cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
familialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: familialisms
Senses: examples: text: However, I chose to refer to this model as “implicit maternalism” instead of “supported familialism” to emphasize the implicit social and political understanding that mothers instead of fathers (or “families”) perform the bulk of care work.
ref: 2016 September 15, Sophie Mathieu, “From the Defamilialization to the “Demotherization” of Care Work”, in Social Politics, volume 23, number 4, →DOI, page 582:
glosses: An ideology that prioritizes the family by advocating a welfare system that assumes that households, not the state, take responsibility for the care of their members.
examples: text: First, Latinas were expected to have higher familialism than European Americans.
ref: 2008, Belinda Campos, Christine Dunkel Schetter, Cleopatra M. Abdou, Calvin J. Hobel, Laura M. Glynn, Curt A. Sandman, “Familialism, Social Support, and Stress: Positive Implications for Pregnant Latinas”, in Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, APA, →DOI, page 4:
synonyms: familism
glosses: A cultural value that emphasizes the importance of close family relationships, such as prioritizing the needs of the family higher than that of individuals.
polo-stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polo-sticks
form: polo stick
form: polostick
Senses: examples: text: COVER: A Persian miniature from the Topkapi Sarayi Library in Istanbul depicting Alexander the Great feeding sesame seeds to a cockerel. This rare illustration depicts an episode in which Darius insulted Alexander by sending him a polo stick and ball, and a bowl of sesame seed, saying that as Alexander behaved like a child he should have the playthings of a child.
ref: 2004, “The History of Sesame”, in Economic Botany, volume 58, number 3:
synonyms: polo mallet
glosses: The elongate implement needed to push a ball from a horseback and thereby vie with other mounted players.
wikipedia: Naqsh-e Jahan Square
polo-sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polo-stick
polo stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polo sticks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of polo-stick.
polo sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polo stick
polostick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polosticks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of polo-stick.
polosticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polostick
aesthenospheric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of asthenospheric.
panther chameleon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panther chameleons
Senses: glosses: Furcifer pardalis, a Madagascan chameleon.
defamilialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: defamilializes
form: defamilializing
form: defamilialized
form: defamilialized
form: defamilialise
form: de-familialize
Etymology: From de- + familial + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: The Scandinavian countries are often assumed to constitute a coherent and unique social service model characterized by a comparatively high level of universalism and a strong capacity to defamilialize care responsibilities.
ref: 2007, Dietmar Rauch, “Is There Really a Scandinavian Social Service Model?: A Comparison of Childcare and Elderlycare in Six European Countries”, in Acta Sociologica, volume 50, number 3, →DOI, page 249:
glosses: To remove familial character from
asthenoneurotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to both asthenia and neurosis.
ghaap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghaaps
Senses: glosses: hoodia
asthenovegetative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Both asthenic and vegetative.
dimethylaminoparthenolide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A water-soluble analog of parthenolide.
defamilializing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Conversely, a defamilializing regime is one in which policies unburden the household by diminishing individuals’ welfare dependence on kinship.
ref: 2016 September 15, Sophie Mathieu, “From the Defamilialization to the “Demotherization” of Care Work”, in Social Politics, volume 23, number 4, →DOI, page 578:
glosses: present participle of defamilialize
dimethylamino-parthenolide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dimethylaminoparthenolide.
dimethylamino parthenolide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dimethylaminoparthenolide.
defamilializes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of defamilialize
naphthenoaromatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Both naphthenic and aromatic.
naphthenoaromatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naphthenoaromatics
Senses: glosses: Any naphthenoaromatic compound.
defamilialized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, in places where individual risk is defamilialized, i.e. where the state assumes risks such as health insurance, selection may not be as important as in places where these risks are devolved individuals or their families.
ref: 2012, Sean Clouston, Amélie Quesnel-Vallée, “The role of defamilialization in the relationship between partnership and self-rated health: A cross-national comparison of Canada and the United States”, in Social Science & Medicine, volume 75, number 8, →DOI, page 1342:
text: Thus, while part of the caring responsibilities is socially defamilialized, mothers remain the primary caregivers.
ref: 2016 September 15, Sophie Mathieu, “From the Defamilialization to the “Demotherization” of Care Work”, in Social Politics, volume 23, number 4, →DOI, page 582:
text: On the other hand, the fertility impact is unknown in regard to systems where the majority of the economic and caring responsibilities rest on the family (such as in Southern Europe), as opposed to defamilialized systems where welfare and caring responsibilities are largely supported by the state (such as Nordic countries).
ref: 2024 April 14, Wikipedia contributors, “Familialism”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation:
glosses: simple past and past participle of defamilialize
Bío Bío
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Biobío.
territory of Magallanes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former territory of Chile, before the creation in 1929 of the Magallanes province.
territory of Aysén
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former territory of Chile, before the creation in 1929 of the Aysén province.
territory of Llanquihue
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former territory of Chile, before the creation in 1861 of the Llanquihue province.
Territory of Angol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former territory of Chile, before the creation in 1887 of the Malleco and Cautín provinces.
Territory of Antofagasta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former territory of Chile, before the creation in 1888 of the Antofagasta province.
Virginia creeper sphinx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Virginia creeper sphinxes
Senses: glosses: Darapsa myron, a moth of the family Sphingidae found in central and eastern North America.
Related terms: hog caterpillar
Virginia creeper sphinxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Virginia creeper sphinx
hog-cistern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hog-cisterns
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hog cistern.
hog-cisterns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hog-cistern
Yoav
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew יוֹאָב (yo'áv).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
tread the stage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: trĕd′ thə stāj′
ipa: /ˌtɹɛd ðə ˈsteɪ̯d͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˌtɹed ðə ˈstæɪ̯d͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˌtɹɛd ðə ˈsted͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˌʈɾɛɖ d̪e ˈsʈeːd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: treads the stage
form: treading the stage
form: trod the stage
form: tread the stage
form: treaded the stage
form: trodden the stage
form: trod the stage
form: tread the stage
form: treaded the stage
Etymology: See tread the boards. First attested in 1691.
Senses: examples: text: Both when he Writes, and when he treads the Stage.
ref: 1691, John Caryll, “Epilogue”, in Sir Salomon, line 26:
glosses: Synonym of tread the boards.
synonyms: word: tread the boards
conspiracy-theorizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of conspiracy-theorize
conspiracy-theorizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of conspiracy-theorize
conspiracy-theorized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of conspiracy-theorize
hog cote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hog cotes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hogcote.
hog cotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hog cote
hoggism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hoggishness.
synonyms: word: hoggishness
Related terms: whole-hoggism
geometrizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more geometrizable
form: most geometrizable
Etymology: From geometrize + -able.
Senses: examples: text: One can take a low-dimensional point of view on high-dimensional manifolds and ask "Which high-dimensional manifolds are geometrizable?"
ref: 2024 March 31, Wikipedia contributors, “Classification of manifolds”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation:
glosses: Able to be rendered or considered in geometric terms.
hog gum tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hog gum trees
Senses: glosses: Moronobea coccinea.
glosses: Symphonia globulifera.
hog gum trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hog gum tree
hog chains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hog chain
contempt factor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contempt factors
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: The score assigned to a draw during calculation, usually negative to discourage playing for a draw and encourage playing for a win.
contempt factors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contempt factor
jill-hooters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jill-hooter
spider-hunting wasps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spider-hunting wasp
h-backs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of h-back
spike-primroses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spike-primrose
black henbane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black henbanes
Senses: glosses: A plant of the species Hyoscyamus niger.
hog's bane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hog's banes
Senses: glosses: A plant of species Chenopodiastrum murale (nettle-leaved goosefoot).
glosses: Synonym of henbane (Hyoscyamus spp.).
synonyms: word: henbane
extra: (Hyoscyamus spp.).
stinking nightshade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stinking nightshades
Senses: glosses: Synonym of henbane.
synonyms: word: henbane
Ze
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Clipping of Zelenskyy.
Senses: examples: text: Ze, as he’s been nicknamed, charmed his country with his wit, his charisma, his irreverent talent.
ref: 2023, Jessie Asya Kanzer, “Preface”, in Unlocking Your Inner Zelensky: Lessons We Can All Learn from an Unexpected Leader, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Essentials, →ISBN:
synonyms: Zee
Zelly
glosses: Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
leptochoroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leptochoroid
letting-ins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of letting-in
leptosoils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leptosoil
levofolinates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of levofolinate
Lics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lic
liempos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liempo
licinines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of licinine
librarianesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of librarianess
lingulides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lingulide
Linzers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Linzer
Linzers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Linzer
overexpressers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overexpresser
empty string
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: empty strings
Etymology: From empty (“containing no elements”) + string (“ordered sequence of text characters”).
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A string with a length of zero.
empty strings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of empty string
Methods-Time Measurement
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: industries
glosses: A predetermined motion time system that is used primarily in industrial settings to analyze the methods used to perform any manual operation or task and, as a product of that analysis, to set the standard time in which a worker should complete that task.
pachyblepharon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pachyblepharons
Etymology: From pachy- (“thick”) + blepharon (“eyelid”).
Senses: glosses: Thickening of the eyelids
time check
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time checks
Senses: topics: business
law
qualifier: human resources
glosses: A note provided by a contractor indicating the number of hours for which a worker is due to be paid.
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: An instance of checking the amount of time required to cover a specific distance, occurring at a prearranged point in a race.
glosses: Synonym of timesheet.
synonyms: word: timesheet
Molotovs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Molotov
Molotovs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Molotov
Molotoving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of Molotov
Molotoved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Molotov
Belgium sausage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Belgium sausages
Senses: glosses: a large sausage, usually sliced and eaten cold
Belgium sausages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Belgium sausage
beastly careless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beastly careless
form: most beastly careless
Senses: glosses: indifferent
dirty soda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dirty sodas
Senses: glosses: A beverage made by adding cream and often fruit flavoring to root beer or cola.
surmission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surmissions
Etymology: From surmise + -sion, likely from the assumption that surmise cannot be used as a noun.
Senses: examples: text: “I merely took a little stomach bitters for the stomach's sake only. I had a surmission you might think something wrong, and have been looking for you, to explain.”
ref: 1901, Francina Scott, The Romance of a Trained Nurse, New York: Cooke & Fry, →OCLC, page 185:
text: Of the additions roughly 50% are translations of Semitic language works (attributed as such either by surmission based on language or through discovery of lost originals).
ref: 1992 October 13, dho...@cbrown.claremont.edu, “koine = new testament?”, in sci.classics (Usenet):
text: If your surmission is correct, and the lights are low to encourage psychological warmth, then this still saves power by necessitating less heating.
ref: 1996, Martin Booth, Adrift in the Oceans of Mercy, London: Simon & Schuster Ltd, →ISBN, page 169:
text: No, that's just another one of your pull it out of your butt surmissions, you have no way of knowing what he did or did not do, and I refuse to come anywhere near a thought process that polluted.
ref: 2000 July 1, ou812, “Lock and Load! (fwd)”, in or.general (Usenet):
text: ‘A knowledge of, an appreciation of, history is purposeful,’ I defended myself. “The lesson of history instructs us in the path of the future.’ I sounded like one of my recent professors, pedantic but confident in my surmission.
ref: 2003, Martin Booth, Islands of Silence, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN, page 39:
glosses: An act of surmising; a guess or conjecture.
nointer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nointers
Senses: glosses: a mischievous child
nointers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nointer
Howard's battlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after former Prime Minister John Howard, the second-longest serving Australian Prime Minister, winning four consecutive elections. Howard led the centre-right Liberal/National Coalition to a landslide victory in the 1996 federal election over Paul Keating's Labor government, which was widely credited with Howard's appeal with "battlers" (ordinary Australians, typically working-class or lower-middle-class).
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Synonym of battlers.
synonyms: word: battlers
shirtlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shirtlets
Etymology: From shirt + -let.
Senses: examples: text: She saw Rollo sitting in the middle of the bed with his arms tightly manacled to the side of his head by a twisted shirtlet which crossed his face in many folds, concealing from sight all his features save two tearbrimmed blue eyes, and at the same time effectually smothering all attempts at speech, even of the most primitive character.
ref: 1897, Robert J. Burdette, Chimes from a Jester's Bells:
text: The ornaments were ingrooved all over the dued blue shirtlet and are constituted of straight and curved grooves, transversal incisions, plinted sloped punctures on the calote of the armour, that are sporadically flaked ( T. I , 1a : T. II . 1a ).
ref: 1992, Narodni muzej--Beograd, Zbornik radova - Volume 14, page 223:
text: In the abdomen of a dream, a warm shirtlet bunched at his chest, thighs, and belly cool, one leg outside the covers to regulate temp.
ref: 2014, Andrew Levine, Lullaby, page 15:
text: Boots set off with it back to the castle, apprehensive of what his father would think of the shirtlet.
ref: 2016, “Doll-in-the-Grass”, in The Witches' Almanac: Issue 36, Spring 2017 to 2018, page 139:
glosses: A small shirt.
shirtlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shirtlet
the Massachusetts of Australia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Coined by former Prime Minister John Howard after the Coalition's landslide defeat to the state Labor government of Premier Daniel Andrews at the 2018 Victorian state election. Howard referred to Victoria as "the Massachusetts of Australia", in reference to both states being progressive and left-leaning. In response, after the Andrews government was re-elected at the 2022 state election, in his victory speech, Andrews referred to Massachusetts as "the Victoria of the United States".
Senses: glosses: the state of Victoria
surmissions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surmission
bevan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bevans
Senses: glosses: a bogan
bevans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bevan
habib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: habibs
Etymology: From Arabic حبيب (“[my] dear”).
Senses: qualifier: Arab Australian
glosses: mate; a term of endearment for a friend
habibs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of habib
underganging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undergang
sheepkind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sheep + -kind.
Senses: glosses: All sheep, collectively.
Lawtons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lawton
cooling time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cooling times
Senses: topics: criminology
human-sciences
law
sciences
glosses: The amount of time required for an individual to calm down and think clearly after being seriously provoked, allowing the individual to consider the consequences of their actions in order to make a rational decision.
cooling times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cooling time
cosmic time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cosmic times
Senses: topics: astronomy
cosmology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The measure of time by a physical clock with zero peculiar velocity in the absence of matter overdensities or underdensities; commonly used in the Big Bang models of physical cosmology.
decapulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decapulate
decapulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decapulate
decapulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decapulate
time diversity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time diversities
Senses: topics: broadcasting
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
radio
telecommunications
glosses: The process of sending the same signal or components of a signal through a communication channel where the same signal is received at different times, used in order to compare, recover, or add to the overall quality of the received signal.
time diversities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of time diversity
inquirents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inquirent
superposition in time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: fluid-dynamics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A computation accounting for the flowrate history in an analytical model that is generated to match with pressure-transient test data.
Time-Triggered Protocol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An open computer network protocol for control systems, designed as a time-triggered fieldbus for vehicles and industrial applications.
fieldbus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fieldbuses
Etymology: field + bus
Senses: topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A member of a family of industrial digital communication networks used for real-time distributed control.
time service
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time services
Senses: glosses: The determination and announcement of the correct time, conducted as part of the duties of an astronomical observatory.
time services
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of time service
cosmic times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cosmic time
GULAGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of GULAG
rethaws
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rethaw
lower bounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lower bound
withsits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of withsit
withsat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of withsit
withsitten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of withsit
upper bounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upper bound
parthenosporophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parthenosporophytes
Senses: glosses: A sporophyte that produces parthenospores.
parthenospore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parthenospores
Etymology: partheno- + spore
Senses: glosses: A spore that develops without fertilization.
chicken cutlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chicken cutlets
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:chicken cutlet.
glosses: A silicone insert placed into a bra in order to enhance one's apparent breast size.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see chicken, cutlet.
chicken cutlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chicken cutlet
ruthenocenyl
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Derived from ruthenocene.
subasthenospheric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Below the asthenosphere.
thenoyltrifluoroacetonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thenoyltrifluoroacetonates
Senses: glosses: An enolate of thenoyltrifluoroacetone.
magpie-jays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magpie-jay
eastern gray kangaroos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eastern gray kangaroo
hoopoe-larks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoopoe-lark
leading women
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leading woman
liaison officers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liaison officer
low-loaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of low-loader
good-lookers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of good-looker
water lice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water louse
Nosferatu spider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nosferatu spiders
Etymology: Calque of German Nosferatu-Spinne. Named for the resemblance of its markings to the vampire Count Orlok from the 1922 movie Nosferatu.
Senses: examples: text: This autumn media reports and social media posts about the rapid spread of so-called Nosferatu spiders have caused unease throughout Switzerland.
ref: 2022 December 17, “Alien spiders in Switzerland – how worried should we be?”, in SWI swissinfo.ch:
text: This month, Nikon Metrology’s Thomas Dreisbusch, Application Engineer X-ray & CT, has scanned a spider whose name alone causes fear and terror: the Nosferatu spider (Zoropsis spinimana).
ref: 2023 September 23, “Scan of the month September – It’s spider season”, in Nikon:
glosses: Zoropsis spinimana, a relatively large hunting spider originally from southern Europe.
milk sweets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milk sweet
monal-partridges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monal-partridge
owlet-nightjars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of owlet-nightjar
Chesterton and Kingston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish (without a council) in Stratford-on-Avon district, Warwickshire, England.
Lesbosian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lesbosians
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Λέσβος (Lésbos) + adjective suffix -ian, irregularly retaining -os to avoid clashing in spoken language with lesbian.
Senses: synonyms: word: Lesbian
word: Lesvian
word: Lesviot
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Lesbos.
Lesbosian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lesbosian
form: most Lesbosian
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Λέσβος (Lésbos) + adjective suffix -ian, irregularly retaining -os to avoid clashing in spoken language with lesbian.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Lesbian (“Of or pertaining to the island of Lesbos.”).
synonyms: word: Lesbian
extra: (“Of or pertaining to the island of Lesbos.”).
pure-blooded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pure-blooded
form: most pure-blooded
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pureblooded.
metacommunicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: metacommunicates
form: metacommunicating
form: metacommunicated
form: metacommunicated
Senses: glosses: To communicate about communication.
glosses: To communicate implicitly, using metamessages.
Related terms: metacommunication
metacommunicates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of metacommunicate
metacommunicating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of metacommunicate
metacommunicated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of metacommunicate
Lingua Ignota
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈlinɡʷa iŋˈnoːta/
Etymology: From Latin lingua ignōtā (“unknown language”).
Senses: glosses: A Latin-influenced mystical 12th-century constructed language recorded by St. Hildegard of Bingen, and apparently the first entirely artificial language.
Balaibalan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish باليبلن (bâleybelen).
Senses: glosses: A constructed language of certain Sufi sects created around the 14th–16th century.
Kronian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Cronian
Senses: examples: text: The figure compares the Jovian and Kronian magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling currents.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Related to the planet Saturn.
Synonyms: Cronian
Saturnian
Saturnial
Saturnine
red and silver dewdrop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red and silver dewdrops
Etymology: From the coloration of the spider, the body being red or orange and the legs being silver. dewdrop may be a reference to its small size.
Senses: synonyms: red and silver dewdrop spider
glosses: Argyrodes flavescens, an Asian species of kleptoparasitic cobweb spiders
Universalglot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Presumably from Latin ūniversālis (“universal”) + Ancient Greek γλῶττα (glôtta, “tongue”). By surface analysis, universal + -glot.
Senses: glosses: An a posteriori international auxiliary language created in 1868 by Jean Pirro.
blue admiral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue admirals
Etymology: From blue + admiral, possibly in relation to the red admiral, another species of butterfly.
Senses: glosses: Kaniska canace, a black and blue species of nymphaline butterflies.
Related terms: red admiral
tearbrimmed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tearbrimmed
form: most tearbrimmed
Senses: examples: text: She saw Rollo sitting in the middle of the bed with his arms tightly manacled to the side of his head by a twisted shirtlet which crossed his face in many folds, concealing from sight all his features save two tearbrimmed blue eyes, and at the same time effectually smothering all attempts at speech, even of the most primitive character.
ref: 1897, Robert J. Burdette, Chimes from a Jester's Bells:
text: One of the little girls in this group was not sleeping; she was sobbing convulsively, looking at us from time to time with huge, tearbrimmed hazel eyes, full of fear and distrust.
ref: 1957, George S. Counts, Soviet Education:
text: "Batao Virat!!", She screamed with tearbrimmed eyes and looked at Virat.
ref: 2023, Shreena Manat, “Tu Hai Ki Nahi!”, in Wattpad:
glosses: Alternative form of tear-brimmed.
nonmutagenicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being nonmutagenic.
Sambahsa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sambahsa-Mundialect
Etymology: From Sambahsa sam ("same") + bahsa ("language").
Senses: glosses: An international auxiliary language and worldlang devised by French linguist Olivier Simon, released in July 2007.
nonmutagen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonmutagens
Senses: glosses: Any substance that is not a mutagen.
nonmutilating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not mutilating.
nonmutinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + mutinous.
Senses: glosses: Not mutinous.
Sambahsa-Mundialect
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The first word comes from Sambahsa sam ("same") + bahsa ("language"), and the second one is a blend of mundial + dialect.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Sambahsa.
synonyms: word: Sambahsa
tear-brimmed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tear-brimmed
form: most tear-brimmed
form: tearbrimmed
Senses: examples: text: Her voice was husky with emotion and her eyes were tear-brimmed.
ref: 2014, Margaret Sunley, Sons of Toil:
text: The baby's tear-brimmed eyes scrutinising me as through heavy lenses.
ref: 2016, Mark Quinn, Finding Dan:
text: Caitlin could only nod and swallow to this through tear-brimmed eyes.
ref: 2016, Marjorie Day, The Belle of Collingwood:
glosses: With tears that brim but are not yet falling.
nonmutuality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being nonmutual.
unmutagenised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unmutagenized.
Mundolinco
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mundolinco mundo ("world") + linco ("language"). Compare with Esperanto mondo lingvo.
Senses: glosses: An international constructed language created by the Dutch author J. Braakman in 1888, apparently being the first Esperantido.
Vendergood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A constructed language created by William James Sidis in the early 20th century, based mainly on Latin and Greek, with influence from German, English and Romance languages.
Tring Rural
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Dacorum borough, Hertfordshire, England, north-west of the town of Tring.
Spocanian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Dutch Spokaans, from Spokanië, a fictional island group in the Atlantic Ocean. Equivalent to Spocania + -n.
Senses: glosses: A constructed language created by Dutch linguist Rolandt Tweehuysen, intended to serve as the language of Spocania, a fictional island group in the Atlantic Ocean.
SBIRS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Space-Based Infrared System.
Baronh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A constructed language created by Japanese science fiction novelist Morioka Hiroyuki, intended to be the official language of the Abh, first introduced in his 1996 novel Crest of the Stars.
New Zealandish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more New Zealandish
form: most New Zealandish
Etymology: From New Zealand + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Don’t try to be more New Zealandish than the New Zealanders.
text: I did indeed grow up with a fault line running through me, but that is a very New Zealandish feature when you consider that it is a country of earthquakes and volcanoes.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Margaret Mahy, “A dissolving ghost”, in Damien Wilkins, editor, Great sporting moments, published 2005, page 352:
glosses: typical of New Zealand
Communicationssprache
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French communications + German Sprache (“language”).
Senses: glosses: An international auxiliary language created by Joseph Schipfer in 1836, chiefly based on French, with some influences from Latin, English and German.
asylum shopping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compound term on the model of forum shopping.
Senses: hypernyms: secondary migration
law shopping
glosses: A practice of applying for asylum in a more ideal state rather than in the nearest or first-reached safe state.
double-double-cross
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: double-double-crosses
form: double-double-crossing
form: double-double-crossed
form: double-double-crossed
Senses: glosses: To double-cross in a situation when a different double-cross is taking place; usually, to deceive a double-crosser.
Malamuthan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Dravidian language spoken in the Malappuram and Kozhikode districts of Kerala, India
time checks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of time check
hog's banes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hog's bane
time-servingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From time-serving + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of timeservingness.
law shopping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: coordinate_terms: forum shopping
jurisdiction shopping
glosses: Exploiting differences of private international law between legal systems or otherwise procuring the application of a particular legal system’s rules in order to optimize the substantive law applied to one’s case.
superposition property
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of superposition principle.
synonyms: word: superposition principle
Aruns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Arun
River Arun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the River Arun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Arun (a river in West Sussex, England)
synonyms: word: Arun
extra: a river in West Sussex, England
Asaf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.sæf/
Etymology: A variant of Asaph.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
oxgall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxgalls
Etymology: From ox + gall.
Senses: glosses: Bile obtained from the gallbladder of a cattle beast.
OANN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: They added, “OANN’s internal and external discussions about the Stolen Passwords represent circumstantial evidence that OANN intended to harm Smartmatic and intended to undermine people’s confidence in the 2020 election.”
ref: 2024 February 7, Marshall Cohen, “Pro-Trump network OAN’s president solicited more info after receiving ‘stolen’ Smartmatic passwords, court documents allege”, in CNN:
text: While these fights may offer immediate political wins, the world does not live and die by the rhythms of American news cycles or the alternative reality of Fox News and OANN.
ref: 2025 February 9, Ben Rhodes, “This Isn’t the Donald Trump America Elected”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: Initialism of One America News Network.
Synonyms: OAN
OAN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Napoli said he has never seen a US president promote a network like OAN while launching a sustained assault on credible news organizations.
ref: 2020 May 8, Oliver Darcy, “Meet OAN, the little-watched right-wing news channel that Trump keeps promoting”, in CNN:
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: Initialism of One America News.
Synonyms: OANN
energy confinement time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: energy confinement times
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
coordinate_terms: energy replacement time
glosses: The amount of time required to dissipate the stored energy by a constant power loss.
Timerio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German Tiemer, the creator of the language.
Senses: glosses: A number-based international auxiliary language created by the Berlin architect Tiemer and presented in 1921, in which, every concept is assigned by a number.
energy confinement times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of energy confinement time
energy payback time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: energy payback times
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The amount of time required for a renewable energy system to generate the same amount of energy that was used to produce the system itself.
energy payback times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of energy payback time
energy replacement time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: energy replacement times
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
coordinate_terms: energy confinement time
glosses: The amount of time required to replace the stored energy by a constant power input.
Latimer and Ley Hill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, previously in Chiltern district.
energy replacement times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of energy replacement time
Gulf of Tong-King
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Gulf of Tong-King
Senses: examples: text: The sailing-course beyond the Ganges to the "country of the Sinae", as stated, would very nearly reach the Gulf of Tong-King.
ref: 1927, Wilfred H. Schoff translating Marcian of Heraclea as Periplus of the Outer Sea..., p. 49
glosses: Alternative form of Gulf of Tonkin.
Tong-King
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From irregular romanization of Vietnamese Đông Kinh (“Hanoi; its former kingdom”), from đông (“east, eastern”) + kinh (“capital”), from Middle Chinese 東 (tuwng) + 京 (kjaeng), q.v.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tonkin.
Derived terms: Gulf of Tong-King
engaged time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: engaged times
Senses: topics: education
law
qualifier: human resources
glosses: The total or actual amount of time a person, often a student or worker, is engaged in a purposeful or productive required task.
engaged times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of engaged time
civilian time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: civilian times
Senses: topics: law
synonyms: civil time
glosses: The start or beginning of the day at midnight.
civilian times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of civilian time
UT1
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: UT
glosses: Initialism of Universal Time.
clearance times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clearance time
background radiation equivalent time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: background radiation equivalent times
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A unit of measurement of ionizing radiation dosage amounting to one day worth of average human exposure to background radiation.
background radiation equivalent times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of background radiation equivalent time
Malappuram
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Malapuram
Etymology: Borrowed from Malayalam മലപ്പുറം (malappuṟaṁ).
Senses: glosses: A city in Kerala, India.
glosses: a district containing this city.
time and frequency transfer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: A scheme where multiple sites share a precise reference time or frequency, commonly used for creating and distributing standard time scales such as International Atomic Time.
L/P
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of letterpress.
Ley Hill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Latimer and Ley Hill parish, Buckinghamshire, England, previously in Chiltern district (OS grid ref SP9802).
glosses: A hill, 318 metres high, south of Porlock, Somerset, England, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district (OS grid ref SS8844).
glosses: A suburb near Four Oaks, City of Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP1198).
glosses: A hill, 231 metres high, near Kirtleton, Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NY2781).
service life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of useful life.
synonyms: word: useful life
time-gain compensation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: time-compensated gain
time-varied gain control
time-varied gain
glosses: A setting applied in diagnostic ultrasound imaging to account for tissue attenuation, in which the received signal intensity with depth is increased.
Hercs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Herc
man versus time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: The perpetual struggle of a protagonist to overcome persistent difficulties or obstacles.
glosses: A conflict in which a man struggles to achieve a goal or solution before time runs out.
time and methods engineering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The use of statistics to in order to study repetitive operations in manufacturing in order to set standards and determine optimum manufacturing processes.
time of memory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: times of memory
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A reference to a point in time that is so distant that no living individual has knowledge or proof that would contradict a right or a custom purported to have existed since that time.
glosses: A very long time.
ox beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ox beetles
Etymology: From ox + beetle, from its large size and the males' horns.
Senses: glosses: Strategus aloeus, a large species of New World rhinoceros beetles.
Raas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: Madurese
glosses: An endemic breed of domestic cat from Raas Island in Indonesia.
Great Plains rat snake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Great Plains rat snakes
Etymology: From Great Plains + rat snake.
Senses: glosses: Pantherophis emoryi, a North American species of nonvenomous semiarboreal rat snake.
Synonyms: word: brown rat snake
word: chicken snake
word: eastern spotted snake
word: Emory's coluber
word: Emory's pilot snake
word: Emory's racer
word: Emory's rat snake
word: Emory's snake
word: gray rat snake
word: grey rat snake
word: mouse snake
word: prairie rat snake
word: spotted mouse snake
word: Texas rat snake
word: western pilot snake
Kirtleton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NY2680).
Intal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Acronym of international auxiliary language.
Senses: glosses: An international auxiliary language created by German linguist Erich Weferling and published in 1956, developed as a compromise between Esperanto, Ido, Occidental-Interlingue, Neo and Novial.
times of memory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of time of memory
search spaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of search space
pains d'épices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pain d'épices
Lingua Sistemfrater
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Frater
Etymology: From Latin lingua systēma + frater (“language of brotherhood”).
Senses: glosses: An a posteriori international auxiliary language created by Pham Xuan Thai in 1957, making use of a predominantly Greco-Latin lexicon and an Asian-based grammar.
grandfather in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: grandfathers in
form: grandfathering in
form: grandfathered in
form: grandfathered in
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Synonym of grandfather.
synonyms: word: grandfather
Unilingua
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin uni- + lingua.
Senses: glosses: Former name of Mirad, an international auxiliary language created by Noubar Agopoff in 1966.
grandfathers in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of grandfather in
grandfathering in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of grandfather in
grandfathered in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of grandfather in
centripetal acceleration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centripetal accelerations
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: acceleration due to centripetal force.
acoustic interferometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acoustic interferometers
Senses: glosses: an instrument that uses interferometry to measure the physical characteristics of sound waves in a gas or liquid.