cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
lockpicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lockpickers
Etymology: From lock + picker.
Senses: glosses: A person or device that lockpicks or picks locks.
lockpickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lockpicker
readahead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: readaheads
Etymology: From read + ahead.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The operation of reading data from a storage medium in advance so that it is immediately available when requested.
Related terms: writebehind
holla backs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holla back
dead drop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead drops
Senses: topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
synonyms: dubok
glosses: A location used to secretly transfer items between two people, without requiring them to meet.
topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
glosses: The act of leaving an item in such a location for another person to collect.
dead drop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dead drops
form: dead dropping
form: dead dropped
form: dead dropped
Senses: examples: text: Need to dead drop a note to a friend at school ?
ref: 2006, Suzanne Francis, Protecting Your Room, Your Stuff & Your Secrets:
text: He was concerned for her, wondering why she would dead drop items at their special spot. As he reached the tree he saw the spot they slept, the west side of the tree near a large root. Nestled under the root he found a manila envelope.
ref: 2016, Michael Reid Jr, Debt of Fear, →ISBN:
text: The matchbox he used to “dead drop” his film was serviceable but primitive. His Panasonic radio allowed him only to receive messages, not send any, and the messages could be deciphered only with the help of a code pad.
ref: 2019, Stephen Kinzer, Poisoner in Chief:
glosses: To leave at a dead drop for someone else to retrieve.
live drop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: live drops
Senses: topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
glosses: A location where two people meet to exchange items or information.
qualifier: data exchange
glosses: An offline data transfer protocol to share information between two devices.
pavement artist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pavement artists
Senses: synonyms: word: sidewalk artist
glosses: An artist who draws pictures on the pavement, often hoping to get donations from the passers-by.
topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
glosses: A specialist in outdoor surveillance as a pedestrian.
Coordinate terms: wheel artist
pocket litter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
glosses: Items in a spy's pocket (such as ticket stubs and coins) to make their cover seem more authentic.
wheel artist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheel artists
Senses: topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
glosses: A specialist in outdoor surveillance in a vehicle.
Coordinate terms: pavement artist
inuendo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inuendos
form: inuendoes
Senses: examples: text: There were sneers, and scoffs, and inuendoes of some; prophecies of failure in a hundred ways; forecastings of non-completion, forecastings of swift dissolution and crashing ruin[…]
ref: 1852, The Dublin University Magazine, page 66:
text: But, gentlemen, editors, and scientists, you must hurry up if you expect to kill Spiritualism with sneers, jibes, jokes, contemptuosities, scowls, inuendoes, or anything on that line, for you’ll find it a full Summer’s work.
ref: 1872 January 20, J. R. Robinson, “From the Winona (Minn.) Republican. Huxley and the Spiritualists. That Eminent Scientist Catches an American Tartar in a Winona Defender of the Faith.”, in Religio-Philosophical Journal, volume XI, number 18, Chicago, Ill.: S[teven] S. Jones, page 1, column 5:
glosses: Obsolete form of innuendo.
Carnivore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a computer system designed by the FBI to monitor e-mail and electronic communications
eyes-only
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
glosses: Meant to be read only, and not discussed, by the named recipient; classified.
raw_tags: of documents
Coordinate terms: ears-only
Related terms: need-to-know
ears-only
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
glosses: Too secret to be put in writing; only to be transmitted orally.
Coordinate terms: eyes-only
non-official cover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-official covers
Senses: topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
glosses: The assumption of a covert role in an organization which does not have ties to the government of the operative in question.
Synonyms: NOC
Hypernyms: cover
official cover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: official covers
Senses: topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
glosses: A cover which is a position at a governmental agency (e.g. posing as a member of the diplomatic service).
Hypernyms: cover
intelligence asset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intelligence assets
Senses: topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
glosses: Any resource by means of which intelligence is gathered.
arthrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄρθρον (árthron, “a joint”) + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: We have concluded that Paul does not distinguish between the arthrous and anarthrous use of nomos.
ref: 1989, Brice L. Martin, Christ and the Law in Paul, Brill Archive, →ISBN, page 68:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or being the use of a term together with a grammatical article.
examples: text: One thing to understand is that Biblical Greek grammarians have simply found the phrase “predicate position” a convenient label to describe the word structure of
demonstrative + arthrous noun (with article) or
arthrous noun + demonstrative
ref: 2006, Gary A. Long, Grammatical Concepts 101 for Biblical Greek: Learning Biblical Greek Grammatical Concepts Through English Grammar, Hendrickson Publishers, →ISBN, page 148:
glosses: Used with or headed by a grammatical article.
raw_tags: of a term or phrase
Derived terms: anarthrous
arthrously
Related terms: arthro-
burn notice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burn notices
Senses: topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
glosses: An announcement of dismissal of an agent or source which an intelligence agency considers to have become unreliable.
Echelon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An international SIGINT network to monitor and gather intelligence from satellite trunk communications.
BJJ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
Saffy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Saffron.
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Sapphire.
saframycins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saframycin
siphuncles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of siphuncle
sniffings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sniffing
underfurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underfur
Roaring Meg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Roaring Megs
Senses: glosses: A large cannon; specifically, the large 15th cannon at Edinburgh Castle (more usually called ‘Mons Meg’), or the cannon used to defend Londonderry during the siege of 1688-9.
examples: text: Musica est mentis medicina mæstæ, a roaring-meg against melancholy, to rear and revive the languishing soul […]
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 2, member 6, subsection iii:
glosses: Any large or impressive thing.
glosses: A kind of spinning top.
Roaring Megs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Roaring Meg
underfurred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌndə(ɹ)fɜː(ɹ)d/
Forms: form: more underfurred
form: most underfurred
Etymology: From underfur + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having a layer of underfur.
spooler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spoolers
Etymology: From spool + -er.
Senses: examples: text: In a method for guiding a thread onto an empty reel after a first reel in a continuously operating spooler has become full, utilizing a moving finger on the spooler in cooperation with a gripper rotating with the empty reel […]
ref: 1998, Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, page 1061:
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A device for winding thread onto a spool.
examples: text: The print spooler sends each page to the printer when it is ready for it.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A program or process that spools (places data in a queue to be accessed later).
spoolers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spooler
data-bound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From data + bound.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synchronised with a data source by means of data binding.
goatgrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goatgrasses
Etymology: From goat + grass.
Senses: synonyms: goat's weed
haver-grass
wild oats
glosses: Any of various wheatlike grasses of the genus Aegilops.
goatgrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goatgrass
goatfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goatfish
agèd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more agèd
form: most agèd
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of aged.
burdon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burdons
Etymology: From Latin burdonem.
Senses: glosses: A pilgrim's staff.
burdon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burdons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bourdon (“pilgrim's staff”).
upon a stound
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: in a moment
stoundmeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Middle English stoundmele, stoundemele, from Old English stundmǣlum (“at times”), from stund (“stound, space of time”) + mǣlum, dative plural of mǣl (“a time”), equivalent to stound + -meal. More at stound, meal.
Senses: glosses: At times; at intervals
glosses: Moment by moment, or from moment to moment.
stoundmeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stoundmeal
form: most stoundmeal
Etymology: From Middle English stoundmele, stoundemele, from Old English stundmǣlum (“at times”), from stund (“stound, space of time”) + mǣlum, dative plural of mǣl (“a time”), equivalent to stound + -meal. More at stound, meal.
Senses: glosses: Occurring at times or intervals.
perchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of percher
-meal
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /miːl/
rhymes: -iːl
Etymology: From Middle English -mele, from Old English -mǣlum (“at times”), from Proto-Germanic *mēlamiz, instrumental case of Proto-Germanic *mēlą (“measure; time”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian -moal, Dutch -maal, German Low German -maal, German -mal. More at meal.
Senses: examples: wordmeal (“one word at a time, word by word”)
glosses: Used to denote a fixed number, measure, or amount at a time.
Derived terms: bitmeal
dropmeal
flockmeal
footmeal
heapmeal
inchmeal
leafmeal
littlemeal
pagemeal
piecemeal
stepmeal
stoundmeal
thousandmeal
whilemeal
wordmeal
-meal
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /miːl/
rhymes: -iːl
Etymology: From Middle English mele, from Old English melu (“meal, flour”), from Proto-Germanic *melwą (“meal, flour”), from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, mill”). More at meal.
Senses: glosses: Denotes a powder made of ground cereal.
Derived terms: bonemeal
cornmeal
oatmeal
peasemeal
picon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picons
Etymology: Borrowed from French picon, named after inventor Gaétan Picon (1809–1882).
Senses: glosses: A caramel-coloured flavoured bitters made from oranges, gentian, and quinquina, traditionally accompanying beer in the east and north of France.
respirologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: respirologists
Etymology: From respirology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pulmonologist.
synonyms: word: pulmonologist
Syktyvkar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Сыктывкар (Syktyvkar), from Komi-Zyrian Сыктывкар (Syktyvkar).
Senses: glosses: The capital city of the Komi Republic, Russia.
Related terms: Komi
do not enter
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Used on various signs to indicate that an area should not be entered, e.g. a military installation, or a hotel room.
glosses: Used on a road sign to indicate a one-way street that cannot be entered from the direction one is facing when seeing the sign.
Gleek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡliːk/
Forms: form: Gleeks
Etymology: Blend of Glee and geek
Senses: examples: text: I'm more of a Gleek myself.
ref: 2009 September 7, Jason Wuthrich, “Re: OT what new shows are you looking forward to seeing this fall season?”, in alt.tv.american-idol (Usenet):
ref: 2010, Evie Parker, 100% Gleek: The Unofficial Guide to Glee:
text: Well I thought she looked quite cute, so I Googled her. I'm not yet a full on Gleek, honest!
ref: 2010 February 3, Fred X, “Re: Glee - the woman from Pushing Daisies”, in uk.media.tv.misc (Usenet):
text: are there any other Gleeks out here in viPhone land? I saw on my facebook today that there's a Glee app!! $2.99 so I grabbed it. maybe I shouldn't have seeing all the financial stress I'm currently under but I'm a Gleek in a big way!! so I couldn't resist!! I needed to check it out!!!
ref: 2010 April 17, "Jessica and Goldina", "anyone try the Glee app?", in "VIPhone" (Google Groups group)
text: Yep... I'm a "Gleek"! (I'm sure it's partially due to being in band in high school, as we usually did a medley of songs from a musical during each performance.)
ref: 2010 April 30, Zoot, “Re: Glee-------”, in alt.x.y (Usenet):
text: Fair warning: One is the beginning of a musical number that's been on every Gleek's watch-list since Spears tweeted this pic.
ref: 2010 September 24, Kate Stanhope, “Do You Mind That Glee Can't Keep a Secret?”, in TVGuide:
text: And you call yourself a Gleek...
ref: 2010 September 27, Don Del Grande, “Re: 09/26/2010 New Episode”, in alt.tv.simpsons (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fan of the television show Glee.
brickle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɪkəl/
rhymes: -ɪkəl
Etymology: From Middle English brikel, brekil, brukel (“easily broken or shattered”), from Old English *bryċel, *brucol (as in hūsbryċel (“burglarious”, literally “house-breaking”), scipbrucol (“destructive to shipping, causing shipwreck”, literally “ship-breaking”), equivalent to break + -le. See also breakle.
Senses: examples: text: brickle clay
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “The Ruines of Time”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of breakle.
Derived terms: brickleness
brickle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɪkəl/
rhymes: -ɪkəl
Forms: form: brickles
form: brickling
form: brickled
form: brickled
Etymology: From the Bricklin, a failed automobile.
Senses: examples: How to Brickle: The New Brunswick Funny Book (1977, →ISBN
glosses: To fail spectacularly.
Related terms: brickly
butter brickle
mystery play
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mystery plays
Senses: qualifier: performing arts
glosses: A medieval dramatic performance depicting events from Christian scriptures, especially events from the life of Jesus Christ.
examples: text: His [Osiris'] sufferings, his death and his resurrection were enacted year by year in a great mystery-play at Abydos.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 22:
text: We also entered into the mystery plays of Demeter and Persephone, of Psyche and Eros, of Isis and Osiris[.]
ref: 1993, Jean Houston, Public Like a Frog: Entering the Lives of Three Great Americans, page xix:
glosses: A similar play depicting events from the life of other gods or goddesses.
Related terms: nativity play
passion play
blood relations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blood relation
respirologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of respirologist
spring onions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spring onion
spring tides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spring tide
spring lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spring line
Carrier
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Carriers
Senses: glosses: A Northern Athabaskan language spoken in Canada. Sometimes considered to be three separate languages: Southern Carrier, Northern Carrier and Central Carrier.
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A small town in Garfield County, Oklahoma, United States; from the surname.
Related terms: Central Carrier
English Carrier
Northern Carrier
Southern Carrier
Carrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Carriers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of English Carrier.
synonyms: word: English Carrier
Related terms: Carriere
unidimensionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From unidimensional + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In one dimension.
bidimensionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From bidimensional + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In two dimensions.
tridimensionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From tridimensional + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In three dimensions.
preherpetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + herpetic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Prior to the onset of herpes.
viceless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vice + -less.
Senses: examples: text: He lived a viceless life.
glosses: Without vice.
-pter
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πτερόν (pterón, “wing”).
Senses: glosses: wing
Derived terms: gyrocopter
helicopter
ornithopter
orthopter
parcelcopter
laffers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laffer
respiratory tracts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of respiratory tract
regexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regex
sleep apnoea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sleep apnoeas
Senses: examples: text: After the accident, a sleep study identified that the GBRf driver had previously undiagnosed severe Obstructive Sleep Apnoea.
ref: 2023 August 23, “Network News: RAIB cites driver fatigue as factor in 28mph collision”, in RAIL, number 990, page 12:
glosses: Alternative form of sleep apnea.
dry drunks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dry drunk
coon cats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coon cat
briki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brikis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ibrik.
Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
Senses: glosses: The former official name of Afghanistan, from 2001 through 2021.
rhachitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of rachitis.
multimediocrity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multimediocrities
Etymology: Blend of multimedia + mediocrity, used in the early 1990s.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Poor-quality multimedia material.
repunits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repunit
biflagellates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biflagellate
hyperacuity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperacuities
Etymology: From hyper- + acuity.
Senses: examples: text: Acuity and hyperacuity are now used as the terms applied to the limits, respectively, of resolution and localization.
ref: 2009, Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, volume V, Oxford Academic Press:
glosses: sensory performance finer than the receptor grain
wankle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwæŋkəl/
rhymes: -æŋkəl
Forms: form: more wankle
form: most wankle
Etymology: From Middle English wankel, from Old English wancol, from Proto-West Germanic *wankul.
Senses: glosses: Weak; unstable; unreliable; not to be depended on.
close shaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of close shave
thresher shark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thresher sharks
Senses: examples: text: When I was 12 years old, my father got me a boat and I went fishing off of Cape Cod. I hooked a scup and as I was reeling it in, I hooked a 4.5 foot baby thresher shark who proceeded to eat my boat.
ref: 1975, Peter Benchley, Carl Gottlieb, Jaws, spoken by Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss):
text: I went diving […] and saw manta rays and thresher sharks, the sharks are like sickles, like polished steel, they look almost man-made except for their worried little faces, and they move like – like they’re not moving, the water is undisturbed by them.
ref: 2023, Samantha Harvey, Orbital, Jonathan Cape, page 57:
glosses: Any of the species of sharks in the genus Alopias, three of which are extant.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Alopias pelagicus
word: pelagic thresher
taxonomic: Alopias superciliosus
word: bigeye thresher
taxonomic: Alopias vulpinus
word: common thresher
passion pit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passion pits
Senses: examples: text: The men who worked in it called it the Passion Pit in wry remembrance of other dark rooms they had known and used for more intimate and more enjoyable purposes...
ref: 1952, Maxwell Griffith, Port of call, Lippincott, page 23:
text: We gotta hide up some-place and let them lose us. Tell you what. There's a passion pit just where this comes out onto 95. Drive-in movie.
ref: 1956, Ian Fleming, Diamonds are forever, Cape, page 145:
text: I don't have enough dough to take this chick to a passion pit.
ref: 1959, “Theatre arts, Volume 43, Issue 6”, in Theatre Arts, Inc., page 39:
text: They won't have to brag about how far they went, and the mechanical, "plumbing" aspect of sex in the back seat at the passion pit may soon be a thing of the past.
ref: 1971, Seymour Martin Lipset, Gerald M. Schaflander, Passion and politics: student activism in America, Little, Brown, page 277:
text: He sat on the back porch on the weekends and watched glumly as a never ending progression of young boys he had never seen before popped out to mutter a quick hello before taking his buxom daughter off to the local passion pit.
ref: 1979, Stephen King, Night Shift, Signet, page 199:
text: That was the summer the Bengies Drive-In movie opened. Instantly it became the most notorious passion pit we'd ever heard of.
ref: 1996, William Gildea, When the Colts Belonged to Baltimore: A Father and a Son, a Team and a Time, JHU Press, page 172:
text: She wanted to see what the passion pit was all about, but I took her to supper and to South Pacific in Memphis rather than to Dragstrip Girl at our drive-in. Anyway, rumor had it that she'd already been to the passion pit.
ref: 2010, Carroll Osburn, The Edge of the Wedge: Recollections of a Reluctant Prodigal, AuthorHouse, page 211:
glosses: A drive-in theatre or other unlit or dimly-lit secluded public or private location, with particular reference to it as a place of intimacy.
examples: text: As relationships mature, the bedroom gets de-coupled from its former role as a passion pit and instead becomes a place to zonk out, watch TV or work.
ref: 1996, Sex: a man's guide, Rodale, page 163:
text: Downstairs, it's The Nightclub - a large room with a funky semi-circular glowing blue bar, big comfy wall banquettes, a secluded circular passion pit in one corner, and a medium-size dance floor.
ref: 2004, Donald Olson, Frommer's Vancouver & Victoria 2005, John Wiley and Sons, page 181:
text: During their teenage years, this secluded area was affectionately referred to as the pit, short for passion pit.
ref: 2009, R B Conroy, In My Father's Image: Life in the Shadows of a Local Legend, CCB Publishing, page 234:
glosses: Any place where sexual activity commonly occurs.
F2L
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: Rubik's-Cube
games
glosses: First two layers
senton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sentons
Senses: examples: text: Being an idiot, I just now realized that the highspot of choice for the cool chubby worker is the Senton (or Cannonball as Ouilette refers to it).
ref: 1996 November 17, Dean&Angie, “Togo, Astro, A, B: wrestlings best fat guys”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet):
text: I guess at Smackdown one of the Hardy Boys pulls off a Senton Splash off the Big Show's shoulders.
ref: 1999 December 1, Brett Tennant, “Hardy's Senton off big show”, in alt.pro=wrestling.wwf (Usenet):
text: Technically, it's a somersault senton. The plain ol' senton is executed by leaping forward, almost past the target, and leaning back when you hit, which is why many call it a "senton back splash."
ref: 2000 May 10, Phil, “Senton Bomb or Swanton Bomb?”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet):
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
synonyms: senton bomb
glosses: A variation of a splash in which a wrestler jumps, sometimes from a raised platform such as the top turnbuckle, and lands back first on an opponent lying below.
Mogor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mogors
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Moghul.
Mogors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mogor
laceratingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more laceratingly
form: most laceratingly
Etymology: From lacerating + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It occurred to me that if only I could hold up a mirror, we might glimpse in it a vision of ourselves - unexpected, ridiculous, sad, and quite laceratingly amusing.
ref: 2004, Christopher Hope, White boy running, page 261:
glosses: In a manner that lacerates.
strippy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪpi
Etymology: From strip + -y.
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
quilting
textiles
glosses: Sewn in vertical columns separated by bars of colour.
strippy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪpi
Forms: form: strippies
Etymology: From strip + -y.
Senses: glosses: A quilt sewn in vertical columns separated by bars of colour.
strippies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strippy
unstriped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + striped.
Senses: glosses: Not striped.
stripdown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stripdowns
Etymology: Deverbal from strip down.
Senses: examples: text: Before commencing the engine stripdown itself, ensure that you have the correct workshop manual for your particular machine.
ref: 2004, Mick Walker, Moto Guzzi Twins Restoration, page 54:
synonyms: teardown#Noun
glosses: The disassembly of a mechanical system into its separate components.
Related terms: word: stripped down
word: stripped-down
stripdowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stripdown
myrmecodomatium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myrmecodomatia
Etymology: From myrmeco- + domatium.
Senses: glosses: A domatium specifically adapted to the accommodation of ants.
myrmecodomatia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myrmecodomatium
peccable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈpɛ.kə.bəl/
Etymology: From Medieval Latin peccābilis, from Latin peccō (“I sin”).
Senses: examples: text: But to be mutable or changeable in way of diminution, lapsable or peccable, is an essential property of a rational imperfect being.
ref: a. 1688, Ralph Cudworth, A Treatise of Freewill:
glosses: Liable to sin; subject to transgress the divine law.
Related terms: impeccable
peccant
deoxidization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deoxidizations
Etymology: From de- + oxidization.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The removal of oxygen from a compound.
Related terms: deoxidize
downfolding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downfoldings
Etymology: From down- + folding.
Senses: glosses: A downwards folding.
endofunctors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endofunctor
endofunctor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endofunctors
Etymology: From endo- + functor.
Senses: topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A functor that maps a category to itself.
Hyponyms: autofunctor
fluxbrane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluxbranes
Etymology: From flux + brane.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A form of brane postulated by supersymmetry and supergravity.
glassification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From glass + -ification.
Senses: glosses: Conversion into a glass.
Hypernyms: vitrification
Related terms: glassify
leptodermous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leptodermous
form: most leptodermous
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a thin skin or wall
BOTD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of benefit of the doubt.
monojet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monojets
Etymology: From mono- + jet.
Senses: glosses: A single jet.
glosses: A vehicle powered by a single jet (of water or air).
Coordinate terms: quadjet
trijet
twinjet
multijet
oligoarginine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oligoarginines
Etymology: From oligo- + arginine.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A relatively short polyarginine, especially one used to enhance cellular delivery of a drug
monojets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monojet
polyarginine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyarginines
Etymology: From poly- + arginine.
Senses: glosses: A polypeptide consisting of arginine residues
radioheliograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radioheliographs
Etymology: From radio- + heliograph.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A heliograph that employs radio waves
radioheliographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radioheliograph
undefinedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From undefined + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being undefined
archaeomagnetism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archæomagnetism
form: archeomagnetism
Etymology: From archaeo- + magnetism.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The magnetism of the Earth in the geologic past; the study and measurement of this magnetism in order to date a specimen with iron.
glosses: The magnetism induced by the Earth's magnetic field in magnetizable matter after heating to the Curie temperature; directional magnetism, thermoremanent magnetism.
botrytis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: botrytises
Etymology: From translingual Botrytis, borrowed from Ancient Greek βότρυς (bótrus, “(bunch of) grapes”) + -itis (“disease”) (from New Latin -itis, from Ancient Greek -ῖτις (-îtis, “pertaining to”)).
Senses: glosses: Any fungus of the genus Botrytis, especially Botrytis cinerea which is responsible for the formation of noble rot on grapes.
Derived terms: botrytic
botryticide
botrytize
respiratory pigments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of respiratory pigment
camwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camwoods
Etymology: From Temne k'am + English wood.
Senses: glosses: An African hardwood tree, Baphia nitida, that is a form of sandalwood.
glosses: The wood of this tree.
Synonyms: barwood
ciron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːɹəʊn/
ipa: /ˈsaɪ.ɹən/
Forms: form: cirons
form: siron
form: syrone
form: chyron
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English ciron, borrowed from Middle French ciron (“mite”), inherited from Old French cirun, borrowed from Frankish *seuro, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *seur(j)ōn. Akin to Dutch zier. The ultimate origin is unknown, as cognates outside of West Germanic are lacking. Perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kes- (“to scrape”), source of Ancient Greek ξύω (xúō, “to scratch, scrape”).
Senses: examples: text: Dr. F. William Cock (London) writes: Perhaps the enclosed extracts from ancient authors on the "Ciron" may be of interest. […] Peter Lowe, A Discourse of the Whole Art of Chirurgerie, London, 1634. Black letter. Third edition. Page 126–27, Chapter iv, Lib. v. Of lice, morpions and nyts which often do use the skin and roots of the haire.—"There is yet a fourth kinde called chyrons, they likewise take life and corrodes betwixt the flesh and the skinne, and are ingendered of a more drie matter than the other, and are chiefly found in the hands of idle people;["] […] and evidently makes out that the chyron is of the insect tribe, consequently it seems probable that he speaks of the itch here, or some variety of louse. Page 129: "The chyrons which come in the hands or other parts are cured by washing of those parts with salt water, […] There is of those chyrons or little lyce found in the membraine conjunctive or white of the eye, which maketh great paine and itching, for the which you must very cunningly with a stable hand and a silver needle, such as we abate the cataract with, picke them out one by one, then wash the eye with rose and enfrage water."
ref: 1889 July 27, F. William Cock, “What was the Ciron”, in The British Medical Journal, London: British Medical Association, →OCLC, page 230:
glosses: The itch mite (Sarcoptes scabiei), which infects the skin.
linnorm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linnorms
Etymology: From Norwegian linnorm.
Senses: examples: text: Then the Linnorm (dragon) came. It is thirty ells long and has a mane on its neck.
ref: 1964, Reidar Thoralf Christiansen, Folktales of Norway, →ISBN, page 42:
text: Your scandinavian model was a wingless fellow, frequently called a linnorm, iirc.
ref: , Helgraf Dragon, “Re: Watch out folks.............................please read . 7749”, in rec.games.computer.ultima.dragons, rec.games.computer.stars (Usenet):
text: The body of a gray linnorm is long, sleek and very snakelike.
ref: 2002, Jeff Grubb, Ed Bonny, Rich Redman, Steve Winter, Monster Manual II, →ISBN, page 142:
text: He had been able to do what few others could - survive a meeting with the dread linnorm and better still, been able to trade with him as well.
ref: 2007, Chad Corrie, Gambit's End, →ISBN, page 35:
glosses: A wingless bipedal dragon; a lindworm.
WSDL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈwɪzdəl/
Senses: examples: „WSDL is often used in combination with SOAP and an XML Schema to provide Web services over the Internet. A client program connecting to a Web service can read the WSDL file to determine what operations are available on the server.“
qualifier: Web
glosses: Initialism of Web Services Description Language (formerly Web Services Definition Language), an XML-based language that provides a model for describing Web services.
Hyponyms: SWSDL
customisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of customisation
linnorms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of linnorm
subjugations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subjugation
congregators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of congregator
galeanthropy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡæliˈænθɹəpi/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γαλῆ (galê), a contracted form of γαλέη (galéē, “weasel”) + ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos, “humanity”).
Senses: examples: text: "That is the most interesting delusion I've come across since reading up on galeanthropy," said Sophie. […] / "What's galeanthropy?" I asked. / Sophie said, "It's the delusion that you've been turned into a cat."
ref: 1973, M. E. Kerr [pseudonym; Marijane Meaker], chapter 5, in If I Love You, Am I Trapped Forever?, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row; republished Tarrytown, N.Y.: Marshall Cavendish, 2009, page 49
text: Meanwhile his frau made loud mewling and scratching noises in the hallway beyond, deep in the throes of advanced galeanthropy.
ref: 1994 May 20, Matthew Marchese, “Tales of Obscure Usage I”, in talk.bizarre (Usenet), message-ID <1994May20.134031.17065@driftwood.cray.com>:
text: One of the finest novels for children ever written, in my opinion, is Paul Gallico's The Abandoned, in which a young boy named Peter, struck by a van while running across the street to pet a cat, falls into a coma and experiences galeanthropy.
ref: 1996, Charles Harrington Elster, “Dr Elster's Verbal Health Center”, in There's a Word for It!: A Grandiloquent Guide to Life, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, page 33:
text: You got through to him?! He [Jack Kevorkian] won't return my calls anymore and his secretary just keeps repeating "No, we don't think suffering from galeanthropy makes one a valid candidate for the doctor's consideration."
ref: 1998 April 15, Serenleono, “Re: Touched by Chris Farely”, in alt.religion.angels (Usenet), message-ID <3537764a.34513787@news.mindspring.com>:
glosses: A mental condition of thinking that one has become a cat, which is usually manifested in the adoption of feline mannerisms and habits.
Related terms: cynanthropy
lycanthropy
rip into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rips into
form: ripping into
form: ripped into
form: ripped into
Senses: examples: text: The teacher ripped into Johnny when he found out he had plagiarised.
glosses: To verbally attack or criticise.
examples: text: Dinner's ready. Rip into it!
glosses: To start to eat something.
Synonyms: lace into
light into
tear into
escort agencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of escort agency
escort services
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of escort service
governour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: governours
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of governor.
Derived terms: governourship
governours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of governour
escortment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From escort + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of escorting.
mass destruction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: mass + destruction
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see mass, destruction.
glosses: Killing of large numbers of people.
Derived terms: weapons of mass destruction
clocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clockers
Etymology: From clock + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who clocks (illegally winds back the milometer of) a motor car
glosses: A low-level drug dealer who operates on the streets.
glosses: A clucking hen.
clockers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clocker
Russell's teapot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a teapot described in an article written in 1952 by Bertrand Russell, Is There a God?.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: celestial teapot
cosmic teapot
glosses: A china teapot which hypothetically orbits the Sun between Earth and Mars, which is too small to be detected by telescopes but cannot be proven not to exist.
celestial teapot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: celestial teapots
Etymology: celestial + teapot
Senses: examples: text: Yet strictly we should all be teapot agnostics: we cannot prove, for sure, that there is no celestial teapot.
ref: 2006 September 18, Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page 52:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Russell's teapot.
cosmic teapot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: cosmic + teapot
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Russell's teapot.
Dravidians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dravidian
dropmeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈdɹɒpmiːl/
Forms: form: dropmeale
Etymology: From Middle English dropmele, from Old English dropmǣlum (“one drop at a time”), equivalent to drop + -meal.
Senses: glosses: One drop at a time, drop by drop.
examples: text: deliuer their vrine but dropmeale and with difficultie
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
glosses: By drops or small portions.
Synonyms: dropwise
diclazuril
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular coccidiostat.
lasalocid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -sal- (“salicylic acid derivative”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A particular antibacterial agent and coccidiostat.
nicarbazin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular coccidiostat.
layawayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of layaway
layawaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of layaway
coccidiosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coccidioses
Senses: examples: text: Nine hens had died in the meantime. Their bodies were buried in the orchard, and it was given out that they had died of coccidiosis.
ref: 1945, George Orwell, chapter VII, in Animal Farm:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The disease caused by coccidian infection.
Derived terms: anticoccidiosis
billowingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more billowingly
form: most billowingly
Etymology: From billowing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The long skirts of the dancers swirled around them billowingly.
glosses: In a billowing fashion.
unregretful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unregretful
form: most unregretful
Etymology: From un- + regretful.
Senses: glosses: Not regretful; having no regrets.
Derived terms: unregretfully
unregretfulness
Last Thursdayism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From last Thursday + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The statement is on the order of Last Thursdayism; it can never be proven or disproven.
ref: 1991 June 3, Ken Arromdee, “Re: Firewalking”, in sci.skeptic (Usenet), retrieved 30 Sep 2010, message-ID <10836@emanon.cs.jhu.edu>:
text: Any memories you might have of the past were created in your head when you were created, just as the fossils were placed in the rocks to look as if they were from the ancient past. This idea is nicknamed “Last Thursdayism” by the famous philosopher Bertrand Russell as in “the world might have been created last Thursday—how would we know the difference?”
ref: 2007 December 15, Donald R. Prothero, “The Nature of Science”, in Evolution: what the fossils say and why it matters, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 9:
text: Last Thursdayism is a response to omphalism which posits that, by the same logic, the world might have been created last Thursday (or, by implication, any given date and time), but with the appearance of age: people's memories, history books, fossils, light already on the way from distant stars, and so forth.
ref: 2009, William Powell, “Creation Theology”, in Philosophy of Scientific Creationism, New Delhi: Global Vision Publishing House, page 224:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The proposition that the universe began to exist last Thursday, with the appearance of age and history.
Related terms: Invisible Pink Unicorn
Russell's teapot
Flying Spaghetti Monster
omphalos
near-field
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: near-fields
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of near field (in physical acoustics)
glosses: Alternative form of near field (in radio-frequency electromagnetic technology)
near-field
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: antonyms: far-field
glosses: In loudspeaker acoustics, referring to a region where the intensity of direct, unreflected sound from the source (such as a loudspeaker) is significantly dominant over any indirect or reflected sound.
austenitize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: austenitizes
form: austenitizing
form: austenitized
form: austenitized
Etymology: From austenite + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To heat iron (or an iron-based metal such as steel) to a temperature at which it changes crystal structure from ferrite to austenite.
Derived terms: austenitization
Gulliverian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Gulliverian
form: most Gulliverian
Etymology: From Gulliver + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or reminiscent of Jonathan Swift's satirical Gulliver's Travels (1726) or its protagonist, Lemuel Gulliver.
denasalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˌneɪzəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/
Forms: form: denasalizations
Etymology: From de- + nasalization.
Senses: glosses: The process or result of denasalizing.
denasalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of denasalization
illusionlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more illusionlike
form: most illusionlike
Etymology: From illusion + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an illusion.
illusionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From illusion + -less.
Senses: glosses: Devoid of illusions.
Derived terms: illusionlessness
biophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biophytes
Etymology: From bio- (“life”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant that obtains nourishment from the bodies of insects (or other once-living organisms)
diplohaplontic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From diplo- + haplontic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing a life cycle that has alternating haploid and diploid phases.
a picture is worth a thousand words
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: a picture paints a thousand words
Etymology: Popularized following a 1911 speech given by Arthur Brisbane where he encouraged advertisers "Use a picture. It's worth a thousand words." By 1915, the phrase in its modern form is attested. A number of other phrases expressing the same idea are attested throughout the 1800s.
Senses: glosses: A visualisation is a better description than a verbal description.
wikipedia: Arthur Brisbane
Fred R. Shapiro
Wolfgang Mieder
Related terms: pen picture
undisprovable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undisprovable
form: most undisprovable
Etymology: From un- + disprove + -able.
Senses: examples: text: A popular deity on the Internet at present — and as undisprovable as Yahweh or any other — is the Flying Spaghetti Monster, who, many claim, has touched them with his noodly appendage.
ref: 2006 September 18, Richard Dawkins, “The God Hypothesis”, in The God Delusion, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 76:
glosses: not able to be proven false, unfalsifiable