cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
glamcore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From glam + -core.
Senses: examples: text: In the studio with screeching glamcore act the Rapture, the DFA shreds the band's tracks and reconstructs them from the ground up. The Rapture single "House of Jealous Lovers" began as a generally unassuming garage-rock tune.
ref: 2002, SPIN, volume 18, number 7, page 86:
text: […] We like fashion because it's nonsense, but done with a flair that's missing in the rock world.' This attitude and regard for sartorial elegance led some critics to dismiss the Urge's glamcore sound as throwaway.
ref: 2001, Everett True, Live Through This: American Rock Music in the Nineties, page 180:
glosses: A style of glamorous rock music; glam rock.
ten-cent tour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ten-cent tours
Senses: synonyms: fifty-cent tour
nickel tour
glosses: A basic or makeshift tour; a quick trip around.
ten-cent tours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ten-cent tour
auto-tiering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + tiering.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The automatic movement of data between storage locations based on how often it has been accessed, in order to optimize performance.
disabuseth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: disabuse + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disabuse
unrangeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrangeable
form: most unrangeable
Etymology: From un- + rangeable.
Senses: examples: text: Song learning enables singers to one-up listeners under certain circumstances that favor unrangeable songs. Territorial instability will generate selection that favors singers whose locations are not always rangeable, those with songs not in the memories of listeners.
ref: 1998, Donald H. Owings, Eugene S. Morton, Animal Vocal Communication: A New Approach, →ISBN, page 158:
text: And then out of the mist, unrangeable, unreachable, the onagers started firing.
ref: 2009, William Napier, Attila: The Judgement, →ISBN:
text: Clearly the feasibility of this idea rests on an ability to sing unrangeable songs, or songs that give incorrect range information (e.g. Morton 1986).
ref: 2012, Mark N.O. Davies, Patrick R. Green, Perception and Motor Control in Birds: An Ecological Approach, →ISBN:
glosses: Not rangeable.
nigtard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nigtards
Etymology: Blend of nigger + retard
Senses: examples: text: No, nigtard. You're the one who claimed that my college used "ten-year-old technology." I simply pointed out your error.
ref: 2005, Nigger News Service, “Re: Stupid Negress in the library”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):
text: Go ahead, defend an obvious nigtard!
ref: 2014, Fred Oinka, “Re: Another politician who is unqualified for her office!”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet):
text: Around here the Cubans as well as the nigtards go crazy over big fat asses. There are way too many women who think their big fat asses are hot.
ref: 2016, Sir Gregory Hall, Esq., “Re: Scratched camera lens cover on my Galazy^([sic]) S5”, in alt.usenet.kooks (Usenet):
glosses: A stupid black person.
nigtards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nigtard
Chapelizod
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Irish Séipéal Iosóid (“Iseult's Chapel”).
Senses: examples: text: Through half-opened hall doors you might see the powdered servant, or the sprightly maid in her mob-cap in hot haste steaming away with the red japanned 'tea kitchen' into the parlour. The town of Chapelizod, in short, was just sitting down to its breakfast.
ref: 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
glosses: A village preserved within the city of Dublin, Ireland.
tea kitchen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tea kitchens
Senses: examples: text: Through half-opened hall doors you might see the powdered servant, or the sprightly maid in her mob-cap in hot haste steaming away with the red japanned 'tea kitchen' into the parlour. The town of Chapelizod, in short, was just sitting down to its breakfast.
ref: 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
glosses: A tea-urn.
tea kitchens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tea kitchen
tea urns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tea urn
dividerless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From divider + -less.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: partitionless, undivided, unpartitioned, wall-less, unwalled, compartmentless
glosses: Without dividers.
Related terms: unified
unitary
divisionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From division + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without divisions; undivided.
Derived terms: divisionlessness
the plague
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Money, money, is the matter, madam. We have got no money. What the plague do you send me of your fool's errand for?
ref: 1768, Oliver Goldsmith, The Good-Natur'd Man:
text: […] and that rancid, raw-boned parson, Gillespie—how the plague did they pick him up?—one of the mutes told Bob it was he.
ref: 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “Mr. Mervyn in His Inn”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 33:
glosses: Synonym of the hell (“expletive”).
synonyms: word: the hell
extra: expletive
maccaroni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maccaronis
Etymology: From Italian maccaroni. Doublet of macaroni, macaron, and macaroon.
Senses: examples: text: […]there were stalls of bread, wine, and fruit, and little cook[-]shops with fires in the open air, frying meat, boiling maccaroni, minestra verde and other good things.
ref: 1824 October, “Walk to Paestum, Leucosia, &c. Part II.”, in The London Magazine, volume X, London: […] Taylor and Hessey, […], page 412:
text: Lamb would have been too dear, and small kid too unsubstantial, for people in their circumstances, but they had had their spezzato, or cut of mutton, with some coarse maccaroni for dinner, and had done so much justice to them that nothing was left for us but some eggs, cheese, and cassatiello, or Easter bread.
ref: 1835 May 2, [Charles Macfarlane], “Some Recollections of the Easter Holidays in the South of Italy”, in The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, volume IV, number 198, London: Charles Knight, […]. New York; William Jackson, […]. Boston; Joseph H. Francis, […], page 175:
text: There is an all-pervading smell of petrol and heavily garlic’d cooking, for these small families are still eating the minestra verde and maccaroni as prepared by Emma’s cook, Mariana.
ref: 1969, Mollie Hardwick, “‘O Attic shape, fair Attitude!’”, in Emma, Lady Hamilton, New York, N.Y.; Chicago, Ill.; San Francisco, Calif.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, published 1970, →ISBN, page 40:
glosses: Alternative form of macaroni (“a type of pasta”).
examples: text: A nearer glance at his dress had satisfied Toole that he was too much of a maccaroni for an artist, and he was thinking of placing him upon the lord lieutenant's staff.
ref: 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
glosses: Alternative form of macaroni (“a fop, a dandy”).
maccaronis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maccaroni
mobby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The juice of apples or peaches, from which brandy is to be distilled.
hobjob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hobjobs
Senses: glosses: An odd job; temporary, unspecialized employment.
hobjob
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hobjobs
form: hobjobbing
form: hobjobbed
form: hobjobbed
Senses: glosses: To carry out odd jobs.
hobjobbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hobjob
hobjobbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hobjob
hobjobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hobjob
hobjobs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hobjob
Gradgrindish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Gradgrindish
form: most Gradgrindish
Etymology: From Gradgrind + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The authors, who focus on education in England, offer a number of sensible recommendations, some of which are an attempt to alleviate the Gradgrindish turn in education policy of recent years.
ref: 2019 October 18, Editorial, “The Guardian view on creativity in schools: a missing ingredient”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Synonym of Gradgrindian.
synonyms: word: Gradgrindian
blow one's own trumpet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blows one's own trumpet
form: blowing one's own trumpet
form: blew one's own trumpet
form: blown one's own trumpet
Senses: synonyms: blow one's own horn
glosses: To praise oneself.
Related terms: blow someone's trumpet
incompressibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From incompressible + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being incompressible.
intoxicated-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more intoxicated-like
form: most intoxicated-like
form: intoxicatedlike
Senses: examples: text: “I don't deny as I am intoxicated-like,” said the excellent deacon; “them cheers was enough to carry any man off his legs, sir, if you'll believe me..."
ref: 1863, Margaret Oliphant, Wilson Oliphant, Salem Chapel:
text: The previous disposition by this court has not been effective in the rehabilitation of minor, in that: On or about February 27, 1969, at 3198 Glenrose Avenue, Altadena, County of Los Angeles, minor was found in an intoxicated-like condition.
ref: 1970 -, West's California reporter - Volume 86, page 423:
text: It is the land of 'take it easy,' " he said smiling. "Even white settlers who lived here long enough have changed. They have lost the fidgetiness of old home; they lounge more easily and work more casually; they are intoxicated-like, carefree of mind, drawing you, melting you, deceiving you; gently and imperceptibly lulling you into a state of semicomatose, pleasing laziness.
ref: 1978, Vincent Zigas, Auscultation of two worlds, page 43:
text: In his own words, Hofmann experienced an “intoxicated-like condition” along with an overactive imagination.
ref: 2009, The Ultimate Book of Top Ten Lists, →ISBN:
glosses: Resembling an intoxicated state
Jiexiu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chieh-hsiu
form: Chiehhsiu
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 介休 (Jièxiū, “Jie's Rest”). Supposedly named by Ji Chong'er, the Wen Duke of Jin, in his remorse for having killed his loyal subject Jie Zhitui and Jie's mother with an intentional forest fire in the region.
Senses: examples: text: He spent the rest of his life teaching at Chin-yang (T’ai-yuan), K’uo-hsien, and Chieh-hsiu in Shansi, using these years to master his favorite work, the Book of Changes (Chou i).[…]
After his death at Chieh-hsiu in 1827 Chi-yü, his only son, collected Jun-ti’s miscellaneous essays from his students, which he published posthumously around 1831 in seventeen chüan under the title Tun-ken-chai i-shu (Remaining writings from the Tun-ken Study).
ref: [1975, Fred W. Drake, “A Scholar-Official from Shansi”, in China Charts the World: Hsu Chi-yü and His Geography of 1848, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 10–11:
text: Hou was born in 1896 in Jiexiu County, Shanxi Province, into a landlord family.
ref: 1987, Wolfgang Bartke, “Hou Wailu (侯外庐)”, in Who's Who in the People's Republic of China, 2nd edition, K. G. Saur, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 149:
text: Gao’s freedom was short-lived, however. Less than three weeks later, the police tracked him to the city of Jiexiu in Shanxi province and searched house-to-house until they found him, Li Fawang, a supporter who helped him escape, told The Associated Press. Gao’s whereabouts are now unknown.
ref: 2017 November 17, Christopher Bodeen, “Human rights repression in China seen worsening under Xi”, in AP News, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2023:
glosses: A county-level city of Jinzhong, central Shanxi, China.
jigot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jigots
Senses: examples: text: The jigot […] is the handsomest and most valuable part of the carcass, and on that account fetches the highest price. It is either a roasting or a boiling piece. Of Black-faced mutton it makes a fine roast, and the piece of fat in it called the Pope's eye, is considered a delicate morceau by epicures. A jigot of Leicester, Cheviot, or Southdown mutton makesa beautiful "boiled leg of mutton," which is prized the more the fatter it is, as this part of the carcass is never overloaded with fat.
ref: 1844, Henry Stephens, “Of Driving and Slaughtering Sheep”, in The Book of the Farm, […], volume II, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, paragraph 1396, page 98:
glosses: Archaic form of gigot (“joint of meat”).
Related terms: jigget
jiggot
jigots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jigot
tau staff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tau staffs
form: tau staves
Senses: glosses: A staff with a crosspiece at the top like a crutch.
tau staffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tau staff
tau staves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tau staff
riceberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Dark purple riceberry bran contains a higher dietary fiber and antioxidant compounds than unpigmented rice bran.
ref: 2013 January, P Prangthip, R Surasiang, R Charoensiri, V Leardkamolkam, S Komindr, U Yamborisut, A Vaavichit, R Kongkachuichai, “Amelioration of hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia, oxidative stress and inflammation in steptozotocin^([sic])-induced diabetic rats fed a high fat diet by riceberry supplement”, in Journal of Functional Foods, volume 5, number 1:
glosses: A variety of brown rice with a deep purple color that was created by Rice Science Center, Kasetsart University, Thailand.
thalliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of the form of a thallus.
rheoophthalmography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rheoophthalmographies
Etymology: From rheo- + ophthalmo- + -graphy.
Senses: examples: text: Before the SSI and every 6 months after it, for at least 4 years, visual acuity was estimated, and optimal correction visometry, skiascopy, autorefractometry, perimetry, rheoophthalmography, and direct and indirect ophthalmoscopy were performed.
ref: 2013, Eduard Avetisov, Elena Tarutta, Elena Iomdina, Maya Vinetskaya, Lyudmila Andreyeva, “A New Composition for the Treatment of Progressive Myopia and Its Efficiency”, in Myopia Updates: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Myopia, →ISBN:
text: A rheoophthalmography signal recorded transpalpebrally is shown to allow defining change dynamics of ocular blood flow during therapy.
ref: 2017 June, Hannu Eskola, Outi Väisänen, Jari Viik, “Using quantitative parameters of ocular blood filling with transpalpebral rheoopthalmography”, in Joint Conference of the European Medical and Biological Engineering Conference (EMBEC) and the Nordic-Baltic Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics (NBC), Tampere, Finland, June 2017., →ISBN:
glosses: A method of measuring the hemodynamics of the anterior portion of the eye by recording impedance from electrodes attached to the eye.
cow-hearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cow-hearted
form: most cow-hearted
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cowhearted.
postlicensure
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + licensure.
Senses: examples: text: Rates within the vaccinated population can be compared to rates in a control group in prelicensure studies or to rates of events outside the specified time window in postlicensure evaluations.
ref: 1995, Jim C. Williams, Combined Vaccines and Simultaneous Administration: Current Issues and Perspectives:
text: Because of concerns about intussusception identified in prelicensure trials, VAERS data were analyzed early in the postlicensure period.
ref: 2004, FDA, The Bad Bug Book: Foodborne Pathogenic Microorganisms and Natural Toxins Handbook, International Medical Pub
text: The well-known limitations associated with prelicensure trials have led to the expectation that postlicensure studies would address safety issues better.
ref: 2015, Jeffrey K. Aronson, Meyler's Side Effects of Drugs: The International Encyclopedia of Adverse Drug Reactions and Interactions, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 270:
text: Postlicensure vaccine safety monitoring is now a multifaceted activity which helps address these concerns as well.
ref: 2015, Jennifer Hamborsky, MPH, MCHES, Andrew Kroger, MD, MPH, Charles (Skip) Wolfe, Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases, 13th Edition E-Book: The Pink Book, Public Health Foundation
text: However, recent postlicensure data from international settings suggest the possibility of a low level elevated risk, primarily in the first week after the first vaccine dose.
ref: 2016, Michael S. Kappy, Advances in Pediatrics, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN:
antonyms: prelicensure
glosses: Occurring after licensure.
Nostradamuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nostradamus
Bernstein basis polynomial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bernstein basis polynomials
Etymology: Named after Sergei Natanovich Bernstein (1880–1968), a Russian and Soviet mathematician of Jewish origin.
Senses: topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
qualifier: numerical analysis
glosses: Any polynomial of the form b_i,n(t)=n choose itⁱ(1-t)ⁿ⁻ⁱ!!, being the iᵗʰ term of the binomial expansion of (t+(1-t))ⁿ!.
wikipedia: Sergei Natanovich Bernstein
Meronyms: binomial coefficient
Related terms: Beziér curve
rheocardiography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rheocardiographies
Etymology: From rheo- + cardiography.
Senses: examples: text: Rheocardiography seemed to be of valuable assistance in diagnosing these cases and in recording the separate stages of the condition.
ref: 1951, Excerpta Medica: Pediatrics - Volume 5, page 234:
text: The biophysical principles of impedance rheocardiography were first substantiated by Russian (A. A. Kedrov, Yu. T. Pushkar) and foreign (W. G. Kubicek, B. Sramek) researchers in the 1940-1960s.
ref: 2000, Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering, page 106:
text: Judging from results of rheocardiography, the increase in the severity of cooling is accompanied by an increase in hemodynamic and cardiac rhythm impairment and increase of blood pressure.
ref: 2012, Nikolai N. Korpan, Basics of Cryosurgery, →ISBN:
glosses: The measurement of hemodynamic parameters of the heart (such as stroke volume and cardiac output) by passing a high-frequency current of small amplitude through the chest and recording changes in electrical resistance.
Cambrian explosions
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cambrian explosion.
Cambrian explosions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cambrian explosion.
blood nose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blood noses
Senses: glosses: A nose that is bleeding internally.
examples: text: If you have very frequent blood noses or severe blood noses, your GP may refer you to an ENT surgeon.
ref: 2023, “Archived copy”, in Dr Bridget Clancy, archived from the original on 02 Sep 2023:
text: The officer was transported by ambulance to the Royal Melbourne Hospital where he received treatment for a blood nose and swelling to the face.
ref: 2013 September 12, Rania Spooner and Thomas O'Byrne, The Age:
glosses: A haemorrhage from the nose; a nosebleed.
leptodactyl
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having small or slender toes.
Lagrange's interpolation formula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Joseph Louis Lagrange (1736–1813), an Italian Enlightenment Era mathematician and astronomer.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A formula which when given a set of n points (x_i,y_i), gives back the unique polynomial of degree (at most) n − 1 in one variable which describes a function passing through those points. The formula is a sum of products, like so: ∑ᵢⁿy_i∏_(j ne i)x-x_j/x_i-x_j. When x=x_i then all terms in the sum other than the iᵗʰ contain a factor x-x_i in the numerator, which becomes equal to zero, thus all terms in the sum other than the iᵗʰ vanish, and the iᵗʰ term has factors x_i-x_j both in the numerator and denominator, which simplify to yield 1, thus the polynomial should return y_i as the function of x_i for any i in the set 1,...,n.
wikipedia: Joseph Louis Lagrange
PXR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of parametric X-ray radiation, X-ray radiation emitted when relativistic charged particles, like electrons, interact with crystals. Originally predicted by the Soviet scientists Vladimir G. Baryshevsky and Ilya D. Feranchuk.
metaphoricalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From metaphorical + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: metaphoricality
metaphoricity
metaphoricness
glosses: The quality of being metaphorical.
gyals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyal
obstipational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From obstipation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to obstipation.
nanoelectromagnetism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nano- + electromagnetism.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Electromagnetism on the nanoscale.
cornine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cornin.
cornein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corneins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein-like material found in corals
Tijuana bible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tijuana bibles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tijuana Bible.
42nd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of forty-second.
Nampo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Namp'o
Etymology: From Korean 남포(南浦) (Nampo).
Senses: examples: text: On 28 February, for example, a US Navy ship docked in Nampo, the port for Pyongyang, with equipment for joint searches for remains of US soldiers missing from the 1950-1953 Korean War.
ref: 2012 February 29, Aidan Foster-Carter, “North Korea: The de-nuclearisation dance resumes”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 29 Feb 2012, Asia:
text: For decades, the Chinese oil giant has sent small cargoes of jet fuel, diesel and gasoline from two large refineries in the northeastern city of Dalian and other nearby plants across the Yellow Sea to North Korea's western port of Nampo, five sources familiar with the business told Reuters. Nampo serves North Korea's capital, Pyongyang.
ref: 2017 April 28, Chen Aizhu, Gavin Maguire, Florence Tan, Josephine Mason, “How North Korea gets its oil from China: lifeline in question at U.N. meeting”, in Josephine Mason, Raju Gopalakrishnan, Martin Howell, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 03 Sep 2024, World:
text: One returned ship, the Tian Tong, suspected of transporting North Korean coal to China in October 2019, had been spotted near China’s Zhoushan Island, 600 miles south of Nampo, on Jan. 31 using a falsified transponder signal to disguise its North Korean origin, a tactic used to conduct illicit trade. It returned to North Korea in early February, and has been anchored outside Nampo since at least Feb. 14, according to ship tracking data and satellite imagery reviewed by The Times.
ref: 2020 March 26, Christoph Koettl, “Coronavirus Is Idling North Korea’s Ships, Achieving What Sanctions Did Not”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Mar 2020:
text: The latest launch comes after the North said early on Friday that Kim had inspected a shipyard in the port city of Nampho on the west coast and stressed the importance of a strong naval force in "war preparations", according to state media.
ref: 2024 February 2, Ju-min Park, Joyce Lee, Jack Kim, “North Korea fires cruise missiles off west coast -Seoul”, in Ed Davies, Kim Coghill, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2024, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A city in North Korea.
Wonsan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɒnˈsæn/
enpr: wǔnʹsänʹ
enpr: wǔnʹsän
ipa: /wʌnˈsɑn/
Etymology: From Korean 원산(元山) (Wonsan).
Senses: examples: text: The first Korean members of the Missionary Benedictine Sisters of Tutzing have been received into the novitiate of the congregation at Wonsan. They were accompanied by a European candidate whose father is a Government official in Korea.
ref: 1930 August 16, “KOREA.”, in The Tablet, volume 156, number 4,710, page 227, column 2:
text: After graduating from a Seoul university, Park's brother settled in the North Korean coastal town of Wonsan as a dentist in 1946. After the war broke out, Park was told by a co-worker that his brother refused to flee to the South because he had a family in the North and was a surgeon in the North Korean army.
Park fought for the South as a student soldier and was among the allied troops who took over Wonsan in October 1950. The U.S.-led forces advanced farther north in the following weeks before being driven back by a mass of Chinese forces after Beijing intervened in the conflict.
ref: 2018 August 20, “After decades apart, South Koreans head to North for family reunions”, in France 24, sourced from NEWS WIRES, archived from the original on 20 Aug 2018, Asia / Pacific:
text: The boat's 15 Russian and two South Korean crew members were detained in the port of Wonsan and faced accusations of entering North Korean territorial waters without permission.[…]
"At 19:30, the vessel left the Wonsan port's pier and headed to Sokcho (South Korea), where two South Korean crewmembers will come ashore," it said.
ref: 2019 July 28, “North Korea frees Russian fishing boat: Moscow”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 28 Jul 2019, News:
text: On Wednesday, the South Korean military announced the detection of the launch of several unidentified cruise projectiles from the port city of Wonsan, in the east of the neighboring country, the fifth such North Korean test so far this year.
ref: 2024 February 15, “North Korea’s Kim supervises test launch of new surface-to-sea missile: state media”, in EFE, sourced from Seoul, Feb 15 (EFE), archived from the original on 15 Feb 2024, Other news:
glosses: A city in Kangwon Province, North Korea.
cruoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cruor + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or composed of cruor
Kawayan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Biliran, Philippines.
Wilson's filmy fern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wilson's filmy-fern
form: Wilson's Filmy Fern
Etymology: Named after William Wilson (botanist).
Senses: examples: text: Here it was that the Lastrea Fœnisecii was growing in such luxuriance; and in the very cave of which it was the gate keeper I found Wilson's Filmy-Fern, clothing the moist sides as a curtain.
ref: 1864, Margaret Plues, Rambles in Search of Flowerless Plants, page 41:
text: Parsley fern is plentiful on the higher hills, Wilson's filmy fern is common in sub-alpine glens, and moonwort, adder's tongue, hart's tongue and, very rarely, the royal fern are also to be got.
ref: 1920, William Learmonth, Kirkcudbrightshire and Wigtownshire, published 2012, →ISBN, page 38:
text: Thankfully Wilson's filmy fern has survived in many sheltered and humid places, including these Borrowdale rainforests.
ref: 2017, Brett Westwood, Stephen Moss, Wonderland: A Year of Britain's Wildlife, Day by Day, →ISBN:
glosses: Hymenophyllum wilsonii, a fern in the family Hymenophyllaceae, the filmy ferns.
wikipedia: William Wilson (botanist)
filmy fern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: filmy ferns
form: filmy-fern
Senses: glosses: Any of the ferns in the family Hymenophyllaceae, so named for their thin, membranous fronds.
Hyponyms: Wilson's filmy fern
bristle fern
subdeployment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subdeployments
Etymology: From sub- + deployment.
Senses: examples: text: Here are some rules of thumb to help you use modules and subdeployments in their recommended way.
ref: 2010, Robert Patrick, Gregory Nyberg, Philip Aston, Professional Oracle WebLogic Server:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: a mechanism by which JMS module resources are grouped and targeted to a server resource.
Hypernyms: deployment
software deployment
subdeployments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subdeployment
lesser clubmoss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lesser clubmosses
form: lesser club-moss
form: Lesser Clubmoss
Senses: examples: text: Interesting herbs which thrive in the shrubby understorey include lesser twayblade Listera cordata, an inconspicuous, green-flowered orchid, typical of coniferous woodlands and bogs, and several more primitive vascular plants, including alpine clubmoss Lycopodium alpinum and lesser clubmoss Selaginella selaginoides.
ref: 1990, Pete Raine, Mediterranean Wildlife: The Rough Guide, →ISBN, page 252:
text: Similarly, the grassland at Sheskinmore contains thirteen of the Bunduff site constant species, with only bog pimpernel and lesser clubmoss being absent, perhaps excluded by the longer sward […]
ref: 2005, Margaret Pilkington, Science in the Countryside: Lifelong Learning for Ecological Citizenship, →ISBN, page 189:
text: I failed to find Alpine Saxifrage, which grows on just a few boulders here, but I did come across plants of Lesser Clubmoss, growing here almost at the south of its British range.
ref: 2016, Michael Scott, Mountain Flowers, →ISBN, page 107:
glosses: Selaginella selaginoides, a vascular plant of the family Selaginellaceae that resembles moss and is widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere.
Synonyms: northern spikemoss
prickly mountain-moss
Rurika
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Uiko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
zombie's cucumber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zombi's cucumber
Senses: examples: text: After the baptism, or sometimes the next day, he or she is made to eat a paste containing a strong dose of a potent psychoactive drug, the zombi's cucumber, which brings on a state of disorientation and amnesia.
ref: 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 187:
text: “Your soul will answer, you see. And they'll feed you the zombie's cucumber. You ain't got no choice but to eat it.”
ref: 2013, Arielle Crowell, Deadly Magnolia, page 210:
text: It seemed to him that he was […] surrendering all agency and becoming hers to command, as if she were a Haitian bokor and he at lunch at Bergdorf Goodman had been administered the so-called zombie's cucumber which confused his thought processes and made him her slave for life.
ref: 2017, Salman Rushdie, The Golden House, Jonathan Cape, published 2017, page 180:
glosses: Jimsonweed (Datura stramonium), as used in Haiti.
maroonage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marronage
Etymology: From maroon + -age, often as a calque of French marronnage.
Senses: examples: text: Haiti came under French rule in 1677, but this did not diminish the “marronage”.
ref: 1953, Maya Deren, Divine Horsemen, McPherson & Company, published 2004, page 64:
text: Between the years 1764 and 1793, for example, newspaper advertisements alone indicate some forty-eight thousand cases of Maroonage.
ref: 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 194:
text: Outside the city, in the swamps, blacks and Indians lived in marronage.
ref: 2008, Ned Sublette, The World That Made New Orleans, Lawrence Hill Books, published 2009, page 84:
glosses: The fact or state of being a maroon.
Tiggerish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪɡəɹɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈtɪɡɹɪʃ/
Forms: form: more Tiggerish
form: most Tiggerish
Etymology: From Tigger + -ish, from the nature of the fictional character Tigger in works about Winnie-the-Pooh by the English author A. A. Milne (1882–1956).
Senses: examples: text: In the crucial scene of third-degree examination the wife of the accused turns on the magistrate and berates him with tiggerish ferocity and later stabs him to his death by way of reprisal.
ref: 1920, Burns Mantle, The Best Plays of 1919–1920: And the Year Book of the Drama in America (The Burns Mantle Yearbook), Boston, Mass.: Small, Maynard & Company, →OCLC, page 431:
text: And still there is about him a hint of the ingenu; a Tiggerish quality of enthusiasm for the [Tony] Blair vision that has nothing to do with fawning loyalism.
ref: 1996, New Statesman, volume 125, London: New Statesman Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 25, column 2:
text: If you want to kill inertia and overcome the hard part of starting up, in your own way you've got to develop Tiggerish characteristics. You need a relentless, boundless optimistic enthusiasm for what can be achieved although it is yet to happen […]
ref: 2009, Will King, “Chapter New: You”, in How to Build a Great Business in Tough Times: The King of Shaves Story, London: Headline Business Plus, →ISBN:
text: Everyone likes Sam – often despite themselves – because he makes them feel likeable, because they want him to like them back, because he exudes such a Tiggerish enthusiasm for life. Quite simply, he makes life more interesting.
ref: 2010, Iain Hollingshead, chapter 2, in Beta Male: Four Friends, Three Assumed Identities, Two Weddings and One Very Dangerous Bet, London; New York, N.Y.: Duckworth Overlook, →ISBN:
text: Perhaps because of these emotionally engaging techniques, [Adam] Curtis inspires cultish devotion, and not just from viewers – he has won six Baftas. A former politics tutor at Oxford, and a Tiggerish man of 55, it's surprising to learn that he began his career in TV working on the zany magazine show That's Life! […]
ref: 2011 May 6, Katharine Viner, “Adam Curtis: Have computers taken away our power?”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2017:
synonyms: energetic
lively
glosses: (Excessively) cheerful and exuberant; bouncy.
wikipedia: A. A. Milne
bunyip bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bunyip birds
Senses: glosses: The Australasian bittern, Botaurus poiciloptilus.
bunyip birds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bunyip bird
Tijuana bibles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tijuana bible
Duvauchelle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A tiny town in Canterbury, New Zealand.
chaya root
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chaya roots
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chay root.
shaya root
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shaya roots
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chay root.
autodescriptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From auto- + descriptive.
Senses: glosses: self-describing
timbrophily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: philately (the study or collection of stamps)
dismissory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dismissory
form: most dismissory
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dimissory.
emulsic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Putting fat or oil on the hull – below the water line – has the disadvantage that all the dirt, even the smallest particles, clings to it, forming in a short time a rough emulsic smear.
ref: 2013, Manfred Curry, Yacht Racing - The Aerodynamics of Sails and Racing Tactics:
glosses: Relating to emulsion.
Derived terms: emulsic acid
use one's coconut
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Use one's head; think.
Hoklo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from a southern Chinese lect; compare Cantonese 學佬／学佬 (hok6 lou2), Hakka 學佬／学佬 (Ho̍k-ló), Hokkien 福佬 (Ho̍h-ló). The Hailufeng variety sense is influenced by Hong Kong Cantonese 學佬 /学佬 (hok⁶ lou²).
Senses: examples: text: The revivalists’ goal is not only to keep Hoklo alive, but also to make it capable of challenging the hegemony of Mandarin Chinese as the officially defined "national language." For revivalists who advocate the complete alphabetization of Hoklo, traditional Chinese characters represent antiquated, unwholesome “feudalism,” and by contrast, the romanization system is a symbol of modernity. Using phonetic script to write Hoklo, they believe, will not only facilitate the felicitous expression of the Hoklo Taiwanese mind, but would also grant the less-ducated an easier access to various kinds of modern knowledge.
ref: 2000, A-chin Hsiau, Contemporary Taiwanese Cultural Nationalism, Routledge, →ISBN, page 22:
text: Huang, 45, was born in Sanhsia in Taipei County, but grew up in Taipei City speaking Mandarin and Hoklo (more commonly known as Taiwanese).
ref: 2004 June 23, Cody Yiu, “A loving attitude is color-blind”, in Taipei Times, archived from the original on 25 Jun 2004:
glosses: Taiwanese, the variety of Hokkien spoken in Taiwan and the native language of the Hoklo.
glosses: A variety of Southern Min Chinese originating from the Hailufeng region.
Synonyms: word: Taiwanese
word: Holo
sense: Hailufeng variety
word: Hai Lok Hong
sense: Hailufeng variety
word: Hoi Luk Fung
sense: Hailufeng variety
word: Haklau
sexual headache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sexual headaches
Senses: topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: A rare type of headache that occurs during sexual activity, including masturbation or orgasm.
sexual headaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sexual headache
oxidisement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oxidizement.
I-site
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: I-sites
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: singular of I-sites
cabobbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cabob
bedspace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedspaces
Etymology: From bed + space.
Senses: examples: text: She said Cuomo's call for 8,000 more bedspaces in New York prisons would cost the state $30,000 per prisoner per year.
ref: 1990 April 7, Jennie McKnight, “Suit Filed Against N.Y. Governor and Prison Officials”, in Gay Community News, page 12:
text: For example, the Patient's Charter requires nurses to respect the privacy, dignity and confidentiality of patients, yet planners still design bedspace divided by flimsy curtains, in multi-million pound projects.
ref: 2013, Michael Bowman, The Professional Nurse: Coping with Change, Now and the Future:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Space available for patients in hospital beds or inmates in prison beds.
glosses: The use of a bed in a private home, often rented out by the month.
Derived terms: bedspacer
bedspacing
bedspacer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedspacers
Etymology: From bedspace + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who rents a bedspace.
Synonyms: lodger
boarder
bedspacers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bedspacer
bedspaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bedspace
speak in dollars
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: speaks in dollars
form: speaking in dollars
form: spoke in dollars
form: spoken in dollars
Senses: glosses: To speak English.
rudge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rudges
Senses: glosses: A partridge.
rudges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rudge
rejointed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rejoint
rejointing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rejoint
lacustrian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to lakes; lacustrine.
suck the monkey
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sucks the monkey
form: sucking the monkey
form: sucked the monkey
form: sucked the monkey
Senses: examples: text: A new farce, called "The Wigwam," was produced at the Lyceum Theatre on Monday night. [...] As might naturally be expected, Cora has another lover, one Mingo (Mr. Oxberry), known as the "Monkey's Uncle," from his habit of "sucking the monkey."
ref: 1847 January 31, “Lyceum Theatre”, in The Observer, London: William [Innell] Clement, →OCLC, page 5, column 3:
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: bleed the monkey
glosses: To surreptitiously drink alcohol from a cask through an inserted tube.
glosses: To drink from a coconut filled surreptitiously with rum, etc.
predisability
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + disability.
Senses: examples: predisability earnings
glosses: Prior to the onset of a disability.
multisaccate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + saccate.
Senses: glosses: Having multiple sacs.
take horse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes horse
form: taking horse
form: took horse
form: taken horse
Senses: glosses: To mount on horseback.
goes bush
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go bush
modioliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more modioliform
form: most modioliform
Senses: glosses: Resembling the modiolus.
glosses: Shaped like the nave of a wheel: depressed, with narrow orifice, like the ripe fruit of Gaultheria.
pentadactylism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pentadactyl + -ism.
Senses: glosses: pentadactyly
confideth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: confide + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of confide
reassembler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reassemblers
Etymology: From reassemble + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who or that which reassembles.
reassemblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reassembler
coadunative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more coadunative
form: most coadunative
Senses: glosses: Serving to coadunate or unite.
tolter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tolters
form: toltering
form: toltered
form: toltered
Etymology: From Middle English *tolteren, from Old English tealtrian (“to totter, vacillate”), from Proto-Germanic *taltrōną, *taltōną (“to sway, dangle, hesitate”), from Proto-Indo-European *del-, *dul- (“to shake, hesitate”). Doublet of totter.
Senses: glosses: To flounder about.
toltered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tolter
tolters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tolter
toltering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tolter
effoliation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of exfoliation (“the removal or fall of the leaves of a plant”).
ulitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I do not think I have ever seen a case of pure uncomplicated syphilitic ulitis […]
ref: 1873, James Edmund Garretson, A System of Oral Surgery:
text: The bark is used as a gargle for odontopathy, ulitis, and ulemorrhagia.
ref: 2006, Turkish Journal of Biology, volumes 30-32, page 233:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: inflammation of the gums
Related terms: ulemorrhagia
Bourignianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Bourignian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Bourignian beliefs generally.
Bourignian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bourignian
form: most Bourignian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Antoinette Bourignon (1616-80), a religious visionary who believed religion should consist of inward emotion rather than knowledge or practice.
Derived terms: Bourignianism
scopious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scopious
form: most scopious
Senses: glosses: spacious
spur cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spur cells
Etymology: The abnormal thorny projection resembles a spur used in riding.
Senses: topics: hematology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A pathological, irregularly spiked red blood cell without central pallor.
Synonyms: acanthocyte
burr cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burr cells
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A red blood cell with abnormal appearance characterized by many small, evenly spaced thorny projections.
Synonyms: echinocyte
dielytra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dielytras
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: In spring, what a place it was for wild flowers!―as Lucy Raymond and her brothers well knew, having often brought home thence great bunches of dielytras and convallarias and orchises; and at any time some bright blossoms were generally to be found gleaming through the shade.
ref: 1871, Agnes Maule Machar, Lucy Raymond Or, The Children's Watchword, page 25:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any member of the plant genus Dielytra.
dielytras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dielytra
mummock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mummocks
form: mummocking
form: mummocked
form: mummocked
Etymology: Apparently a variant of mammock ("shred, as of fabric"), like also mommick.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mommick (“(dialectal:) to harass, bother”).
mummock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mummocks
Etymology: Apparently a variant of mammock ("shred, as of fabric"), like also mommick.
Senses: glosses: A ragged old coat.
mummocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mummock
mummocks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mummock
mummocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mummock
mummocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mummock
hireman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hiremen
Etymology: From Middle English hire man, from Old English hȳrmann, equivalent to hire + -man.
Senses: examples: text: Also it is ordered that if any hireman or apprentice . . . not lowly and gentle to his said master, and to the officers going about for to search, and doing their duty to the said searchers and officers, the said master to present all such defaults unto the searchers and stewards, that they inform the twelve sworn men of all such faults as is found ; and also if the said hireman or prentice do not their duty in working of his work as he ought for to do, and their master letting it over past and unreformed until the said occupation, shall make it be reformed and remedied for the honesty of the said company; […]
ref: 1550, Newcastle and Gateshead:
text: The maiden fair cried aloud for joy, and then the hireman chiel knew that she was true to him, and he said: — "If you love me well, stretch out your hand to me." So the maiden fair stretched out her hand to the hireman chiel in the ploughman's frock, and the baron swore a great oath and galloped away through the stagnant pool.
ref: 1901, Eva March Tappan, Old Ballads in Prose: The Hireman Chiel, page 88:
glosses: hireling
hiremen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hireman
pertinentness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pertinent + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being pertinent.
bearmeal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bear + meal.
Senses: glosses: barley meal