cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Jiaoxi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: jyouʹshēʹ
Forms: form: Chiaohsi
form: Jiaosi
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 礁溪 (Jiāoxī).
Senses: examples: text: Yilan County, tucked away in the northeastern corner of Taiwan, is home to the township of Jiaoxi—an area known for its sensational hot springs, local craft of fabric-dyeing, and mineral-rich produce.
ref: 2016 July 4, “Hot Springs, Indigo Dyeing and a Chilled-Out Life in Taiwan's Yilan County”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Nov 2017, HK Magazine:
text: “The driver reported the problem many times as the train traveled between Toucheng and Jiaoxi stations,” Mr. Lai said, according to Taiwan’s Central News Agency.
ref: 2018 October 22, Chris Horton, “Taiwan Seeks Cause of Its Worst Rail Crash in Decades”, in The New York Times (Asia Pacific section), New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Oct 2018:
text: Taiwan on Monday extended the current Level 2 COVID-19 alert to Feb. 7 and recorded four new positive cases at a hotel in Jiaoxi Township of Yilan County, whose source of infection is still unknown, according to the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC).
ref: 2022 January 24, Chiang Yi-ching, “CORONAVIRUS/Level 2 COVID-19 alert extended; 4 more test positive at Yilan hotel”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2022, Society:
glosses: A rural township in Yilan County, Taiwan.
tank locomotive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tank locomotives
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Synonym of tank engine.
synonyms: word: tank engine
tank locomotives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tank locomotive
crossfeeding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crossfeed
crossfed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crossfeed
parodyings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parodying
burlesquings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burlesquing
imitatings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imitating
wheel shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheel shops
Senses: examples: text: In the wheel shop a wheel-welding machine, the first of its kind on British Railways when it was installed in 1955, uses a "Lincoln" submerged arc welding head to build up the diameter of old wheel centres (from the 1880 to 1910 era).
 [p162] Eastleigh Locomotive Works: Layout and functions of shops [...] Wheel Shop: Preparation and assembly of wheel and axle sets.
ref: 1961 March, C. P. Boocock, “The organisation of Eastleigh Locomotive Works”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 159, 162:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A workshop where wheels of locomotives and other railway vehicles are maintained.
wheel shops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wheel shop
have a tantrum
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has a tantrum
form: having a tantrum
form: had a tantrum
form: had a tantrum
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of throw a tantrum.
high-fed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more high-fed
form: most high-fed
Senses: examples: text: The poor Bella has, you know, a plump high-fed face, if I maybe allowed the expression.
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], chapter 7, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume I, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
glosses: Well-fed; fed to excess.
land-jobbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He […] knows nothing but the value of estates, and how to improve them, and what belongs to land-jobbing and husbandry.
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], chapter 8, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume I, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
glosses: The buying and selling of land on speculation.
retyrings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retyring
all-welded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From all- + welded.
Senses: examples: text: The two new steel girders to carry this track—which are of all-welded construction, and with diaphragms fixed in position weighed in all 26 tons—were next brought forward and placed in position.
ref: 1950 October, “Completion of Flood-Damage Repairs, East Coast Main Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 708:
text: In accordance with S.R. practice since the days of Bulleid, the design of components employs welding extensively - in fact the smokebox, motion and slide bar brackets and frame stretchers are all-welded structures.
 [p163] The most ambitious of these items were undoubtedly the all-welded boilers for the short-lived and much-discussed "Leader" 0-6-6-0s; [...]
ref: 1961 March, C. P. Boocock, “The organisation of Eastleigh Locomotive Works”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 160, 163:
glosses: Constructed with only welded joints, without bolts or rivets being used.
free solo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: free solos
Senses: topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An ascent in which the climber does not use ropes or other protection for safety.
free solo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: free soloes
form: free soloing
form: free soloed
form: free soloed
Senses: topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To climb without ropes or other protection.
Related terms: free soloist
free solos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of free solo
free soloes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of free solo
free soloing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of free solo
free soloed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of free solo
free soloist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: free soloists
Senses: topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A climber who engages in free solo climbing, i.e. without ropes or other protection.
free soloists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of free soloist
dragbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dragboxes
form: drag box
Etymology: From drag + box.
Senses: examples: text: Under British Railways management, a large number of fabricated dragboxes for Class 9 2-10-0s were made at Eastleigh, for use in other Regions' works.
ref: 1961 March, C. P. Boocock, “The organisation of Eastleigh Locomotive Works”, in Trains Illustrated, page 163:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A substantial, often cast metal, part of a locomotive to which the coupling mechanism is attached to allow the locomotive to pull a train.
dragboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dragbox
bainly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bainly
form: most bainly
Etymology: From Middle English bainly, baynly, baynely, equivalent to bain (“ready, willing”) + -ly.
Senses: glosses: readily, willingly; at once.
box van
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: box vans
Senses: synonyms: word: box truck
english: chiefly in the US
translation: chiefly in the US
word: cube van
english: chiefly in Canada
translation: chiefly in Canada
word: cube truck
hypernyms: straight job
coordinate_terms: stakebody
flatbed
tractor-trailer
glosses: A truck with an enclosed cuboid-shaped cargo area.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
synonyms: word: covered goods wagon
word: box wagon
word: goods van
english: sense 2
translation: sense 2
word: van
english: American English
translation: American English
word: boxcar
glosses: An enclosed railway goods wagon, typically with a sliding door.
box vans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of box van
kincentric ecology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒlədʒi
Etymology: From kincentric, preferring family over other relationships; and ecology, relationships between organisms and the environment. Attributed to Enrique Salmón, who used the term to describe the concept of iwígara in the Rarámuri language.
Senses: examples: text: Kincentric ecology extends beyond human life, thus enlarging our perceptual selves and the capacity to see other agents and presents of consequence.
ref: 2018, Amanda Kearney, “Violence in Place: Reading Violence through Kincentric Ecology”, in International Journal of Conflict and Violence, volume 12, →DOI, archived from the original on 02 Oct 2019, pages 1–15:
glosses: A worldview where humans are closely related to other natural entities. A kincentric ecology generally includes all humans and all animals. It may also include entities such as plants, rivers, or rocks.
tube train
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tube trains
Etymology: Probably named after the shape of the tunnels; the Tube is an informal name for London Underground which has been trademarked.
Senses: examples: text: I took a tube train through the subway systems / I rode those tunnels like a six-foot mole
ref: 1979, The Boomtown Rats, “Wind Chill Factor (Minus Zero)”, in The Fine Art of Surfacing:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A smaller-profile underground train which operates through the tube tunnels under London, which have a small cross section.
tube trains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tube train
megastructuralist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megastructuralists
Senses: glosses: An architect favouring megastructuralism.
megastructuralists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megastructuralist
turbofish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɝboʊˌfɪʃ/
Forms: form: turbofishes
Etymology: From turbo- + fish; coined by Anna Harren in 2015, originally in jest, later adopted by official documentation.
Senses: examples: text: For static method calls, you can supply the type parameter explicitly using the turbofish ::<> notation:
ref: 2017 November 21, Jim Blandy, Jason Orendorff, Programming Rust: Fast, Safe Systems Development, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", →ISBN:
text: The turbofish operator in generic functions appears right after the function name and before the parenthesis.
ref: 2019 January 31, Rahul Sharma, Vesa Kaihlavirta, Mastering Rust, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 122:
text: You can add a turbofish to a function call with the syntax function::<Type>(). For example, collect::<Vec<MyType>>().
ref: 2021 June 30, Herbert Wolverson, Hands-on Rust, Pragmatic Bookshelf, →ISBN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A syntactic element in Rust, ::<>, with arguments between < and >, that specifies the generic arguments of a function in an expression.
ring of fractions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rings of fractions
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A ring whose elements are fractions whose numerators belong to a given commutative unital ring and whose denominators belong to a multiplicatively closed unital subset D of that given ring. Addition and multiplication of such fractions is defined just as for a field of fractions. A pair of fractions a/b and c/d are deemed equivalent if there is a member x of D such that x(ad-bc)=0.
Hyponyms: field of fractions
total ring of fractions
localization
turbofishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turbofish
cutscore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cutscores
form: cut score
Etymology: From cut + score.
Senses: glosses: The mark in a test required to achieve a pass.
topnotcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: topnotchers
form: tapnatser
Etymology: From top + notch + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of top-notcher.
raw_tags: in the US
topnotchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of topnotcher
Eben
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Shortened from Ebenezer; equivalent to Hebrew אֶבֶן (éven, “stone”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
cutscores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cutscore
has left the building
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Derived from Elvis has left the building.
Senses: examples: text: Organisational capital is typically described as dead. It is what has been left behind after human capital has left the building.
ref: 2008, Jan Mouritsen, Organisational Capital: Modelling, Measuring and Contextualising, Routledge, →ISBN, page 24:
text: The quality-control department has left the building and anyone with a halfdecent memory of a half-remembered match is out there publishing his memoirs. The scraps, the scrapes, the sessions — oh, what fun we had. Except we didn't have much fun, did we? Most of them are poor.
ref: 2012, Fred Eyre, Kicked into Touch: Plus Extra Time, Random House, →ISBN, page 9:
text: When a Risk Taker gets a hold of an idea, reason has left the building. And with it go concern for other people's feelings, attention to details, and longrange planning.
ref: 2012, Bethany Palmer, The 5 Money Personalities: Speaking the Same Love and Money ..., Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, page 29:
text: Just as I can run through a long succession of too many negative "what if" scenarios, my mom is equally efficient at producing a long list of what could go right. Of course, she generally takes it a step beyond into the absolute impossibility of positivity after the logic train has left the building; I find her rosy interpretations rather annoying and frustrating.
ref: 2012, Joelle Burnette, Cancer Time Bomb: How the Brca Gene Stole My Tits and Eggs, Joelle Burnette, →ISBN, page 40:
text: Sales 1.0 —and its outdated and ineffective sales tactics— has left the building. Today's Sales 2.0 is fueled by tools.
ref: 2013, Josiane Feigon, Smart Sales Manager: The Ultimate Playbook for Building and ..., AMACOM, →ISBN, page 47:
glosses: Something is gone and never coming back.
non-corridor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: noncorridor
Etymology: From non- + corridor.
Senses: glosses: Not of or relating to a corridor.
examples: text: No non-corridor coaching stock remains in normal service.
text: Because of the transfer of some multiple-units to the Great Eastern line to make good the latter's deficiency in North-East London since the troubles with G.E.C. electrical equipment, a number of local services on the Manchester-Crewe line have lately been worked with locomotive-hauled non-corridor stock of G.E. Line origin.
ref: 1961 March, “Motive Power Miscellany”, in Trains Illustrated, page 180:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Of a train or railway coach, not having a corridor running the length of the coach providing access to the passenger compartments; each compartment would have an outside door on each side.
beponder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɒndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: beponders
form: bepondering
form: bepondered
form: bepondered
Etymology: From be- (“over, about”) + ponder. Compare bewonder.
Senses: examples: text: Professor Gran's peculiar insight into the literary mind and its curious, often repulsive, peculiarities is singularly interesting, and casts an entirely new light upon the much bepondered Rousseau.
ref: 1911, The Book Buyer, page 221:
text: The court was still, the court was quiet,
To let their king beponder: […]
ref: 2010, JR Christopher, The Ballad of the HMS Beagle:
glosses: To ponder over or about.
elastostatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From elastostatic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: From this elastostatically computed energy, Griffith was able to derive conditions for the propagation of the crack.
ref: 1958 March 1, Leon Knopoff, “Energy Release in Earthquakes”, in Geophysical Journal International, volume 1, number 1, page 44:
glosses: In terms of elastostatics.
total ring of fractions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: total rings of fractions
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A ring of fractions of a given ring, such that the set of allowed denominators contains all of the non-zero divisors of the given ring.
demonymics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From demonym + -ics.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The study of demonyms.
Synonyms: demonymy
wifebeating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wifebeatings
Etymology: From wife + beating.
Senses: examples: text: That suggests that the wifebeatings in this nation are running into the many millions annually!
ref: 1981, Marlene Cummings, Greta Marshall, Governor's Violence Against Women Task Force:
text: But creepily enough, from '30s delta bluesman Robert Johnson's beating-until-satisfied "Me and Devil Blues" to Jackie Gleason's 1954 "One Of These Days — Pow!" to Dion's face-slapping 1962 "Little Diane" to Lou Reed exclaiming "you better hit her" in "There She Goes Again" to the Intruders chasing girls and beating 'em up in their 1968 beach-soul hit "Cowboys to Girls" to the "wifebeating has been around for 10,000 years" headline fronting Guns N' Roses Lies, those in favor seem more prevalent.
ref: 1997, Chuck Eddy, The Accidental Evolution of Rock'n'roll, page 22:
text: Though many states had laws by 1870 that prohibited wifebeating, the laws seem to have been enforced only weakly.
ref: 2013, Cheris Kramarae, Lana F. Rakow, The Revolution in Words, page 116:
glosses: The act or practice of physically assaulting one's wife.
wifebeating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wifebeating
form: most wifebeating
Etymology: From wife + beating.
Senses: examples: text: But the Clark-Darden experiment was better: mass-racist black-cheering of a wifebeating killer's release was an invaluable wakeup-shock to even the densest traditional civil-righteous Lib.
ref: 1994, Dio - Volumes 4-9, page 47:
text: So I was in a world where all the men were wifebeating drunkards and I forgot.
ref: 2014, Ru Emerson, The Craft of Light:
text: Thinly disguised as Windsor House, “the lone tower block at the end of Golborne Road”, it is where the darts-playing, wifebeating criminal Keith Talent lives in Martin Amis’s novel London Fields (1989).
ref: 2016 March 17, Tim Martin, “High-Rise hell: the doomed tower blocks that inspired Ben Wheatley's new film”, in The Telegraph:
glosses: Alternative form of wife-beating.
wifebeatings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wifebeating
wife-beating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wife-beating
form: most wife-beating
Senses: examples: text: The Mishnah's mention of injuries inflicted on a woman by a man can refer to an assailant outside the family and to inadvertent assault, but the phrase surely includes a wife-beating husband, too.
ref: 2009, Frederick E. Greenspahn, Women and Judaism: New Insights and Scholarship, page 75:
text: The cycle came full circle with me when I became a wife-beating drug addict, too.
ref: 2010, David Parnell, Amy Hagberg, Facing the Dragon:
glosses: Prone to physically assaulting one's wife.
Derived terms: wife-beating question
wife-beating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wife-beatings
Senses: examples: text: However, certain restrictions did exist, and the general trend in the young states was toward declaring wife-beating illegal.
ref: 1981, Del Martin, Battered Wives, page 31:
text: As previously outlined, indicators related to perceptions of wife-beating aim to test women's attitudes towards gender roles and gender equality.
ref: 2005, Female Genital Mutilation/cutting, page 24:
text: Violence Against Women Grossman states clearly that wife-beating occurred in the Middle Ages in all societal classes.
ref: 2009, Frederick E. Greenspahn, Women and Judaism: New Insights and Scholarship, page 75:
glosses: Alternative form of wifebeating.
wife-beatings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wife-beating
Kinvig
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
earthful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɜːθfl̩/
Forms: form: earthfuls
Etymology: From earth + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Then, as we reach higher than the bird to the world of quadrupeds, think what an earthful of life and feeling, of exaltation, of joy, there is in every forest, in every stream, in every tree, over every plain and every land of the globe.
ref: 1895, Minot Judson Savage, Unity Pulpit, Boston, page 5:
text: It's not just an earthful of people, it's going to be an earthful of dull people with dull vistas.
ref: 1980, David Ross Brower, Susan R. Schrepfer, David R. Brower, Environmental Activist, Publicist, and Prophet, page 320:
text: With four earthfuls of people (by pre-mechanized standards), and with reasons to doubt the stability of an ecosystem modified by the drawdown method, the post-exuberant world found itself facing serious trouble.
ref: 1982, William R. Catton, Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change, page 108:
text: And you are my summer moon's earthful of paradise
ref: 2012, Munayem Mayenin, The Arisen of the Day, page 36:
glosses: As much as the earth can or does hold or sustain.
earthful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɜːθfl̩/
Forms: form: more earthful
form: most earthful
Etymology: From earth + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: From His holy home on High, We to give them earthful teachings, They to lead us to the sky !
ref: 1858, Lady's Home Magazine - Volumes 11-12, page 20:
text: Account that day a lost one in which you forget him ; let some part of your time be sacred to him ; retire from every earthful scene to lean upon his bosom, to pour your wishes into his ear, to admire, adore, and enjoy him — enjoy him! — yes, that is salvation, that is heaven.
ref: 1875, Samuel King Bland, Memorials of George Wright, page 97:
text: 'Tis a dream of truth begot, Floating in an upper air, Sweet as any Angelot, Lifting aspiration where Earthly greed and earthful care Are awhile forgot.
ref: 1885, Mary Barker Carter Dodge, The Gray Masque: And Other Poems, page 19:
glosses: Pertaining to the earth, as opposed to heaven; earthly.
earthfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earthful
planetful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planetfuls
form: planetsful
Etymology: From planet + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Such people were never completely untraceable in two hundred planetfuls of nonentities.
ref: 1954, Edna Mayne Hull, Planets for Sale, page 119:
text: You know that Twilight Zone episode, the one where the string-mop-head teenager lives as an outcast on a planetful of regular humans, and the regular human kid lives as an outcast on a planetful of string-mops?
ref: 1989, ACM - Issues 19-20, page 145:
text: A whole planetful of men kid themselves they're not just wasting time until they die with one football code or another.
ref: 2008, Sam de Brito, The Lost Boys, page 191:
text: One big difference between me and my literary original; I haven't the faintest desire to boss around planetsful of people.
ref: 2013, Ryk E. Spoor, Spheres of Influence:
glosses: As many as a planet can or does hold.
planetfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planetful
planetsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planetful
stadiumfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stadiumful
meterfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meterful
arenafuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arenaful
salonful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salonfuls
Etymology: From salon + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: To her salonful of male intellectuals and artists, she used to say: "With the majority of women whom we see and receive, it is not possible to have a sensible discourse."
ref: 1963, Sister Mary Estelle, Nuptials without love, page 108:
text: A whole salonful of artographers!
ref: 1988, Ted Orland, Scenes of Wonder & Curiosity:
text: An all-round terrific lady: sweet, compassionate, busty, pert-nosed, prone to floods of sudden tears, a lover of mini-skirts and tall leather boots and snug sweaters, which you somehow wore with total innocence, a worrier, a sweet ruminator by windows. a girl possessed of incredibly long. elegant eyelashes. and of course more flawlessly managed hair than a salonful of average girls could ever grow.
ref: 2008, Christopher Goffard, Snitch Jacket, page 74:
glosses: Enough to fill a salon.
salonfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salonful
artographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: artographers
Etymology: Blend of art + photographer
Senses: examples: text: This amateur artographer works like a pro. He owns a Pentax.
ref: 1975, Canadian Saturday Night:
text: A whole salonful of artographers!
ref: 1988, Ted Orland, Scenes of Wonder & Curiosity:
text: Its their vision or at least the vision of whom they represent that accommodates the flourishing artographers.
ref: 1999, Shirley Madill, Sit(e)ings: Trajectories for a Future, page 31:
text: Once it was all over, the crowd formed around them once more to gaze at the artographer, his muse, and the work that was a product of them both.
ref: 2016, Samantha Ricks, The Muse’s Opus:
glosses: An artist who uses photography as the basis of his or her work.
artographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of artographer
Wexit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛɡ.zɪt/
ipa: /ˈwɛk.sɪt/
rhymes: -ɛksɪt
Etymology: Blend of west + exit. Modeled on Brexit and Grexit.
Senses: examples: text: Steve Hofmeyr is full of praise for Brexit, and has suggested Capetonians vote for their own Wexit - the exit of the Western Cape from South Africa.
ref: 2016 June 27, “Hofmeyr reks bek on Brexit”, in Daily Voice:
ref: 2016 July 27, “' The Wexit is coming '”, in The Citizen:
text: But its supporters are adamant no prudish IEC officials can stop them from throwing their weight behind other political formations that share their values of a "Wexit" — Western Cape exit from South Africa.
ref: 2019 February 1, Lester Kiewit, “Cape’s race tensions fuel 'Wexit'”, in Mail and Guardian:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The secession of the Western Cape from South Africa.
examples: text: It's impressive that Jay Hill, the former Reform and Tory MP and former cabinet member, was at this weekend's "Wexit" (Western exit) conference in Calgary.
ref: 2019 August 12, Lorne Gunter, “Alberta separatism at this point a non-viable movement”, in Edmonton Sun:
text: The Alberta government has issued pointed criticism at a Toronto tech company that chose Halifax over Calgary over converns about provincial tax policy and Wexit.
ref: 2019 December 11, Zane Schwartz, “Alberta government critical of Wattpad's concerns”, in Calgary Herald:
text: The poll found that 74 per cent of Albertans had heard of the "Wexit" movement and that number rose to 86 per cent when the term was explained to the respondent.
ref: 2020 February 13, Stuart Thomson, “Nearly 80 per cent of Albertans think the country is in the midst of a unity crisis: poll”, in Windsor Star:
topics: government
politics
coordinate_terms: Quexit
glosses: The secession of the provinces of Western Canada, particularly Alberta, from Canada (generally excludes British Columbia).
topics: government
politics
coordinate_terms: Texit
Quexit
glosses: Alternative form of Waxit (“Western Australia exit”).
Related terms: Brexit
Calexit
Grexit
Quexit
Texit
Waxit
Quexit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɛɡ.zɪt/
ipa: /ˈkwɛk.sɪt/
rhymes: -ɛksɪt
Etymology: Blend of Quebec + exit. Modeled after Brexit and Grexit.
Senses: examples: text: But a Quexit's threat to Canada would be existential, in itself.
ref: 2016 June 29, Andrew Coyne, “Brexit no model for Quexit”, in National Post:
text: Britain is living out the nightmare we Canadians dodged. We spent decades debating our country’s future, but somehow avoided Quexit.
ref: 2017 July 1, Josh Freed, “Oh Canada, let's show some national pride”, in Montreal Gazette:
text: Separatism is in again, Quexit edition: In recent years the Parti Quebecois has downplayed separatist messaging but after the Bloc’s big federal election win the PQ is getting back to its independence roots.
ref: 2019 November 11, Jason Kirby, “Alberta likes what Quebec's been cooking on the independence front”, in Macleans:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The secession of the province of Quebec from Canada.
Coordinate terms: Wexit
Related terms: Brexit
Calexit
Grexit
Texit
Waxit
Wexit
Quexit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɛɡ.zɪt/
ipa: /ˈkwɛk.sɪt/
rhymes: -ɛksɪt
Etymology: Blend of Queensland + exit. Modeled after Brexit and Grexit.
Senses: examples: text: Pauline Hanson's election to the senate in Queensland has prompted calls for a 'Quexit' by those unhappy with the result.
ref: 2016 July 3, Leith Huffadine, “'Quexit' vote call to separate Queensland from the rest of Australia emerges after state's controversial politician Pauline Hanson gains a senate seat”, in Daily Mail:
text: Move over Brexit, angry regional Queenslanders are talking 'Quexit' as they feel the state Labor government has taken too long to make a decision on the proposed Adani coal mine in the Galilee Basin.
ref: 2019 May 23, Robyn Wuth, “Regional Queenslanders call for 'Quexit' over Adani”, in Brisbane Times:
text: But as the final results rolled in this week, eventually handing Mr Morison an unexpected majority and increased mandate, the northeastern state has faced mischievous calls for a "Quexit".
ref: 2019 May 25, Phil Mercer, “'Quexit': Australian Labor voters want Queensland expelled for backing Scott Morrison over climate policy”, in The Telegraph:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The secession or expulsion of the state of Queensland from Australia.
Coordinate terms: Tasexit
Waxit
Related terms: Brexit
Calexit
Grexit
Texit
Waxit
Wexit
Anthesteria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἀνθεστήρια (Anthestḗria).
Senses: glosses: a Dionysian flower festival in ancient Athens
Canado-American
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Canado- + American.
Senses: examples: text: Canado-American central districts have, to a large extent, been built after the advent of motorized transportation.
ref: 2019, Urban World History: An Economic and Geographical Perspective, Luc-Normand Tellier, →ISBN, page 382:
text: Following an Canado-American agreement, the CFS Mont-Apica changed vocation in 1958 to join to the air defence of North America (N.O.R.A.D.).
ref: 2016; H-Diplo Roundtable XVIII, 8 on Ethnic Diasporas and the Canada-United States Security Community, H-Diplo, Roundtable Review, Volume XVIII, No. 8 (2016); 31 October 2016
text: The question as to whether the Anglo-American (and Canado-American) alliance delayed by the diasporas’ activism is an issue only if we assume that a security community leads necessarily to an alliance between its members -- otherwise, there is no reason to expect the U.S. and the British Empire to have allied before the First World War, and therefore to conclude that this ‘delay’ was caused by diasporas’ activism.
ref: 2012; Canadian Environmental Assessment Registry: 08-01-39708; Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (Government of Canada)
text: The Canado-American Association handled the situation in New Hampshire.
ref: 2004, Franco-Americans of New England: Dreams and Realities, Yves Roby, →ISBN, page 228:
text: The three markets concerned include Québec, the Canado-American market and the foreign countries market.
ref: 2000; 2000-2005 Tourism Marketing Strategy; Tourism Québec (Government of Québec); page 38
glosses: Pertaining to the United States of America and Canada
Synonyms: Can-Am
Canadian-American
American-Canadian
North American
blow wide open
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: The figurativeness relies on a metaphor where things that were formerly concealed (hidden from view) are now being thoroughly exposed (brought out in the open), as if by an explosion (compare blow (something) up (vt) and blow (something) away).
Senses: glosses: To expose (problems, lies, or corruption).
couple three
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: -iː
Etymology: couple + three
Senses: examples: text: So he brought in a full quart of whiskey, poured part of it out, left a couple, three inches left in the bottle.
ref: 1976, Mendocino County Remembered: An Oral History, Mendocino County Historical Society:
text: I figure we might make it to the bed--if you're set on being traditional--in a couple, three hours.
ref: 1998, Nora Roberts, Sanctuary:
text: One day not met, yet, nor even on that street alone has been sighted, then a couple three days later after the fullness of fades, they go.
ref: 2001, Susan Perly, Love Street:
text: Then why don't you let me take the paper over for a couple-three days and ask Avis to finish the job?
ref: 2004, Bernard Malamud, A New Life:
text: General Chalmers is camped a couple-three miles in back of us.
ref: 2007, Harry Turtledove, Fort Pillow:
text: Cops picked her up at the Greyhound station a couple-three winters ago, shivering, hungry, dirty as a gutter rat.
ref: 2012, Loree Lough, A Man of Honor:
glosses: Two or three or a similarly small number of.
Synonyms: a couple two three
couple-three
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of couple three.
Newton Heath
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Manchester, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD8700)
hot boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hot box
velocipedestrienne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: velocipedestriennes
Etymology: Blend of velocipede + pedestrienne.
Senses: examples: text: What is wanted in this respect is a dress that shall be suitable for either riding or walking. This, we think, has also been achieved, and that by a lady. Let us try to describe the dress for a velocipedestrienne.
ref: 1869, The Modern Velocipede: Its History and Construction, George Maddick, page 11:
text: Ladies, in riding the bicycle, commonly use the modest and appropriate costume worn by them in calisthenic exercises and in the gymnasium. Another very suitable dress for the velocipedestrienne has been thus described[…]
ref: 1869, The Velocipede; Its History, Varieties, and Practice, Hurd and Houghton, page 89:
text: When a lady velocipedes she destroys all this kind of subtile interest, and thereby loosens one of the sweetest and firmest bonds of existence. Every velocipedestrienne ought to compelled to wear blue stockings.
ref: 1869, Joseph Firth Bottomley, The velocipede, its past, its present & its future, by J.F.B., Simpkin, Marshall & Co, page 81:
glosses: A female velocipedestrian.
velocipedestriennes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of velocipedestrienne
estimatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From estimate + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be estimated.
Related terms: estimable
estimatability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Capability of being estimated.
tachysterols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tachysterol
Kenners
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kenner
cut-and-cover
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: cut and cover
Senses: examples: text: The greater part of the railway was built on the cut-and-cover principle, but some sections were tunnelled with a head shield.
ref: 1950 August, “Paris Metropolitan Railway Jubilee”, in Railway Magazine, page 505:
text: On London Underground, there are the cut-and-cover lines running just below the surface, and the Tubes properly so-called, which are on average about 40 feet down.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page unnumbered: A note on the title:
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A method of building tunnels just below the surface by excavating a large trench, constructing the tunnel and then covering it with soil.
smoking carriage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smoking carriages
Senses: examples: text: The trains then still had smoking carriages, and I would sit in these because their passengers seemed the friendliest - and I would smoke in the smoking carriage, because it seemed the done thing.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page xiii, Preface:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Synonym of smoking car.
synonyms: word: smoking car
smoking carriages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smoking carriage
think the sun shines out of someone's arse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thinks the sun shines out of someone's arse
form: thinking the sun shines out of someone's arse
form: thought the sun shone out of someone's arse
form: thought the sun shone out of someone's arse
form: thought the sun shined out of someone's arse
form: thought the sun shined out of someone's arse
form: think the sun shines out of someone's ass
form: think the sun shines out of someone's backside
form: think the sun shines out of someone's butt
Senses: glosses: To think so well of someone that one cannot imagine anything wrong with them.
Related terms: have one's head up one's ass
think the sun shines out of someone's ass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thinks the sun shines out of someone's ass
form: thinking the sun shines out of someone's ass
form: thought the sun shone out of someone's ass
form: thought the sun shone out of someone's ass
form: thought the sun shined out of someone's ass
form: thought the sun shined out of someone's ass
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of think the sun shines out of someone's arse.
bakeryful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bakeryfuls
form: bakeriesful
Etymology: From bakery + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: As executive officer of MIT (also his alma mater), Stratton has a finger in a whole bakeryful of pies.
ref: 1957, Electronics - Volume 30, page 10:
text: Inside the dark house, Billy bee-lined for the kitchen, where his grandmother would be putting the final touches on desk-size trays of lasagne, two-inch-thick pizza, veal parmagiana, and a bakeryful of pastries.
ref: 1974, Carolina Quarterly - Volumes 26-27, page 9:
text: At Tastings, I did something I swore I’d never do again: eat yet another stuffed croissant. It’s one of a limited number of lunch offerings, and without qualifications one of the very best in bakeriesful of mediocrities I’ve tasted recently.
ref: 1984 June 14, Lelia Albrecht, “City Market has many good, casual places to dine”, in Roanoke Times & World-News, volume 16, number 166, Roanoke, Va., pages C—3:
text: And here, above all, is Miss Hugonin, utilising the vast power of money - which I am credibly informed is a very good thing to have, though I cannot pretend to speak from experience - and casting whole bakeryfuls of bread upon the waters of charity.
ref: 2006, James Branch Cabell, The Eagle's Shadow, page 44:
text: Rina's resolve could stand firm against a bakeryful of muffins and a sea of marmalade—but against hot chocolate?
ref: 2014, Ruth Owen, Gambler's Daughter:
glosses: A quantity that would be supplied by a bakery.
bakeryfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bakeryful
cracks up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of crack up
cracking up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crack up
prime ministry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prime ministries
Senses: glosses: Synonym of prime ministership.
synonyms: word: prime ministership
neti neti
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: neti-neti
Senses: examples: text: And so: The indication of Brahman is Neti, Neti — Not this, Not this, for beyond saying Neti, Neti, there is nothing else possible — for It is Truth beyond Truth
ref: 1970, Rohit Mehta, The Call of the Upanishads (1999 edition), p. 257 (quoting the Upanishadic figure, Ajatasatru of Kasi)
text: The multiethnic crowd wore gym clothes, traditional Indian garb and a few political T-shirts. […] [M]ost said they were drawn by the mix of yoga and politics — and a chance to say neti-neti to President Bush.
ref: 2004 July 20, Michael Ordona, “Going to the mat for Kerry”, in Los Angeles Times, retrieved 22 Oct 2019:
text: [T]he Brihadaranyaka Upanishad uses negatives to describe God: "The Divine is not this and it’s not that (Neti, neti)," Sage Yajnyavalkya tells his students.
ref: 2014 September 3, Vithal C Nadkarni, “Of Angels & Crocodiles”, in India Times, The Economic Times, retrieved 22 Oct 2019:
glosses: In Vedic and subsequent Hindu philosophy, the doctrine of "not this, not that", which holds that Brahman (the Supreme Being, God) has absolutely no specific characteristics and cannot be described in positive terms.
neti-neti
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of neti neti.
chalance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Back-formation from nonchalance
Senses: examples: text: But their nonchalance is too earnest: the effect is chalance.
ref: 1961, Time - Volume 77, Part 2, page 44:
text: The example I began with involved important news, and so some sense of shock, but chalance is more usually felt at unchanging matters of importance to us, not reserved for changes in the landscape of the important.
ref: 2004, Robert C. Solomon, Thinking about Feeling: Contemporary Philosophers on Emotions:
text: I still felt cranked up, but Nat's chalance had been surgically removed years ago and he was perfectly at ease.
ref: 2017, Michael Darling, Got Hope:
glosses: An attitude of seriousness and earnestness.
keep a dog and bark oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps a dog and barks oneself
form: keeping a dog and barking oneself
form: kept a dog and barked oneself
form: kept a dog and barked oneself
Senses: examples: text: At Potsdam, Attlee was not at all bothered that trade-union leader Ernest Bevin, his new foreign minister, seemed to do all the talking while Attlee sat silent, wreathed in pipe smoke, nodding his head. “You don't keep a dog and bark yourself,” he explained, “and Ernie was a very good dog.”
ref: 2002, Daniel Yergin, Joseph Stanislaw, The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy, Touchstone, →ISBN, page xxii:
text: Men, on the other hand, knowing their privileges safe in well-trained hands, can afford a tolerant attitude. Of what use to keep a dog and bark oneself? But let the dog show the faintest signs of negligence; let his “yap yap” become ever so little fainter, and instantly his alarmed master grasps the whip and prepares for fierce defence of his rights and property.
ref: 2006, Lucy Delap, Maria DiCenzo, Leila Ryan, Feminism and the Periodical Press, 1900-1918:
text: I don't see why I should keep a dog and bark myself!” Sadie's voice was so shrill that Polly winced.
ref: 2011, Margaret Kaine, Ribbon of Moonlight:
glosses: Alternative form of buy a dog and bark oneself.
keeps a dog and barks oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of keep a dog and bark oneself
keeping a dog and barking oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of keep a dog and bark oneself
kept a dog and barked oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of keep a dog and bark oneself
have a dog and bark oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has a dog and barks oneself
form: having a dog and barking oneself
form: had a dog and barked oneself
form: had a dog and barked oneself
Senses: examples: text: You either have a dog or you don't have a dog, but you don't have a dog and bark yourself!
ref: 2000, N. Deakin, R. Parry -, The Treasury and Social Policy, page 98:
text: "So when I go to speak to her, I take it you will be joining me," Jack said. "No, because I have a million and one bloody actions to supervise, plus the press to suck up to." He grinned. “Besides, why would I have a dog and bark myself ?”
ref: 2013, Susan Rae Glass, Claws and Robbers, page 28:
text: I used to have a wife who did all the cooking. Why have a dog and bark yourself?”
ref: 2017, Patrice Lawrence, Indigo Donut:
glosses: Alternative form of buy a dog and bark oneself.
has a dog and barks oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of have a dog and bark oneself
having a dog and barking oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of have a dog and bark oneself
had a dog and barked oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of have a dog and bark oneself
fall-guy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fall-guys
Senses: examples: text: Here, then, feminisation is an effect of both the sexual glamourisation the fall-guy undergoes and his systematic disempowerment.
ref: 2005, Linda Ruth Williams, The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema, page 110:
text: 'He takes risks, especially when the potential fall-guy is someone else.
ref: 2011, Phil Rickman, Curfew:
text: About the time you boys get close to home they'll decide they need a fall-guy, and you'll be elected, Fred.
ref: 2014, Erle Stanley Gardner, Murder Up My Sleeve:
glosses: Alternative form of fall guy.
fall-guys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fall-guy
fallguy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fallguys
Senses: examples: text: Maybe somebody was looking for a fallguy. Figured they found themselves one in me.
ref: 2009, Victoria Arnett, Jordan's Creek, page 64:
text: Cleopatra became Octavian's fallguy, as she has in part remained throughout history.
ref: 2011, Matthew Dennison, Livia, Empress of Rome: A Biography, page 100:
text: The fate of the sad, multiple-abusing fallguy creates more tension than anything in F.U.'s career.
ref: 2014, Peter Cochran, Small-Screen Shakespeare, page 474:
glosses: Alternative form of fall guy.
fallguys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fallguy
green carder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green carders
form: green-carder
form: greencarder
Etymology: From green card + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The problem of the green carder is not confined to the border area, or to the green-card commuter.
ref: 1969, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Special Subcommittee on Labor, Employment of "green Card" Aliens During Labor Disputes:
text: Rather, it is the green carder who actually lives in Mexico but who commutes on a daily or seasonal basis to the United States who causes inequities to exist.
ref: 1977, Brian S. Rungeling, Vernon M. Briggs jr., John F. Adams, Employment, Income, and Welfare in the Rural South, page 271:
text: Manyof the "green carders" returned to their homes south of the border at night.
ref: 2013, Richard Worth, Dolores Huerta:
glosses: A Mexican citizen who has a green card to work in the United States, especially one who lives in Mexico and commutes across the border.
glosses: A United States citizen of Mexican descent who lives in Mexico and commutes across the border.
green carders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of green carder