cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
nonfuels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonfuel
numbhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: numbheads
Etymology: From numb + head.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of numskull (“dunce, stupid person”).
synonyms: word: numskull
extra: dunce, stupid person
numbheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of numbhead
welfarite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: welfarites
Etymology: From welfare + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A person who receives, or lives on, welfare (financial aid provided by the government).
welfarites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of welfarite
winemakings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of winemaking
autobank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autobanks
Etymology: From auto- + bank.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of automated teller machine.
synonyms: word: automated teller machine
autobanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autobank
asthanga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ashtanga.
artsie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑɹtsi/
Forms: form: artsier
form: artsiest
Etymology: From arts + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: […] an "artsie" course at Cornell University […]
ref: 1974, Journal of the American Statistical Association:
glosses: Alternative form of arty.
artsie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑɹtsi/
Forms: form: artsies
Etymology: From arts + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: “I'll never be an artsie,” replied Corretti, not bothering to lift his eyes from the screen of the computer he was working on.
“But you're not taking engineering courses anymore,” objected Carl.
ref: 2013, Charles Blattberg, The Adventurous Young Philosopher Theo Hoshen of Toronto, page 85:
text: 2014, Elle Lee Strauss, Clockwise
[…] up along the wall, in cliques. The brains along one side, the artsies in the corner, the beauty queens near the punch bowl so everyone would have to look at how pretty they were when they got a drink, […]
glosses: One who studies the arts.
Artsioms
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Artsiom
motixafortide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A drug used in the treatment of multiple myeloma.
hotliner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hotliners
Etymology: From hotline + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person employed to respond to calls made to a hotline.
hotliners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hotliner
hyperest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of hyper: most hyper
impercipiently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more impercipiently
form: most impercipiently
Etymology: From impercipient + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an impercipient manner; lacking perception.
inkhosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inkhosi
jiveasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jiveass
kamokamos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kamokamo
kaijus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kaiju
kachumbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kachumber
cash rich
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cash rich
form: most cash rich
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Possessing considerable disposable income, however lacking in economic assets or reasons to spend.
Related terms: cash poor
time-poor
kanukas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kanuka
keemas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keema
kendoist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kendoists
Etymology: From kendo + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A practitioner of the martial art of kendo.
kendoists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kendoist
larigan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: larigans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of larrigan.
larigans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of larigan
leucoplakic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of leukoplakic.
lopingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lopingly
form: most lopingly
Etymology: From loping + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: From the Kierkegaard Room he lopingly careened through a red-carpeted hallway that had previously vouchsafed him a comfort station but this morning seemed all business, no M or W in sight, just salons and boutiques and the Ingmar Bergman Cinema.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections, New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 332:
glosses: With a loping motion; with long, easy strides.
mammillar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mammillary.
manebs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maneb
misgovernances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misgovernance
missellings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misselling
treblings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trebling
holds a grudge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hold a grudge
holding a grudge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of hold a grudge
held a grudge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hold a grudge
Dierdre
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dierdres
Senses: glosses: A female given name, variant of Deirdre.
ssu-ho-yuan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the Wade-Giles romanisation of Mandarin 四合院 (sìhéyuàn).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of siheyuan.
innamoratos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of innamorato
wolf-child
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wolf-children
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Neilson also adds that a jemidar told him that when he was a lad he remembered going with others to see a wolf-child which had been netted.
ref: 1898 January 24, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, Philadelphia, page 121:
glosses: A human child that has been raised by wolves from infancy.
examples: text: Odin watched the wolf-child grow with foreboding, for in his dreams the wolf had been there at the end of everything[.]
ref: 2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 78:
topics: fantasy
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A being that is part wolf, part child.
synonyms: wolf cub
wolfkin
wolfling
wolf whelp
glosses: A baby or young wolf.
wolf-children
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wolf-child
FMCSA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The Border and International Safety Program is part of FMCSA’s work in developing uniform standards or at least compatible motor carrier safety requirements and procedures throughout North America. It works with the governments of Canada and Mexico to ensure that Mexican and Canadian drivers of commercial motor vehicles in the United States meet the same safety standards as do American drivers.
ref: 2014, Mark Evan Garrett, editor, Encyclopedia of Transportation: Social Science and Policy, →ISBN, page 567:
text: Under the FMCSA regulations, truck drivers may be on duty for a maximum of 14 hours in a day, with a maximum of 11 hours spent driving. Trucks are equipped with an electronic logging device that indicates when a driver needs to go on their rest break, sending notifications to the driver and their employer.
ref: 2020 January 23, Rachel Premack, “Worked 'like a rented mule': A truck driver claims an Amazon contractor forced him to drive for up to 30 hours straight in a new lawsuit”, in Business Insider:
topics: transport
glosses: Initialism of Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, a government regulatory agency in the United States.
gondolieres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gondoliere
tri-annual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + annual.
Senses: examples: text: "I don't think moving to tri-annual timetable changes brings any benefit to the freight sector.
ref: 2023 September 6, Anthony Lambert, “Train paths: more space for freight?”, in RAIL, number 991, page 34:
glosses: Alternative form of triannual.
web shells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of web shell
breakfast, lunch and dinner
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Senses: examples: text: It is common for bedbugs to inflict a series of bites in a row ("breakfast, lunch, and dinner").
ref: 2011, William D. James, Dirk Elston, Timothy Berger, Andrew's Diseases of the Skin E-Book: Clinical Dermatology (page 435)
text: The typical clinical finding is several erythematous papules or urticarial lesions grouped together. Often three appear in a row (breakfast, lunch and dinner), but of course the bedbug does not keep count and both solitary bites and many lesions are common.
ref: 2012, Otto Braun-Falco, Gerd Plewig, Helmut Heinrich Wolff, Walter H.C. Burgdorf, Dermatology, second edition, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 364:
topics: dermatology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A group of three bedbug bites appearing together.
breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Nequatewa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nequatewas
Etymology: Borrowed from Hopi.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Hopi.
Sakiestewa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sakiestewas
Etymology: Borrowed from Hopi.
Senses: examples: Ramona Sakiestewa, b. 1948
glosses: A surname from Hopi.
Santa Fiora
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a municipality in the Province of Grosseto, in the Italian region of Tuscany,
Derived terms: fiorite
god that failed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gods that failed
Etymology: Popularised by The God that Failed (1949), a volume of essays by ex-communists critiquing communism.
Senses: examples: text: And it is just because [Sartre’s] early post-war influence was so great, and his intellectual magnetism so hypnotic, that today he has left such disarray among intellectuals throughout France. God has failed him; but he, too, is a god that failed. Today his public utterances still make headlines, but his real leadership has passed.
ref: 1969, John Ardagh, The New French Revolution, page 359:
text: Only the ones who stay away can come to terms with [Bob] Dylan’s new irrelevance. He never pretended to have any answers and, now that he seems to have no questions either, he may finally have made it into the ranks of the gods that failed.
ref: 1980 September 18, Gary Herman, “Highway 61 re-routed”, in New Society, volume 53, number 931, page 571:
text: Still, reflexive anthropologists are right: the idea of a neatly tied-up ethnographic package, of a realist ethnography that was temporal, functionalist, and unmindful of inequality and power—that was certainly a god that failed.
ref: 1996, Richard G. Fox, “Self-Made”, in Wimal Dissanayake, editor, Narratives of Agency: Self-Making in China, India, and Japan, →ISBN, page 108:
text: At its best, the space colonization vision was sophisticated daydreaming, not a future that a large number of Americans wanted to make happen. The vision had its shot and never caught on, despite appearing in the pages of a highly reputable magazine and gaining the attention of political decision makers. [See title]
ref: 2009 May 18, Dwayne Day, “The god that failed”, in The Space Review:
text: Get real about English football. It is a god that failed. Stop worshipping it. It is the reflection of the unbalanced, short-termist hedonism of the financial boom era.
ref: 2010 October 14, Martin Kettle, “Shed no tears for Liverpool: our football needs deflating”, in The Guardian:
text: For most Assam locals, tea eventually became the god that failed.
ref: 2011, Jayeeta Sharma, Empire’s Garden: Assam and the Making of India, →ISBN, page 13:
glosses: A notable let-down or flop; a concept, product, or person that has failed to live up to very high expectations.
wikipedia: The God that Failed
gods that failed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of god that failed
fire-board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire-boards
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fireboard.
fire board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire boards
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fireboard.
fire-boards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fire-board
fire boards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fire board
hearthboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hearthboards
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fireboard.
synonyms: word: fireboard
chimney board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chimney boards
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fireboard.
synonyms: word: fireboard
chimney boards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chimney board
chimneyboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chimneyboards
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fireboard.
synonyms: word: fireboard
hearthboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hearthboard
hearth board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hearth boards
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fireboard.
synonyms: word: fireboard
chimneyboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chimneyboard
hearth boards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hearth board
dollz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Web has become the setting for a new kind of play and dolls have shed a dimension, becoming flat like their paper ancestors. As a sign of the times, they’ve also gained a Gen-Y misspelling and are known now as “dollz” (usually) to their avid collectors. […] Online, where young men tend to attract most of the attention for graphical artistry in video games, Photoshopping and related media, the dollz subculture is a breath of fresh air far apart from the frenzied demimondes of CounterStrike mods or “tourist guy” Photoshop contests.
ref: 2003 October 7, Mitch Borgeson, “Playing with dollz”, in Salon.com, archived from the original on 10 Sep 2012:
text: Stardoll: a ‘dress-up’ or ‘Dollz’ game designed for children aged 9 years and over.
ref: 2010, Neil Selwyn, John Potter, Sue Cranmer, Primary Schools and ICT: Learning from Pupil Perspectives, Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 63:
text: In this framework, typical icons of the Emo subculture are the emo dollz, ie puppets without eyes that feature in the illustrations and in the comic strips filling the pages of the Emo […]
ref: 2013, Ariela Mortara, Simona Ironico, “Deconstructing Emo lifestyle and aesthetics: a netnographic research”, in Young Consumers, volume 14, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 351–359:
text: In its origins, it was ostensibly for making dollz, with a z, which are different than dolls with an s. […] The Doll Palace wasn’t the only website that offered dollz; there were people all over the internet who built their own bases and elements that you could incorporate into your designs.
ref: 2016 July 16, maralie darling, “we have always lived in the palace”, in Medium, archived from the original on 17 Jan 2017:
text: With faster connection speeds came visual chat rooms where users could express their personalities more overtly through graphic avatars, pixel-resolution representations ranging from inanimate objects to cartoonish “dollz,” animals, and abstract swizzles.
ref: 2019 September 16, Claire L. Evans, “Quest of the Avatars”, in Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal: Imitation, number 23, archived from the original on 24 Nov 2020:
text: There are other meanings of the expression virtual dolls. […] On the internet they are often referred to as dollz to distinguish them from traditional dolls. The hobby has been around since 1995, when dollz were created to use as avatars in the graphic chat programme “The Palace”, […]
ref: 2021, José Enrique Finol, On the Corposphere: Anthroposemiotics of the Body, De Gruyter, →ISBN:
text: She was coming from other virtual worlds like The Palace, a mid-90s graphical chat room (which popularized those customizable Dollz avatars that were all over the internet as glittery GIFs in the 90s) and There, a virtual world where users could make and buy worldbuilding elements using in-game currency purchased with USD.
ref: 2022 November 21, Samantha Cole, “Meet the Independent Artists Building the Metaverse”, in Vice, archived from the original on 21 Nov 2022:
glosses: plural of doll
New Berlin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village and township in Sangamon County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town and village therein, in Chenango County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A borough in Union County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Guadalupe County, Texas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, named after New Berlin, NY.
Titiev
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Titievs
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Титиев (Titijev).
Senses: examples: Oyub Titiev, b. 1957
glosses: A transliteration of the Russian surname Титиев (Titijev)
examples: Mischa Titiev, b. 1901
glosses: A surname from Russian.
Oyub
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Oyubs
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Оюб (Ojub).
Senses: examples: Oyub Titiev, b. 1957
glosses: A transliteration of the Russian male given name Оюб (Ojub)
Sekaquaptewa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sekaquaptewas
Etymology: Borrowed from Hopi.
Senses: examples: Emory Sekaquaptewa, b. 1928
glosses: A surname from Hopi.
Yava
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yavas
Senses: examples: Albert Yava, b. 1888
glosses: A surname.
Dukepoo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dukepoos
Etymology: Borrowed from Hopi.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Hopi.
law of correspondence
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the law of correspondence
Etymology: Originally after the works of Emanuel Swedenborg. See correspondence.
Senses: examples: text: And we look about us, and see what kind of things the law of correspondence has filled the world with. For we know that the things of this world are such as they are, that they may correspond with the things of our souls.
ref: 1839, Theophilus Parsons, Sunday Lessons for the Instruction of Children of the New Church in Schools or at Home, pages 103–4:
text: In the light of these disclosures we see that all the splendid habitations and magnificent palaces of heaven are but pictorial representations, under the law of correspondence, of the ruling loves of the angels.
ref: 1885, Benjamin Fiske Barrett, Heaven Revealed: Being a Popular Representation of Swedenborg’s Disclosures About Heaven […], 4th edition, page 243:
text: Corroborating the theosophic law of correspondence, Duby declares that the first aspect of the “system,” was a “coherence between heaven and earth, two parts of one homogeneous world, built to a single plan and hence reciprocally related.”
ref: 1997, William W. Quinn, Jr., The Only Tradition, →ISBN, page 215:
text: At almost every turn the heavenly world informed, illuminated, and affected the earthly world and vice versa, what some term the metaphysical law of correspondence.
ref: [2012, Samuel Morris Brown, In Heaven as It Is on Earth: Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death, →ISBN, page 11:
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The principle that any material thing or circumstance is the effect or reflection of a spiritual or celestial counterpart, and vice versa.
wikipedia: Emanuel Swedenborg
Related terms: Not to be confused with correspondence principle
Deloria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Delorias
Etymology: From French Deslauriers via Dakota.
Senses: examples: Vine Deloria, b. 1933
glosses: A surname from French.
Deslauriers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Deslaurierses
Etymology: Borrowed from French Deslauriers.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Related terms: Deloria
bridal crown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bridal crowns
Senses: examples: text: "Put on your bridal crown, Freya, and pack your things," he said.
ref: 2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 94:
glosses: A tiara or similar jewelled crown worn by a bride at her wedding.
bridal crowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bridal crown
bridal waltz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bridal waltzes
Senses: glosses: A waltz traditionally danced by the bride and groom at a wedding reception as the first dance before weddings guests are invited onto the dance floor.
bridal waltzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bridal waltz
wet fart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wet farts
Senses: examples: text: When the all-father in eagle form had almost reached the vats, with Suttung immediately behind him, Odin blew some of the mead out of his behind, a splattery wet fart of foul-smelling mead right in Suttung's face, blinding the giant and throwing him off Odin's trail.
ref: 2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, →OCLC, page 131:
glosses: A fart in which some watery excrement is expelled.
Synonyms: word: shart
wet farts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wet fart
Tenisha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tenishas
Senses: examples: Tenisha Yancey, b. 1976
glosses: A female given name.
Lomayumtewa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lomayumtewas
Etymology: Borrowed from Hopi.
Senses: examples: Lomayumtewa Ishii, b. 1959/60
glosses: A male given name from Hopi.
Lomayesva
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lomayesvas
Etymology: Borrowed from Hopi.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Hopi.
Kuwanwisiwma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kuwanwisiwmas
Etymology: Borrowed from Hopi.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Hopi.
riot grrrlz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Kathleen Hanna is in a band called Bikini Kill which has had to deal with all these jealous boy crappings. She told Bad Attitude what she knew of the Riot Girl thing in the States. She wanted to make clear however, that she does not represent the ‘law’ on riot grrrlz (or even Bikini Kill’s other band members). There is none.
ref: 1993 April/May, “Meeting of Bad Attitudes with KATHLEEN HANNA - riot girl!”, in Bad Attitude, number 3, page 7, column 1:
text: Widespread de facto censorship of (quite legal) modern sex periodicals probably ensures that many librarians have never seen—and might not guess at!—their extraordinary diversity of opinion and focus. Some are reviewed in Factsheet 5 and range from “riot grrrlz” through punkzine sex through Gothic through body piercing, S&M, queerzines, and so on.
ref: 1996, Martha Cornog, Timothy Perper, “Other Sexuality Materials: Vertical File Holdings, Periodicals, Literature, and Audiovisuals”, in For Sex Education, See Librarian: A Guide to Issues and Resources, Westport, Conn.; London: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 113:
text: WHAT DO pinups, girl reporters, dumb blonds, wimmin’s libbers, and riot grrrlz have in common?
ref: 1999, Trina Robbins, From Girls to Grrrlz: A History of ♀ Comics from Teens to Zines, San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle Books, →ISBN, back cover:
text: Outside the classroom, third-wave feminists, riot grrrlz, and other activists encourage young women to push against barriers and to use their skills as readers and writers to pursue personal, social, and political goals.
ref: 2003, Jane Greer, “Introduction”, in Girls and Literacy in America: Historical Perspectives to the Present, Santa Barbara, Calif.; Denver, Colo.; Oxford, Oxon: ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page xxii:
glosses: plural of riot grrrl
'zine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 'zines
Senses: examples: text: Rockrgrl contains lots of news, features, business suggestions, reviews, and commentary on what’s current for women in rock. Grrlz and ’zine fans will think…well…it rocks!
ref: 1997, Feminist Bookstore News, volume 20, page 58:
text: I have just read the new Gigantor issue of your ’zine with its absolutely fabulously fresh format [October 1996] and I must confess with all verisimilitude that it’s definitely the bomb.
ref: 1997, Surfer, volume 38:
text: But Hanna was far from a one-woman crusade. Numerous women talked about feminist ideas and how they related to the punk scene, to pop culture, and to women in their teens and twenties. Tobi Vail, Bikini Kill’s drummer, put out the ’zine Jigsaw, and Donna Dresch of the band Team Dresch created Homocore.
ref: 2001, Chérie Turner, “The Revolution”, in Everything You Need to Know About the Riot Grrrl Movement: The Feminism of a New Generation (The Need to Know Library), New York, N.Y.: Rosen Publishing, →ISBN, page 15:
text: She yearned for—yearned to adopt and wanted to be adopted by—rock musicians, colorful literary failures, pale headbangers, suavo archetypes with bandannas tied around their biceps, and starting way back in high school long dreamt of having affairs with long-haired guys named Scorch or Trevor or Rick who, even if they smelled unappealingly of cigarettes and booze, were part of the rebellious, ’zine-reading Dial B for Bum-in-Hand youth of today.
ref: 2007, Alexander Theroux, “A Fish Needs a Bicycle”, in Laura Warholic; or, The Sexual Intellectual, Seattle, Wash.: Fantagraphics Books, →ISBN, page 721:
glosses: Alternative form of zine.
negotiation table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: negotiation tables
Senses: examples: text: After a failed attempt by ministers to bounce the union into an agreement by announcing its terms (which included all sorts of union red lines such as drivers having to pay for their own training) in the media rather than over the negotiation table, there is an understandable reluctance on the part of the unions to engage in any discussions unless there are no preconditions.
ref: 2023 September 6, Christian Wolmar, “Rail strikes: little prospect of negotiations”, in RAIL, number 991, page 44:
glosses: Synonym of negotiating table.
synonyms: word: negotiating table
hackering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hacker
hackered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hacker
negotiation tables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of negotiation table.
Lovecraftians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lovecraftian
legal actions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of legal action
opium den
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opium dens
Senses: examples: text: The pub was a classic 1930s 'roadhouse'. To the railway's official mindset, it might as well have been an opium den in Victorian London.
ref: 2023 September 6, Greg Morse, “One more for the road?”, in RAIL, number 991, pages 49-50:
glosses: An establishment in which opium was sold and smoked.
opium dens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opium den.
homoduplices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Melting differences of heteroduplices compared to homoduplices are probably influenced by both the mutation and the surrounding sequence, e.g. for the 3905insT-mutation where one additional T is inserted into a stretch of 6 Ts.
ref: 2002, S. Kleinle, K. Tabiti, S. Gallati, “Limitations of Melting Curve Analysis Using SYBR Green I – Fragment Differentiation and Mutation Detection in the CFTR-Gene”, in Wolfgang Dietmaier, Carl Wittwer, Natarajan Sivasubramanian, editors, Rapid Cycle Real-Time PCR – Methods and Applications: Genetics and Oncology, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York, →ISBN, part I (Methods Useful in Genetics and Oncology), page 55:
text: Because more homoduplices than heteroduplices develop after rehybridization, a rather intense background pattern is obtained from the digested homoduplices, which can cause the interesting bands to disappear.
ref: 2007, Cornel Mülhardt, Molecular Biology and Genomics (The Experimenter Series), Academic Press, →ISBN, pages 165–166:
text: The DGGE technique allows for verification of heteroplasmy through the resolution of mismatch-containing heteroduplices from fully base-paired homoduplices in an increasingly denaturing environment.
ref: 2014, Mitchell Holland, Terry Melton, Charity Holland, “Forensic Mitochondrial DNA Analysis: Current Practice and Future Potential”, in Jaiprakash G. Shewale, Ray H. Liu, editors, Forensic DNA Analysis: Current Practices and Emerging Technologies, CRC Press, →ISBN, section IV (Expanding the Genotyping Capabilities), page 267:
glosses: plural of homoduplex
heteroduplices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Melting differences of heteroduplices compared to homoduplices are probably influenced by both the mutation and the surrounding sequence, e.g. for the 3905insT-mutation where one additional T is inserted into a stretch of 6 Ts.
ref: 2002, S. Kleinle, K. Tabiti, S. Gallati, “Limitations of Melting Curve Analysis Using SYBR Green I – Fragment Differentiation and Mutation Detection in the CFTR-Gene”, in Wolfgang Dietmaier, Carl Wittwer, Natarajan Sivasubramanian, editors, Rapid Cycle Real-Time PCR – Methods and Applications: Genetics and Oncology, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York, →ISBN, part I (Methods Useful in Genetics and Oncology), page 55:
text: Because more homoduplices than heteroduplices develop after rehybridization, a rather intense background pattern is obtained from the digested homoduplices, which can cause the interesting bands to disappear.
ref: 2007, Cornel Mülhardt, Molecular Biology and Genomics (The Experimenter Series), Academic Press, →ISBN, pages 165–166:
text: The DGGE technique allows for verification of heteroplasmy through the resolution of mismatch-containing heteroduplices from fully base-paired homoduplices in an increasingly denaturing environment.
ref: 2014, Mitchell Holland, Terry Melton, Charity Holland, “Forensic Mitochondrial DNA Analysis: Current Practice and Future Potential”, in Jaiprakash G. Shewale, Ray H. Liu, editors, Forensic DNA Analysis: Current Practices and Emerging Technologies, CRC Press, →ISBN, section IV (Expanding the Genotyping Capabilities), page 267:
glosses: plural of heteroduplex
Takai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Takais
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 高井.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
TBW
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of terabytes written (often in reference to how many terabytes can be written to a solid-state drive within its warranty service).
airtram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airtrams
Etymology: From air + tram.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: An aerial tram (type of passenger vehicle).
airtrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of airtram
Tarskavaig
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic Tarsgabhaig, from Old Norse Þorskavágr or Þorskavík (“cod bay”).
Senses: glosses: A village on the west coast of Sleat, Isle of Skye, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NG5809).
formalines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of formaline
geekisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geekism
helitack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helitacks
Etymology: Blend of helicopter + attack
Senses: glosses: A member of a team of wildland firefighters who are transported by helicopter to fight a fire.
helitacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of helitack
rehashable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rehash + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be rehashed.
reharvests
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reharvest
reharvesting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reharvest
hashings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hashing
hallucinatoriness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hallucinatory + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being hallucinatory.
sprueing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sprue
honchoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of honcho
inningses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In the second both sides had inningses of over 400. Both were drawn.
ref: 2007, Richard Rhodes James, The Road from Mandalay: A Journey in the Shadow of the East:
glosses: plural of innings
prefinancings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prefinancing
prebrunch
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + brunch.
Senses: glosses: Before brunch.
Sleat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /sleɪt/
homophone: slate
rhymes: -eɪt
Senses: glosses: A peninsula in the south of the Isle of Skye, Highland council area, Scotland.
Derived terms: Sound of Sleat
puckerooed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From puckeroo + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Broken or ruined.
recycleable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: A recycleable polypropylene bulk bag container comprising: (a) an outer bag of woven polypropylene fabric having walls, a top panel, and a bottom panel; […]
ref: 1999, Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, page 2610:
glosses: Alternative form of recyclable.
recycleable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recycleables
Senses: examples: text: The best vehicle available today to collect recycleables from 55-gallon drums is a fifth-wheel, trailer mounted, compactor with a drum lifter.
ref: 1970, United States. Department of the Air Force, Air Force Civil Engineer, volumes 12-16, page 22:
glosses: Alternative form of recyclable.
recycleables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recycleable
skypeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of skype
Skypeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Skype
vieing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: After a pause of a minute or two, however, the firing recommenced with redoubled earnestness, the Bombay and Bengal artillery vieing with each other, and the enemy vieing with both.
ref: 1867, John Clark Marshman, The History of India, from the Earliest Period to the Close of Lord Dalhousie’s Administration, volume III, London: Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, page 340:
text: Helen and Mary Hathaway Fell, ’25, have been vieing for the honor of living in the smaller town and Mary, whose place of residence at present, Sumpter, boasts some 250 people loses by a large margin, according to Helen in referring to the population of Culver City.
ref: 1927, The Lyre of Alpha Chi Omega, volume 30, page 548:
text: Ludlum's 1979 novel is set during the cold war era and centres on rival US and Russian spies who have been vieing for supremacy for several decades.
ref: 2009 February 12, Ben Child, “Tom Cruise and Denzel Washington set for Cronenberg spy thriller”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Jan 2021:
glosses: present participle and gerund of vie
voivodate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voivodates
Etymology: From voivode + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office). Compare Romanian voievodat.
Senses: examples: text: These legendary accounts seem to show the Moldavian voivodate was founded, like that of Walachia, by Vlach immigrants from Hungary, during the first half of the 14th century.
ref: 1914, James David Bourchier, Prince Kropotkin, Čedomilj Mijatović, Donald Mackenzie Wallace, A Short History of Russia and the Balkan States, page 145:
text: The Daco-Roman entity vanished from recorded history for one thousand years, then reappeared in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in the form of the voivodates Wallachia and Moldavia. Transylvania, the third historical province of Romania, was by that time part of the kingdom of Hungary. Turkish suzerainty over the voivodates was established in the fifteenth century.
ref: 1981, Bogdan Szajkowski, Marxist Governments: A World Survey, volume 3: Mozambique – Yugoslavia, page 591:
text: It would appear that the legal status that would for a long time apply to the Gypsies in the voivodate of Transylvania and the later in the Transylvanian principality was established during the reign of Sigismund.
ref: 2004, Viorel Achim, translated by Richard Davies, The Roma in Romanian History, page 44:
glosses: Synonym of voivodeship.
synonyms: word: voivodeship
voivodates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of voivodate
Googleing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Google
playcare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playcares
Etymology: Blend of play + daycare.
Senses: examples: text: I think I'll let Liz go back to playcare tomorrow, Annie. She's better now. Still, I'd hate to let her spread that virus around the day care center!
ref: 1984 June 6, Lynn Johnston, For Better or for Worse (comic):
glosses: A daycare for small children structured around play activities; daycare in general as contrasted with typically more structured preschools.
playcares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of playcare
lam chau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cantonese 攬炒 (laam⁵⁻² caau²).
Senses: glosses: mutual destruction as a revolutionary strategy against the Chinese Communist Party
sparagmite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sparagmites
Etymology: From Latin sparagma + -ite. Coined by Jens Esmark.
Senses: glosses: A kind of Precambrian microcline and feldspar-rich rock found in Scandinavia.
wikipedia: Jens Esmark
pals battalions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pals battalion
Jeans escape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jeans escapes
Etymology: Named after English physicist Sir James Jeans (1877–1946), who is credited with calculating the rate of such atmospheric escape.
Senses: examples: text: 2014, Eugene F. Milone, William J. F. Wilson, Solar System Astrophysics, Springer, 2nd Edition, page 413,
As will be seem in Sects. 11.7.2.3 and 11.7.3.2, Jeans escape of H atoms from Venus is negligible compared to other, nonthermal mechanisms, whereas Jeans escape dominates the loss of H from Mars. On both planets, Jeans escape of O, O₂ and CO₂ is negligible.
text: where a≡m/2k_BT, n is the number density of particles and v is the magnitude of the velocity.
ref: 2017, Kevin Heng, Exoplanetary Atmospheres, Princeton University Press, page 213, The simplest model of Jeans escape [112], a mechanism named after the Englishman James H. Jeans, assumes that the constituent particles of the atmosphere may be described by a Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution, f_M=(a/π)ne, (13.6)
text: 2021, Mark H. Thiemens, Mang Lin, 2: Discoveries of Mass Independent Isotope Effects in the Solar System, Ilya N. Bindeman, Andreas Pack (editors), Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, Volume 86: Triple Oxygen Isotope Geochemistry, Mineralogical Society of America, page 70,
The hydrogen is lost from the system by diffusion and Jeans escapes.
topics: astronomy
astrophysics
natural-sciences
planetology
glosses: A type of atmospheric escape in which a light gas atom or molecule (typically a helium atom or hydrogen molecule) gains sufficient momentum through collision with other molecules to escape the atmosphere (and gravitational pull) of a planet.
wikipedia: James Jeans
grrlz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grrl
-itan
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin -ītānus.
Senses: glosses: Forming adjectives, typically from a place ending in -polis.
Leeward Antilles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The westernmost islands in the southern half of the Lesser Antilles, in the Caribbean Sea, just north of the Venezuelan coast.
Coordinate terms: Leeward Islands
Windward Islands
Meronyms: ABC Islands
Related terms: Greater Antilles
LSOA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LSOAs
Senses: qualifier: census
glosses: Initialism of lower super output area.
output area
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: output areas
Senses: synonyms: OA
glosses: The smallest unit for which UK census data are published.
MSOA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MSOAs
Senses: qualifier: census
glosses: Initialism of middle super output area.
USOA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: USOAs
Senses: qualifier: census
glosses: Initialism of upper super output area.
Blue Goose
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From blue + goose, in reference to its blue desk adorned with the seal of the president of the United States; the bald eagle displayed prominently on the seal is sometimes affectionately referred to as a goose for comedic effect.
Senses: glosses: A large, armored lectern used by the president of the United States on formal occasions.
wikipedia: seal of the president of the United States
frost giant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frost giants
Etymology: Calque of Old Norse hrímþurs, from hrím (“rime, frost”) + þurs (“giant, troll”).
Senses: examples: text: There were frost giants and mountain giants at Balder's funeral[.]
ref: 2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 221:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A type of large, strong, and fearsome supernatural beings that live in cold and icy regions.
frost giants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frost giant
Florida scrub jays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Florida scrub jay
scrub jay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scrub jays
Senses: glosses: Any bird of four species in the genus Aphelocoma of New World jays.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Aphelocoma californica
word: California scrub jay
taxonomic: Aphelocoma coerulescens
word: Florida scrub jay
taxonomic: Aphelocoma insularis
word: Island scrub jay
taxonomic: Aphelocoma woodhouseii
word: Woodhouse's scrub jay
scrub jays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scrub jay
amarantin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of amaranthin.
anatexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anatexis
bead maze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bead mazes
Senses: glosses: A children's toy consisting of a set of rigid wires connecting parts of a solid base, serving as tracks along which beads can be moved back and forth.
bead mazes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bead maze
akatea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Maori akatea.
Senses: glosses: Any of various species of white-flowering climbing vine from New Zealand, in the genus Metrosideros.
anovulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anovulation
arragonitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more arragonitic
form: most arragonitic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aragonitic.
biofibre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biofibres
Etymology: From bio- + fibre.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of biofiber.
biofibres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biofibre
biofibrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Consisting of, or relating to, biofiber.
blackstraps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blackstrap
Blokarting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Land yachting using a Blokart.
bowhunt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bowhunts
form: bowhunting
form: bowhunted
form: bowhunted
Etymology: From bow + hunt, or back-formation from bowhunting.
Senses: glosses: To hunt game using a bow and arrow.
bowhunts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bowhunt
bowhunted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bowhunt
diggs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of digg
digg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diggs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dig (“a duck”).
bushfightings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bushfighting
bottargas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bottarga
bottomings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bottoming
coleorrhiza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coleorrhizae
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of coleorhiza.
coleorrhizae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coleorrhiza
cueings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cueing
cuings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuing
cuffable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cuffable
form: most cuffable
Etymology: From cuff + -able.
Senses: examples: text: […] cuffable heads were precisely those with which a fastidious hand shrank from establishing contact.
ref: 1925, Paul Selver, Schooling, page 150:
glosses: Capable of, or suitable for, being hit or struck.
examples: text: cuffable tracheostomy tubes
glosses: Able to have a cuff attached.
damfools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of damfool
damnfools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of damnfool
carspiel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carspiels
Etymology: From car + spiel.
Senses: glosses: A competitive tournament in the sport of curling, having the prize of an automobile.
carspiels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carspiel
carborne
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From car + borne.
Senses: examples: text: carborne equipment
text: a carborne survey system
glosses: Transported or fitted in an automobile.
decartelisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decartelisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of decartelization.
decartelisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decartelisation
decartelise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: decartelises
form: decartelising
form: decartelised
form: decartelised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of decartelize.
decartelised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decartelise
decartelises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decartelise
decartelising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decartelise
decartelize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: decartelizes
form: decartelizing
form: decartelized
form: decartelized
Senses: glosses: To free from a cartel (colluding group).
Related terms: decartelization
decartelizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decartelize
decartelizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decartelize