cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
memorialistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more memorialistic
form: most memorialistic
Senses: examples: text: It is worth drawing attention here to the rich memorialistic literature from which I limit myself to citing the exceptional epic of prison life published by Ion Ioanid under the title Închisoarea noastră cea de toate zilele (Our daily prison).
ref: 2001, Lucian Boia, translated by James Christian Brown, History and Myth in Romanian Consciousness, Central European University Press, →ISBN, page 256:
text: […]; the other being the years that followed the economic crises of 2001, when the open prison began to be linked to a memorialistic process centered around the appropriation and transformation of former sites of detention into spaces for memory.
ref: 2012, Susana Draper, Afterlives of Confinement: Spatial Transitions in Postdictatorship Latin America, University of Pittsburgh Press, page 4:
text: In this regard, the memorialistic embeddedness of today’s film and TV productions dealing with aspects of the Civil War is of particular interest because they address mostly viewers who did not experience the conflict first-hand.
ref: 2012, Caroline Rothauge, “Remembering the Spanish Republican Exile: An Audiovisual Return”, in Isabel Capeloa Gil, Adriana Martins, editors, Plots of War: Modern Narratives of Conflict (Culture & Conflict), De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 45:
glosses: Characteristic of or involving a memorial.
feel like death
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: feels like death
form: feeling like death
form: felt like death
form: felt like death
Senses: glosses: to feel extremely bad, sick, exhausted, or worn out.
Coordinate terms: feel like crap
postdictatorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postdictatorships
Etymology: From post- + dictatorship.
Senses: examples: text: If the function of the dictatorships was the epochal ushering of the postmodern stage of capital, the task facing literary writing in postmodern postdictatorships will necessarily differ from previous postdictatorships, in that now the imperative of mourning imposes itself in a context in which literature has been forced to abandon its privileged role in modernity—the imagination of an otherwise, the redemption of the poetic within the prosaism of daily alienated life, and the envisioning of a redemptive epiphany.
ref: 1999, Idelber Avelar, The Untimely Present: Postdictatorial Latin American Fiction and the Task of Mourning, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 231:
text: Americans are concerned with the way one manages postdictatorships.
ref: 2004, Sophie Body-Gendrot, “America Needs Europe”, in Alan Curtis, editor, Patriotism, Democracy, and Common Sense: Restoring America’s Promise at Home and Abroad, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 137:
text: Latin America serves as an especially important case study as it adds the prism of technological transfer, of the postdictatorships, and the neoliberal policies of the 1990s that have served as the backdrop to the rapid introduction of Internet technologies.
ref: 2010, J. Andrew Brown, Cyborgs in Latin America, Palgrave Macmillan:
text: Andrew C. Rajca’s recent work proposes the very timely possibility of working outside the binary of hero/victim not in art but in the political landscape of the late Southern Cone postdictatorships.
ref: 2020, Karen Elizabeth Bishop, The Space of Disappearance: A Narrative Commons in the Ruins of Argentine State Terror, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 207:
glosses: The government after a dictatorship has ended.
postdictatorships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postdictatorship
feels like death
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of feel like death
feeling like death
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of feel like death
felt like death
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of feel like death
feels like oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of feel like oneself
feeling like oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of feel like oneself
felt like oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of feel like oneself
assythement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assythements
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of assythment.
assythements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assythement
assithments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assithment
Streets
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Streets
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Street
800
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Clipping of 1-800.
Related terms: 800-pound gorilla in the room
spunbond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spunbonds
Senses: examples: text: The high strength of spunbonds is a dominant factor in such market applications as mailing envelopes, tags, and reinforcing media for lamination to weaker paper products.
ref: 1975, Modern Plastics Encyclopedia, page 159:
text: On the whole the density of spunbond varies from 15 till 600 grams per square meter.
ref: 2022, A. Slavgorodski, “Collecting and Drying Herbarium Samples Between Spunbond Sheets”, in Science and Practice, page 77:
text: Civil engineering remains a large market segment for spunbonds accounting for over 25% of the total sales.
ref: 2022, S. J. Russell, Handbook of Nonwovens, page 246:
hypernyms: nonwoven
spunmelt
coordinate_terms: meltblown
glosses: Spunbonded fabric; a type of nonwoven fabric made by extruding continuous filaments directly from thermoplastic polymer chips, forming those filaments into a web, and then causing them to bond by the application of heat or (more rarely) a catalyst.
bonassuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bonassus
arccoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arccos
1-976
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: 976
Etymology: From 1, used to dial special numbers and 976, a reserved local exchange code.
Senses: examples: text: 976-5555 is a 1-976 number that you have to pay for.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: Of telephone numbers dialed in North America, having an additional charge assessed to the caller, part of which is returned to the owner of the number.
Related terms: 1-555
1-800
1-900
fan-foot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fan-foots
Etymology: From fan + foot.
Senses: glosses: Zanclognatha tarsipennalis, a species of litter moth of the family Erebidae.
Derived terms: shaded fan-foot
fan-foots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fan-foot
International Grandmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: International Grandmasters
form: international grandmaster
Senses: examples: text: A book containing portraits of International Grandmasters against whom he has played has been published in Switzerland, entitled Henri Grob the Artist.
ref: 1970, The Encyclopaedia of Chess, St. Martin's Press, page 157:
text: International Grandmaster Bisguier was defending champion. World Junior Champion Lombardy was a strong favorite, and International Grandmaster Reshevsky even stronger.
ref: 1973, Frank Brady, Profile of a Prodigy: The Life and Games of Bobby Fischer, Revised edition, David Mckay Company, page 20:
text: 2010, Robert Epstein, Teen 2.0, Linden Publishing (Quill Driver Books), page 180,
For Americans the greatest chess legend of all time was Bobby Fischer, who became the youngest international grandmaster in history in 1958 at age fifteen and who eventually (in 1972) became World Champion in a celebrated bout with the Soviet Union's legendary Boris Spassky.
text: He earned the title of International Grandmaster in 1957 and appeared on the first USCF rating list (1950) with a rating of 2394.
ref: 2016, Alex Dunne, The United States Junior Open Chess Championship, 1946-2016, McFarland & Company, page 13:
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: Synonym of Grandmaster; the highest rank of chess player.
synonyms: word: Grandmaster
extra: the highest rank of chess player
International Grandmasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of International Grandmaster
Erisianism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Erisian + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The philosophy expressed in this book-also called “Discordianism” or “Erisianism” or even “Marxism-Lennonism”-is a group artwork, like reality itself.
ref: 1985, Camden Benares, Zen Without Zen Masters, Falcon Press, →ISBN, page 11:
text: Then they might start to see the fallacy of all questions in that form and we will achieve a large part of the goals of General Semantics, Erisianism, Deconstructionism and Buddhism.
ref: 1995, Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger III: My Life After Death, New Falcon Publications, →ISBN, page 109:
text: In the 70's a humorous deity is still considered impossible, ridiculous and blasphemous. As far as I'm concerned, I have proven my point. Eris is a real deity and even though I don't promote Erisianism as a serious religion.
ref: 2013 March 13, Malaclypse The Younger, Principia Discordia: The Magnum Opiate of, Malaclypse the Younger, Lulu Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of Discordianism.
synonyms: word: Discordianism
ride one's bumper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rides one's bumper
form: riding one's bumper
form: rode one's bumper
form: ridden one's bumper
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ride, one's, bumper.
examples: text: If a driver cut me off, for example, I'd ride his bumper and make obscene gestures at him, along with cursing and swearing as loud as I could, with the window down.
ref: 2005 December 1, Paul Burkhardt, Jo Anne Burkhardt, Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 26:
text: At the last moment, it slowed down, but it continued to ride his bumper all the way down Washington Street. Driving so close during rush hour traffic, he got, but not now. If the guy wanted to be a jerk, he could be too.
ref: 2016 April 22, Christina Tetreault, Protecting The Billionaire: The Sherbrookes of Newport, book 7, Christina Tetreault, →ISBN:
glosses: To tailgate.
COVIDtide
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Covidtide.
Leninistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more Leninistically
form: most Leninistically
Etymology: From Leninistic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: […] Catherine A. MacKinnon declares that “radical feminism is feminism,” Leninistically reading liberal feminists out of the party.
ref: 1998, Avrom Fleishman, The Condition of English: Literary Studies in a Changing Culture, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 53:
text: The thesis currently asserted by a number of dissidents — namely, that the system had produced from within itself a ‘counter-society’ — would suggest a potential of selfcriticism even in Leninistically corrupted Marxism.
ref: 2015 October 8, Jürgen Habermas, A Berlin Republic: Writings on Germany, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
text: The October revolution, having no immediate socialist aims, was initiated by a weak proletariat with peasant support, and was directed by "Leninistically schooled professional revolutionaries."
ref: 2016 September 16, Andrew Arato, From Neo-Marxism to Democratic Theory: Essays on the Critical Theory of Soviet-type Societies, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: In a Leninistic manner.
put daylight between oneself and someone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts daylight between oneself and someone
form: putting daylight between oneself and someone
form: put daylight between oneself and someone
form: put daylight between oneself and someone
form: create daylight between oneself and someone
Senses: glosses: To increase or create distance or difference between people or objects.
Related terms: word: clear blue water
puts daylight between oneself and someone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of put daylight between oneself and someone
putting daylight between oneself and someone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of put daylight between oneself and someone
create daylight between oneself and someone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: creates daylight between oneself and someone
form: creating daylight between oneself and someone
form: created daylight between oneself and someone
form: created daylight between oneself and someone
Senses: glosses: Synonym of put daylight between oneself and someone.
synonyms: word: put daylight between oneself and someone
Craufurd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Craufurds
Etymology: Variant of Crawford.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Leninistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Leninistic
form: most Leninistic
Etymology: From Leninist + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: This type of approach toward revolution in general was not typically Russian but rather Leninistic in that Lenin constantly emphasized the role of the elite.
ref: 1975, Continuity and Change in China, page 169:
text: The policy of Yugoslavia is thus both in theory and in practice the most Leninistic in all European socialist countries.
ref: 1990, Sociolinguistica - Volumes 4-6, M. Niemeyer, →ISBN, page 58:
text: The prospect of democratizing China is slim to none. Instead of changing its governance toward liberal democracy, China is exporting its Leninistic governance style to the world, starting with HongKong.
ref: 2021 November 7, natpa...@googlegroups.com, “[Democratizing China Key to World Peace]”, in i_love_taiwan (Usenet):
synonyms: Leninist
glosses: Of or relating to Leninism.
Derived terms: Leninistically
'rona
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rona.
tinchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tinchy
form: most tinchy
Senses: glosses: Very small; tiny; titchy.
Derived terms: tinchy-winchy
Fermat's principle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: First proposed by French mathematician Pierre de Fermat in 1662.
Senses: examples: text: But we now see that, if we use Fermat's principle, a fundamental result of any wave theory, and combine it with de Broglie's assumption about the relation between momentum and wavelength, we are led at once to the principle of least action.
ref: 1960, John Clarke Slater, Quantum Theory of Atomic Structure, McGraw-Hill, page 39:
text: […], Keller simply postulates these rays and finds their direction from Fermat's principle adapted to the hypothesis that these rays exist.
ref: 1968, Petr Beckmann, The Depolarization of Electromagnetic Waves, Golem Press, page 108:
text: 1976, Donald E. Tilley, Walter Thumm, Physics for College Students, Cummings Publishing Company, page 558,
[…] students wishing to pursue this branch of physics further will find that refraction too can be explained in terms of Fermat's principle.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: Fermat's principle of least time
principle of least time
glosses: The principle, which links geometrical optics (or "ray optics") with wave optics, that the path traversed by a ray between two given points is: (in the original "strong" formulation) the one that takes the least time, or (in a weaker but more general formulation) one that takes a time that is "stationary" with respect to variations of the path (so that, loosely speaking, a small change in the ray path entails a very small change in the traversal time).
wikipedia: Pierre de Fermat
Related terms: principle of least action
Old World sparrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Old World sparrows
Senses: synonyms: true sparrow
passerid
coordinate_terms: New World sparrow
glosses: Any of the small passerine birds forming the family Passeridae.
true sparrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: true sparrows
Senses: glosses: Any Old World sparrow, especially one of the genus Passer.
true sparrows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of true sparrow
Laysan albatross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Laysan albatrosses
Senses: glosses: Phoebastria immutabilis, a large seabird of the North Pacific, mostly found in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
Laysan albatrosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Laysan albatross
tinchy-winchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tinchy, with w-reduplication. Compare teeny-weeny.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:tinchy-winchy.
glosses: Very small; tiny; minuscule.
uncultural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncultural
form: most uncultural
Etymology: From un- + cultural.
Senses: examples: text: To spend the day playing the flute or harp in the face of such a crying need and when no men were available would be a most uncultural and inartistic mal-development of man's potentialities.
ref: 1926, Axel Brett, A Critical Approach to an Esthetic Theory, page 23:
text: There are cultural and uncultural ways of teaching all subjects, and the subjects which it is desirable to teach depend on the structure of the society in which men and women are to live, or the things they are called upon to do.
ref: 1944, South Indian Teacher - Volumes 17-19, page 136:
text: The first variate is characterized by second-person utterances that refer to the addressee as being aggressive and uncultural.
ref: 1984, Han Bonarius, Personality Psychology in Europe: Theoretical and empirical developments, Swets & Zeitlinger, →ISBN, page 75:
glosses: Not cultural.
creates daylight between oneself and someone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of create daylight between oneself and someone
creating daylight between oneself and someone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of create daylight between oneself and someone
created daylight between oneself and someone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of create daylight between oneself and someone
lesser wanderer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lesser wanderers
Senses: glosses: A species of migratory nymphalid butterfly, Danaus petilia, of Australia and Indonesia south of Lydekker's Line.
lesser wanderers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lesser wanderer
obedientiar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obedientiars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of obedientiary.
obedientiars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obedientiar
oblocutor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑbˈlɑkjətɚ/
ipa: /ˈɑbləˌkjutɚ/
ipa: /ɒbˈlɒkjətə/
ipa: /ˈɒbləˌkjuːtə/
Forms: form: oblocutors
Etymology: From Latin, from the agent noun counterpart, via suffix -tor, of the verb obloquor.
Senses: examples: text: […] the censure of the judges, the railing language of the oblocutor […]
ref: 1838, John Foxe, The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe, page 511:
text: In this, Labour was addressing the problems of twenty-first-century Britain, something that was already clear in Corbyn's 2015 leadership bid, but was largely ignored by his oblocutors.
ref: 2017, Richard Seymour, Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics, page xlii:
glosses: A gainsayer; a critic.
Related terms: interlocutor
obloquious
obloquy
oblocutors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oblocutor
obituarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌbɪt͡ʃʊˈɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /əˌbɪtjʊˈ-/
ipa: /əʊˌ-/
ipa: /əˌbɪt͡ʃəˈwɛɹi.ən/
ipa: /oʊˌ-/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: obituarians
Etymology: From obituary + -ian.
Senses: glosses: One who writes obituaries.
obituarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obituarian
obscurative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more obscurative
form: most obscurative
Senses: glosses: Tending to obscure; making something unclear or abstruse.
HMB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It has taken 22 years for experts to prove His Majesty’s Bark Endeavour, renamed Lord Sandwich, was one of 13 ships sunk in Newport Harbour in 1778.
ref: 2022, Charis Chang, “How did the HMB Endeavour end up near the coast of Rhode Island in the United States?”, in news.com.a (Usenet):
topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: His/Her Majesty's Bark
office drone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: office drones
Senses: examples: text: In “Re: Your Brains,” Coulton glues together two geek-y tropes, the zombie apocalypse and the office drone, by using the popular interpretation of the zombie trope to comment on office work […]
ref: 2019, Thomas M. Kitts, Nick Baxter-Moore, The Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Humor, page 1:
glosses: A white-collar worker who works in a monotonous profession.
Coordinate terms: pencil pusher
grindsets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹaɪndsɛts/
Senses: glosses: plural of grindset
grindsets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹaɪndsɛts/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of grindset
Schrepfers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Schrepfer
Neussargues
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A part of Neussargues en Pinatelle, Cantal department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
Gutfelds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gutfeld
Tomaskys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tomasky
Dziemianowiczes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dziemianowicz
second uncle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: second uncles
Senses: glosses: A male first cousin of one's mother or father.
second uncles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of second uncle
Sernovitzes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sernovitz
Cocrofts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cocroft
Erwoods
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Erwood
Pflaum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pflaums
Etymology: Borrowed from German Pflaum.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Overy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Overys
Etymology: Habitational surname from the villages of Burnham Overy and Burton Overy, from Old English ofer (“over, above”) + īeġ (“island”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Burnham Overy
Burton Overy
Overys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Overy
Pflaums
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Pflaum
Ozbun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ozbuns
Etymology: Variant of Osborne.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Ottens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ottenses
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch and North German Ottens.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Ottenses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ottens
Ozbuns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ozbun
Steffel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Steffels
Etymology: Borrowed from German Steffel.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
præferable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more præferable
form: most præferable
Senses: examples: text: […]; the via antiqua is probably the ſureſt, our building is Monarchical, conſtantly framed accordingly, nothing is perfect in this World, what hath leaſt imperfection is præferable, offended with that, like Sick-men we have toſt and turn’d, yet find no eaſe, what ſhall we do?
ref: 1659, The Third Part or Walk of the Forest:
text: Againſt this ther ware many objections made by the creditors, viz., that quoad the 9000 lƀ. a year contained in his contract of marriage, they ware præferable, being præferable and prior creditors, and ſo he was ſucceſſor titulo lucrativo poſt contractum debitum; and as to the 6000 lƀ. per annum added, 1^(o.) before that letter they had a jus quæſitum by the ſignitor; 2^(do.) They had rights præferable.
ref: 1684, Historical Notices of Scotish Affairs, Selected from the Manuscripts of John Lauder of Fountainhall, Bart., One of the Senators of the College of Justice, volumes second (1683–1688), Edinburgh, published 1848, page 533:
text: Chriſtianity præferable to Deiſm, as ſtated by a deiſt.
ref: 1759, George Benson, The Reasonablenesse of the Christian Religion, as Delivered in the Scriptures, the third edition, volume the second, London: […] J. Waugh, […]; and W. Fenner, […], page 217:
text: This is in the indicative mood (and not the imperative) i. e. “ye do conteſt and ſtrive whoſe particular gift is beſt and moſt præferable;”[…]Alluding to the Jewiſh church, that upon opening the gates of the temple, the ſeſſion of religion is præferable to an hypocritical one;
ref: 1775, William Scott, The New Testament Illustrated, on a Plan Never Attempted Before, London: […] George Allen, pages 392 and 573:
glosses: Archaic spelling of preferable.
Slagter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Slagters
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Slagter.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
Slagters
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Slagter
Steffels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Steffel
Sirico
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Siricos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Sirico.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Tomassetti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tomassettis
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Tomassetti.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Tomassettis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tomassetti
Siricos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sirico
Torregrossa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Torregrossas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Torregrossa.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Shurley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shurleys
Etymology: Variant of Shirley.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Shurleys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Shurley
Torregrossas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Torregrossa
Yaun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yauns
Etymology: Americanized form of Dutch Jahn.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
Biswa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Biswas
Etymology: Borrowed from Bengali বিশ্ব (biśśo).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Bengali.
Biswas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Biswa
Yauns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Yaun
McRonald
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McRonalds
Etymology: Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Raghnaill (“son of Ronald”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
yiros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɪə.ɹɔs/
Forms: form: yiros
form: yiroses
Senses: qualifier: Northern Territory
glosses: Alternative form of gyro (Greek sandwich)
Cawston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cawstons
form: Cason
Etymology: Recorded as Caustune in the Domesday Book, it probably derives from the genitive case of the Old Norse personal name Kalfr + -s- + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Broadland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG136312).
glosses: A village and civil parish in Rugby borough, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP4773).
glosses: A rural community in the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen, British Columbia, Canada, named after rancher R. L. Cawston.
glosses: A habitational surname.
preferrableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From preferrable + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: And for this Reason I have ſet down among the Inſtances belonging to particular Qualities ſome ſuch Experiments and Obſervations, as we are now ſpeaking of, ſince, although they be not direct proofs of the preferrableneſs of our Doctrine, yet they may ſerve for Confirmation of it;
ref: 1675, Robert Boyle, Experiments, Notes, &c. about the Mechanical Origine or Production of Divers Particular Qualities: Among Which Is Inserted a Discourse of the Imperfection of the Chymist’s Doctrine of Qualities; Together with Some Reflections upon the Hypothesis of Alcali and Acidum, London: […] E. Flesher, for R. Davis, page 16:
text: AN ARGUMENT / For the Preferrableneſs of a Company to Single Purchaſers, in Diſpoſing of the Iriſh Forfeitures, with regard to Publick Benefit.[…]The very common Notion, which all Men have, of the Preferrableneſs of Freedom to Reſtraint in Point of Dignity doth make this certain.
ref: 1701, J. H., An Argument Proving That It Is More the Interest of the Government and Nation of England, That the Forfeited Estates in Ireland Be Purchased by an Incorporated Company, than by Single Purchasers, London, pages 1–2:
text: The drift of all his Reaſonings (if the Logicians will forgive me for calling Abſurdities ſo) is to ſhew the Preferrableneſs of a Government, by one or a few Perſons, to a Government by many;
ref: 1703, The Source of Our Present Fears Discover’d: or, Plain Proof of Some Late Designs Against Our Present Constitution and Government, London: […] J. Nutt, page 57:
text: Now, this Life is the Man’s firſt and moſt weighty Concern to ſeek the ſecuring and advancing of; as will be evident from the Preferrableneſs of it before the other, Matth. 16. 26.
ref: 1726, Samuel Willard, A Compleat Body of Divinity in Two Hundred and Fifty Expository Lectures on the Assembly’s Shorter Catechism, Boston, Mass.: […] B. Green and S. Kneeland for B. Eliot and D. Henchman, page 659, column 1:
text: There is no room to doubt of the goodneſs of this tranſlation, and its preferrableneſs to that of our margin;
ref: 1727, James Peirce, A Paraphrase and Notes, on the Epistle to the Hebrews, London: […] J. Noon, […]; and J. Chandler, […], page 21:
text: There is not the leaſt doubt of the preferrableneſs of true theology to every atheiſtic ſcheme, antient or modern, as Epicurus himſelf owns (b);
ref: 1747, Henry Knight, The Being and Attributes of God Demonstrated, in a Method Intirely New, yet Easy to Be Understood by Even the Unlearned: or, An Essay Concerning God, in Four Parts, London: […] J. Noon, […]; J. Waugh, […]; J. Highmore, […]; and R. Baldwin, Jun. […], page 6:
glosses: Alternative spelling of preferableness.
fighting spirit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfaɪ.tɪŋ ˈspɪɹ.ɪt/
ipa: /ˌfaɪ.t̬ɪŋ ˈspɪɹ.ət/
Forms: form: fighting spirits
Senses: glosses: One's willpower or ability to continue partaking in difficult activities or to continue fighting against insurmountable odds.
Gazzaniga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gazzanigas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Gazzaniga.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Gazzanigas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gazzaniga
McRonalds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McRonald
Cawstons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cawston
yiroses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yiros
learnèdness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From learnèd + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Learnèdness may affect all the morphemes in a word, or only the base, or only an affix.
ref: 1972, Edgar N. Mayer, “Morphophone, Diamorphophone and Protomorphophone”, in M. Estellie Smith, editor, Studies in Linguistics: In Honor of George L. Trager, page 251:
text: Malkiel, however, “granted in principle the existence of a significant learned transmission of these clusters” (1963-64: 157), so even when the attribution of learnèdness is as statistically dubious as it is with fl- Malkiel felt unable to dispute it.
ref: 1982, Roger Wright, Late Latin and Early Romance in Spain and Carolingian France, page 12:
text: The first observation to be made about these forms concerns their learnèdness, or at least their learnèdness with these particular stress patterns.
ref: 2006, Iggy Roca, “The Spanish stress window”, in Fernando Martínez-Gil, Sonia Colina, editors, Optimality-Theoretic Studies in Spanish Phonology, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 253:
text: Though occasionally, he inserted a bit of French or English when the context was appropriate, his prose was not inflated with the Latin or Greek tags and snippets that were often superfluous but gave to many 18ᵗʰ-century writers the aura of “learnèdness.”
ref: 2014, “Introduction”, in England, University Press of America, →ISBN, page xiii:
glosses: Alternative spelling of learnedness.
Blejești
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Blejești.
Senses: glosses: A commune and village in Teleorman County, Romania.
Behravesh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Behraveshes
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Blândești
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Blândești.
Senses: glosses: A commune and village in Botoșani County, Romania.
Bălțești
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Bălțești.
Senses: glosses: A commune and village in Prahova County, Romania.
Căbești
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Căbești.
Senses: glosses: A village in Podu Turcului, Bacău County, Romania.
glosses: A commune of Bihor County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Căbești, Bihor County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Brănișca, Hunedoara County, Romania.
Fălești
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Fălești.
Senses: glosses: A city and district of Moldova.
Gălești
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Gălești.
Senses: glosses: A village in Gălești, Strășeni Raion, Moldova.
glosses: A commune of Strășeni Raion, Moldova.
glosses: A commune of Mureș County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Gălești, Mureș County, Romania.
Lădești
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Lădești.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Vâlcea County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Lădești, Vâlcea County, Romania.
black MIDI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: So called because of the black (note-heavy) appearance of such compositions when displayed in staff notation.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
entertainment
lifestyle
mathematics
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A style of music composition involving the creation of MIDI files where extreme numbers of musical notes are played simultaneously.
topics: computing
engineering
entertainment
lifestyle
mathematics
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Music of this kind.
alboka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: albokas
Etymology: Borrowed from Basque alboka, from Arabic الْبُوق (al-būq, “the trumpet”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A Basque single-reed woodwind instrument having two small-diameter melody pipes with finger holes and a bell traditionally made from animal horn.
albokas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alboka
Bengalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bengalisations
form: Bengalization
Senses: glosses: That which has been Bengalised.
examples: text: The Bengalisation of much of London's East End began in the 20th-century.
glosses: The process of Bengalising.
uptitrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uptitrate
uptitrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uptitrate
unculturality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + cultural + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Harmony should be reached through the optimalization of links among (self-)reflection, integrativity, creativity and (self-)criticism, facing the main (and at the same time global) danger of unculturality, especially of barbarity against humanity and ecological indolence.
ref: 1991, Human Affairs, page 10:
text: Episodic experience edges one toward the certainty, i.e., the ‘unculturality’, of nature, thus enhancing authority.
ref: 2003, Derek Pomeroy Brereton, Kinship and Landscape at Squam Lake, New Hampshire, →ISBN, page 328:
text: He expects him to rehabilitate the prosecutor’s office and remove elements of institutional unculturality.
ref: 2020 December 10, “Maroš Žilinka has become the new Attorney General, what does the President expect from him?”, in tekdeeps, archived from the original on 07 Feb 2022:
glosses: The quality of being uncultural.
bullsh*t
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Censored spelling of bullshit.
bullsh*t
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Censored spelling of bullshit.
bullsh*t
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Censored spelling of bullshit.
HODL
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: HODLs
form: HODLing
form: HODLed
form: HODLed
Senses: examples: text: Many people who have gotten wealthy through little-known cryptocurrencies said they didn’t plan to cash out. They said they preferred to HODL, or hold on for dear life, and keep speculating.
ref: 2022 February 7, David Yaffe-Bellany, “They Made Millions on Luna, Solana and Polygon: Crypto’s Boom Beyond Bitcoin”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2022:
text: Bitcoin, in particular, has always bounced back from previous dips, and investors who HODLed (held on for dear life to their coins, despite falling prices) have ended up with huge capital gains.
ref: 2022 May 17, Paul Krugman, “Crashing Crypto: Is This Time Different?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 21 May 2022:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of hodl.
Derived terms: HODLer
gemcutters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gemcutter
fighting spirits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌfaɪ.tɪŋ ˈspɪɹ.ɪts/
Senses: glosses: plural of fighting spirit
estiatoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of estiatorio
ateleological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ateleological
form: most ateleological
Etymology: From a- + teleological.
Senses: examples: text: Such ateleological explanation is what is meant by mechanistic explanation in the broad sense.
ref: 1908, William McDougall, An Introduction to Social Psychology, section 449:
glosses: Bereft of teleology; not showing evidence of design or purpose.
Synonyms: dysteleological
faunic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fauna + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Although this monograph of a single faunic group is not the place for a discussion of the history of the classification of the Myriapoda, yet it has seemed necessary to make this brief notice of and comparison between the works[…]
ref: 1865, American Philosophical Society, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society: Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, page 242:
text: ... and the natural barriers of climate and relief that limit them in faunic regions, than to account for their presence there, or absence from other lands, where the conditions favor their development when once transported.
ref: 1888, Alex Everett Frye, The Child and Nature, Or, Geography Teaching with Sand Modelling, page 189:
text: Our lexicons, ancient and mediaeval are rich in faunic names. In the West names have been derived from Greek and Latin. Similarly our names are derived from Sanskrit, the source-language of India.
ref: 1953, Raghu Vira, Indian Scientific Nomenclature of the Mammals of India, Burma and Ceylon:
text: Option 14: Potential for recreational, faunic and landscape redevelopment].] This option is considered non-discriminatory because all treatment alternatives considered will result in re-opening of the canal to the public.
ref: 2006 July 27, A.M.O. Mohamed, Arid Land Hydrogeology: In Search of a Solution to a Threatened Resource: Proceedings of the Third Joint UAE-Japan Symposium on Sustainable GCC Environment and Water Resources (EWR2006), 28 - 30 January 2006, Abu Dhabi, UAE (Volume IV in DARE series), CRC Press, →ISBN, page 60:
text: This law enhances the putting in place of a National forestry plan of action with the long lasting management of forestry and faunic resources of Cameroon.
ref: 2009, Les Atouts Economiques: Bilangual Guide of Economic Potentialities : [Cameroon]:
text: Eckert and Clark studied ceramic, architectural, and faunic data from a selected region and two excavation sites, and they were able to observe how both the imagery and use of birds in ritual contexts increased substantially[…]
ref: 2020 December 13, Sigurd Bergmann, Weather, Religion and Climate Change, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: Pertaining to fauna: faunal.
faunic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From faun + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Love srikes the lyre with such exquisite numbers, That faunic Rage is lulled to gentle slumbers.
ref: 1823, The Rejected Addresses: Presented for the Cup Offered for the Best Address, on the Opening of the New Theatre, Philadelphia : to which is Prefixed the Prize Address, page 106:
text: ... in the same places , only with all the real faunic joyfulness gone out of it with the old slain Saturn, and a great deal of empty and luxurious show come in instead! It makes one sad, mankind looks such a fool.
ref: 1878, Ouida, Ariadnê: The Story of a Dream, page 194:
text: the curious observations of a faunic mind, but through the finer eyes of a connoisseur of things human. The Puritan fanatic with his jaundiced inhibitions or the moral ideologist with his heart of leather may toss the book aside[…]
ref: 1920, Arthur Schnitzler, Hands Around (Reigen) A Cycle of Ten Dialougues:
text: Picking out a faunic, shy, beautiful, gentle […]
ref: 2002, Brigid Brophy, In Transit: An Heroi-Cyclic Novel, Dalkey Archive Press, →ISBN, page 181:
text: ... so that all he had to do was sit down and fall back on his elbows as he exploded and his consciousness disappeared into the mythic world of faunic orgasm: a huge bonfire exploded across his mind this time, sending off sparks,[…]
ref: 2012, Trebor Healey, Faun, Lethe Press, →ISBN, page 105:
text: ... and which simultaneously reviles her as an adulteress and “witch”, but also appears to celebrate her “devilish”, Dionysian sexuality in a procession described as “un triunfo de faunalias” (H13; a triumph of faunic rites).
ref: 2012 January 1, Sascha Bru, Laurence Nuijs, Benedikt Hjartarson, Peter Nicholls, Tania Ørum, Hubert Berg, Regarding the Popular: Modernism, the Avant-Garde and High and Low Culture, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 181:
text: However controversial the Appendix Virgiliana may be, one thing is certain: Virgil's poetic and emotional beginnings approach a frivolity of soul and sense that combines, in a fashion we can scarcely conceive, the faunic with the sentimental.
ref: 2015 March 8, Ernst Robert Curtius, Essays on European Literature, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 6:
glosses: Pertaining to or characteristic of a faun.
accidentally-on-purpose
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of accidentally on purpose.
culturality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: culturalities
Etymology: From cultural + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Just as culture is not simply rooted in the logic of the state, culturalities have a much broader basis—including family, ethnic, global cultural flows, and discourses about popular and high culture.
ref: 2013 June 6, Tod Jones, Culture, Power, and Authoritarianism in the Indonesian State: Cultural Policy across the Twentieth Century to the Reform Era, BRILL, →ISBN, page 22:
text: To the extent that the human form of life is a social one, then, it tends to constitute forms of likeness that issue in culturality.
ref: 2017 November 7, Whitney Davis, A General Theory of Visual Culture, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 337:
glosses: The quality of being cultural.
culturalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of culturality
drives the porcelain bus
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of drive the porcelain bus
driving the porcelain bus
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of drive the porcelain bus
drove the porcelain bus
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of drive the porcelain bus
driven the porcelain bus
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of drive the porcelain bus
gonghang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gonghangs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cohong.
gonghangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gonghang
cohong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cohongs
form: gonghang
Senses: glosses: A guild of Chinese merchants or hongs who operated the import-export monopoly in Canton (present-day Guangzhou) during the Qing dynasty (1644–1911).
cohongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cohong
brattishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more brattishly
form: most brattishly
Etymology: From brattish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of a brat
unsentried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + sentried.
Senses: glosses: Not sentried.
colour supplements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colour supplement
restructurizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of restructurization
hatiquette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of hat + etiquette.
Senses: glosses: The etiquette attached to the wearing of hats.
lovviedom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of luvviedom.