Amur Oblast, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia.
Synonyms: Outer Khingan
you had one job
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: On the Web, the phrase is heavily associated with FAIL image macros.
Senses: examples: text: A video uploaded on the Facebook group Complaint Singapore on Monday (Nov 28) sparked criticism among the online community as it featured an example of the meme, “you had one job” (and still failed).
ref: 2022, Hana O, “‘What’s the point of a shelter?’ — Netizens ask as Admiralty MRT roof leaks from heavy downpour”, in The Independent Singapore:
text: Image of a T-shirt with a map of Africa printed, labeled "Asia"
ref: 2023 May 21, You Had One Job (@youhadonetask), Twitter, archived from the original on 15 Jun 2023:
glosses: An expression used when someone had only one simple job to do but still failed it.
doubles back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of double back
doubling back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of double back
doubled back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of double back
PVFS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PVFSes
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: PVF
PVS
coordinate_terms: PEM
ME
glosses: Initialism of post-viral fatigue syndrome.
draws back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of draw back
drawing back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of draw back
drew back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of draw back
drawn back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of draw back
drops back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of drop back
dropping back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of drop back
dropped back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of drop back
angelmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angelmakers
Senses: examples: text: Abortion and infanticide, therefore, take place only among married women; and there seems reason to believe that, so far as they exist, they are caused by the like considerations as in Europe. It is notorious how children are kept down in France, what angelmakers labour in Prussia, and how systematically they are destroyed among our working population.
ref: 1867 October 1, “Polygamy and Monogamy in Turkey”, in The Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review, volume 32, London: Trübner & Co., page 343:
glosses: Alternative form of angel maker.
lactase persistence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Lactase persistence is under fairly direct genetic control and involves genes that inhibit the typical mammalian shutdown of the production of lactase after nursing ends.
ref: 2016, Joseph Henrich, chapter 6, in The Secret of Our Success […] , Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN:
glosses: The continued activity of the lactase enzyme in adulthood, allowing the digestion of lactose in milk.
Related terms: word: lactose-free
word: lactose intolerance
word: lactose intolerant
trans-gender
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trans-gender
form: most trans-gender
Senses: examples: text: Christine Jorgensen, the world's first highly publicized transsexual – or "trans-gender" patient – never planned to be famous because of her surgery.
ref: 1979 May 3, Pierre Bowman, “Back in showbiz Christine Jorgensen”, in George Chaplin, editor, The Honolulu Advertiser (People Report Section), Honolulu, Hi.: Thurston Twigg-Smith, →ISSN, →OCLC, page B-1, column 3:
glosses: Dated spelling of transgender.
trans-gender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trans-genders
Senses: examples: text: In spite of not "rootin' and tootin'" as a trans-gender case, in recent years [Christine] Jorgensen has been a staple on the college lecture circuit, speaking – of course – about trans-gender and herself.
ref: 1979 May 3, Pierre Bowman, “Back in showbiz Christine Jorgensen”, in George Chaplin, editor, The Honolulu Advertiser (People Report Section), Honolulu, Hi.: Thurston Twigg-Smith, →ISSN, →OCLC, page B-1, column 6:
text: "If you understand trans-genders," she [Christine Jorgensen] says, choosing the word she prefers to transsexuals, "then you understand that gender is different than sexual preference. It doesn't have to do with bed partners, it has to do with identity." Jorgensen says she knows of some male-to-female trans-genders who have settled into lesbian relationships. She herself is heterosexual.
ref: 1979 September 23, Jerry Parker, “A woman with no regrets”, in Stanley Green, editor, LI: Newsday’s Magazine for Long Island, Suffolk edition, Melville, N.Y.: Newsday Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18, columns 3–4:
glosses: Dated spelling of transgender.
Moro reflex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Moro reflexes
Etymology: Named after Austrian physician and pediatrician Ernst Moro (1874–1951), who was the first in western medicine to describe the reflex.
Senses: examples: text: For reasons I shan’t bore you with, I got them to induce me at 39 weeks, at 10am, with the epidural going in first, and it was all a dream. […] But it was all over in time for my daughter to catch the Nigeria v Argentina World Cup game that evening, during which she seemed to reckon everything was miles offside. (Or was that just the Moro reflex?)
ref: 2014 December 5, Marina Hyde, “Childbirth is as awful as it is magical, thanks to our postnatal ‘care’”, in The Guardian:
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: A normal primitive reflex elicited by a sudden stimulus, involving abduction and extension of the arms, followed by adduction; it develops between 28 and 32 weeks of gestation and disappears at 3–6 months of age.
wikipedia: Ernst Moro
Related terms: startle reflex
concrete poet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concrete poets
Senses: examples: text: M. Derrida seems to us to have come close to making a career out of what we regard as translating into the academic sphere tricks and gimmicks similar to those of the Dadaists or of the concrete poets.
ref: 1992 May 9, Barry Smith et al., “Open Letter against Derrida receiving an honorary doctorate from Cambridge University”, in The Times of London:
glosses: A writer of concrete poems.
heavy lift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heavy lifts
Senses: glosses: The handling and installation (on means of freight transport) of heavy items that are indivisible.
examples: text: When a federal statute applies on its face to both private and state actors, a commandeering argument is a heavy lift—and petitioners have not pulled it off.
ref: 2023, Haaland v. Brackeen (U.S. Supreme Court No. 21-376), Justice Barrett (majority opinion)
glosses: A requirement that requires a lot of work to satisfy; high bar, tall order.
Related terms: heavy lifting
cockroach of the sea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cockroaches of the sea
Senses: glosses: A lobster.
Related terms: chicken of the sea
cockroaches of the sea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cockroach of the sea
special military operations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of special military operation
clackerbags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clackerbag
unlagered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + lagered.
Senses: glosses: Not lagered.
ungamified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + gamified.
Senses: glosses: Not gamified.
had up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of have up
has up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of have up
having up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of have up
epcoritamab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A monoclonal antibody anticancer medication used for the treatment of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.
durlobactam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A beta-lactamase inhibitor used in combination with sulbactam.
Mukwa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Waupaca County, Wisconsin, United States.
Boskopoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Boskopoids
Etymology: From Boskop + -oid.
Senses: glosses: A member of a suggested human species thought to be typified by the Boskop Man fossil of the Middle Stone Age (Late Pleistocene) discovered in 1913 in South Africa.
Boskopoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Boskopoid
dish TV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: satellite television
SoA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
coordinate_terms: AoS
glosses: Initialism of structure of arrays.
SoA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The SoA wants Amazon to clearly label products as AI-generated and allow readers to filter out AI titles.
ref: 2023 September 30, James Tapper, “Authors shocked to find AI ripoffs of their books being sold on Amazon”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
glosses: Initialism of Society of Authors, a United Kingdom trade union.
Canada Bay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A bay in north-west Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
glosses: A bay and suburb on the Parramatta River, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: The City of Canada Bay, a local government area in this area of New South Wales. .
operational encirclement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: operational encirclements
Etymology: Chiefly from calque of Russian оперативное окружение (operativnoje okruženije). In frequent use since the beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian war, but already before most usage seems to have been in reference to Russia and the Soviet Union.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: a situation of (partial) encirclement where the besieged forces are not yet in imminent danger of destruction or capture, but are unable to organize adequate defence for a longer period of time, especially in such a way that there remains a connection to the rear, which the enemy however can cover with precise artillery fire, severely hampering supply
wikipedia: Russo-Ukrainian war
Gchat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Let's first acknowledge that Gchat was never officially called Gchat. Launched in February 2006, Google named it Google Talk, refusing to refer to it by its colloquial name. For anyone mourning its demise, which the company announced in a March blog post, those names sound awkward, like they're describing something else. To me, and to many other users, it's Gchat, and always will be.
ref: 2017 June 26, Colleen Rothman, “RIP Gchat”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Jul 2022:
text: "We're fucked," my adviser told me over Gchat. "Nelson"—Phil Nelson, the outspoken president of our university—"has been treating the endowment like his own personal poker game. I bet we're about to lose some unthinkable chunk of it. And if oil prices collapse, the campus in Qatar is in trouble."
ref: 2018, Keith Gessen, A Terrible Country: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, pages 62–63:
synonyms: Gtalk
Gmessage
glosses: Google Talk.
Gtalk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Google's entire strategy is based on doing things that other people have been doing for years, but doing them better (search, Gmail, Gtalk, maps etc). Shared Stuff still has some way to go.
ref: 2007 September 21, Jack Schofield, “Google Shared Stuff slips out, disappoints”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Jun 2023:
text: He was a lot more exhausted than usual, obviously, with a new baby in the house. We still spoke over gtalk nearly every day, but our chats were constantly interrupted.
ref: 2011, Brianna Karp, The Girl's Guide to Homelessness, Don Mills, O.N.: Harlequin, →ISBN, page 255:
synonyms: Gchat
Gmessage
glosses: Google Talk.
Cornish palm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cornish palms
Etymology: From its popularity in Cornwall, England, and its resemblance to a palm. (It is not a true palm.)
Senses: glosses: The tree Cordyline australis.
Cornish palms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cornish palm
internetty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more internetty
form: most internetty
form: Internetty
Etymology: From internet + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Luckily Brown's complete level of DGAF-ness, combined with a ballsy, hard-edged, yap-rap flow, wins people over by sheer force of, "Who the F is this dude?" It's what's gained him a rabid following across a dizzying run of EPs, mixtapes and free albums, leading up to a kind of bizarre but very internetty moment.
ref: 2013 October 1, Arielle Castillo, “Five Important Things About Danny Brown's 'Debut' Album, 'Old'”, in ABC News, archived from the original on 08 Oct 2013:
text: But there now were also the Internet sales, which Max gathered were gathering quite a head of steam. He wondered how they managed that, living off the grid as they did, and made a mental note to ask Xanda, who looked like she would be clued into all things Internetty, as opposed to Dame Hephzibah, who did not.
ref: 2014, G. M. Malliet, A Demon Summer: A Max Tudor Novel, New York, N.Y.: Minotaur Books, →ISBN, page 100:
text: Comedian Grace Helbig will have a weekly prime-time talk show called The Grace Helbig Project on E! beginning in April, the network said today. Helbig is best known for her vlog series "It's Grace" and "Daily Grace," and she'll apparently be bringing a more internetty style (and social-media focus) to the talk-show genre.
ref: 2015 January 5, Margaret Lyons, “E! Orders Grace Helbig Prime-Time Talk Show”, in Vulture, archived from the original on 14 Dec 2015:
text: As these stories spread, accompanied by more video evidence, Buttigieg became a case study in what a friend of mine calls "internetty smarts" — intelligence reduced down to a collection of references and images. Like all internetty things, this type of intelligence plays to the viewer's vanities and prejudices.
ref: 2019 April 24, Jay Caspian Kang, “How Pete Buttigieg's Meaningless Erudition Made Him the 'Smart' Candidate”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2023:
glosses: Pertaining to or characteristic of the Internet.
Internetty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Internetty
form: most Internetty
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of internetty.
eurypteroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eurypteroid
leucosoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leucosoid
Neville Longbottom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Neville Longbottoms
form: Neville Longbottoming
form: Neville Longbottomed
form: Neville Longbottomed
form: Longbottom
Etymology: In reference to actor Matthew Lewis, who played Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter film series. Lewis was perceived to have become significantly more attractive as an adult.
Senses: examples: text: But he's not the only member of the Harry Potter gang who Longbottomed. In fact, they all did. So let's take a look at this ridiculously gorgeous cast then vs. now...
ref: 2017 April 21, Ellie Bate, “20 Child Stars Who Have Neville Longbottomed Pretty Damn Hard”, in BuzzFeed, archived from the original on 26 Dec 2022:
text: The 30-year-old's comment has garnered more than 20,000 likes, with several Instagram users making the assumption that he was referencing the fact that he "Neville Longbottomed."
ref: 2019 November 12, Sabrina Barr, “The actor who played Neville Longbottom in 'Harry Potter' told Tom Felton to 'speak for yourself' after the Malfoy actor said 'aging's a b----'”, in Business Insider, archived from the original on 15 Jun 2023:
glosses: To unexpectedly become significantly more attractive after going through puberty.
wikipedia: Neville Longbottom
Neville Longbottoms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Neville Longbottom
Neville Longbottoming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Neville Longbottom
Neville Longbottomed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Neville Longbottom
Longbottoming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Longbottom
Longbottomed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Longbottom
elaphines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elaphine
Benjamin Button
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Benjamin Buttons
form: Benjamin Buttoning
form: Benjamin Buttoned
form: Benjamin Buttoned
Etymology: In reference to The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (1922), a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born old and ages in reverse.
Senses: examples: text: Wouldn't it be nice to have some variety in the whole "we get older the longer we are alive" cliche? For instance, what if we Benjamin Buttoned? That is, wouldn't you want to be born old and with the mind of an infant, then get physically younger as you matured?
ref: 2012 October 26, “Would You Want to Age Backwards Like Benjamin Button?”, in VICE, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2023:
text: You can't deny that both Jennifer Aniston and Jennifer Lopez are Benjamin Buttoning. The actresses look just as good now as they did 10 years ago (click here if you need a reminder!), and they definitely didn't disappoint when it came to their red carpet looks at the PEOPLE Magazine Awards.
ref: 2014 December 19, Brittany Talarico, “Photo Proof That Jennifer Aniston and Jennifer Lopez Never (Ever!) Age”, in People, New York, N.Y.: Dotdash Meredith, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Jun 2023:
text: His eyes were mirthful yet solemn when he told me: "These old bones are still too young to let the fun die! Who said fifty was when life settled? It's only just beginning! We're all just Benjamin Buttoning through life, ya know? We all just crave a little adventure and novelty."
ref: 2016 July 28, “The Art of Benjamin Buttoning”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 15 Jun 2023:
text: But over the years, she found her beat by Benjamin Buttoning herself, hitting reverse and reexamining the messy, hormonal and overwrought soap operas that we drafted in our pubescent heads.
ref: 2019 April 10, Nathan Ma, “Carly Rae Jepsen Benjamin Buttons Through Life in Her Videos”, in VICE, archived from the original on 04 Jun 2023:
text: Well, people on TikTok are sharing how they basically "Benjamin Buttoned" over time as they somehow look younger now than they did years ago.
ref: 2020 December 3, Liz Richardson, “13 Times People "Benjamin Buttoned" Big Time And Somehow Aged In Reverse”, in BuzzFeed, archived from the original on 25 Dec 2022:
text: Whatever the White House cooks are feeding Biden these days, I'd like a plate of it myself. It's like he's Benjamin-Buttoning all of a sudden.
ref: 2023 February 8, Rex Huppke, “'Dark Brandon' shows up at State of the Union, mops the floor with lost Republicans”, in USA Today, archived from the original on 11 Jun 2023:
glosses: To seemingly age in reverse; to appear younger, either through changes in appearance or one's personality and lifestyle.
wikipedia: F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (short story)
Related terms: Benjamin Button disease
agerasia
Dorian Gray syndrome
Benjamin Buttons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Benjamin Button
Benjamin Buttoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Benjamin Button
Benjamin Buttoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Benjamin Button
trachinoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trachinoid
Mothersbaugh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
brospeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bro speak
form: bro-speak
Etymology: From bro + -speak.
Senses: examples: text: In this respect, the term is not alone. "Epic" belongs to what might be called élite brospeak, a collection of idioms that together reach for grandiose adventurism from a position of the comfortably banal. Élite brospeak holds that people working ably in offices on William Street or Bryant Street are "killing it" or "crushing it."
ref: 2016 March 3, Nathan Heller, “An Epic Takedown of Élite Brospeak”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Dec 2022:
text: Almost all employees attend some version of discrimination and harassment-awareness training, so how is it that the bro speak still exists at all? With only 10% of female professionals on the trading floor and only 16% of senior executives being female (at all banks plus financial instruments), it's unlikely that the few women at that level even want to discuss it.
ref: 2016 August 6, Maureen Sherry, “The Brutal Truth About Being a Woman on Wall Street”, in Fortune, New York, N.Y.: Fortune Media Group Holdings, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Dec 2022:
text: The script — heavy on the brospeak — was co-written by David Gordon Green, who has made his fair share of dramas but may be better known for Stoner buddy comedies like "Pineapple Express" and HBO's "Eastbound and Down."
ref: 2016 September 22, Kate Mooney, “'Goat' shows frat culture at its most toxic”, in Metro New York, page 23, column 1:
text: "A'ight," he said, lapsing into the bro-speak he normally reserves for conversations with teammates. "That sounds like it could be tight."
ref: 2017, Jen Lancaster, The Gatekeepers, Don Mills, O.N.: Harlequin Teen, →ISBN, page 55:
text: After defining stance and reviewing ways in which it has been used in studies of language and sexuality, the chapter analyzes representations of two sexual identity registers: a "gay voice" homosexual identity and a "brospeak" heterosexual identity.
ref: 2019 October 4, Scott F[abius] Kiesling, The Oxford Handbook of Language and Sexuality, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →DOI, →ISBN:
glosses: Speech characteristic of bros and bro culture.
bro speak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of brospeak.
bro-speak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of brospeak.
diva-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more diva-like
form: most diva-like
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of divalike.
bro culture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A subculture associated with young middle- to upper-class young men (who typically address each other by bro) who enjoy partying and stereotypically masculine activities such as sports and fitness, sometimes characterized as obnoxious and exemplifying systemic misogyny.
Related terms: brocialism
brogrammer
brospeak
draws a blank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of draw a blank
drawing a blank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of draw a blank
drawn a blank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of draw a blank
superfandom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From superfan + -dom or super- + fandom.
Senses: examples: text: Jimmy lives his life in a quiet but constant glow of public affection and love. It is the flip side of, for example, Madonna. Her life is lived in the constant glare of superfandom.
ref: 1991, Armand Deutsch, Me and Bogie: And Other Friends and Acquaintances from a Life in Hollywood and Beyond, New York, N.Y.: G.P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 248:
text: I'm so sorry. If the Foo Fighters had talked to me about my superfandom I would have been embarrassed too.
ref: 2013, Corey Ann Haydu, OCD Love Story, New York, N.Y. […]: Simon Pulse, →ISBN, page 215:
text: I became a fan in the late 1980s and have attended nine of the band's concerts, though I probably fall short of superfandom.
ref: 2023 April 28, Theodore Kim, “U2's Music Shaped My Life. Then It Helped Save It.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Jun 2023:
glosses: The state or condition of being a superfan; extremely strong fandom.
misring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misrings
form: misringing
form: misrang
form: misrung
Etymology: From mis- + ring.
Senses: examples: text: It also eliminates the chances of misringing the price but not the possibility of entering the wrong PLU code.
ref: 1982, Kristine Marie Gabe, Supermarket Checkout Accuracy, page 4:
text: On a $19.24 order, Rose again failed to ring up a bottle deposit and misrang the price of ice cream for a total loss of $1.30.
ref: 1984, Federal Supplement - Volume 575, page 1052:
text: Also , ensure that cash register clerks remain alert to avoid misringing items.
ref: 1993, Read Hayes, Employee Theft Control, page 13:
text: Shaken, he misrung cash into the register something he'd have to make up for or his money would be off;
ref: 2015, Bobby Crace, Full Breakdown:
text: His face got redder with each messed-up transaction, and he swore under his breath. “Sorry, sorry,” he'd call out, as he mis-rang another item.
ref: 2021, Jamie Pacton, Lucky Girl:
glosses: To enter an incorrect amount into a cash register.
examples: text: To his heroes, who have followed the misringing of this bell, the world seems senseless, but coherent; men are bent purposeively on some pursuit, but the purpose is inscrutable.
ref: 1956, Roy Pascal, The German Novel:
text: I have wondered greatly about this and have at last come to believe that neither time, mishanging, nor misringing weakened the Liberty Bell, but rather the enormous importance of the message its voice cried out.
ref: 1964, Eric Hatch, The Little Book of Bells, page 80:
text: It is virtually impossible to hear such a weirdly textured tonal array without hearing at the same time the “patterns” of sound ( or “non-patterns” when the bells are misrung), defined as successions of instants in time, or more specifically, as what occurs acoustically between one point in time and another.
ref: 1971, James Joyce Quarterly - Volumes 9-10, page 263:
text: Bring forth the dear flags hidden long, Ring all ye bells for years misrung: O, Alsace, be one burst of song, One nosegay to our Frenchmen flung!
ref: 1974, Victor Plarr, The Collected Poems of Victor Plarr, page 132:
text: My heart was beating like a mis-rung bell.
ref: 2020, János Székely, Temptation:
glosses: To ring (a bell or set of bells) incorrectly, at the wrong time, out of sequence, etc.
misring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misrings
Etymology: From mis- + ring.
Senses: examples: text: Misrings are caused by a myriad of factors: price illegibility, incorrect pricing, checker pilferage (discounting or sweethearting), tax lookup errors, change making errors, and human errors.
ref: 1976, Industrial Engineering, page 11:
text: The study found misrings in 21 percent of the grocery store purchases checked.
ref: 1988, Robert O. Herrmann, Consumer Choice in the American Economy, page 87:
text: Cashiers can be judged on the basis of transaction speed and misrings; buyers can be judged on the basis of department revenues and the use of markdowns; and senior executives can be judged on the basis of the firm's reaching sales and profit goals.
ref: 1998, Barry Berman, Joel R. Evans, Retail Management: A Strategic Approach, page 408:
glosses: An instance of misringing
The act of entering an incorrect amount into a cash register.
examples: text: The result isn't exactly music, but it's truly satisfying for the ringers when, for instance, seven of them complete 5,040 “changes” without a single misring.
ref: 1989, The Musical Mainstream - Volumes 13-14, page 31:
glosses: An instance of misringing
The act of misringing a bell.
misrings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misring
misrings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misring
misringing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misring
misrang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of misring
misrung
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of misring
prehand
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more prehand
form: most prehand
Etymology: From pre- + hand.
Senses: examples: text: I seen golf ball warmers before. They are not approved by the USGA, so I'm told. But getting back to heating up the golf ball. Heating them prehand would do you no good. You would have to heat them up prior to teeing up.
ref: 1997 February 19, getsum, “warm balls”, in rec.sport.golf (Usenet):
text: I apologise prehand to all those non-Scots out there, but BRAVEHEART......................MEDIOCRE!!!!!
ref: 1998 November 4, Adam Gill, “Mediocre films”, in aus.films (Usenet):
text: i called my credit card company prehand to advise them that Im going to be spending a large amount
ref: 2000 October 13, Scott Keenan, “Is This Safe?”, in alt.marketing.online.ebay (Usenet):
text: Like all taxes proposed by pandering chickenshit avererage IQ cowardly office-seeking assholes, it's rigged prehand to fuck the middle and upper middle class and let the rich and poor off scot free.
ref: 2008 January 15, Wankatoa, “Austin Fry's ad available online??”, in austin.general (Usenet):
text: A project may contain sub-projects or mere libraries were sources contained in those libraries cannot be determined prehand and it rendered the whole process ineffective.
ref: 2014 September 12, Pritpal Bedi, “Announcement: HbIDE Implements Harbour/xHarbour Debugger”, in comp.lang.xharbour (Usenet):
glosses: Beforehand; at an earlier time.
sub-project
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sub-projects
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of subproject.
drew a blank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of draw a blank
close one's mind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: closes one's mind
form: closing one's mind
form: closed one's mind
form: closed one's mind
Senses: examples: text: He closed his mind to the facts.
glosses: To refuse to understand things.
Related terms: close-minded
change one's mind
doing exactly what it says on the tin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of do exactly what it says on the tin
did exactly what it said on the tin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of do exactly what it says on the tin
done exactly what it said on the tin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of do exactly what it says on the tin
backerboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backerboards
form: backer board
Etymology: From backer + board.
Senses: examples: text: A tile setter mounts colorful American-Olean ceramic tile on a new gypsum backerboard in a motel bathroom...
ref: 1962, “A building product for any need”, in National Gypsum Company Annual Report, page 4:
text: Ceramic tile has a well-deserved reputation as a durable material, but neither tile, nor cement backerboard, nor latex thinset or grout, can be relied upon to provide waterproofing protection.
ref: 2000 November 21, Michael Byrne, “Liability and Waterproofing in Ceramic Installations”, in Floor Covering Installer:
text: There are all sorts of different tile backer board products out there. Some are cement-based, some are gypsum-based, and others have a mix of ingredients.
ref: 2007 February 25, Tim Carter, “For backer board, cement worth effort”, in The Record, Bergen County, NJ, page R4:
text: Dear Tim: What you call backerboard might be something entirely different from what I call backerboard. I'm quite concerned that you don't really have a waterproof backerboard since you said it crumbled. Technically, you have a board that is backing up tile, so I guess you can call it backerboard.
ref: 2015 February 15, Tim Carter, “If it's gypsum, it's not good backerboard for tile”, in Telegraph-Herald, Dubuque, Iowa, page E8:
topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
masonry
glosses: A board used behind or under other material, often as support.
Boards used as underlayment for tile, plaster, or other materials.
topics: arts
business
carpentry
construction
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
woodworking
glosses: A board used behind or under other material, often as support.
A sacrificial board placed behind or under a board being drilled or sawn, so as to prevent blowouts. (Usually scrap ends reused for such purpose.)
examples: text: Campos likes this shop not only because it's just a few blocks from his Glendale home but because of the little extras that Brown throws in, like wrapping each comic book with a backer board in a plastic protective sleeve.
ref: 2006 May 6, Angela Rabago-Mussi, “Drawn to comics gets your spidey senses tingling”, in Arizona Republic, Phoenix, Arizona, page 10:
glosses: A board used behind or under other material, often as support.
Sheets of cardboard or similar material used to preserve or display books, magazines, art prints, etc.
Related terms: cement board
gypsum board
fiberboard
masonite
backboard
backer board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backer boards
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of backerboard.
diplae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diple
Objective-C
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: In Objective-C, a protocol member can be declared optional, meaning that this member doesn't have to be implemented by the adopter, but it may be.
ref: 2016, Matt Neuburg, iOS 10 Programming Fundamentals with Swift: Swift, Xcode, and Cocoa Basics, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 185:
topics: computer-languages
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: Obj-C
ObjC
glosses: An object-oriented programming language that adds Smalltalk-style message passing to the C programming language, mainly used on Apple platforms.
ObjC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Clipped compound of Objective-C.
swizzle-stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swizzle-sticks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of swizzle stick.
swizzle-sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swizzle-stick
mother's little helpers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mother's little helper
PCLL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Postgraduate Certificate in Laws.
catma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catmas
Etymology: Humorous alteration of dogma.
Senses: examples: text: Garcia particularly cherished catma as a concept; it is a delicious pun.
ref: 2002, Dennis McNally, A Long Strange Trip, page 105:
text: In my ministry I have added a rider promising that if you repeat this catma 666 times you will achieve Supreme Enlightenment, in some sense.
ref: 2003, Robert Anton Wilson (foreword), The Prankster and the Conspiracy, p. 11
text: Discordians understand that every catma may one day be discarded on the grounds that it is nonsense. Until that day comes, it should be accepted and respected.
ref: 2012, John Higgs, The KLF, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, published 2013, page 31:
glosses: A tenet of belief for adherents of Discordianism.
catmas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catma
sandragon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sandragons
Senses: examples: text: A wilt disease has spread among many of the large trees in the Seychelles with most of the sandragons and albizias being affected, […]
ref: 2012, Lyn Mair, Lynnath Beckley, Seychelles: The Bradt Travel Guide, page 31:
glosses: Alternative form of sangdragon.
sandragons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sandragon
sangdragon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sangdragons
form: sandragon
Senses: examples: text: Sangdragons (Pterocarpus indicus) are large, graceful trees with large roots growing from the side of the trunk like flying buttresses and a sap which is blood red […]
ref: 1997, Sarah Carpin, Seychelles, page 83:
glosses: The tree Pterocarpus indicus.
sangdragons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sangdragon
common hill myna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common hill mynas
Senses: glosses: Gracula religiosa, a starling native to Asia, commonly used in aviculture
Changxing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /(ˈ)t͡ʃæŋˈʃɪŋ/
other: /(ˈ)t͡ʃɑŋˈʃiŋ/
enpr: chängʹshǐngʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 長興 /长兴 (Chángxīng).
Senses: examples: text: To Huchow[…]
Next morning I got an early start and, going north into Changhsing county, cut inland towards the Anhwei border to Wushan Commune, going through the hills for some time, and then coming to a wide canal along which a motor launch took me to the commune headquarters situated in a pleasant village up on the canal bank.
ref: [1973, Rewi Alley, “Chekiang”, in Travels in China, 1966-71 [中国见闻], Peking: New World Press, →OCLC, page 454:
english: 中国见闻
translation: 中国见闻
text: An inflatable swimming pool in a gated community in Changxing County, Zhejiang Province, during a heat wave last week.
ref: 2022 August 18, Tiffany May, Joy Dong, “Factory Shutdowns, Showers for Pigs: China’s Heat Wave Strains Economy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Aug 2022, Extreme Weather:
glosses: A county of Huzhou, Zhejiang, China.
Derived terms: Changhsingian
free tekno
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of freetekno.
freetekno
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: free tekno
Senses: glosses: A Western countercultural movement based around holding free impromptu rave parties outdoors or in abandoned buildings, often with an anarchist philosophy.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: hardtek
glosses: A style of electronic music associated with these parties.
Related terms: techno
teknival
hardtek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of freetekno (“music genre”).
synonyms: word: freetekno
extra: music genre
blank-slateism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blank-slatism.
blank-slatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blank-slateism
Etymology: From blank slate + -ism.
Senses: topics: epistemology
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The Lockean belief that the human mind is a blank slate or tabula rasa at birth, and is subsequently formed by sensory experiences.
accommodation line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accommodation lines
Senses: examples: text: He cited low rates on dwellings, long credit to agents, blanket policies, accommodation lines on notoriously poor risks, and rebates to the assured as among the crying evils which could not be reformed on account of the opposition of a few obstinate underwriters.
ref: 1893, The Insurance Times, volume 26, page 623:
text: From your own experience if possible give examples of how the granting of accommodation lines can be included in underwriting guidelines.
ref: 2010, Keith Purvis, English Insurance Texts: Words for the week, page 133:
topics: business
insurance
glosses: A risky policy that is granted as a favor.
accommodation lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accommodation line
TeCA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of tetrachloroethane.
uncooked rice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Related terms: cooked rice
Achemon sphinx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The sphingid moth Eumorpha achemon.
acid snow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: coordinate_terms: acid rain
glosses: Snow that is unusually acidic, caused by atmospheric pollution etc.
ackgt.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ackgts.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of acknowledgment.
ackgts.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ackgt.
acousto-optic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of acoustooptic.
acousto-optics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of acoustooptics.
actionings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of actioning
interrogatings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interrogating
Afemai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Afenmai
Senses: glosses: An ethnic group living in the northern part of Edo State, Nigeria.
Afemai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Afenmai
Senses: glosses: The Edoid language of these people.
Afenmai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Afemai.
Afenmai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Afemai.
adonidin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A glucoside found in the plant Adonis vernalis (false hellebore, pheasant's eye).
Bekhterev's mixture
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The mixture was proposed by Russian neurologist Vladimir Bekhterev.
Senses: glosses: A sedative medicine containing an infusion of Adonis vernalis (false hellebore, pheasant's eye).
adrectal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ad- + rectal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Near or beside the rectum.
plead the blood of Jesus
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pleads the blood of Jesus
form: pleading the blood of Jesus
form: pleaded the blood of Jesus
form: pleaded the blood of Jesus
Senses: examples: text: Satan is absolutely stymied when a believer pleads the blood of Jesus. Satan can't get through the "blood" to harm the believer. If the believer but stay under the blood, he will be safe.
ref: 2004, Wallace Shows, The Revelation of Jesus Christ, page 194:
text: When a blood-bought child of God pleads the blood of Jesus in any situation, he or she invites Jesus himself into that situation. No sickness or disease can stand in Jesus's presence.
ref: 2020, Chichi Onoriobe, Exploring the Efficacy of Christ's Blood:
text: “Once we found out Pence turned on us and that they had stolen the election, like, officially, the crowd went crazy. I mean, it became a mob. We crossed the gate,” he said, according to court documents. “We just wanted to get inside the building. I wanted to get inside the building so I could plead the blood of Jesus over it. That was my goal.”
ref: 2021 January 19, Travis M. Andrews, quoting Joshua Matthew Black, “The Capitol rioters kept posting incriminating things on social media. Unsurprisingly, they were mocked — and arrested.”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Jan 2021, Internet Culture:
glosses: To avow one's faith that Jesus Christ will save one from calamity.
Adrianople red
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Adrianople reds
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Turkey red.
synonyms: word: Turkey red
Adrianople reds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Adrianople red
adult-onset diabetes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Former name of type 2 diabetes.
adult respiratory distress syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of acute respiratory distress syndrome.
synonyms: word: acute respiratory distress syndrome
acute respiratory distress syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: adult respiratory distress syndrome
ARDS
glosses: A form of respiratory failure characterized by rapid onset of widespread inflammation in the lungs.
Golowan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cornish Gòlowan.
Senses: glosses: A Midsummer celebration in Cornwall, England, with bonfires, fireworks, processions, etc.
falls back into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fall back into
falling back into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fall back into
fell back into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of fall back into
fallen back into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of fall back into
fallen back upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of fall back upon
Mazey Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The day of a community and arts celebration during the Cornish Golowan festival.
feeds back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of feed back
feeding back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of feed back
fed back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of feed back
feeded back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of feed back
advocacy research
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Research carried out to support a specific person or group, rather than in an objective and neutral manner.
afternooner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: afternooners
Etymology: From afternoon + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Genevieve would be teaching the Wednesday afternooners again, and Ana looked forward to contributing.
ref: 2016, Melissa Brayden, First Position:
text: The night crowd was definitely up-scale from the afternooners.
ref: 2016, P. X. Duke, Dreams Die Hard:
glosses: A person performing some activity in the afternoon.
afternooners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of afternooner
agalma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agalmata
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄγαλμα (ágalma).
Senses: glosses: A cult image or votive offering.
agalmata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agalma
gives back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of give back