cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
roughdraw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: roughdraws
form: roughdrawing
form: roughdrew
form: roughdrawn
Senses: examples: text: At the beginning of the civil war, as the Prince passed through Cambridge in his way to York, he was entertained with the representation of the “ Guardian,” a comedy, which Cowley says was neither written nor acted, but roughdrawn by him, and repeated by the scholars.
ref: 1779, Samuel Johnson, Prefaces to Cowley and Waller, page 9:
text: I had roughdrawn a letter, to be laid Before the King, detailing these excesses, Which, now that all's forgiven, I will burn.
ref: 1857, Robert Story, The Poetical Works of Robert Story, page 236:
text: Fancy roughdraws, but judgment smooths and finishes; nay, judgment does in deed comprehend wit, for no man can have that who has not wit.
ref: 1987, Edward A. Watson, A study of selected English critical terms from 1650 to 1800:
text: In order to fulfil these requisites it will be tried to roughdraw a methodology able to model and simulate kinetic-electronic systems using Artificial Intelligence techniques and its benefits.
ref: 1989, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, MELECON '89, page 135:
glosses: Alternative form of rough-draw.
roughdraws
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of roughdraw
roughdrawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of roughdraw
roughdrew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of roughdraw
Goldwyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Goldwin
Etymology: From Middle English Goldwyn, Goldwine, from Old English Goldwine (given name), from gold (“gold”) + wine (“friend”).
Senses: glosses: A characteristical surname.
Derived terms: Goldwynism
Lewises
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lewis
Kona
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊnə/
ipa: /ˈkoʊnə/
ipa: /ˈkɔ-/
rhymes: -əʊnə
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community in Kentucky, United States.
glosses: A department of Mouhoun, Burkina Faso.
glosses: A district on the Big Island, Hawaii, United States.
glosses: A surname from Telugu from Telugu కోన (kōna, “dell, corner, garden”).
Stanciu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stancius
Etymology: Borrowed from Romanian Stanciu.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Romanian.
Schoeppner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from German, an anglicization of Schöppner.
culturescape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: culturescapes
Etymology: From culture + -scape or shortening of cultural landscape. Compare German Kulturlandschaft.
Senses: glosses: Cultural context.
culturescapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of culturescape
sapphics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sapphic
mascs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of masc
paramilitant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: paramilitary
glosses: Of or pertaining to a paramilitary.
paramilitant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paramilitants
Senses: synonyms: paramilitary
glosses: A member of a paramilitary.
Morbey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Rayment
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Stanier
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Gresley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gresleys
Etymology: Habitational surname from Church Gresley or Castle Gresley, two villages in Derbyshire, from Old English greōsn (“gravel”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Castle Gresley
Church Gresley
Asiarchate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Asiarchates
Etymology: From Asiarch + -ate (forming nouns denoting rank or office).
Senses: glosses: The term of office of an Asiarch.
glosses: The office of an Asiarch.
Coordinate terms: Syriarchate
Cappadociarchate
Bithyniarchate
Phoeniciarchate
Lyciarchate
Syriarchate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Syriarchates
Etymology: From Syriarch + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office).
Senses: glosses: The term of office of a Syriarch.
glosses: The office of a Syriarch.
Coordinate terms: Asiarchate
Cappadociarchate
Bithyniarchate
Phoeniciarchate
Lyciarchate
Bulleid
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Several senior railway engineers reached the IMechE pinnacle of being appointed president: [...] and Oliver Bulleid (1947).
ref: 2019 November 20, Philip Haigh, “A prestigious institution”, in Rail, page 69:
glosses: A surname.
Ivatt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: And in 1947, LMS Chief Mechanical Engineer George Ivatt spoke about his pioneering diesel for the LMS, 10000.
ref: 2019 November 20, Philip Haigh, “A prestigious institution”, in Rail, page 69:
glosses: A surname.
Riddles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Robin Riddles was ILocoE president in 1951, the year the first of the BR Standard steam locomotive range he oversaw was built.
ref: 2019 November 20, Philip Haigh, “A prestigious institution”, in Rail, page 71, photo caption:
glosses: A surname.
in hysterics
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Ryan had the place in hysterics by converting two spot kicks before the interval and he then produced the coup de grace with seven minutes left. The only sour note for Larne was the dismissal of Chris Gallagher, with 30 minutes left.
ref: 2024 August 29, Alex Mills, “Larne headed for Conference League group stages as Andy Ryan hat-trick secures historic Play-Off joy”, in Belfast Telegraph:
synonyms: in stitches
glosses: laughing or celebrating very hard and unable to stop.
unonerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unonerous
form: most unonerous
Etymology: From un- + onerous.
Senses: glosses: Not onerous.
neotologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neotologists
Senses: examples: text: Briefly stated, the transformational view of the origin of species (a view most commonly found in the paleontological literature but not uncommonly broached when neotologists think about how species "behave" in geologic time) sees evolution as the accumulation of morphologic, hence genetic, change
ref: 1984, N Eldredge, “Simpson’s Inverse: Bradytely and the Phenomenon of Living Fossils”, in N. Eldredge, S.M. Stanley, editors, Living Fossils. Casebooks in Earth Sciences:
text: Paleontologists and neotologists alike have placed emphasis on the role of developmental constraints on evolution (Albrech 1982, Gould 1980, Iltis 1983).
ref: 1986, Louis J. Gross, Robert M. Miura, Some Mathematical Questions in Biology: Plant Biology, page 46:
text: While neotologists have concentrated on unraveling how the three living groups and the trilobites are related to each other, paleobiologists have used the additional data from these unaligned fossils to derive a more inclusive classification.
ref: 2019, Ronald Singer, Encyclopedia of Paleontology:
glosses: A student of neotology; one versed in the science of neology.
Someone who studies newly discovered species, minerals, etc.
examples: text: We sent in a neotologist and in 2 years he brought that rate down to less than half of what it was before.
ref: 1981, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology, Health Information Systems:
text: Alan Rothberg, a US-trained and certified neotologist, was formerly Professor and Head of Paediatrics and Child Health at Wits University.
ref: 1999, South African Medical Journal - Volume 89, Issues 7-12:
text: Adult criteria are inappropriate for infants, but it was found that Dutch doctors sometimes do actively end the life of a child with the specific consent of the parents; a recent survey revealed that as many as 45% of neotologists and intensivists had intentionally done so.
ref: 2013, Peter De Cruz, Comparative Healthcare Law, page 400:
glosses: A student of neotology; one versed in the science of neology.
Synonym of neonatologist.
synonyms: word: neonatologist
neotology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Since systematics always was an integral part of neotology and paleontology, it has been possible to distinguish it as a perfectly independent science.
ref: 1963, V. Ye. Ruzhentsev, “Theory Of Phylogenetic Systematics (Part 1 Of 4)”, in International Geology Review, volume 5, number 7:
text: Finally the landmark analysis of mandible total shape space showed significant morphological differences and proved taxonomic character states that is beneficial for determination of each studies species of genus Calomyscus in applied studies like archaeozoology, paleontology and neotology .
ref: 2011, Jamshid Darvish, “Biosystematics of genus Calomyscus (Calomyscidae, Rodentia) of Iran regarding biological species concept”, in ECM:
text: I also tremendously benefitted from association with current and past members of the KU Ichthyology Division, where the line between paleontology and neotology blurs.
ref: 2015, HL Owens, MODELING SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS: APPLICATIONS AND METHODS FOR MARINE BIOGEOGRAPHY AND CONSERVATION (Dissertation, University of Kansas):
glosses: The study of a recently discovered object, place, animal, insect, mineral, etc.
examples: text: Robert Weir (1984), in the first single-authored book on ethics in neotology in the period of the revival, relies heavily on this concept, as do others
ref: 1986 February, Laurence B. McCullough, “Methodological concerns in bioethics”, in The Journal of medicine and Philosophy, volume 11, number 1:
text: The Unit is one of the largest in Europe, designated as regional centres in Obstetrics and Neotology.
ref: 1991, Nursing Times - Volume 87, Issues 36-39, page 121:
text: It was addressed to the directors of Obstetric and Gynecological units and neotology units at Zagazig University Hospitals.
ref: 2012 January, Thoraya Mohamed Keashiea, Sanaa Ali Nour Eldin, Ali Mohammed Abo-Zaid, “Early Neonatal Assessment with Detection of Cases of Hypocalcemia and Nursing Implication”, in Zagazig Nursing Journal, volume 8, number 1:
glosses: Synonym of neonatology
synonyms: word: neonatology
in itself
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Oxygen is not flammable in itself, but it supports combustion.
synonyms: intrinsically
inherently
by itself
per se
in and of itself
as such
glosses: Inherently; viewed independently, without reference to anything else.
belly bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: belly bags
Senses: glosses: fanny pack; bum bag
belly bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of belly bag
dungeony
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dungeony
form: most dungeony
Etymology: From dungeon + -y.
Senses: examples: text: As I rounded the corner nearest my hotel the Afrite coachman of the polychromatic, nonpareil coat seized me, swung open the dungeony door of his peripatetic sarcophagus, flirted his feather duster and began his ritual: […]
ref: 1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], Strictly Business:
text: The restaurant proper is dungeony, the red walls hung with the required bullfight pictures, the rough plaster ceiling adorned with non-supporting beams, the air filled with talk, […]
ref: 1981, Seymour Britchky, The restaurants of New York, page 252:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a dungeon.
polychromatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more polychromatically
form: most polychromatically
Etymology: From polychromatic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a polychromatic manner.
neotologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neotologist
spirit week
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spirit weeks
Senses: examples: text: Student councils also offer a smorgasbord of programs, ranging from spirit weeks and Homecoming days to charity events. You've already paid for many of these activities through your student fees, so get your money's worth by participating.
ref: 2003, Murray Baker, The Debt-Free Graduate:
glosses: The week leading up to homecoming, during which school students dress up in unusual themed clothing.
spirit weeks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spirit week
chicken shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chicken shops
Senses: glosses: A restaurant or takeaway serving fried chicken.
chicken shops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chicken shop
Wemyss Bay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and bay in Inverclyde council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS1969).
Tritton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
bioconservatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + conservatism.
Senses: examples: text: But the charge of bioconservatism greatly misrepresents the nature and underestimates the profundity of Kass's philosophical position within the constellation of reflection that has come to be known as "bioethics" (see Vogel 2006).
ref: 2010, Adam Briggle, A Rich Bioethics:
text: Rather than assuming that experimentation with the conceptual and moral foundations of culture is essential to social progress, cultural bioconservatism is oriented toward conserving and renewing traditions that have proven over time to contribute to a community of morally reciprocal relationships and to the viability of local ecosystems.
ref: 2011, C. A. Bowers, Let Them Eat Data:
text: Typical bioconservatism does not focus on the psychological, phenomenological, or ontological consequences of posthumanization for the individual posthumanized being.
ref: 2018, Matthew E. Gladden, Sapient Circuits and Digitalized Flesh:
glosses: A stance of skepticism regarding radical technological changes that challenge traditional notions of what it means to be human, including human uniqueness, physiological and genetic determinism, etc.
Related terms: transhumanism
posthumanism
bioconservative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bioconservative
form: most bioconservative
Etymology: From bio- + conservative.
Senses: examples: text: So what's all that got to do with transhumanism, and why do I think that transhumanists are actually more bioconservative than their opponents?
ref: 2014, M. Hauskeller, Sex and the Posthuman Condition:
text: I will argue that Pet Sematary and The Tommyknockers can fruitfully be read as bioconservative fables, thematic enactments of the kind of worst-case scenarios postulated by theorists such as Bill McKibben, Leon Kass, and Francis Fukuyama.
ref: 2016, Jacob M. Held, Stephen King and Philosophy, page 48:
text: We can emphasize the idea that enhancement need not undermine bioconservative values by imagining a type of enhancement that promotes these values.
ref: 2016, Steve Clarke, Julian Savulescu, C. A. J. Coady, The Ethics of Human Enhancement: Understanding the Debate:
glosses: Characterized by bioconservatism.
bioconservative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioconservatives
Etymology: From bio- + conservative.
Senses: examples: text: Among the technologies bioconservatives frequently deride are genetic modification of both plants and animals, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, all forms of cloning and radical life extension.
ref: 2011, Nayef R.F. Al-Rodhan, The Politics of Emerging Strategic Technologies, page 195:
text: The best way to protect the disadvantaged from the inequalities that bioconservatives like McKibben believe will follow from enhancement is not te prevent enhancement, but to ensure that the social institutions we use to distribute enhancement technologies work to protect the least well off and to provide everyone with a fair go.
ref: 2012, Peter Healey, Steve Rayner, Unnatural Selection, page 186:
text: In contrast, a bioconservative might stipulate the definition of an existential risk as “one that either (a) threatens the extinction of Homo sapiens—that is, through total annihilation or the creation of a replacement posthuman population—or (b) causes a permanent and drastic reduction in our quality of life."
ref: 2017, Phil Torres, Martin Rees, Morality, Foresight, and Human Flourishing:
glosses: A proponent of bioconservatism.
bioconservatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioconservative
biocitizenship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biocitizenships
Etymology: From bio- + citizenship.
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, one point brought out by all three chapters is that not everyone has equal citizenship in our new biocitizenship age.
ref: 2009, Thérèse Murphy, New Technologies and Human Rights, page 12:
text: In the binding pact created between scientific, corporate, and governmental and nongovernmental actors that comprise the nexus of biocapital, a unique type of “biocitizenship” has arisen that challenges traditional pedagogical considerations of civic life.
ref: 2012, C. Pierce -, Education in the Age of Biocapitalism:
text: Other social examples of neoliberal biocitizenship are the social drive toward eternal youth, which is linked to the suspension of time in globally mediated societies (Castells 1996) and can be juxtaposed to euthanasia and other social practices of assisted death.
ref: 2012, Rosi Braidotti, Nomadic Theory: The Portable Rosi Braidotti, page 320:
text: Third, this has implications at local levels, in allocating what others have termed biocitizenships: for example, the law is not just about regulating professions, but also about shaping the legitimate healer, the legitimate user and the legitimate interlocutor of the state in making future regulatory decisions.
ref: 2018, Sian Beynon-Jones, Emily Grabham, Law and Time:
glosses: The role of a person's rights and choices that affect health in the context of the society in which they are a citizen.
biocitizenships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biocitizenship
biosociality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biosocialities
Etymology: From bio- + sociality.
Senses: examples: text: Like Das, my research demonstrates that we should question the relevance of applying the concept of biosociality to every contemporary practice that involves emergent biological status.
ref: 2007, Sahra Gibbon, Carlos Novas, Biosocialities, Genetics and the Social Sciences, page 82:
text: Such forms of biosociality depend on a host of factors — among other things, access to the Internet and local notions of health, medicine, personhood, and expertise.
ref: 2016, Gisli Palsson, Nature, Culture and Society:
text: Taken together, these more recent studies indicate that biosociality, and what it produces in different contexts, unravels or is not very predictable.
ref: 2018, Joel Christian Reed, Landscapes of Activism:
glosses: The role and status of humans and their social connections in relation to biological status.
biosocialities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biosociality
non-committally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more non-committally
form: most non-committally
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of noncommittally.
Royal Oak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɔɪəl.əʊk/
Senses: glosses: An oak tree in which King Charles II hid, and a popular name for public houses in the United Kingdom, past and present.
glosses: A hamlet in Heighington parish, Darlington borough, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ2023).
glosses: A settlement in Bickerstaffe parish, West Lancashire district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4103).
glosses: A settlement in Filey parish, North Yorkshire, England, previously in Scarborough district (OS grid ref TA1178).
glosses: An underground station (above ground) in the City of Westminster borough, Greater London, originally named after a pub (OS grid ref TQ2581).
glosses: A small village in County Carlow, Ireland.
glosses: A suburb of Auckland, New Zealand.
glosses: A neighbourhood of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A suburban community on Vancouver Island in Saanich district municipality, British Columbia, Canada.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Talbot County, Maryland, United States.
glosses: A city in Oakland County, Michigan, United States, named after the English oak tree.
glosses: A charter township in Oakland County, Michigan, the smallest in the state.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Oregon County, Missouri, United States.
Derived terms: Royal Oak Day
letting-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: letting-ins
Senses: examples: text: But this letting-in of the three-dimensional world exorcised the vision.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 462:
glosses: The act or an instance of permitting or allowing something to enter.
witch-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more witch-like
form: most witch-like
Etymology: From witch + -like.
Senses: examples: text: `Hail!' squeaked Arumugam, witch-like.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 471:
text: Witch-like she smiled and moved away.
ref: 1974, John Boorman, Zardoz, London: Pan Books, page 34:
glosses: Like a witch.
pot-plant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pot-plants
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pot plant.
pot-plants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pot-plant
Kuo-Yü
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Wade–Giles.
Senses: examples: text: He had appealed to them in English, and a Chinese Inspector of Schools had addressed them in Kuo-Yü language as remote as the tongue of Caedmon to the impassive hearers.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 499:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Guoyu.
beer glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beer glasses
form: beer-glass
form: beerglass
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: pint glass
text: How lovely will the Ladies look when / They have a Beer-glaſs in their hands!
ref: 1668, George Etherege, She Wou’d if She Cou’d, a Comedy. […], London: […] [John Macocke] for H[enry] Herringman, […], →OCLC, Act III, scene ii, page 40:
text: Even then, as he poured a measure into a beer-glass, he almost forgot his mission.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 509:
text: You could tell summer was coming because people were drinking on the street, searching for spaces on the windowsills of the pub to balance their beerglasses.
ref: 2001, Christopher Fowler, The Devil in Me, page 12:
hypernyms: glass#Noun
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coordinate_terms: wine glass
glosses: A glass vessel, now frequently of a prescribed volume, for serving beer.
Related terms: stein
beer glasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beer glass
beer-glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beer-glasses
Senses: examples: text: How lovely will the Ladies look when / They have a Beer-glaſs in their hands!
ref: 1668, George Etherege, She Wou’d if She Cou’d, a Comedy. […], London: […] [John Macocke] for H[enry] Herringman, […], →OCLC, Act III, scene ii, page 40:
glosses: Alternative form of beer glass.
Pewsey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pewseys
Etymology: From the unrecorded Old English personal name *Pefi + -s- + īeġ (“island; well-watered land”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU1660).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Vale of Pewsey
beer-glasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beer-glass
beerglass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beerglasses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of beer glass.
beerglasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beerglass
mascs.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of masc.
fems.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fem.
wine-glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wine-glasses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wine glass.
wine-glasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wine-glass
Bedwyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A railway station that serves Great Bedwyn in Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU2864).
coffee glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coffee glasses
form: coffee-glass
Senses: examples: text: Two men today I have struck with my fist," said Syed Omar. "One I merely grazed with a coffee-glass."
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 512:
glosses: A type of short, thick glass vessel for serving coffee, especially caffè latte.
coffee glasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coffee glass
coffee-glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coffee-glasses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of coffee glass.
coffee-glasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coffee-glass
Great Bedwyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU2764).
Related terms: Little Bedwyn
Jaen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jaens
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Jaén.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Luzon, Philippines; named for the city of Jaén, Spain.
glosses: A habitational surname from Spanish.
Wolterstorff
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A habitational surname from German, a variant of Woltersdorf.
Templecombe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Abbas and Templecombe parish, Somerset, England, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST7022).
dressing mirror
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dressing mirrors
Senses: examples: text: The poem was called Lines for Early Middle Age, and it was signed Fenella Crabbe, but it was impossible that Fenella — twenty-eight or twenty-nine — should think of herself as middle-aged, or even, being a woman and a good-looking woman although a poet, have a proleptic Eliotian image of an aged eagle with tired wings demanding to be released from the dressing-mirror.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 521:
glosses: A large mirror, often as a separate piece of furniture, in which a full-body reflection can be viewed when getting dressed.
dressing mirrors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dressing mirror
full-body
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: a full-body image
text: a full-body statue
text: Firefighters in the nearby city of Mesa are offered additional screening options under a publicly funded programme, including a full-body MRI scan.
ref: 2023 May 17, Jamie Smyth, “Quick blood tests to spot cancer: will they help or harm patients?”, in Financial Times:
glosses: Consisting of the whole body.
sole-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sole-like
form: most sole-like
Senses: examples: text: Over the fish-dish — something sole-like, exquisitely seethed in a strange sauce, garnished with roots and fruits of the country — Tommy became sentimental.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 527:
glosses: Similar to the fish sole, as in taste, appearance, etc.
glosses: Similar to the sole of the foot.
moygashel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɔɪɡəʃəl/
Senses: examples: text: He wore a drip-dry cream shirt and a polka-dot bow-tie. A moygashel jacket hung over a chair.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 547:
glosses: A type of linen originally made in the town of Moygashel, Ireland.
convent school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: convent schools
Senses: examples: text: He smoothed the letter open and began to read. It was quite a short letter, written in convent-school English.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 558:
glosses: A school at which the teaching staff, and often the support staff, are nuns.
glosses: Any English-medium school.
convent schools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of convent school
unstuttered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Those were his first words of the voyage, and they were spoken with unstuttered labials.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 578:
glosses: Not spoken or uttered with a stutter; spoken fluently.
drink table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪbəl
Forms: form: drink tables
form: drink-table
form: drinks table
Senses: examples: text: The drawing-room seemed an acre of polished floorboards, with complete units for sitting or lounging — drink-table, settee, arm-chairs — placed at intervals along the walls, by the windows that looked down at river and jungle beyond, in the body of the echoing room.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 583:
glosses: A table located at an event or venue on which beverages are placed so that drinks can be supplied to guests.
drink tables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drink table
drink-table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drink-tables
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of drink table.
drink-tables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drink-table
drinks table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drinks tables
form: drinks-table
Senses: glosses: A drink table.
drinks tables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drinks table
drinks-table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drinks-tables
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of drinks table.
drinks-tables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drinks-table
Anglicanly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more Anglicanly
form: most Anglicanly
Senses: examples: text: He saw Mr. Lim from Penang, Anglicanly elegant, climbing into the Hillman that the firm used on this side of the peninsula, a Malay driver closing the door smartly after him.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 597:
glosses: In an Anglican manner; befitting an Anglican.
yellow-skinned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Kaempferol was not also detectable in the fruits of yellow-skinned cactus pear[.]"
ref: 2019, Solomon Habtemariam, Medicinal Foods as Potential Therapies for Type-2 Diabetes and Associated Diseases, page 448:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: Having yellow skin.
examples: text: "Curse you, you yellow-skinned bastard."
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 598:
glosses: Of Far East Asian descent.
Related terms: yellowskin
blancoed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blanco
blancoing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blanco
guffawish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more guffawish
form: most guffawish
Etymology: From guffaw + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Of laughter, loud and unrestrained.
examples: text: Lieutenants Creek, Looker, Jones, Dwyer? Callow, guffawish, no longer her meat.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 613:
glosses: Of people, given to unrestrained laughter.
tonomorphology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tono- + morphology.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Tonal structure.
Related terms: tonomorpheme
tonomorphological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tono- + morphological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to tonomorphology.
cat man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cat men
form: cat-man
Senses: examples: text: Now. I am not a cat man, but a dog man. Indeed, if I had my way. I would own an English bulldog, which I consider the king of breeds.
ref: 1942, Stephen Benet, The Australian Women's Weekly, page 2:
text: A dogman, he said, likes having tails wagged at him, wants to be looked up to, and tends for that reason to be quite a good leader. A catman, on the other hand, is made slightly uncomfortable by spaniel eyes and devoted tail thumpings.
ref: 1968, John Montgomery, The World of Cats, page 12:
text: Unlike dog men, cat men tend not to go in for extreme sports, but when they do, it usually takes the form of rock climbing[.]
ref: 1998, Tanya McKinnon, Like Cats and Dogs, page 52:
text: "You a dog man or a cat man?" "Dog, I guess."
ref: 2010, John Verdon, Think of a Number:
glosses: A man who likes cats or prefers cats as pets, often as opposed to liking dogs.
cat-men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cat-man
weightlifted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of weightlift
weightlifts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of weightlift
intercorporeally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intercorporeal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Between bodies.
wombchild
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wombchildren
form: womb-child
form: womb child
Etymology: From womb + child.
Senses: examples: text: If ever there were retribution for shedding of innocent blood, who shall answer in the earth for this shedding of blood? That of the wombchild. Most innocent of blood.
ref: 2015, Ravens Station Steward, Ravens Station Steward:
text: Some words heard during the pregnancy, including words the mother is listening to carefully, again and again, can inspire a higher level of attention in the wombchild.
ref: 2016, Robert Bruce Newman, Calm Birth, page 173:
glosses: A child still in the womb (i.e. a human embryo or fetus).
examples: text: Her wombchild Taimi burst into the hall, gasping, his eyes glittering with the heedless excitement of his fifteen years.
ref: 1985, S. M. Stirling, Snowbrother, page 19:
text: My mother, Guyr Thade Tage em Ereb, was impatient, warm-hearted, and impartial, not exerting much control over us three wombchildren, but keeping watch.[…] I treasured it for years and finally shared it with my own wombchild.
ref: 1996, Gardner Dozois, The Year's Best Science Fiction, page 473:
glosses: A child of one's womb, as opposed to one who is adopted.
wombchildren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wombchild
womb-child
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: womb-children
Etymology: From womb + child.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wombchild.
social contagion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: social contagions
Senses: examples: text: A Peter leads a John, a John goes after a Peter, both of them unconscious of any influence exercised or received. And thus our life and conduct are ever propagating themselves, by a law of social contagion, throughout the circles […]
ref: 1852, Horace Bushnell, Unconscious Influence: A Sermon, page 4:
topics: human-sciences
medicine
pathology
psychology
sciences
social-science
sociology
synonyms: behavioral contagion
behavioural contagion
glosses: The spontaneous spread of behaviour when it is unconsciously copied from one individual by another; a behavior that spreads in this manner.
behavioral contagion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: behavioural contagion
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
pathology
psychology
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Synonym of social contagion.
synonyms: word: social contagion
behavioural contagion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: behavioral contagion
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
pathology
psychology
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Synonym of social contagion.
synonyms: word: social contagion
robo-advisor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: robo-advisors
form: robo-adviser
form: roboadviser
form: roboadvisor
form: robo advisor
Etymology: From robo- + advisor.
Senses: examples: text: The flow of funds into robo-adviser accounts is expected to accelerate because of new federal regulations, which require all financial professionals to put their customers’ interests first, at least when providing advice on their tax-advantaged retirement accounts.
ref: 2016 April 29, Tara Siegel Bernard, “The Pros and Cons of Using a Robot as an Investment Adviser”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: He suggested using Betterment, a roboadviser that automates the investing process with long-term portfolios.
ref: 2021 April 28, Tara Siegel Bernard, “Trading Stock Tips on TikTok, Newbies Are Deeply Invested in Learning”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: business
finance
glosses: An automated investment manager.
seckses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secks
line gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: line guns
form: linegun
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
qualifier: search and rescue
glosses: A firearm designed to shoot a rope across a distance, usually used to pass lines from one ship to another.
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A beam weapon, that shoots a long-duration beam to burn through the target, like a laser cutter
Synonyms: line launcher gun
line launching gun
line thrower gun
line throwing gun
rope gun
rope launcher gun
rope launching gun
rope thrower gun
rope throwing gun
Hypernyms: line launcher
line thrower
rope launcher
rope thrower
Hyponyms: bridge gun
bridge line gun
bridge line launcher gun
bridge line launching gun
bridge line thrower gun
bridge line throwing gun
bridger gun
bridger line gun
bridger line launcher gun
bridger line launching gun
bridger line thrower gun
bridger line throwing gun
bridging gun
bridging line gun
bridging line launcher gun
bridging line launching gun
bridging line thrower gun
bridging line throwing gun
rescue line gun
rescue line launcher gun
rescue line launching gun
rescue line thrower gun
rescue line throwing gun
rescue rope gun
rescue rope launcher gun
rescue rope launching gun
rescue rope thrower gun
rescue rope throwing gun
Coordinate terms: bridge line launcher
bridge line thrower
bridger
bridger line launcher
bridger line thrower
bridging line launcher
bridging line thrower
rescue line launcher
rescue line thrower
rescue rope launcher
rescue rope thrower
Related terms: english: those that fire harpoons attached to lines
translation: those that fire harpoons attached to lines
word: harpoon gun
unsubtlety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unsubtleties
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unsubtle.
glosses: Something unsubtle.
Sanscritist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sanscritists
Etymology: From Sanscrit + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Sanskritist.
bring someone to their knees
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brings to one's knees
form: bringing to one's knees
form: brought to one's knees
form: brought to one's knees
Etymology: From the act of kneeling in submission before a person in power.
Senses: glosses: To defeat and make submit to orders.
rowi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rowi
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: glosses: The Okarito brown kiwi, Apteryx rowi.
transversaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transversary
Uliastai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: o͞olʹyäsätīʺ
Etymology: From Mongolian Улиастай (Uliastaj).
Senses: examples: text: In 1769, when five banners of eastern Tannu Urianhai joined the Zasagt Khan, they were thereafter governed by the Uliastai amban. By the end of the eighteenth century, the population of the Urianhai frontier numbered roughly forty thousand.
ref: 1999, B. Batbayar, quoting Council of Ministers, “Russia and China Respond”, in Sukhjargalmaa Dugersuren, S. Burenbayar, Khulan Khashbat, Tuya Nyam-Osor, transl., edited by C. Kaplonski, History of Mongolia: From World Power to Soviet Satellite, →ISBN Invalid ISBN, →OCLC, page 145:
text: Zavkhan province center Uliastai now has safe water supply utilizing electrochlorination system. Electrochlorination disinfects the water and makes it safe for human use.
ref: 2020 December 16, Tamir Chuluunbaatar, “Uliastai soum now has safe water supply”, in UNICEF, archived from the original on 23 Jan 2021:
glosses: The capital city of Zavkhan, Mongolia.
light along
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lights along
form: lighting along
form: lighted along
form: lighted along
Etymology: Phrasal verb from light (“to make less heavy”, verb) + along (“forward”, adverb).
Senses: examples: text: to light along a cable or sail
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To lift or carry anything along the deck; to help in hauling along.
Pleasington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Blackburn with Darwen borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD6426).
Euxton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛkstən/
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Chorley borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD5518).
Topsham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in City of Exeter district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX9688).
glosses: A town and census-designated place in Sagadahoc County, Maine, United States.
glosses: A town in Orange County, Vermont, United States.
Disley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Cheshire East district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ9784).
glosses: A village in the Rural Municipality of Lumsden, No. 189, Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: A surname.
crossstaff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crossstaffs
Senses: examples: text: Yet even with these corrections, Harriot was not satisfied with the crossstaff as currently made. … To take a precise navigational sighting using a crossstaff it is necessary to look two ways at once—at the sun, for instance, and at the horizon. … The National Maritime Museum at Greenwich has 1 crossstaff, 15 backstaffs, and 98 octants; the Peabody Museum at Salem, Massachusetts has 2 crossstaffs, 11 backstaffs, and 82 octants.
ref: 1980, Per Sörbom, Tekniska museet (Stockholm, Sweden), Transport Technology and Social Change: Symposium 1979, pages 124 and 133
text: Several archbishops holding such crossstaffs appear in the Reims nave.
[…]
In one [scene] an enthroned archbishop with crossstaff and moneybags presented a gold piece, as down payment, to architects and master mascons dressed in medieval chaperons.
ref: 2001, Meredith P. Lillich, Studies in Medieval Stained Glass and Monasticism, pages 253 and 443:
glosses: Alternative form of cross-staff.
crossstaffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crossstaff
Macnab
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: MacNab
form: McNab
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: MacNab cypress
dog man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dog men
form: dog-man
form: dogman
Senses: examples: text: Now. I am not a cat man, but a dog man. Indeed, if I had my way. I would own an English bulldog, which I consider the king of breeds.
ref: 1942, Stephen Benet, The Australian Women's Weekly, page 2:
text: Major Anstruther did not care much for cats: he was a dog-man himself.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 618:
text: Elton is a dog man, not a cat man.
ref: 1996, Claude Bernardin, Tom Stanton, Rocket Man: Elton John from A-Z, page 30:
text: If you were a total dog man like Joe, and a one-man dog like Cass, the relationship developed a mutual dependency, as close as any marriage, of minds and hearts.
ref: 2010, Gordon Thorburn, Cassius - The True Story of a Courageous Police Dog:
text: "You a dog man or a cat man?" "Dog, I guess."
ref: 2010, John Verdon, Think of a Number:
glosses: A man who likes dogs or prefers dogs as pets, often as opposed to liking cats.
examples: text: Of course there is a sprinkling of wealthy dog men, but in the main it is working-class hopefuls who supply the fields[.]
ref: 1966, James Holledge, The Great Australian Gable, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 124:
glosses: A man who breeds, handles, or sells dogs; a greyhound or hunting dog handler.
dog men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dog man
cat-man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cat-men
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of catman.
glosses: Alternative form of cat man.
cat men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cat man
Amlwch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈamlʊx/
Etymology: From Welsh, am (“at, near”) + lwch (“water”).
Senses: glosses: A town and community with a town council in Anglesey, Wales (OS grid ref SH4493).
Dear Joy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dear Joys
Etymology: From the supposed propensity of 17th-century Irishmen to exclaim ‘dear joy’.
Senses: examples: text: A Dear Joy in the late King James his Army, being newly Liſted, and Armed with a Match-lock, having never before ſeen any of that Faſhion, was much put to a ſtand, at the rare Phyſiognomy of this ſurprizing Whim-wham:
ref: 1690, anonymous author, Teagueland Jeſts, or Bogg-Witticisms, part 2, page 135:
glosses: An Irishman.
lewds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lewd
lewds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lewd
lewding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lewd
lewded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lewd
Willenhall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SO9698).
glosses: A suburb of Coventry, West Midlands (OS grid ref SP3676).