cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
neurovestibular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪbjʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From neuro- + vestibular.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the nervous system and the vestibule of the inner ear
psychoneuroendocrine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From psycho- + neuro- + endocrine.
Senses: glosses: Related to the effect of hormone fluctuations on human behaviour
Related terms: psychoneuroendocrinology
thermogelling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thermo- + gelling.
Senses: glosses: That gels when heated
Related terms: thermogel
Arteixo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Galician Arteixo.
Senses: glosses: A municipality and parish of A Coruña, Galicia, Spain.
last stand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: läst stănd
enpr: lăst stănd
ipa: /lɑːst stænd/
ipa: /læst stænd/
other: [lɑːst stænd]
other: [ɫæst stɛə̯nd]
Forms: form: last stands
form: final stand
Senses: examples: text: The Battle of the Little Bighorn saw the last stand of General Custer's division at what is now called Last Stand Hill.
text: to make one's last stand
text: After a forty-five-minute struggle against vastly-unequal odds, aboard the Johnston, the order is given to abandon ship. The ship goes down twenty-five minutes later, at ten minutes past ten, taking one hundred and eighty-six of her crew, including the gallant Captain Evans, with her. He will receive a posthumous Medal of Honor for his actions; in its last stand, the ship still managed to draw off considerable fire that would otherwise have likely led to the loss of more American ships.
ref: 2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 34:35 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2022:
glosses: A military encounter, especially against (often greatly) superior odds, generally as a last resort, whether to save another army or city, or as a last act of defiance, and often resulting in the total annihilation of the weaker force. In general, it can also the name of the location of this clash. (In some cases it may become part of the local name.)
sepuhs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sepuh
biperforate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + perforate.
Senses: glosses: Having two foramina or perforations
biphenotypic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + phenotypic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to biphenotypy
biphenotypy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bi- + phenotypy.
Senses: glosses: The expression, by the same cell, of markers of more than one cell type
bisalbuminaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bis- + albuminaemia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of normal and abnormal forms of albumin in the blood
bisacromial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bis- + acromial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to, or connecting the two acromial processes
Derived terms: bisacromial diameter
sees out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of see out
buzzes off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of buzz off
shoves off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shove off
jogs on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jog on
pounds sand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pound sand
pounds dirt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pound dirt
bagtikan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bagtikans
Senses: glosses: The tree Parashorea malaanonan.
glosses: The wood of this tree.
loony toon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loony toons
Senses: examples: text: We are both kind of strange and one day we were driving in the car and Steve said to me, You know Karin, you are a real loony toon'.
ref: 1993, Llamas - Volume 7, page 98:
text: If I try to tell people about when I'm from, they'll all think I'm a loony toon.
ref: 2000, Robert A. Lytle, Three Rivers Crossing, →ISBN, page 73:
text: I look at him as if he's a loony toon.
ref: 2012, Kelly Watts, From the Mouth of Charlie Watts, →ISBN, page 32:
glosses: Alternative form of loony tune.
loony toons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loony toon
looney toon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: looney toons
Senses: examples: text: Either I was going crazy or they were all looney toons.
ref: 2011, Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase, →ISBN:
text: Wilson, quite early on, points out: “Many messiahs have undoubtedly been mental cases, suffering from psychotic delusions” These looney-toon 'messiahs' seem to this reviewer to be running very fast away from any profound development in human consciousness!
ref: 2012, Vaughan Rapatahana, Philosophical (a)Musings, →ISBN, page 25:
text: Sir, I can assure you that I'm not escaped convict or some looney toon guy.
ref: 2012, Shane Moore, Stranded, →ISBN, page 23:
text: But more importantly, he's a conspiracy theorist looney toon.
ref: 2014, Anthony M. Harrington, Wyatt Adams, Lamb of God, →ISBN, page 68:
glosses: Alternative form of loony tune.
looney toons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of looney toon
chowtal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chowtals
form: chowtal
Etymology: From Hindi चौताल (cautāl, literally “four-rhythm”).
Senses: examples: text: Trital, ektal and chowtal are not characteristic of the traditional tribal and folk-music of India.
ref: 1968, Sudhibhushan Bhattacharya, Ethno-musicology and India, page 41:
text: The style of rendering the sur and the rhythmic composition of the tal (typical being 'chowtal' and 'brahmatal'), its resonance and 'gayaki', etc. are very close to the chanting of the Vedic sutras by a group of specially trained Vedic pandits.
ref: 1974, Quest - Issues 86-92, page 53:
text: Figure 8 shows the multi polygonal representation of chowtal.
ref: 2009 May, Md. Ashrafuzzaman, Md. Ashrafuzzaman, Muhd Mahbub Rashid, “Mathematical and geometrical analysis and representation of north indian musical rhythms based on multi polygonal model”, in 2009 International Conference on Signal Processing Systems:
glosses: A four-beat rhythmic pattern used in Hindustani classical music.
examples: text: ...chanting Holi kellay ragubeera together, singing chowtal after chowtal, going higher and faster and louder as the dholak drum, played by one of them, twacked and clapped, bursting out in resounding pleasure, pacing the thumping dancing rhythm and the sharp ringing bursts of jaal, the men singing and singing and singing to a strong rising sudden joyous end.
ref: 2001, Arnold Itwaru, Home and Back, page 70:
text: The chowtals of both singers (Sucharita Gupta and Santosh Srivastava) derived from an anthology by Banaras-based folklorist Hariram Dwivedi.
ref: 2009, Asian Music: Journal of the Society for Asian Music:
text: In the Caribbean and the secondary diaspora in New York and elsewhere, groups of young and old enthusiasts gather every spring to sing chowtal. In India's Bhojpuri-region, the chowtal groups I encountered tend to sing from hand-written notebooks of original lyrics by local poets.
ref: 2011, Kamille Gentles-Peart, Maurice L. Hall, Re-Constructing Place and Space, →ISBN:
glosses: An Indian folksong traditionally sung during the Holi festival.
chowtals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chowtal
at one blow
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: 'There is no lack of strength,' answered the little tailor. 'Dost thou think that could be anything to a man who has struck down seven at one blow?'
ref: 1884 [before 1557], Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Margaret Hunt, editors, The Valiant Little Tailor [European folk tale] (Grimm's Household Tales; 1):
text: [...] also notable is the condemnation of all but one of the nine Stanier 0-4-4 tanks at one blow.
ref: 1960 February, “Motive Power Miscellany: London Midland Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 115:
glosses: With one strike (of a hand, tool, or weapon).
Related terms: at one blast
at one stroke
All Holiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: All Holinesses
Etymology: Calque of Greek Παναγιότατος (Panagiótatos).
Senses: qualifier: Eastern Orthodoxy
glosses: Used in connection with His or Your to address to the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople and the metropolitan bishop of Thessaloniki.
ribbon cane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ribbon canes
Senses: examples: text: The ribbon cane […] is called by the French rouge et d’or, being longitudinally striped yellow and deep red. It grows as high as the Bourbon, but is slenderer, and of course resists wind less.
ref: 1803, Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 2, Letter 18, p. 336:
text: Say, Matt, gimme a jint or two of dat green cane—dis ribbon cane is hard.
ref: 1930, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Mule Bone, HarperCollins, published 1991, act I, page 49:
text: “We’ll grow fine ribbon cane here. The soil is perfect for it. We’ll have all the sugar we want. But we must be patient.”
ref: 1944, Katherine Anne Porter, “The Old Order”, in The Leaning Tower and Other Stories, New York: Harcourt Brace, page 55:
text: The voice she heard was slowly rough and delicately brutal, like stones being rattled in a can of ribbon cane syrup.
ref: 1966, J. J. Phillips, chapter 1, in Mojo Hand, Berkeley: City Miner Books, published 1985, page 8:
text: His knees clacked together like stalks of ribbon cane rattling in a high wind.
ref: 1994, Joe R. Lansdale, “Bubba Ho-Tep”, in The Best of Joe R. Lansdale, San Francisco: Tachyon Publications, published 2010, pages 51–52:
glosses: Sugar cane; specifically, striped varieties of sugar cane grown in the southern United States.
IWD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of International Women's Day.
IMD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of International Men's Day.
IMD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IMDs
Senses: topics: demographics
demography
glosses: Initialism of index of multiple deprivation.
examples: text: Modern “bipolar” cardiac devices are much less susceptible to interactions with EFs. Manufacturers of pacemakers and other IMDs have indicated that EFs below 6 kV/m are unlikely to cause interactions affecting the operation of most of their devices.
ref: 2024 August 19, “LAKETOWN 115-kV TRANSMISSION LINE PROJECT IN CARVER COUNTY, MN”, in Great River Energy, page 74:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of implantable medical device.
EDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ED
consumpt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consumpts
Senses: examples: text: If the home market, which depends upon the consumpt of the many, be injured by a deficiency of the means among the many to buy and consume, and a reduction of the wages of labour by a reduction of the cost of subsistence is clearly a reduction of the means to expend in the home market, it is killing the goose that laid the golden eggs to reduce the wages of labour for the sake of the foreign market for our manufactures. Political economists tell us that the export of our industrial products, including even the consumpt of our colonies, is by no means of that magnitude that any real interests of our labouring class should be sacrificed for the foreign market; and that is not the basis of our manufacturing prosperity.
ref: 1842, Samuel Laing, Notes of a traveller, on the social and political state of France, Prussia, Switzerland, Italy, and Other Parts of Europe:
text: The brains and the hammers are still on the Clyde, but as long as British shipowners reckon small coal consumpts far above records he must bide his time.
ref: 1999, Brian D. Osborne, Ronald Armstrong, Mungo's City: A Glasgow Anthology, page 174:
text: At Gatteville the consumpt of coal during the first fortnight reached nearly 9 tons against an estimate of tons.
ref: 2013, D. Alan Stevenson, The World's Lighthouses: From Ancient Times to 1820, →ISBN, page 123:
glosses: The amount consumed; consumption.
examples: text: If a weaver makes a thousand yards of cloth, and finds a ready and profitable sale for it, at ahigh price, he will of course continue, and others of the same profession, seing him grow rich, will take his workmen at higher wages, and increase the prices of materials, so long as they can get a consumpt for their cloth with profit ; and so of every other manufacture.
ref: 1779, Thomas Tod, Observations on American Independency - Volume 9, page 9:
text: Those farmers that live within one hundred miles of London have the advantage of us for marketing their stock, having so regular a consumpt for every article.
ref: 1814, Robert Henderson, A Treatise on the Breeding of Swine, and Curing of Bacon:
text: He is willing to leave his plans for “large Poetic works” to that “great maker and marrer of projects - TIME” in order to become “a consumpt for a great deal of idle metre" (Burns 1985: 1. 319).
ref: 2010, Charles Mahoney, A Companion to Romantic Poetry, →ISBN:
glosses: Consumer; market.
consumpt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: consumpts
form: consumpting
form: consumpted
form: consumpted
Senses: examples: text: The latter two are one-component materials, which cure by consumpting the humidity of the stone.
ref: 1997, S. Sánchez-Beitia, C. A. Brebbia, Structural studies, repairs, and maintenance of historical buildings:
text: In Asia, it is mainly the tropical fish species that are consumpted, such as threadfin (Polynemus indicus), Indian anchovy (Stolephorus indicus), pomfret (Pampus chinensis), and tengirri (Scomberomorus guttatus).
ref: 2009, Hugo Van Bever, Allergic Diseases in Children, →ISBN:
text: A current source which controls and consumpts the load current depending on the model.
ref: 2013, Jan Haase, Models, Methods, and Tools for Complex Chip Design, →ISBN, page 111:
glosses: To consume.
consumpts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of consumpt
consumpts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of consumpt
consumpting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of consumpt
consumpted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: And the whole family was consumpted; years ago there was consumption, wasn't it?
ref: 2011, Jerry White, Rothschild Buildings: Life in an East-End Tenement Block 1887 - 1920, →ISBN:
text: “No, it's Mr. Dick; he's consumpted. I clean up his room ever' mornin'. He coughs all the time, jes' like Mr. Wiggs done.
ref: 2015, Alice Hegan Rice, Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, →ISBN, page 124:
text: The' hain't nothin' better'n the smell o' new sile fer them 'at's consumpted."
ref: 2015, Emma Payne Erskine, The Mountain Girl, →ISBN:
glosses: Suffering from tuberculosis (consumption).
consumpted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of consumpt
have the dirts with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has the dirts with
form: having the dirts with
form: had the dirts with
form: had the dirts with
Senses: examples: text: 'And anyway,' he added, 'Sprocket has the dirts with ya.'
ref: 2011, Caesar Campbell, Donna Campbell, Wrecking Crew, →ISBN:
text: Alternatively, if I wasn't worried about anything at work I would sit in the lounge room or at the dinner table and wonder what my partner was thinking, sure that she had the dirts with me over some work issue, just because she was a bit quiet.
ref: 2012, Adam Fraser, The Third Space, →ISBN, page 51:
text: It turns out that Susan has the dirts with Karl because on their way back from Thailand, Karl smuggled a durian fruit home with them.
ref: 2017 August 11, Alex McCarthy, “Neighbours recap: Elly was caught in the buff!”, in TV Week:
glosses: To resent or be angry at.
has the dirts with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of have the dirts with
having the dirts with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of have the dirts with
had the dirts with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of have the dirts with.
bitchly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bitchly
form: bitchlier
form: most bitchly
form: bitchliest
Etymology: From bitch + -ly (adjectival suffix).
Senses: examples: text: "What a dirty black-hearted bitchly bastard you are," he said bitterly, and sat down in one of the cane-bottomed chairs.
ref: 1940, Philip Atlee, The Inheritors, page 164:
text: All my drag companions are strictly bitchly, they will only receive.
ref: 2008, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation, page 160:
text: “Well, you did get a little bitchly for a minute, amigo. I was thinking about it.”
ref: 2009, Anthony J. Enciso, The Living and the Dead, volume 1, page 562:
text: “[…] Little devil, she'd just laugh at me. 'Hit me harder, Eddie,' she'd say. Bitchly child always refused to call me Daddy.”
ref: 2009, William G. Tapply, Dark Tiger, page 174:
text: As I grew I was fully aware that I was a bit bitchlier than any other from around my tribe.
ref: 2010, Wes Anthony, Binger and Stumpy the B.D. Dawg Series, page 310:
glosses: Of, like, or befitting a bitch (all senses); bitchlike
bitchly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bitchly
form: most bitchly
Etymology: From bitch + -ly (adverbial suffix).
Senses: examples: text: I wanted to get up and lift her onto the recliner. I wanted to help her get comfortable, perhaps cover her legs with a light blanket. But she was determined, bitchly so, to do most everything herself.
ref: 1994, Robert Dingwall Zimmerman, Red Trance, page 34:
glosses: In a manner befitting a bitch
Blastaway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblɑːstəweɪ/
ipa: /ˈblæstəweɪ/
Forms: form: Blastaways
Etymology: Blend of blast + castaway
Senses: examples: text: We drank Blastaways and danced to Everything But the Girl's 'Missing', 'Dreamer' by Livin' Joy and 'Rhythm is a Mystery' by K Klass which we played repeatedly, […]
ref: 2013, Colette McBeth, Precious Thing:
text: […] just thought she was wrecked from all the Diamond White ciders she'd been sinking – I'd even bought her a couple of Blastaways, which in hindsight was a mistake.
ref: 2021, Barbara Copperthwaite, The Girl in the Missing Poster:
glosses: A cocktail of Castaway (an alcopop) and Diamond White (a brand of cider).
give the dirts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives the dirts
form: giving the dirts
form: gave the dirts
form: given the dirts
Senses: examples: text: You write about the 'fray,' From some place far away, You're giving us what Tommy calls the 'dirts.' With your 'majesty of war', and our 'eagerness for more', Remember that this sort of rubbish hurts.
ref: 2009, Patrick Deer, Culture in Camouflage: War, Empire, and Modern British Literature, →ISBN:
text: I expect when he sees those trembling hands of mine, he'll give me a dose of the dirts through his rectangular glasses and reprimand me: “Get a hold on yourself, Mr Ali. This is a court not a Parkinson's clinic.'
ref: 2013, Arjun Shekhar, End of Story, →ISBN:
text: We laughed at her attempted joke and she gave us the dirts!
ref: 2018, Saima Malik, Was it meant to be?:
glosses: To verbally abuse.
witchdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: witchdoms
Etymology: From Middle English wicchedome, from Old English wiċċedōm, equivalent to witch + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: Chilled with affright young Zarah felt the sinewy arm, / That had won champion’s belt, now tremble under hers, / As smitten suddenly by witchdom’s with’ring charm.
ref: 1879, Troubadour [pseudonym], Zarah: A Romaunt of Modern Life, London: Samuel Tinsley & Co., […], →OCLC, page 28:
glosses: The exercise of witchcraft or of supernatural powers; witchery
glosses: The world of witches or of witchcraft; witches collectively
witchdoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of witchdom
hyal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: Synonym of hyoid.
synonyms: word: hyoid
Derived terms: extrahyal
gives the dirts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of give the dirts
giving the dirts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of give the dirts
gave the dirts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of give the dirts
given the dirts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of give the dirts
VOP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VOPs
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Initialism of violation of probation.
examples: text: Favoured collectors and agents get in early, eat and drink free in sponsored VIP lounges, and have dealers whisper, ‘For you, my friend, a special price’. VOPs wearing sneakers queue for the opening, drink £7 white wine from plastic glasses, and if they manage to corner a dealer, ask, ‘Please, if it is permissible to ask—and tell me if it isn't—how much is this painting?’
ref: 2010, Don Thompson, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark, Aurum Press Limited, →ISBN:
coordinate_terms: VIP
VVIP
glosses: Initialism of very ordinary person.
VOP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: Initialism of Voice of the People, a Zimbabwe radio station.
systrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of sistrum.
double eyelid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double eyelids
Etymology: Compare Chinese 雙眼皮 /双眼皮 (shuāngyǎnpí), from 雙／双 (shuāng, “double”) + 眼皮 (yǎnpí, “eyelid”).
Senses: glosses: An upper eyelid that has a noticeable fold when the eye is open; typical of Caucasian eyes.
Coordinate terms: monolid
single eyelid
Related terms: epicanthus
epicanthic fold
double eyelids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double eyelid
single eyelid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: single eyelids
Etymology: Compare Chinese 單眼皮 /单眼皮 (dānyǎnpí), from 單／单 (dān, “single”) + 眼皮 (yǎnpí, “eyelid”).
Senses: glosses: An upper eyelid that has no noticeable fold when the eye is open; typical of East Asian eyes.
Coordinate terms: double eyelid
single eyelids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of single eyelid
ribbon canes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ribbon cane
fly-boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fly-boys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flyboy.
fly-boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fly-boy
inspecific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭn′spĭ-sĭf′ĭk
ipa: /ˌɪn.spɪˈsɪf.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌən.spəˈsəf.ək/
ipa: /ˌin.spiˈsif.ik/
rhymes: -ɪfɪk
Forms: form: more inspecific
form: most inspecific
Etymology: From in- + specific.
Senses: examples: text: [...]; in this case it is the indeterminate antecedent stage of an inspecific measurement process[.]
ref: 2002, Meinard Kuhlmann, Holger Lyre, Andrew Wayne, Ontological Aspects of Quantum Field Theory, →ISBN, page 92:
text: This is, of course, an optimism, and an inspecific optimism at that, since there is in it no antecedent commitment to just which normative concepts will prove sustainable in this way.
ref: 2006, David Copp, The Oxford Handbook of Ethical Theory, →ISBN, page 59:
text: (1) Used to curse in an inspecific way the addressee or another person or thing referenced. “There never was such a murderer born into this wicked world as Adam Penfeather, with a curse!” (Roger Tressady, Black Bartlemy's Treasure 302)
ref: 2010, George Choundas, The Pirate Primer: Mastering the Language of Swashbucklers and Rogues, →ISBN, page 65:
text: An inspecific action resulting in the reduced seed production of the mutant. As this effect is in principle similar in many genotypes homozygous for different mutant genes, it cannot be due to distinct changes of the nucleotide sequence of the DNA.
ref: 2012, W. Gottschalk, G. Wolff, Induced Mutations in Plant Breeding, →ISBN, page 21:
text: But though including irrelevant characteristics in our moral generalization does not affect its truth, it does affect its usefulness, and the more irrelevant characteristics we can eliminate from our characterization of the class of actions which are being said to be wrong, and the more inspecific this class in consequence becomes, the more actions it will apply to, and so the more useful it will be.
ref: 2014, Jonathan Harrison, Our Knowledge of Right and Wrong, →ISBN:
text: From what we have seen (Chapter 2), we can expect uno si- to be an individualized impersonal reflexive; that is, to use an inspecific person acting in his own interest as representative of some larger group.
ref: 2017, Joseph Davis, The Substance and Value of Italian Si, →ISBN, page 208:
glosses: Nonspecific, unspecific.
sorghum syrup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A syrup made from varieties of sorghum grass with a high sugar content, particularly in the Southern United States.
Synonyms: sorghum molasses
sorghum molasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A syrup made from varieties of sorghum grass with a high sugar content, particularly in the Southern United States.
Synonyms: sorghum syrup
CUV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CUVs
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Initialism of compact sport utility vehicle.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Initialism of compact crossover sport utility vehicle or compact crossover utility vehicle.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Alternative form of XUV (crossover utility vehicle or crossover sport utility vehicle)
Synonyms: sense: cross-over
word: XUV
Hypernyms: english: sport utility vehicle
translation: sport utility vehicle
word: SUV
Related terms: english: sport utility vehicle
translation: sport utility vehicle
word: SUV
english: crossover utility vehicle
translation: crossover utility vehicle
word: XUV
CUV
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more CUV
form: most CUV
Senses: examples: text: The anatomical relationships and dynamic interactions between the clitoris, urethra, and anterior vaginal wall have led to the concept of a clitourethrovaginal (CUV) complex, defining a variable, multifaceted morphofunctional area that, when properly stimulated during penetration, could induce orgasmic responses.
ref: 2015 April 29, “The Mystery of the Female Orgasm, Explained With Science”, in Wired, →ISSN:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of clitourethrovaginal.
sky blue pink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sky-blue pink.
MTS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mts
form: M.T.S.
form: m.t.s.
form: M-T-S
form: m-t-s
form: M.-T.-S.
form: m.-t.-s.
Senses: qualifier: standards; measurement; standards; measurement
glosses: Abbreviation of metre-tonne-second. A version of the metric system, that uses as its basis units, the metre (m), tonne (t), second (s), with other units derived from these base units.
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: Initialism of multichannel television sound, a standard for encoding additional audio channels within an NTSC signal.
glosses: Initialism of Mohr-Tranebjærg syndrome.
Synonyms: topics: television
broadcasting
media
english: Broadcast Television Systems Committee
translation: Broadcast Television Systems Committee
word: BTSC
raw_tags: of the technical committee which codified MTS audio
Coordinate terms: english: International System of Units
translation: International System of Units
word: S.I.
alt: centimetre-gramme-second
word: cgs
alt: metre-kilogramme-second
word: MKS
meter-tonne-second
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of metre-tonne-second.
metre-tonne-second
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meter-tonne-second
form: metre-ton-second
form: meter-ton-second
Etymology: From metre + tonne + second. From the base units of this version of the metric system.
Senses: glosses: A system of units formerly used as a national standard internationally, especially for France and the Soviet Union.
Synonyms: word: MTS
word: mts
Hypernyms: metric system
Coordinate terms: english: International System of Units
translation: International System of Units
word: SI
alt: centimetre-gram-second
word: cgs
alt: metre-kilogram-second
word: MKS
Derived terms: word: MTS
word: mts
Related terms: centimetre-gram-second
metre-kilogram-second
centimetre-gram-second
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centimeter-gram-second
form: centimetre-gramme-second
Etymology: From centimetre + gram + second. From the basis units of this version of the metric system.
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: A system of units formerly used in physics (now replaced by the SI system), in which the basic units of length, mass and time were respectively centimetre, gram, and second.
Synonyms: word: CGS
word: cgs
Hypernyms: metric system
Coordinate terms: english: International System of Units
translation: International System of Units
word: SI
alt: metre-kilogram-second
word: mks
alt: metre-tonne-second
word: MTS
Derived terms: word: CGS
word: cgs
Related terms: metre-kilogram-second
metre-tonne-second
metre-kilogram-second
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metre-kilogramme-second
form: meter-kilogram-second
form: meter-kilogramme-second
Etymology: From metre + kilogram + second. From the base units of this version of the metric system.
Senses: glosses: A system of units used in physics and other sciences, often abbreviated as mks. It is the basis of the SI system of international units.
Synonyms: word: mks
word: MKS
Hypernyms: metric system
Coordinate terms: english: International System of Units
translation: International System of Units
word: SI
alt: centimetre-gram-second
word: cgs
alt: metre-tonne-second
word: MTS
Derived terms: word: mks
word: MKS
Related terms: centimetre-gram-second
metre-tonne-second
Epistle of James
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Epistle of James
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The twentieth book of the New Testament.
Synonyms: Book of James
James
bishydroxycoumarin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bis- + hydroxy- + coumarin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of dicumarol.
synonyms: word: dicumarol
bisiliac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bis- + iliac.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the two iliac bones or fossae
bismer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bismers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of steelyard.
synonyms: word: steelyard
bispheric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪəɹɪk
Forms: form: bispherical
Etymology: From bi- + spheric.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Having a different radius of curvature at the centre and the edges
raw_tags: of a lens
bistephanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbaɪ.stɪˈfæn.ɪk/
ipa: /-.stɛˈ-/
rhymes: -ænɪk
Etymology: From bi- + stephanic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to, or connecting the two stephanions
Derived terms: bistephanic diameter
bistratal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + stratal.
Senses: glosses: Having two strata (layers)
biteplate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biteplates
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: An appliance, that incorporates a sheet of acrylic designed to occlude with the opposing teeth, used as a diagnostic tool
bitrochanteric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + trochanteric.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to, or connecting, the two trochanters.
service revolver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: service revolvers
Senses: examples: text: "Have you any arms?"
"I have my old service revolver and a few cartridges."
ref: 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 5, in A Study in Scarlet:
text: "Look what the general gave me," and he proudly displayed Longorio's service revolver. Around Jose's waist was the cartridge-belt and holster that went with the weapon.
ref: 1915, Rex Ellingwood Beach, chapter 7, in Heart of the Sunset:
text: The policewoman, Kimberly Greenleaf, 34, apparently struggled with Officer Thomas Marchitto, 37, before she shot him once in the neck with her .38-caliber service revolver.
ref: 1995 September 4, “Two Officers Argue, And One Is Shot”, in New York Times, retrieved 07 Mar 2018:
text: The teen died from a shot to the left temple, his father's police-issue service revolver found nearby.
ref: 2013 August 7, “Brazilian teenager kills police officer parents and extended family”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 07 Mar 2018:
glosses: A handgun of the revolver type, issued to a police officer or member of the military for use in the course of his or her official duties.
Hypernyms: service pistol
camo up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: camos up
form: camoing up
form: camoed up
form: camoed up
Etymology: Ultimately from camouflage, of camo plus the aspect marker up.
Senses: examples: text: The week prior to the Army-Navy game is anything goes at West Point. Cadets and hard-core instructors “camo up” and wear BDUs (battle dress uniforms) in preparation for the looming clash of the mighty Army black knights and the wimpy, undisciplined Navy midshipmen.
ref: 1998 December 5, “A Civil War”, in West Palm Beach Post, page 6E:
text: […] No one told them anything about camo, and it takes them ten minutes to do it right.” ¶ “Well, we have five minutes and everyone has to camo-up,” the first sergeant explained patiently.
ref: 2010, Greg Hastings, “You must lead yourself first”, in Doug Crandall, editor, Leadership Lessons from West Point, page 38:
topics: government
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
military
politics
war
glosses: To put on clothing, make-up, etc. with a camouflage pattern, to wear camouflage.
examples: text: The plan is to have the veterinarian “camo up,” maybe by using a hunting blind, he said, to get close enough to take a shot with a tranquilizer gun.
ref: 2009 April 4, Nick Ferraro, “Fans, police, veterinarian hope to rescue Oreo the goat”, in St. Paul Pioneer Press, Dakota County local:
topics: government
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
military
politics
war
glosses: To camouflage one's person or equipment, to hide or obscure from view.
hexadecaroon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexadecaroons
Etymology: From hexadeca- + the ending of octoroon, quintroon, etc.
Senses: glosses: A person who has one-sixteenth black ancestry.
April Fools'
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: April Fools' Day.
AFJ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AFJs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of April Fools' joke.
AFJ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Alliance for Justice.
glosses: Initialism of Armed Forces Journal.
AFJs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of AFJ
April Fools
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of April fools.
golden rains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of golden rain
German silvers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of German silver
bladevent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bladevents
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A thin, wedged endosteal implant inserted into a surgically prepared groove in a maxilla or mandible
blastomogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That causes a blastoma
blastomycetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: blastomycetous
glosses: Related to or caused by fungi of the genus Blastomyces, now Zymonema.
blastomycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A sterile material, produced from cultures of the fungus Blastomyces, once used for intradermal testing
open the batting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: opens the batting
form: opening the batting
form: opened the batting
form: opened the batting
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To be one of a pair of cricketers (batsmen) that start a side's innings, who are also known as the opening pair or openers.
glosses: By extension, to commence proceedings (in general, not just in cricket).
jaadi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: Asia
glosses: Alternative form of jadi (“pickled fish”).
smous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smouses
form: smaus
form: smause
form: smouse
form: smouch
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans smous or Dutch smous, from a Yiddish word whose precise origin is uncertain. One theory is that it derives from Yiddish משה (moyshe, “Moses”), pronounced moushe in Western Yiddish, from Hebrew מֹשֶׁה (moshé, “Moses”).
Senses: glosses: A peddler.
glosses: A Jew from Germany or Eastern Europe.
smous
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: smouses
form: smousing
form: smoused
form: smoused
form: smaus
form: smause
form: smouse
form: smouch
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans smous or Dutch smous, from a Yiddish word whose precise origin is uncertain. One theory is that it derives from Yiddish משה (moyshe, “Moses”), pronounced moushe in Western Yiddish, from Hebrew מֹשֶׁה (moshé, “Moses”).
Senses: examples: text: Not only South Africans, White and Black, but fortune hunters from Europe and America, Indian and Chinese labourers and traders, and Jews from the ghettoes (sic) and shtetles of Eastern Europe, who had come to 'smous' […]
ref: 2021, Anne Fuchs, Playing the Market, page 49:
glosses: To go about selling goods, as an itinerant peddler.
Maslenitsa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Maslenitsas
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Ма́сленица (Máslenica).
Senses: examples: text: In pre-revolutionary Russia the pagan associations had already been lost to a large extent, and Maslenitsa had become a popular communal, jolly celebration dedicated to the seeing-off of winter.
ref: 1981, Christel Lane, The Rites of Rulers: Ritual in Industrial Society – the Soviet Case:
synonyms: Butter Week
Cheese Week
glosses: An East Slavic festival of pre-Christian origin celebrated during the last week before Lent, seven weeks before Easter; analogous to Shrovetide.
pot-boiler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pot-boilers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pot boiler.
pot-boilers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pot-boiler
plays in Peoria
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of play in Peoria
playing in Peoria
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of play in Peoria
played in Peoria
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of play in Peoria
general insurance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: general insurances
Senses: topics: business
insurance
glosses: A form of insurance that is not contingent on the death or survival of a person. Sometimes excludes health insurance as well. Common personal forms include car insurance, home insurance, and travel insurance, alongside a range of commercial types of insurance.
Synonyms: non-life insurance
property and casualty insurance
Hyponyms: casualty insurance
health insurance
property insurance
Coordinate terms: life insurance
general insurances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of general insurance
inclusion rider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inclusion riders
Etymology: Popularized by Frances McDormand's acceptance speech at the 90th Academy Awards. The concept was created by lawyer Kalpana Kotagal.
Senses: examples: text: The company is also developing a reboot of "The Thomas Crown Affair," and Mr. Jordan will make his directorial debut with an adaptation of "The Stars Beneath Our Feet." It was not immediately known whether the inclusion rider would apply to those projects and others underway.
ref: "Michael B. Jordan Adopts an Inclusion Rider for His Company" by Daniel Victor, The New York Times (2018)
glosses: A rider in a contract stipulating the inclusion of marginalized peoples in a work to maintain a certain level of diversity.
turmut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turmuts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of turmit.
turmuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turmut
take seriously
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes seriously
form: taking seriously
form: took seriously
form: taken seriously
form: take serious
Senses: synonyms: take to heart
antonyms: take lightly
make light of
glosses: To consider important and meaningful (information or a matter that somebody is mentioning or discussing).
Adam and Eve on a raft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: when ordering food
glosses: Two eggs (poached or fried) on toast.
murderbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: murderbirds
Etymology: From murder + bird.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:murderbird.
glosses: The butcherbird, the shrike.
murderbirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of murderbird
mellowcreme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mellowcremes
Senses: glosses: A sweet syrup made from corn syrup, honey and sugar, used in confectionery.
mellowcremes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mellowcreme
push mow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: push mows
form: push mowing
form: push mowed
form: push mowed
form: pushmow
form: push-mow
Etymology: Back-formation from push mower.
Senses: glosses: To mow a lawn using a push mower.
pushmow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pushmows
form: pushmowing
form: pushmowed
form: pushmowed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of push mow.
push-mow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: push-mows
form: push-mowing
form: push-mowed
form: push-mowed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of push mow.
push mows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of push mow
push mowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of push mow
push mowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of push mow
pushmows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pushmow
pushmowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pushmow
pushmowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pushmow
push-mows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of push-mow
push-mowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of push-mow
push-mowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of push-mow
redig
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈdɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
Forms: form: redigs
form: redigging
form: redug
form: redug
Etymology: From re- + dig.
Senses: examples: text: I say to you, dig, redig; do, redo! Go for it all over again!
ref: 2002, Shelton L. Smith, Do it Again, Lord!, Sword of the Lord Publishers, →ISBN, page 184:
glosses: To dig again.
redigs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of redig
redigging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of redig
Eblaites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eblaite
redug
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of redig
Ebla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Ultimately from Sumerian 𒌈𒆷 (ebla).
Senses: glosses: One of the earliest kingdoms in modern Syria, founded in the 4th millennium BC and abandoned by the 7th century AD.
Derived terms: Eblaite
Domrémy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Domremy
Etymology: From French Domrémy.
Senses: glosses: The former name of the commune Domrémy-la-Pucelle in northeastern France. The commune is known for being the birthplace of Joan of Arc.
Domremy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Domrémy.
Bulalacao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Mankayan, Benguet, Philippines.
glosses: A municipality of Oriental Mindoro, Philippines.
Paligsahan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines.
hapuka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hapukas
form: hapuka
Senses: examples: text: Follows the hapuka in its time of arrival and departure, and it is occasionally got when fishing for hapuka in deep water. Excepting during the spawning time of the hapuka I have never caught the Scyllium in shallow water.
ref: 1888, F.S. Sandager, “List of fishes found at Mokohinou”, in Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, page 132:
text: The hapuka is a very large deep-water species of groper, highly esteemed in New Zealand as a fish with a rich flavour.
ref: 1963, Florence Keene, O Te Raki: Maori Legends of the North, page 36:
glosses: Alternative form of hapuku.
scimitar shell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scimitar shells
Senses: glosses: A long, thin-shelled bivalve, Zenatia acinaces.
intercommunality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intercommunalities
Etymology: Calque of French intercommunalité; intercommunal + -ity
Senses: glosses: A grouping of communes or municipalities that share some services.
sand tube worm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sand tube worms
Senses: glosses: Pectinaria australis - an annelid beach worm that forms a fragile tapered tube, about 50 mm long made of grains of sand.
intercommunalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intercommunality
mudsnail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mudsnails
Etymology: From mud + snail.
Senses: glosses: Any of several univalve molluscs found on tidal mudflats, typically in New Zealand.
pee bottle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pee bottles
Senses: examples: text: Some truckers bring pee bottles with them on the road so that they don't have to stop as often.
synonyms: piss bottle
urine bottle
glosses: A bottle in which one urinates, especially when a bathroom is unavailable.
Related terms: motorman's friend
pee bottles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pee bottle
piss bottle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piss bottles
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pee bottle.
synonyms: word: pee bottle
piss bottles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piss bottle
urine bottle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urine bottles
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pee bottle.
synonyms: word: pee bottle
urine bottles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urine bottle
unuploaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + uploaded.
Senses: glosses: Having not been uploaded.
service pistol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: service pistols
Senses: glosses: A handgun issued to a police officer or member of the military for use in the course of his or her official duties.
Hyponyms: service revolver