cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
blue-greens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue-green
nsambya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nsambyas
Senses: examples: text: […] the sombre green of the nsambyas […]
ref: 1909, Henry De Vere Stacpoole, The Pools of Silence, page 92:
glosses: The tree Markhamia lutea.
nsambyas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nsambya
nrml
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of normal.
NSPF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of no single point of failure.
NSPF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of National Swimming Pool Foundation.
NYD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of New Year's Day.
Coordinate terms: NYE
NYP
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: media
publishing
glosses: Initialism of not yet published.
NYP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of New York Philharmonic.
glosses: Initialism of New York Post.
glosses: Initialism of North Yorkshire Police.
blurples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blurple
blumenols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blumenol
BNSes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BNS
boabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boab
boarding gates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boarding gate
boat cloaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boat cloak
boat necklines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boat neckline
boat-in theaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boat-in theater
boat-in theatres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boat-in theatre
boatsteerers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boatsteerer
bobbes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bobbe
bobblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bobbler
bobby-soxers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bobby-soxer
pepperonied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pepperonied
form: most pepperonied
Etymology: From pepperoni + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: […] Sardinian pasta (malloreddus), a highly pepperonied spaghetti with mussels, game birds of all sorts and strong Sardinian wine.
ref: 1967, Ventury, page 9:
text: If you crave Italian food under the stars, the Pizza Gallery Restaurant, 2059 Madison, has an outdoor annex where you can consume pepperonied pizza pies to your heart’s content.
ref: 1978 April 21, Anne B. McDonald, “Memphis After Dark”, in Memphis Press-Scimitar, 98th year, number 143, Memphis, Tenn., section “ShowTime”, page 9, column 1:
text: Actually, the four lads didn’t “put away” their pizza — they stuffed, slammed, rammed, pushed and prodded those pieces of pepperonied cheese and pasta down their throats in an effort to win the Pizza Delight/CFGO Pizza Eating contest at the company’s Britannia branch Sunday.
ref: 1979 February 19, Argyle McLeod, “Cheesy contest a piece of cake”, in Ottawa Journal, 94th year 59, page 3, column 4:
text: Today, everyone loves the slice: thick or thin, red or white, plain or pepperonied, handmade or door-delivered.
ref: 1998 January/February, Leslie Blanchard, “Slice of life”, in Maxim, volume 1, number 5, page 120:
text: Ricota’s standard cup-and-char is one of the less pepperonied pizzas you’ll find, just six little concaves, but each one glistening and upturned with that perfectly executed fraction of an inch of crispy black rim.
ref: 2018, Arthur Bovino, Buffalo Everything: A Guide to Eating in “Nickel City”, The Countryman Press, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., →ISBN:
glosses: Flavoured with pepperoni.
bodicerippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bodiceripper
body plans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of body plan
body shapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of body shape
bodyaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bodyache
bodylengths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bodylength
bombing runs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bombing run
Bogotá sunangels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bogotá sunangel
bonemouths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bonemouth
bone-mouths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bone-mouth
bonfirings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bonfiring
Bongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bong
boomer shooters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boomer shooter
boomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boomie
boot rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boot room
boost pads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boost pad
boozas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of booza
Bophuthatswanans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bophuthatswanan
boraxweeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boraxweed
borazocines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of borazocine
bord halfpennies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bord halfpenny
boreal chickadees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boreal chickadee
borinines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of borinine
syn-metamorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of synmetamorphic.
for Heaven's sake
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: But the Mancunians are of all men the most disposed to peace. Their name has become a bye-word because they are said to require peace at any price. If the Mancunians are satisfied, for Heaven's sake do not let us put it into their heads that they could gain anything by change.
ref: 1859, [Arthur Helps], “War”, in Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse thereon (New Series), 2nd edition, volume I, London: John W[illiam] Parker & Son, West Strand, →OCLC, page 137:
text: “Don’t be absurd, Steve! And for Heaven’s sake don’t look so lackadaisical and lasslorn.”
ref: 1897, Amelia E. Barr, chapter 14, in The King’s Highway, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., page 324:
text: "The position you'd put me in would be this—of playing a game—and a jolly important game at that—in which the loser loses to me on purpose. . . . If we're going to play a game," he continued, addressing Davenant, before the latter had time to speak, "for Heaven's sake let us play it straight—like men. Let the winner win and the loser lose—"
ref: 1911, Basil King, chapter 16, in The Street Called Straight:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of for heaven's sake.
Llanerchymedd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A village in Llannerch-y-medd community, Anglesey, Wales (OS grid ref SH4184).
nanoremediation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The use of nanoparticles to remove contaminants from polluted water.
Llannerch-y-medd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Llanerchymedd
form: Llannerchymedd
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A community (civil parish) in Anglesey, Wales.
nanobioremediation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nanoremediation.
oxozone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: tetraoxygen
audiofrequency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: audiofrequencies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of audio frequency.
superfake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superfakes
Etymology: From super- + fake.
Senses: examples: text: In the pandemic, superfakes went supernova: A killer combo of quarantine malaise, frenzied stimulus-check hobby spending and the rise of sales via social-media sites like Instagram has propelled consumers’ awareness of — and fervor for — these hyperrealistic copycats to new heights.
ref: 2023 May 4, Amy X. Wang, Grant Cornett, “Inside the Delirious Rise of ‘Superfake’ Handbags”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A highly realistic counterfeit.
superfake
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + fake.
Senses: examples: text: There was something behind that superfake smile of hers (a whiff of desperation?) that made Tiernan pretty sure Summer wasn't here to reconnect with her old middle school pals.
ref: 2012, Hilary Weisman Graham, Reunited, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 35:
glosses: Very fake.
sub-audio frequency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sub-audio frequencies
form: subaudio frequency
Senses: glosses: A frequency of sound waves below human hearing range.
superfakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superfake
pre-shipment
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of preshipment.
synau
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: /sɪˈnaʊ/
Senses: examples: text: "Omg 2 months ago bro rlly changed wow toddler to a man" synau your like 2 months old
ref: 2024 October 9, @Pokuvfx, X:
text: synau = shutyonigerassup
ref: 2025 March 26, @fkanings, X:
text: "WTF IS A SYBAU?!" Wait till he hears about synau
ref: 2025 June 14, @wokeniggashi, X:
glosses: Initialism of shut your nigger ass up.
metal-detect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: metal-detects
form: metal-detecting
form: metal-detected
form: metal-detected
Etymology: Back-formation from metal detector.
Senses: examples: text: Flowerdew has three known cemeteries, containing Woodland Indians, 1620s colonists and enslaved individuals from about 1760. All three are in the area metal-detected last March. […] At the Little Bighorn Battlefield, in Montana, volunteers have used their metal-detecting machines to pinpoint artifacts, whose position rewrote the story of Custer’s Last Stand.
ref: 2013 August 2, Taft Kiser, “Open Season on History”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2021:
glosses: To use a metal detector to find metal objects on the surface or buried underground.
examples: text: “They’re testing you,” she said to her son, James, after she was finally cleared, metal-detected and led upstairs to the visiting room, a spare, linoleum-floored space inside the hospital’s high-security building.
ref: 2017 September 27, Mac McClelland, “When ‘Not Guilty’ Is a Life Sentence”, in The New York Times Magazine, archived from the original on 04 Jul 2020:
glosses: To make (someone) pass through a metal detector to detect concealed metal objects.
vendour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vendours
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of vendor.
South Harrow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb in the borough of Harrow, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ1486).
Eacott
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Eacotts
form: Eycott
Etymology: Habitational surname from a minor place in Gloucestershire called Eycotfield, from Old English ēa (“river, running stream”) + cot (“cottage”).
Senses: glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Paulism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Paul + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Paulinism (“the teaching or theology of the apostle Paul”).
synonyms: word: Paulinism
extra: the teaching or theology of the apostle Paul
Suzdal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Russian Суздаль (Suzdalʹ)
Senses: glosses: A city in Vladimir Oblast, Russia.
Peligot's blue
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: After its inventor, whose surname, originating in the Auvergnat linguistic area, is tentatively connected with Occitan pelegant (“beggar”)
Senses: glosses: A blue pigment made from silica with copper oxide, lime and soda.
pepper steak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pepper steaks
Senses: glosses: A steak served with pepper sauce.
glosses: Synonym of steak au poivre (“steak coated with crushed peppercorns in a sauce”).
synonyms: word: steak au poivre
extra: steak coated with crushed peppercorns in a sauce
glosses: A stir-fried Chinese dish of sliced beef steak (often flank, sirloin, or round) cooked with sliced bell peppers, bamboo shoots, and seasonings.
pepper steaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pepper steak
perks up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of perk up
perking up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of perk up
perked up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of perk up
Cwm-y-glo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh cwm + y + glo (“valley of coal”).
Senses: glosses: A village in Llanrug community, Gwynedd, Wales (OS grid ref SH5562).
glosses: A village in Gorslas community and Llannon community, Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN5513).
Persian violet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Persian violets
Senses: glosses: The flowering plant Exacum affine.
Persian violets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Persian violet
Persian orange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A medium brownish orange colour.
personately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From personate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a personate manner.
personificators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of personificator
persp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of perspective.
Llanrug
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A village and community east of Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales (OS grid ref SH5363)
petits maîtres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petit maître
phantom orchid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phantom orchids
Senses: synonyms: snow orchid
glosses: An orchid of species Cephalanthera austiniae, that is entirely white except for a few yellow markings on the flowers.
snow orchid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snow orchids
Senses: glosses: Synonym of phantom orchid.
synonyms: word: phantom orchid
phantom orchids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phantom orchid
snow orchids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snow orchid
phenagle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: phenagles
form: phenagling
form: phenagled
form: phenagled
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of finagle.
phenagles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of phenagle
phenagling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of phenagle
phenagled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of phenagle
phenocopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to a phenocopy.
Luga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Russian Луга (Luga)
Senses: glosses: A river in Russia.
glosses: A town in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. The town is placed on the river.
Philomel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Above the antique mantel was displayed / As though a window gave upon the sylvan scene / The change of Philomel, by the barbarous king / So rudely forced; […]
ref: 1922 October, T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, “Part II. A Game of Chess.”, in The Waste Land, 1st book edition, New York, N.Y.: Boni and Liveright, published December 1922, →OCLC, page 19:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of Philomela.
food puzzle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: food puzzles
Senses: glosses: A device that dispenses food for a housepet when the pet successfully solves a puzzle by manipulating parts of the device.
food puzzles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of food puzzle
phoby cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phoby cats
Etymology: From hydrophobia and cat.
Senses: glosses: The skunk.
phoby cats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phoby cat
photo call
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photo calls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of photocall.
photo calls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photo call
photo editors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photo editor
Starostin Cape
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cape Staratchin
form: Cap Staratschin
form: Cap Starastschin
Etymology: Named after the local Pomor businessman Ivan Starostin (born before 1780 - died 1826 or 1829) (also known as Ermil in some sources, probably confused with some other person with the same surname, but having first name Ермил (Jermil)).
Senses: glosses: A cape in Svalbard, Norway, known for its geological and palaeontological value. Today better known as Kapp Linné.
Synonyms: Kapp Linné
phylacteried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phylactery + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having or wearing a phylactery.
physiologizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: physiologizers
Etymology: From physiologize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who physiologizes.
physiologizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of physiologizer
proletarianness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From proletarian + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being proletarian.
anchovied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anchovied
form: most anchovied
Etymology: From anchovy + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: In about an hour and a half the talk is brought to an end; but our hospitable bursar will give us coffee and anchovied toast in his room, where the interrupted threads of conversation are resumed, and the commenced arguments are fought out.
ref: 1872 January, F. Arnold, “The Piccadilly Papers”, in London Society. An Illustrated Magazine of Light and Amusing Literature for the Hours of Relaxation, volume XXI, number CXXI, London: […], section “In an Oxford Common Room”, page 92, column 2:
text: Paul (Angostura) Pepe says the Jet Set has a new passion, a dance called “the Frug,” with cheese and anchovied pizzas to nibble on between flings, and plenty of Bitterspritzers.
ref: 1964 July 26, Jack Kofoed, “Amusements: Jack Kofoed’s Column: How Palance Was Convinced”, in The Miami Herald, 54th year, number 238, page 9-C, column 2:
text: […] while Max and Madeleine float backwards and forwards from the kitchen into the yard, bringing bowls of Ritz biscuits, peanuts and anchovied eggs to accompany their drinks.
ref: 2002, Imogen Edwards-Jones, Shagpile, Flame, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 233:
text: The bacon is real, and nicely crisp, the parmesan is freshly grated, the greens are bouncy and tossed with a well-lemoned and -anchovied dressing.
ref: 2008 May 11, Anne DesBrisay, Ottawa Citizen, page A12:
text: A dinner-plate-sized Caesar salad ($6.95), tossed with lots of creamy anchovied dressing, and exceptionally creamy homemade mozzarella ($7.95, unfortunately with wan tomatoes) were two appetizers I would have been generally pleased with in an Italian restaurant.
ref: 2009 February 20, Elisa Ung, “Eating Out: The Stable in Ridgewood: A menu made up of myriad meats”, in The Record, page 16:
text: The zucchini was sliced in half and baked so that it was watery and tasteless, suffocated by a thick layer of heavily anchovied Caesar dressing and covered in a confusing chunky bread crumble, along with chives.
ref: 2019 August 10, Joanna Fox, “Are we having fun?”, in Montreal Gazette, page B2, column 2:
text: Mustardy green beans with anchovied walnuts from “Nothing Fancy” by Alison Roman — This is maybe my new favorite way to prepare pole beans, whether green, purple or yellow.
ref: 2020 August 12, Lindsay Christians, “A distanced dinner party, nostalgic nachos”, in The Cap Times, page 22:
text: We had the kale Caesar instead (good call, carbs-wise; crisp and lemony and anchovied just enough).
ref: 2021 March 24, Murray Whyte, “Three places we supported this week”, in The Boston Globe, volume 299, number 83, section “Short & Main”, page G4, column 5:
glosses: Topped with or accompanied by anchovies.
Oredezh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Russian Оредеж (Oredež) or Оредежь (Oredežʹ).
Senses: glosses: A river in Russia, which falls into Luga
glosses: A town in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. The town is placed on the river, 10 miles east from its mouth.
semiceremonial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + ceremonial.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat or partly ceremonial.
semicrisp
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + crisp.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat or partly crisp.
sereness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sere + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being sere.
codbanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of codbank
asphalt concretes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asphalt concrete
Gorslas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and community in Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN5713).
Llannon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and community in Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN5308).
Woodford Green
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Woodford in the borough of Redbridge, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ4091).
bawl one's eyes out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bawls one's eyes out
form: bawling one's eyes out
form: bawled one's eyes out
form: bawled one's eyes out
Senses: glosses: To cry, shed tears, weep loudly.
bulletpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bulletpoints
Senses: examples: text: This is the program I turn to first for putting together bulletpoint style presentations in nearly no time.
ref: 1993, Quirk's Marketing Research Review - Volume 7, page 32:
text: In the second line of the first (partial) bulletpoint paragraph, replace the Rhines v. Weber citation with the following:
ref: 2005, Randy Hertz, James S. Liebman, Federal Habeas Corpus Practice and Procedure - Volume 1, page 19:
text: Notes are brief, often in a bulletpoint format, documentation of efforts, observations, and actions. Notes are taken at the time of the incident and are informal.
ref: 2016, Dutelle, An Introduction to Crime Scene Investigation, page 97:
glosses: Alternative form of bullet point.
bulletpoints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bulletpoint
flight case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flight cases
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of flightcase.
bash together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bashes together
form: bashing together
form: bashed together
form: bashed together
Senses: glosses: To roughly assemble; to put together.
trimpot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trimpots
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Syllabic abbreviation of trimmer potentiometer.
DIN connector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DIN connectors
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A cylindrical connector consisting of circular pins protected by a circular wall.
Derived terms: mini-DIN connector
pinch roller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinch rollers
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A rubber wheel that presses tape against a capstan.
numberwing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: numberwings
Senses: glosses: An eighty-eight butterfly.
Skaw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in north Unst, Shetland Islands council area, Scotland (OS grid ref HP657163).
expenny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪkˈspɛn.i/
/ɛk-/
Forms: form: more expenny
form: most expenny
Senses: glosses: expensive
busk it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: busks it
form: busking it
form: busked it
form: busked it
Senses: glosses: To wing it.
end mill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: end mills
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of endmill.
attackworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more attackworthy
form: most attackworthy
Etymology: From attack + -worthy.
Senses: glosses: Worthy of attack or of being attacked.
Australian willow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Australian willows
Senses: synonyms: wilga
glosses: A tree native to Australia with drooping branches reminiscent of a weeping willow, of species Geijera parviflora.
weyward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Whiles I ſtood rapt in the wonder of it, came Miſſiues from the King, who all-hail'd me Thane of Cawdor, by which Title before, these weyward Sisters saluted me, and referr'd me to the comming on of time, with haile, King that ſhalt be.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v], page 134, column 1:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of weird.
Česká Lípa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɛskɑːˈliːpə/
Etymology: From Czech Česká Lípa.
Senses: glosses: A town, the district capital of the district of the same name, Liberec Region, Czech Republic, first mentioned in 1263, now the most populous of all Czech towns.
glosses: A town, the district capital of the district of the same name, Liberec Region, Czech Republic, first mentioned in 1263, now the most populous of all Czech towns.
A district of the Liberec Region, Czech Republic, subdivided into the two administrative districts of municipalities with extended competence of Česká Lípa and Nový Bor.
Český Těšín
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Czech Český Těšín.
Senses: glosses: A town in the Czech Republic.
Judas priest
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Judas Priest.
gneissification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Conversion into gneiss.
beech bark disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A disease of beech trees, caused by scale insects invading the bark and leading to fungal cankers of the genus Neonectria.
Velikovskyism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Velikovsky + -ism, named after Russian-American psychoanalyst Immanuel Velikovsky (1895–1979).
Senses: examples: text: I had read Martin Gardner's polemics against pseudosciences like Scientology and Velikovskyism, and I was on the lookout for more.
ref: 2018, David Auerbach, Bitwise: A Life in Code, Vintage, →ISBN:
topics: pseudoscience
glosses: A pseudohistorical interpretation of ancient history and mythology as shaped by catastrophic cosmic events.
Heawood conjecture
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Heawood conjecture
Etymology: Formulated in 1890 by Percy John Heawood.
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A conjecture (proven in 1968) that gives a lower bound for the number of colors that are necessary for graph coloring on a surface of a given genus.
Related terms: Heawood number
Ringel-Youngs theorem
Heawood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈhiwʊd/
Forms: form: Heawoods
Etymology: Variant of Haywood.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Heawood conjecture
Heawood graph
Heawood number
Crone's solution
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The one type was a modified Crone's solution, and the other an agar medium similar to that used by Tsi-Tung Li.
ref: 1936, Canadian Institute, Transactions, volumes 21-22, page 88:
text: All cultures should be kept in a green house […] and watered with sterile water or Crone's solution at appropriate intervals.
ref: 2002, Edwin Broun Fred, Ira Lawrence Baldwin, Elizabeth McCoy, Root Nodule Bacteria and Leguminous Plants, page 267:
text: Satisfactory growth and fixation of nitrogen were obtained with nodulated plants in Crone's solution containing the full complement or a proportion of the insoluble constituents, but not in a medium comprising the soluble portion only.
ref: 2021, William Shurtleff, Akiko Aoyagi, History of Soybean Physiology and Botany Research, page 391:
glosses: A growing medium made of 4 parts (by weight) potassium chloride, 1 part calcium sulphate, 1 part magnesium sulphate, 1 part magnesium phosphate, and 1 part iron phosphate.
Pfeffer's solution
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The experiments reported here would seem to permit the following statements bearing on the ultimate cessation of growth of excised root tips in the modified Pfeffer's solution containing 2 per cent glucose.
ref: 1923, Botanical Gazette, volume 76, page 286:
text: It will be noticed that, in addition to the elements given above, Pfeffer's solution also contains chlorine, while Sachs's solution contains not only chlorine, but sodium.
ref: 1946, Walter Stiles, Trace Elements in Pants and Animals, page 2:
text: On 14 January 1919 he attempted to germinate seeds of Cattleya mossiae on Pfeffer's solution (Table 7-1) plus 1% sucrose.
ref: 2013, T. Kull, J. Arditti, Orchid Biology VIII: Reviews and Perspectives, page 479:
glosses: A plant nutrient solution consisting of calcium nitrate, potassium nitrate, magnesium sulfate, monopotassium phosphate, potassium chloride, ferric chloride, and water.
hamsterization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hamster + -ization, in allusion to a hamster wheel.
Senses: examples: text: Hamsterization / As newsrooms have shrunk, the job of the remaining reporters has changed. They typically face rolling deadlines as they post to their newspaper's website before, and after, writing print stories. Some are required to blog and tweet as well, some to produce videos.
ref: 2011, Steven Waldman, Information Needs of Communities, page 55:
text: One can see the possibility for limitless content for a 24/7 world: churnalism, hamsterization, the news cyclone—names to describe the condition keep coming.
ref: 2014, Nikki Usher, Making News at The New York Times, page 232:
text: Long-standing concerns about journalism's “stopwatch culture” and the negative impact of time pressures on newswork have been exacerbated in the digital age by growing demands for multi-platform technological proficiency, resulting in “hamsterization” of journalistic work.
ref: 2017, Bob Franklin, The Future of Journalism:
text: Dean Starkman famously likened this news work to the “hamster wheel,” and others have referred to it as the “hamsterization” of journalism, by which news workers have to continuously take on more digital labor.
ref: 2019, Victor Pickard, Democracy Without Journalism?, page 84:
topics: journalism
media
glosses: A tendency whereby journalists are expected to take on increased responsibilities relating to 24/7 digital publishing.
Related terms: churnalism
news cyclone
hamsterless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hamster + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a hamster.
ballize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ballizes
form: ballizing
form: ballized
form: ballized
Etymology: From ball + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: It is possible to ballize stainless steel
ref: 1982, Engineering Materials and Design, volume 26, page 11:
glosses: To burnish (metal) by a technique that involves pushing an oversized ball through a hole.
examples: text: Metals that ballize successfully are: Sintered iron, sintered brass and other sintered materials. Aluminium, brass, bronze, copper, lead and cadmium. Mild and tool steels. […]
ref: 1971, Science and Australian Technology, volumes 9-12, page 16:
glosses: To undergo such a process.
ballizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ballize
ballized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ballize
reburnishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reburnish
reburnished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reburnish
resinter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: resinters
form: resintering
form: resintered
form: resintered
Etymology: From re- + sinter.
Senses: glosses: To sinter again.
resintered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resinter
resinters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of resinter
resintering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of resinter
resieve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: resieves
form: resieving
form: resieved
form: resieved
Etymology: From re- + sieve.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: resift
coordinate_terms: re-sort
;
refilter
;
regrade
;
reseparate
glosses: To sieve again.
recalender
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recalenders
form: recalendering
form: recalendered
form: recalendered
Etymology: From re- + calender.
Senses: glosses: To calender again.
resieved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resieve
resieves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of resieve
resieving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of resieve
recalendered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recalender
recalenders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recalender
recalendering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recalender
sieveable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sieveable
form: most sieveable
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sievable.
make someone's toes curl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes someone's toes curl
form: making someone's toes curl
form: made someone's toes curl
form: made someone's toes curl
form: make one's toenails curl
Senses: examples: text: For every good thing in the week, there was something to make one's toes curl.
ref: 1983 October, Listener and BBC Television Review, page 27:
text: He gave me a last lingering kiss that made my toes curl and left me panting.
ref: 2021, Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It, Minotaur Books, →ISBN:
glosses: To cause a strong emotional reaction, especially an unpleasant one.
Clovis point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Clovis points
Senses: examples: text: They closely resemble the famed American Clovis points, which are associated with large mammal extinctions across the North American continent.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 219:
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A fluted spearhead or the like created by people of the prehistoric Paleoamerican Clovis culture.
Clovis points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Clovis point
make someone's toenails curl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes someone's toenails curl
form: making someone's toenails curl
form: made someone's toenails curl
form: made someone's toenails curl
Senses: examples: text: A professor has written an academic analysis of the Fifty Shades of Grey phenomenon, finding that – despite containing “some of the worst writing I have ever seen and a plot that made my toenails curl”—the erotic novel “is less pornographic than it is a self-help book”.
ref: 2014 May 27, Alison Flood, quoting Eva Illouz, “Fifty Shades of Grey is really a self-help book, says academic”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative form of make someone's toes curl.
Hagen axe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hagen axes
Etymology: Named after Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea.
Senses: examples: text: The great and majestic Hagen axes of Papua New Guinea are exquisitely wrought and of great value.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 220:
glosses: A type of traditional polished stone axe with a thin blade and decorated handle, part of the culture of the inhabitants of Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea.
wikipedia: Mount Hagen
Hagen axes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hagen axe
Kirschner value
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kirschner values
Senses: synonyms: Kirschner number
glosses: A value indicating how much volatile fatty acid can be extracted from a given fat through saponification, in terms of the number of millilitres of 0.1 normal sodium hydroxide necessary for the neutralization of water-soluble silver salts made from the water-soluble volatile fatty acids distilled from 5 grams of the fat.
Kirschner number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kirschner numbers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Kirschner value.
synonyms: word: Kirschner value
Kirschner values
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kirschner value
Kirschner numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kirschner number
antidrop
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + drop.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
antonyms: antirise
glosses: Preventing or counteracting a drop in body temperature.
antirise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + rise.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
antonyms: antidrop
glosses: Preventing or counteracting a rise in body temperature.
Cape saffron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cape saffrons
Senses: glosses: Cassine peragua, a South African tree.
glosses: Any of various South African shrubs of the genus Gnidia.
back-seat moderators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of back-seat moderator
minimod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minimods
form: mini mod
Etymology: From mini- + mod.
Senses: examples: text: In becoming TSR moderators (of varying hierarchical status such as supermoderators, global moderators and minimods, further also forum assistants), users are supposed to set a good example for appropriate online behavior as a by-product of their ongoing conversations.
ref: 2013, Jenny Arendholz, (In)Appropriate Online Behavior: A pragmatic analysis of message board relations, page 46:
glosses: A moderator having only limited permissions.
examples: text: I think the difference between a minimod and a helpful community member is all in the tone each one uses, as well as what SSM said above with staff being online or not.
ref: 2020 July 31, Quinny, ManaCube:
glosses: A back-seat moderator.
minimod
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: minimods
form: minimodding
form: minimodded
form: minimodded
form: mini mod
Etymology: From mini- + mod.
Senses: examples: text: Gonna be using this thread as a reference for people from now on I reckon some quality takes on Minimodding and what is defined as "acceptable" by the community.
ref: 2020 January 8, Sonic_Raptor, ManaCube:
glosses: To act as a minimod (“back-seat moderator”).
minimods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minimod
minimods
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of minimod
Apaza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Apazas
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
bumload
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bumloads
Etymology: From bum + load, from bum (“the buttocks”); compare assload, arseload, buttload, shitload.
Senses: examples: text: […] a brilliantly terrible FMV action game where you play as an unnamed marine who's been sent to an uncharted tropical island to kill a bumload of undead creeps and take out the doctor who's planning to use them to take over the world.
ref: 2021, Chris Scullion, The Sega Mega Drive & Genesis Encyclopedia, page 230:
synonyms: word: abundance
word: arseload
word: assload
word: bellyload
word: boatload
word: brimful
word: busload
word: bucketful
word: bucketload
word: butt-ton
word: bumload
word: buttload
word: cartload
word: crapload
word: deal
word: fuckload
word: fuckton
word: fuckwad
word: great deal
word: hantle
word: heap
word: hecatomb
word: helluvalot
word: horseload
word: lashings
word: load
word: lot
word: mampus
word: many
word: mass
word: metric fuckton
word: metric shitload
word: mickle
word: mountain
word: muckle
word: multiplicity
word: multitude
word: pile
word: ream
word: shedload
word: shitful
word: shitload
word: shitton
word: slew
word: spadeloads
word: sum
word: superflux
word: ton
word: trainload
word: truckload
word: tun
word: vaultful
word: wagonload
glosses: A large amount.
bumloads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bumload
Curtius rearrangement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Curtius rearrangements
Etymology: Introduced by Theodor Curtius in 1885.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: Curtius degradation
Curtius reaction
glosses: The thermal decomposition of an acyl azide to an isocyanate with loss of nitrogen gas. The isocyanate then undergoes attack by a variety of nucleophiles such as water, alcohols and amines, to yield a primary amine, carbamate or urea derivative respectively.
Derived terms: photo-Curtius rearrangement
Curtius rearrangements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Curtius rearrangement
Curtius reaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Curtius reactions
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Curtius rearrangement.
synonyms: word: Curtius rearrangement
Curtius degradation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Curtius rearrangement.
synonyms: word: Curtius rearrangement
Curtius reactions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Curtius reaction
hare's-foot fern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hare's-foot ferns
Senses: glosses: The rabbit's-foot fern (Davallia)
Arndt-Eistert homologation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Arndt-Eistert synthesis.
synonyms: word: Arndt-Eistert synthesis
Arndt-Eistert reaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Arndt-Eistert reactions
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Arndt-Eistert synthesis.
synonyms: word: Arndt-Eistert synthesis
Arndt-Eistert procedure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Arndt-Eistert procedures
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Arndt-Eistert synthesis.
synonyms: word: Arndt-Eistert synthesis
Hofmann rearrangement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hofmann rearrangements
Etymology: Named after its discoverer, August Wilhelm von Hofmann.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: Hofmann degradation
glosses: The organic reaction of a primary amide to a primary amine with one carbon atom less. It involves oxidation of the nitrogen followed by rearrangement of the carbonyl and nitrogen to give an isocyanate intermediate.
Related terms: Hofmann elimination
Hofmann rearrangements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hofmann rearrangement
Hofmann degradation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hofmann degradations
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Hofmann rearrangement.
synonyms: word: Hofmann rearrangement
Hofmann degradations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hofmann degradation
July Revolution
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: February Revolution
glosses: The French Revolution of 1830, which led to the July Monarchy.
news cyclone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: news cyclones
Etymology: Punning blend of news cycle + cyclone, coined by American sociologist Eric Klinenberg in 2005.
Senses: examples: text: Julia Gillard has decided to take on the news cyclone. It used to be called the news cycle, but things move so quickly in the new media age that cyclone is a far more accurate word.
ref: 2013, Laurie Oakes, Remarkable Times: Australian Politics 2010-13:
text: One can see the possibility for limitless content for a 24/7 world: churnalism, hamsterization, the news cyclone—names to describe the condition keep coming.
ref: 2014, Nikki Usher, Making News at The New York Times, page 232:
glosses: The 24/7 publishing of often unscheduled news reports, replacing the traditional news cycle.
Related terms: churnalism
hamsterization
news cyclones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of news cyclone
Polenske value
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Polenske values
Etymology: Named after the chemist who developed the concept, Eduard Polenske.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: Polenske number
glosses: A numerical indicator of how much volatile fatty acid can be extracted from fat through saponification, equal to the number of millilitres of 0.1 normal alkali solution necessary for the neutralization of the water-insoluble volatile fatty acids distilled and filtered from five grams of the fat.
Polenske number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Polenske numbers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Polenske value.
synonyms: word: Polenske value
Polenske values
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Polenske value
Polenske numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Polenske number
hydroturbine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroturbines
Etymology: From hydro- + turbine.
Senses: glosses: A turbine used to generate hydroelectric power.
hydroturbines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydroturbine
hotchas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hotcha
Gauss-Codazzi equation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gauss-Codazzi equations
Etymology: Named after Carl Friedrich Gauss and Delfino Codazzi.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any of a group of fundamental formulas in Riemannian and pseudo-Riemannian geometry that link together the induced metric and second fundamental form of a submanifold of (or immersion into) a Riemannian or pseudo-Riemannian manifold.
Gauss-Codazzi equations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gauss-Codazzi equation
October Revolution
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: So named as the revolution happened on 25 October 1917 (7 November 1917 N.S.) in Julian calendar that was used by Russia.
Senses: synonyms: Bolshevik Revolution
Great October Socialist Revolution
coordinate_terms: February Revolution
glosses: The second of two revolutions which took place in Russia in 1917.
Derived terms: October Revolution Island
globus pharyngis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of globus.
synonyms: word: globus
museuming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of museum
museumed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of museum