cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
anonymous function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anonymous functions
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Synonym of lambda function.
synonyms: word: lambda function
antoninianuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antoninianus
creative nonfiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The idea of “emotional truth” often pops up during discussions of accuracy in the context of creative nonfiction. Maybe you can't get every detail right, goes the argument, but you can capture a larger meaning that's essentially truthful.
ref: 2011, Jack Hart, Storycraft: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 224:
text: The danger, as genre-defying or creative nonfiction becomes a genre in its own right—with mix-and-match poised to become a matter of rote—is that no man’s land could become predictably congested.
ref: 2015 December 6, Geoff Dyer, “‘Based on a true story’: the fine line between fact and fiction”, in The Guardian:
text: He’d arrived at the perfect time: when authenticity was more about the truth behind feelings rather than facts, when the now-accepted genres “auto-fiction” and “creative nonfiction” were blooming, and when our ideas of subjectivity were being shaken by an explosion of “reality” television.
ref: 2018 December 4, Sian Cain, “There’s more to this bad fiction than bad sex – between the lines is privilege”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: literary nonfiction
narrative nonfiction
coordinate_terms: autofiction
glosses: A genre of writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives.
Related terms: faction
busts a move
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bust a move
busting a move
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bust a move
busted a move
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bust a move
maids of honour tart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maids of honour tarts
form: Maid of Honour tart
form: maid of honour tart
form: maid-of-honour tart
form: maid of honor tart
form: maid-of-honor tart
Etymology: Said to date back to Henry VIII when he witnessed some of the Queen’s maids of honour eating some cakes and demanded to taste one. He found them delicious and named them after the maids. However, there is another theory that they were named after Anne Boleyn, a maid of honour at the time, who made the cakes for Henry VIII.
Senses: synonyms: maids of honour cake
glosses: A traditional English baked tart consisting of a puff pastry shell filled with curds, sometimes with jam or almonds and nutmeg.
wikipedia: Anne Boleyn
Henry VIII
maids of honour cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maids of honour cakes
Etymology: See maids of honour tart.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of maids of honour tart.
synonyms: word: maids of honour tart
go down the wrong throat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes down the wrong throat
form: going down the wrong throat
form: went down the wrong throat
form: gone down the wrong throat
Senses: glosses: Synonym of go down the wrong way (“of food or drink: to go down the trachea instead of the esophagus”).
synonyms: word: go down the wrong way
extra: of food or drink: to go down the trachea instead of the esophagus
Gadslid
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Contraction of "God's eyelid". Compare gadzooks, zounds.
Senses: glosses: An expression of surprise, shock etc.
Synonyms: wow
I would rather die
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: I would rather die than hear that awful song again.
glosses: Used to show that the speaker hates or strongly dreads the task in question.
Gaetulia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Getulia
Senses: glosses: An ancient district covering the large desert region south of the Atlas Mountains, bordering the Sahara. Other documents place it in pre-Roman times along the Mediterranean coasts of what is now Algeria and Tunisia, and north of the Atlas.
Related terms: Gaetuli
Getuli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Gaetuli.
Getulia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Gaetulia (“ancient region”).
go down the wrong pipe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes down the wrong pipe
form: going down the wrong pipe
form: went down the wrong pipe
form: gone down the wrong pipe
Senses: glosses: Synonym of go down the wrong way.
synonyms: word: go down the wrong way
gametype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gametypes
Etymology: From game + type.
Senses: examples: text: Many varieties of gametype exist and are in use in popular and obscure games – but as we explore the issue of virtual worlds, it's only really the gametypes that use some form of 'interactive fiction' that concern us.
ref: 2011, Woody Evans, Information Dynamics in Virtual Worlds: Gaming and Beyond, page 27:
text: For each parameter value of a we distinguish four different gametypes. The setup of the experiment was designed in such a way that each player played four times each of the four possible gametypes (H,H), (H,L), (L,H), and (L,L), […]
ref: 2012, Bettina Kuon, Two-Person Bargaining Experiments with Incomplete Information, page 65:
topics: computing
engineering
game-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A type of game.
gametypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gametype
great chain of being
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great chains of being
form: Great Chain of Being
Senses: examples: text: Vaſt Chain of Being! which from God began, / Ethereal Eſſence, Spirit, Subſtance, Man, / Beaſt, Bird, Fiſh, Inſect! what no Eye can ſee, / No Glaſs can reach! from Infinite to Thee!
ref: 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], epistle I, London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC, page 235:
text: If the one spirit permeated all things, if its all-energising presence linked the flower with the crystal as well as with the demon and the god, must it not link together also the two extremes of the great chain of being?
ref: 1852 January – 1853 April, Charles Kingsley, Jun., chapter XXV, in Hypatia: Or, New Foes with an Old Face. […], volume II, London: John W[illiam] Parker and Son, […], published 1853, →OCLC, page 256:
text: […]; ourselves being but links in the great chain of being, which begins with the origin of our race, runs onward through its successive generations, binding together the past, the present, and the future, and terminating at last, with the consummation of all things earthly, at the throne of God.
ref: 1903 [1820], Daniel Webster, “First Settlement of New England”, in A. J. George, editor, Select Speeches of Daniel Webster 1817–1845:
text: There was more than one way, however, in which the principles embodied in the cosmological conception of the Chain of Being could be used as weapons against social discontent and especially against all equalitarian movements.
ref: 1936, A. O. Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea, Harvard University Press, page 205:
text: In Descartes’s hands, two thousand years later, this hierarchical continuum of living forms, commonly called “the Great Chain of Being,” was polarized into a thorough dichotomy between mechanical, unthinking matter (including all minerals, plants, and animals, as well as the human body) and pure, thinking mind (the exclusive province of humans and God).
ref: 1996, David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous, →ISBN:
text: Far from being a radical innovation without precedent, Darwinian evolution had itself evolved by fits and starts out of one of the hoariest concepts in Western civilization, the Great Chain of Being.
ref: 2012, Lydia Pyne, Stephen J. Pyne, chapter 5, in The Last Lost World, Penguin, →ISBN:
topics: Christianity
synonyms: Chain of Being
glosses: A hierarchical structure of all matter and life, descending from God through angels, humans, animals and plants to minerals, and thought in medieval times to have been decreed by God.
great chains of being
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of great chain of being
life happens
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: An expression of acceptance of misfortune and unforeseen bad circumstances or luck.
balloon debate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balloon debates
Senses: glosses: A debate in which a number of speakers compete to win the approval of an audience, who are invited to imagine that the speakers are flying in a sinking hot-air balloon, and someone must be thrown out if everyone is not to die.
Related terms: lifeboat ethics
balloon debates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balloon debate
remechanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: remechanizes
form: remechanizing
form: remechanized
form: remechanized
Etymology: From re- + mechanize.
Senses: glosses: To mechanize again.
remechanizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of remechanize
remechanizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of remechanize
remechanized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of remechanize
remechanization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process of remechanizing.
Epesses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former municipality in Vaud canton, Switzerland, now part of Bourg-en-Lavaux municipality.
Régence
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Régence
form: most Régence
form: Regence
Etymology: From French Régence.
Senses: examples: text: Window fittings are of soft almond green and salmon figured lampas, and Régence chairs are walnut and covered in figured velour of a soft pinkish rust color.
ref: 1930, Arts & Decoration, page 56:
text: There is nothing rococo about this panelling; it is more Régence in character and it may be an 18th century example of a “make-up”.
ref: 1966, Bulletin, Victoria and Albert Museum, page 7:
text: Despite the swept-up top, this is more Régence in feeling than Rococo, recalling the engravings of Marot and Berain.
ref: 1986, Country Life, page 500:
text: Now I must find a canapé lit, very Régence and dissolute, to complete my salon.
ref: 1989, Henry Adams, 1903-1916, Massachusetts Historical Society, page 19:
text: A very similar pair of wall lights, but with down-turned floral drip pans and urn-form bobèches of a more Régence nature, were with Bernard Steinitz in 2000.
ref: 2001, Highly Important French & Continental Furniture, page 17:
text: Yet the straight husks extending from the centers and corners are more Régence in character.
ref: 2007, Timothy Newbery, “France: Transition”, in Frames (The Robert Lehman Collection; XIII), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in association with Princeton University Press, Princeton, page 401:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the style of French furniture and decoration of c. 1680–1725, characteristic of the regency of Philippe II, Duke of Orléans.
mechanoactive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mechano- + active.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to mechanoactivity.
day cream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: day creams
Senses: topics: cosmetics
lifestyle
coordinate_terms: night cream
glosses: A moisturizing cream to be applied and worn during the day.
day creams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of day cream
Chexbres
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Vaud canton, Switzerland.
galvanopsychic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From galvano- + psychic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a psychoanalysis technique using a galvanometer to measure the patient's responses to certain words.
gangavas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gangava
Gangtide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gang + -tide, from gang (“to go”), in reference to the processions held at this time.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: Rogation Week.
pay-as-you-eat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: word: PAYE
glosses: A catering scheme in universities etc. in which diners pay only for the food they consume, rather than a fixed fee.
pickyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From picky + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Step into one of the smart clothes shop and it will surprise you to see the “pickyness” of men.
ref: 1932 October 20, S. E. Spicer, “Politics And Powder-Puffs”, in The Cincinnati Enquirer, volume XCII, number 194, page 12:
text: A general atmosphere of “pickyness” prevailed.
ref: 1951, Evelyn Beyer, The Teacher Sets The Stage, National Association for Nursery Education:
text: Outstanding examples are demandingness or “pickyness” about food, overeating, deliberate embarrassment of parents in public by boisterous behavior, defecating on a neighbor’s floor, running away in a rainstorm.
ref: 1962, Alice L. Voiland and associates, “The Egocentric Family”, in Family Casework Diagnosis, New York, N.Y.; London: Columbia University Press, →LCCN, page 209:
text: One piece of pickyness is apt to lead to another.
ref: 1963 June 20, George Dixon, “Washington Scene”, in Berwick Enterprise, volume 61, number 64, Berwick, Pa.:
glosses: Alternative spelling of pickiness.
Renens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Vaud canton, Switzerland.
gantryman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gantrymen
Etymology: From gantry + -man.
Senses: glosses: A worker who carries ore from the gantry to the kiln to be calcined prior to smelting.
gantrymen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gantryman
garava
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: devotion; reverence
Ganowanian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Ganowánian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a language family, proposed by Lewis Henry Morgan, that included all of the Native American languages.
Denges
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Vaud canton, Switzerland.
garewaite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after the Garewaia River in the Ural Mountains, + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An ultrabasic rock consisting mostly of olivine and augite.
garlicwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From garlic + wort.
Senses: glosses: garlic mustard
ILGWU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.
Topercer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
garmentworker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garmentworkers
Etymology: From garment + worker.
Senses: examples: text: I had met Rose Topercer in the garment industry. Rose Topercer was a garmentworker the same as I was. […] When I first joined the Communist Party in 1957, I was assigned to the Needle Club, being a needleworker.
ref: 1965, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities, Communist Activities in the Chicago, Illinois Area: Hearings..., page 334:
glosses: A person who works making clothes.
garmentworkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garmentworker
garnetberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garnetberries
Etymology: From garnet + berry, from its color.
Senses: examples: text: I emptied my tobacco can and boiled in it some blackberries that I gathered, and garnetberries that I found nearby; and this I fed him, till his strength returned to him.
ref: 1986, Yechiel Granatstein, The War of a Jewish Partisan, page 122:
glosses: The red currant.
garnetberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garnetberry
poming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pome
pomed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pome
Perroy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune in Nièvre department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
glosses: A municipality in Vaud canton, Switzerland.
gaudless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gaud + -less.
Senses: examples: text: […] Each weed / That grows about her grave I know; They spring / With gaudless flowers, year after year the same: […]
ref: 1807, James Grahame, Poems, volume 2, page 124:
glosses: Not ornamental.
gatewayman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gatewaymen
Etymology: From gateway + -man.
Senses: examples: text: I would like to know, for example, the length of time taken to cut the 125 yards of face with the bar machine, the number of fillers employed on the same length of face, and what number of gatewaymen were employed to do the necessary canch work at the face.
ref: 1926, Institution of Mining Engineers (Great Britain), The Mining Engineer, page 281:
topics: business
mining
glosses: A kind of road repair worker in coal mines.
gatewaymen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gatewayman
geebong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geebongs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of geebung.
geebongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geebong
geelhouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geelhout
Geminid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Geminids
Etymology: Gemini + -id
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Any meteor of a prolific meteor shower caused by the object 3200 Phaethon, and appearing to come from the radiant in the constellation of Gemini.
Geminids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Geminid
Aritra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Bengali অরিত্র (ôritrô).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Sanskrit.
geldability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being geldable, or liable to taxation.
strypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strype
genii hominis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of genius hominis
Céligny
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Geneva canton, Switzerland, which is exclaves surrounded by Vaud canton.
booty bandit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: booty bandits
Senses: examples: text: The booty bandits, who craved sex with the weaker inmates, and the merchants, rich with scrounged or stolen items who kept safe through an uncanny craft to barter anything, followed.
ref: 2000, Rob Taft, Leaders of the City, page 23:
glosses: A male prison inmate who preys on other male inmates for sex.
booty bandits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of booty bandit
Coppet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Vaud canton, Switzerland.
hardfistedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hard-fisted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being covetous or niggardly.
insociableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From insociable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being insociable.
incomposedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From incomposed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being incomposed.
vampirics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vampiric
Braedon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Modern spelling variant of Braden.
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
curtisite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Curtis + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A variety of idrialite found in the Skaggs Springs region of California.
ghurush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghurushes
form: ghurush
Senses: synonyms: piastre
glosses: An old silver coin of Tripoli, introduced in 1687.
Related terms: qursh
ghurushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghurush
Grandvaux
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune in Saône-et-Loire department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
glosses: A village and former municipality in Vaud canton, Switzerland, now part of Bourg-en-Lavaux municipality.
needletrade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: needletrades
Etymology: From needle + trade.
Senses: examples: text: Styleware is Hugh David and Christopher Gibson; Christopher was born and bred in the needletrade and spent ten years as a garment manufacturer.
ref: 1989, Peter J. Allen, Lewis Miles, Computers in Textiles, page 84:
text: The annual production of miles of cotton, woolen, and synthetic textiles led to a corresponding explosion in needletrades such as embroidery, garment making, and assorted apparel.
ref: 2013, Robert E. Weir, Workers in America: A Historical Encyclopedia, page 19:
glosses: Any line of work involving the use of a needle with textiles, such as embroidery or the making of clothes.
Related terms: Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees
needletrades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of needletrade
prefeeds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prefeed
LOLBin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LOLBins
Etymology: An initialism of living-off-the-land binary. Coined by Philip Goh.
Senses: examples: text: Several LOLBins have extensive control and authority on a computer. For example, PowerShell has full access to the core OS of a Windows computer, so it can undermine existing security features.
ref: 2021, Mark Ciampa, CompTIA Security + Guide to Network Security Fundamentals, page 72:
qualifier: computer security
glosses: An executable that is deployed as part of a system but may be co-opted by an attacker to perform harmful actions.
LOLBins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LOLBin
coochie cutters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compound of coochie (“vulva”) + cutters. Attested from the 1990s; see quotations, below.
Senses: examples: text: MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENT: Playing volleyball in my gray coochie cutters.
ref: 1995, For All the Right Reasons (yearbook), National City, CA: Sweetwater High School, page 94:
text: The kids played outside, and the hoes flaunted their bodies in their skin-tight skirts and coochie cutters.
ref: 2017, Bro. Lamont Charles McGee Bey, Free Da King Fate:
glosses: Very brief, skimpy shorts worn by a woman.
chauf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chaufs
Senses: glosses: A chauffeur.
chauf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chaufs
form: chauffing
form: chauffed
form: chauffed
Senses: glosses: To chauffeur.
chaufs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chauf
chaufs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chauf
chauffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chauf
glosses: present participle and gerund of chauff
chauffed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chauf
glosses: simple past and past participle of chauff
subgoverness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subgovernesses
Etymology: From sub- + governess.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of undergoverness.
synonyms: word: undergoverness
subgovernesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subgoverness
tonguiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of tonguey: most tonguey
tonguier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of tonguey: more tonguey
sunspottedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sunspotted + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The Earth's magnetic activity does not cease during years of minimum or of almost no sunspottedness.
ref: 1926, Year Book, Carnegie Institution of Washington, page 199:
glosses: The quality or degree of having sunspots.
nummulines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nummuline
predisclose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prediscloses
form: predisclosing
form: predisclosed
form: predisclosed
Etymology: From pre- + disclose.
Senses: examples: text: Berkey, a competitor in photofinishing, alleged violations of §2 arising from Kodak's failure to predisclose the nature of the new film, which would have given it time to adapt to the new requirements.
ref: 2021, Phillip E. Areeda, Louis Kaplow, Aaron S. Edlin, Antitrust Analysis: Problems, Text, and Cases, page 412:
glosses: To disclose in advance.
prediscloses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of predisclose
predisclosing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of predisclose
predisclosed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of predisclose
sweat hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweat holes
form: sweat-hole
form: swete-holle
Etymology: From Middle English swet hole, a partial calque of Old English swātþyrl (“pore”, literally “sweat-hole”). Cognate with German Schweißloch (“pore, sweat hole”), Danish swedehul (“pore”), Icelandic svitahola (“pore”).
Senses: examples: text: Skin surface consists of four elements such as furrows, ridges, hair holes and sweat holes.
ref: 2012, Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, Daniel Thalmann, Communicating with Virtual Worlds, page 140:
text: "[…] if the sweat were found, to all appearance, to flow less freely through the supposed sweat-holes than elsewhere".
ref: 2022, Lodewijk C. Palm, Collected Letters Van Leeuwenhoek, volume 6, page 15:
glosses: An opening in the skin through which sweat is excreted; pore.
sweat hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweat holes
Etymology: From sweat + hole.
Senses: examples: text: On the lake shore were some other camping places that had been used within a few months and at one of them a newly made "sweat hole" where the medicine man had treated the sick .
ref: 1907 January, Dillon Wallace, “The Long Labrador Trail”, in Poultney Bigelow, James Henry Worman, Caspar Whitney, editors, Outing Magazine, volume 49, number 4, page 432:
text: The father went to the sweat hole and dug it wide enough for him to get inside with the limp body of his son.
ref: 1990, Zoa L. Swayne, Carol Ann Goodrich Bates, Do Them No Harm!: Lewis and Clark Among the Nez Perce, page 207:
text: Close by there was a sweat hole in which the men were accustomed to taking Turkish baths before ceremonies and also to avoid the nagging of their womenfolk.
ref: 2009, Tom Hopwood, A Uganda Diary A Doctor on Safari, page 213:
glosses: A large hole in the ground, heated with a fire, into which a sick person is brought wrapped in blankets (once the fire is removed), with a jug of water for making steam, the whole covered by an awning to hold the steam in; an underground sweat lodge.
examples: text: Even though the mercury was rising to treble figures in this underground sweat hole they were in, Vince saw that Guy Ruley remained cool and calculating, operating with all the heart of a humming refrigerator.
ref: 2012, Danny Miller, The Gilded Edge:
text: As soon as the doctor testified that some blustery old politician was crazy, they could give the kid back and get the hell out of this sweat-hole.
ref: 2013, Mallory Kane, Special Forces Father, page 46:
text: Even if I found a way out of this sweat hole, I doubted I'd survive long enough to claw my way out.
ref: 2014, Tara West, Damned and Desirable:
text: It was a sweat hole but the acoustics were great and they sounded wonderful.
ref: 2015, Spencer Leigh, The Cavern Club: The Rise of The Beatles and Merseybeat:
glosses: An uncomfortably hot, enclosed, space.
sweat holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sweat hole
predividend
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + dividend.
Senses: glosses: Before a dividend is paid.
postdramatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + dramatic. The notion was established by German theatre researcher Hans-Thies Lehmann in his book Postdramatic Theatre.
Senses: glosses: Being or relating to an avant-garde form of theatre since the end of the 1960s, which strives to produce an effect amongst the spectators rather than to remain true to a text.
prefeast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + feast.
Senses: examples: text: Many Lubavitch weddings serve just a few pickups before the main meal, maybe some knishes and some egg rolls. Others go all out. The Kassins offered up a prefeast feast.
ref: 2003, Stephanie Wellen Levine, Mystics, Mavericks, and Merrymakers, page 153:
glosses: Before a feast.
prefeast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prefeasts
Etymology: From pre- + feast.
Senses: examples: text: Like the previous holy day, this one too has a prefeast.
ref: 2002, Solia: The Herald, volume 67, page 3:
glosses: A feast held before an event.
prefeasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prefeast
prefunctional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + functional.
Senses: glosses: Not yet functional.
preimpairment
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + impairment.
Senses: glosses: Before the onset of impairment.
uninsulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uninsulate
uninsulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uninsulate
unincarnated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + incarnated.
Senses: examples: text: How unalive we are, how unincarnated we are, reveals itself as unresponsiveness, ungracefulness, and restricted bodily mobility.
ref: 1981, Stanley Keleman, Your Body Speaks Its Mind, page 29:
glosses: Not incarnated.
unreincarnated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + reincarnated.
Senses: glosses: Not reincarnated.
wedgelets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wedgelet
Foldy-Wouthuysen transformations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation
New Urbanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An urban design movement that originated in the United States in the early 1980s, promoting environmentally friendly habits by creating walkable neighborhoods containing a wide range of housing and job types.
deincarnation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deincarnations
Senses: examples: text: The law of deincarnation is a law just as well understood among the higher angels as the law of evolution, or of reincarnation. Deincarnation takes place when the incarnated soul concludes to return to mother nature to take upon itself another material body for the purpose of another experience through matter.
ref: 1896, William Cleveland, The Religion of Modern Spiritualism and Its Phenomena, page 165:
text: According to a myth that enshrined the circulatory nature of this North India military service tradition, a bath in a holy tank of Baksar […] ensured a young peasant jawān not only consecration as a Saivite tiger-like warrior, but, importantly, also the promise of a painless deincarnation.
ref: 2014, Joya Chatterji, David Washbrook, Routledge Handbook of the South Asian Diaspora:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: The process of the spirit leaving the body upon death.
deincarnations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deincarnation
pincer gate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pincer gates
Senses: glosses: A gate in a fortification that is deeply embedded between two inward-angled exterior walls, so that those wishing to enter must approach along what is in effect a sunken road and can be easily attacked if necessary.
pincer gates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pincer gate
chamber gate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chamber gates
Senses: glosses: A gate system in a fortification, comprising two or more successive gateways linked by an easily defended passageway between two walls.
chamber gates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chamber gate
cyberclub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberclubs
Etymology: From cyber- + club.
Senses: glosses: A club (social group) on the Internet or in cyberspace.
cyberclubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberclub
cyberoffensive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberoffensives
Etymology: From cyber- + offensive.
Senses: glosses: A military offensive carried out by computer network, as part of cyberwarfare.
cyberoffensives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberoffensive
cyberforce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberforces
Etymology: From cyber- + force.
Senses: glosses: A military or similar force operating in cyberspace.
cyberforces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberforce
cyberdefensive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cyber- + defensive.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to cyberdefense.
Wallpapergate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From wallpaper + -gate.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A 2021 controversy around the refurbishment in 2020 of the flat above 11 Downing Street, the official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, amid allegations in the press that an undisclosed loan had been used to help finance it.
Pinchergate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Pincher + -gate.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A 2022 controversy around alleged sexual misconduct by politician Chris Pincher, and whether prime minister Boris Johnson was aware of it and failed to take action.
Pincher
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pinchers
Etymology: Reduced form of Pinchard.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Pinchergate
purple storm snail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purple storm snails
Senses: glosses: A holoplanktonic sea snail of species Janthina janthina.
purple storm snails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purple storm snail
oh me of little faith
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of O me of little faith.
O me of little faith
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: oh, I of little faith
form: oh me of little faith
Etymology: From O ye of little faith, substituting me.
Senses: glosses: Drawing attention to one's own doubt or skepticism.
premunity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of premunition.
synonyms: word: premunition
premune
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: […] take special precautions to protect the animals from those ordinary tropical protozoal diseases to which the indigenous cattle are premune.
ref: 1937, Annual Departmental Reports of the Straits Settlements..., page 894:
text: This was an investigation of the smallest protective dose of chloroquine amongst the premune Bantu in Tanganyika.
ref: 1958, Great Britain. Colonial Office, Tanganyika Under United Kingdom Administration, page 145:
text: It need not in fact be assumed that the premune state is implemented by immune mechanisms different from those induced by nonliving antigens.
ref: 2014, Julius P. Kreier, Malaria: Immunology and Immunization, page 141:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Immune to a disease through having had it before.
Related terms: premunition
premunity
postbuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postbus
mom test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the mom test
Etymology: Coined by Rob Fitzpatrick in 2013. The idea is that someone could use the method against their own mother, despite the usual positive bias that she would have for her child's ideas.
Senses: topics: business
glosses: A method of asking open-ended questions to consumers about a product or business idea, in order to gain honest feedback.
preace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preaces
form: preacing
form: preaced
form: preaced
Senses: examples: text: […] and so conspicuously did the excellence of this man appear, in preacing the gospel with courage and resolution, and in confirming his doctrine by the miracles which he wrought, that […]
ref: 1796, A New History of the Holy Bible, page 226:
text: […] to take away […] one third part of the annual and similar collections for the sick poor of the Asylum and Dispensary, on the pretext that they preaced the Gospel to the poor.
ref: 1805, The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine, page 517:
glosses: Obsolete form of preach.
preaced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of preace
preaces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of preace
preacing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of preace
comitaji
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comitajis
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of comitadji.
comitajis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comitaji
pollinoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pollinosis
pollenoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pollenosis
genu recurvatum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A deformity of the knee joint, causing the knee to bend backwards.
hockeyers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hockeyer
porphyrio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porphyrios
Etymology: From the genus name Porphyrio.
Senses: glosses: A swamphen.
porphyrios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porphyrio
possessedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From possessed + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: There is a sweet secret in true religion; and if the poor sinner cannot feel it possessedly in his breast, it is all empty work.
ref: 1872, The Gospel Standard, or Feeble Christian's Support, page 253:
glosses: So as to be possessed.
Related terms: self-possessedly
porrigos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porrigo
profusest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of profuse: most profuse
promusces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of promuscis
promuscides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of promuscis
proseucha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proseuchas
form: proseuchae
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of proseuche.
proseuchas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proseucha
prosopons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prosopon
pseudoclassics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoclassic
psoralea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psoraleas
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any of the plants of the genus Psoralea.
psoraleas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psoralea
ptomain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ptomains
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ptomaine.
ptomains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ptomain
ptyxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ptyxis
puisnes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puisne
time-lapses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of time-lapse
pulvilios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pulvilio
pussly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pussley (“purslane”).
ma'am, this is a Wendy's
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: I simply could not imagine going about my day in this heightened-reality femme fever dream of an outfit without at least a few well-meaning people stopping to inform me that, "Ma'am, this is a Wendy's."
ref: 2021 July 3, Jess Joho, “That viral Selkie puff dress only works for the Instagram fantasy world”, in Mashable:
glosses: Alternative form of sir, this is an Arby's.
wikipedia: Wendy's
Coordinate terms: sir, this is a Wendy's
preconciliar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-conciliar
form: pre-Conciliar
Etymology: From pre- + conciliar.
Senses: examples: text: Whether the patriarchal Churches then owed their uniqueness ultimately to their civil position or to their ecclesiastical traditions will be a question to which Chalcedon gives no answer, or rather gives two inconsistent ones. We are thrown back for the solution of the problem on Nicaea and its recognition of the pre-eminence of Rome, Alexandria, and Antioch. But since what was recognised at Nicaea was not created there, the investigation belongs rather to the pre-conciliar era of Christianity, and must for the moment be deferred.
ref: 1912, Cuthbert Hamilton Turner, Studies in Early Church History: Collected Papers, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 52:
text: Any theological reconstruction therefore that would be thorough-going and do for our age what the original creators of theology did for theirs in preconciliar periods must face two tasks[…]
ref: 1912 November, Shailer Mathews, “The Social Origin of Theology”, in American Journal of Sociology, volume 18, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, page 316:
antonyms: postconciliar
glosses: In or of the period before an ecclesiastical council, especially the Second Vatican Council.
pre-Conciliar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of preconciliar.
post-conciliar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more post-conciliar
form: most post-conciliar
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of postconciliar.
post-Conciliar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more post-Conciliar
form: most post-Conciliar
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of postconciliar.
ma'am, this is an Arby's
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sir, this is an Arby's.
wikipedia: Arby's
juke box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: juke boxes
Senses: glosses: Less common spelling of jukebox
juke boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of juke box
birdcams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birdcam
birdcam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birdcams
Etymology: From bird + cam.
Senses: glosses: A camera usually monitoring a bird's nest.
Fusong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: fo͞oʹso͝ongʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 撫松 /抚松 (Fǔsōng).
Senses: examples: text: Fusong county in China’s cold northeastern Jilin province shut the courses at Wanda’s Changbaishan International Resort, a statement on the local government’s website dated Oct. 13 shows.[…]
The Fusong government said it had on Oct. 9 ordered the resort to cease operations at its golf courses.
ref: 2017 October 16, Adam Jourdan, Matt Miller, “In the rough - China closes Wanda golf courses in chilly northeast”, in Himani Sarkar, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 18 Mar 2023, Business News:
text: Li Tianyu, 32, a host and owner of a Taobao shop in Jilin’s Fusong county, said it took him three years to gain 130,000 followers. He made his debut broadcast in 2018, after being convinced by a friend that live commerce had big potential.
ref: 2022 January 10, Jane Cai, “In China, live-stream sales success stretches from wealthy influencers to savvy farmers”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Jan 2022, China:
glosses: A county of Baishan, Jilin, China.
Hunjiang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /hunˈd͡ʒæŋ/
/-d͡ʒi.æŋ/
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 渾江／浑江 (Húnjiāng).
Senses: glosses: A district of Baishan, Jilin, China.
and then everyone on the bus clapped
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: and then everyone clapped
form: everyone clapped
Senses: examples: text: "....and then everyone on the bus clapped"
 This story reeks of being only very loosely based on a real event and every character in it kind of has the same voice.
ref: 2017 November 26, Aurora Borealis (@RebelMechaniker), Twitter:
text: And then everyone on the bus clapped! That's a very nice anecdote that has zero basis in reality.
ref: 2020 January 1, Tom-A062 (@Tom_A062), Twitter:
text: And then everyone on the bus clapped.
Yeah this didn't happen.
ref: 2022 April 2, Bugpope (@PopeBug), Twitter:
glosses: Used to refute or express doubt of the veracity of an anecdote.
Synonyms: cool story bro
sadcoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sadcom
sit-com
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sit-coms
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sitcom.
sit-coms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sit-com
sad-coms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sad-com
Pinchers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Pincher
NUV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: near-UV
near UV
hypernyms: UV
EMR
glosses: Initialism of near ultraviolet.
glosses: Initialism of nocturnal urine volume.
Related terms: sense: ultraviolet
word: DUV
sense: ultraviolet
word: EUV
sense: ultraviolet
word: XUV
sense: ultraviolet
word: FUV
sense: ultraviolet
word: MUV
sense: ultraviolet
alt: near-IR
word: NIR
sense: ultraviolet
word: UV
sense: ultraviolet
word: UVA
sense: ultraviolet
word: UV A
sense: ultraviolet
word: UV-A
sense: ultraviolet
word: UVB
sense: ultraviolet
word: UV B
sense: ultraviolet
word: UV-B
sense: ultraviolet
word: UVC
sense: ultraviolet
word: UV C
sense: ultraviolet
word: UV-C
MUV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: mid-UV
mid UV
middle-UV
middle UV
mid-ultraviolet
hypernyms: UV
EMR
glosses: Abbreviation of middle ultraviolet.
Related terms: sense: ultraviolet
word: DUV
sense: ultraviolet
word: EUV
sense: ultraviolet
word: XUV
sense: ultraviolet
word: FUV
sense: ultraviolet
alt: mid-IR
word: MIR
sense: ultraviolet
word: NUV
sense: ultraviolet
word: UV
sense: ultraviolet
word: UVA
sense: ultraviolet
word: UV A
sense: ultraviolet
word: UV-A
sense: ultraviolet
word: UVB
sense: ultraviolet
word: UV B
sense: ultraviolet
word: UV-B
sense: ultraviolet
word: UVC
sense: ultraviolet
word: UV C
sense: ultraviolet
word: UV-C
DUV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: deep-UV
deep UV
hypernyms: UV
EMR
glosses: Initialism of deep ultraviolet.
Related terms: sense: ultraviolet
word: EUV
sense: ultraviolet
word: XUV
sense: ultraviolet
word: FUV
sense: ultraviolet
word: MUV
sense: ultraviolet
word: NUV
sense: ultraviolet
word: UV
sense: ultraviolet
word: UVA
sense: ultraviolet
word: UV A
sense: ultraviolet
word: UV-A
sense: ultraviolet
word: UVB
sense: ultraviolet
word: UV B
sense: ultraviolet
word: UV-B
sense: ultraviolet
word: UVC
sense: ultraviolet
word: UV C
sense: ultraviolet
word: UV-C
Wintour
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wintours
Etymology: Variant of Winter.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Mashiter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mashiters
Etymology: Variant of Masheder.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Mashiters
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mashiter