cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
limesand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This field had had on it about seventy loads of muck per acre, which alone did no good until an application of limesand was given.
ref: 1877, New Jersey. Legislature, Documents, page 122:
text: The middle part is a limesand consisting of 15-25% recognisable shell fragments cemented by aragonite. In the whole rock there is almost no quartz. Nearer the shore the limesand is replaced by lime-mud, ...
ref: 1968, Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, Transactions:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A course sediment found in the seabed containing primarily ground up shells, sometimes used in agriculture as an acidity regulator.
English cocker spaniel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: English cocker spaniels
Senses: glosses: A gun dog of a breed, for the sport of cocking, or bird hunting.
prottie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protties
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Proddy.
Prottie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Protties
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Proddy.
Mellis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A village and civil parish in Mid Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM0974).
disspiritedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more disspiritedly
form: most disspiritedly
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dispiritedly.
psychoeducationally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From psychoeducational + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of, or by means of, psychoeducation.
Scillonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Scillonian
mintonette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From badminton + -ette.
Senses: glosses: A game based on basketball and badminton that later developed into volleyball.
news butcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: news butchers
Senses: examples: text: It was a guy named Bishop and she'd met him on the trip up. The news butcher introduced them, I guess.
ref: 1916, Ring W. Lardner, “Three Kings and a Pair”, in The Saturday Evening Post:
glosses: A person who worked on railroads selling newspapers, candy and cigars to the passengers.
news butchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of news butcher
Needham's sac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Needham's sacs
Etymology: Named after John Tubervill Needham, who described it in 1745.
Senses: glosses: Part of the reproductive tract of cephalopods in which spermatophores are stored, opening into the left side of the mantle cavity.
built like a brick shipyard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Synonym of built like a brick shithouse.
synonyms: word: built like a brick shithouse
base angles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of base angle
opposee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opposees
Etymology: From oppose + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: For example, after the opposer had objected to the opposee's plan to drive the car, the opposee suggested, "We can take turns driving the car."
ref: 1984, Catherine Garvey, Children's Talk, page 145:
glosses: One against whom there is opposition; the opposed party.
opposees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opposee
Kakwa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Nilotic ethnic group of northwestern Uganda, southwestern South Sudan, and the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Kakwa
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Kakwa
form: most Kakwa
Senses: examples: text: He suspected, because of the way he twisted words and the scarification, that Sasa was either Kakwa, Amin’s tribe, or Nubian.
ref: 2014, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Kintu, Oneworld Publications (2018), page 259:
glosses: Of, from or pertaining to the Kakwa.
Lugbara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An ethnic group who live mainly in the West Nile region of Uganda, in the adjoining area of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and in Morobo County, Republic of South Sudan.
Lugbara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: head_nr: 2
glosses: The Central Sudanic language of these people.
wobble room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In discipline there must be a place for what I call "wobble room" for the child. This means making allowances for the child to fail sometimes and at other times make mistakes.
ref: 1997, Eddie B. Lane, The African American Christian Parent, page 162:
text: All this explains why I place so much importance on leaving “wobble room” in our relationships. One's theological persuasion may not bend, but one's involvements with others must.
ref: 2006, Charles R. Swindoll, The Grace Awakening:
glosses: Space to maneuver within an otherwise rigid system or framework.
Related terms: wiggle room
algorithmocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of algorithm + democracy. Coined by American author, activist, and entrepreneur Eli Pariser.
Senses: glosses: Rule by algorithms; the making of sociopolitical decisions by algorithms, as opposed to representative democracy.
glosses: The influence of algorithms on the political opinion of the general public, for example by showing different Internet search results and social media content to different people, creating filter bubbles.
Megan's Law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The law was introduced in response to the murder of Megan Kanka.
Senses: glosses: A federal law requiring law enforcement authorities to make information available to the public regarding registered sex offenders.
glosses: Any of various subsequent state laws based on this.
Related terms: english: a similar law in Britain
translation: a similar law in Britain
word: Sarah's Law
Little Egypt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Little Egypts
Etymology: From the stage name used by at least three popular belly dancers from the late 1800s through to the early 1900s.
Senses: glosses: A female belly dancer.
Little Egypt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Southern Illinois.
Little Egypts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Little Egypt
salesmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salesmasters
Etymology: From sales + master.
Senses: examples: text: The practice of country gentlemen dealing through salesmasters is always to treat them just in the same manner as bankers, the salesmaster keeping a running debit and credit account, and paying over sums from time to time as his employer calls for them.
ref: 1847, Irish Equity Reports Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, page 399:
text: His second wife was Maria Byme,4 one of the daughters of Joseph Byme, also a salesmaster of Smithfield, Dublin.
ref: 2004, Kaye Cole, The Germaines: A Huguenot Family from the Irish Midlands, page 13:
glosses: One who sells goods on behalf of the owner.
salesmasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salesmaster
Whitley goose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: To make Whitley Goose, an excellent old country recipe, I allow two large onions for each person […]
ref: 1953, The Listener, volume 49, page 491:
text: Whitley goose might disappoint carnivores expecting succulent fowl — it is a mixture of boiled onions, cheese and milk baked in an oven.
ref: 2012, Jane Peyton, Brilliant Britain, page 167:
glosses: A dish of boiled onions with cheese and cream, baked until brown on top.
stone cream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A traditional dessert of thickened sweetened cream, served with fruit or preserves.
groaty dick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A kind of beef stew thickened with groats.
wow-wow sauce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A sauce made with parsley, butter, vinegar, etc. to be served with beef.
Czochralski
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃoʊˈkɹɑlski/
ipa: /t͡ʃəˈkɹælski/
ipa: /t͡ʃɒxˈɹælski/
Etymology: From Polish Czochralski, a surname. Named after the inventor of the process, Jan Czochralski (1885–1953), Polish chemist.
Senses: examples: text: Mascher et al. (1989b) presented a correlated investigation of electron-irradiation-induced divacancies in silicon by positron annihilation, electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR), and infrared absorption. The defects were created by 2-MeV irradiation of Czochralski-grown Si at room temperature to a dose of 1×10¹⁸ cm⁻².
ref: 1999, Reinhard Krause-Rehberg, Hartmut S. Leipner, “Basics of Positron Annihilation in Semiconductors”, in Positron Annihilation in Semiconductors: Defect Studies (Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences; 127), Berlin: Springer, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 104:
text: The energy required to produce electronic grade silicon (EG-Si) from MG-Si is 100 kWh kg⁻¹ and there is a 90% yield. The EG-Si is melted in a Czochralski crystal puller at 1400 °C and the silicon slowly crystallizes to form a single crystal ingot of silicon.
ref: 2011, Basant Agrawal, G. N. Tiwari, “Life Cycle Energy Analysis”, in Building Integrated Photovoltaic Thermal Systems: For Sustainable Developments (RSC Energy Series; 4), Cambridge: RSC Publishing, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 284:
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of Czochralski process.
wikipedia: Jan Czochralski
Synonyms: word: Cz
word: CZ
Related terms: Czochralski process
Czochralski method
Czochralski technique
vasitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vas + -itis or vaso- + -itis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: inflammation of the vas deferens
vitreitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vitreo- + -itis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: inflammation of the vitreous humour
Maslow's hammer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Attributed to Abraham Maslow, who wrote about it in the 1960s.
Senses: glosses: The axiom that "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail".
wikipedia: Abraham Maslow
sigmatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ætɪks
Senses: glosses: The study of the relationships between symbols and the things they represent.
Coordinate terms: semiotics
Related terms: sigmatic
oleovitamin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oleovitamins
Etymology: From oleo- + vitamin.
Senses: glosses: A vitamin administered in the form of an edible oil.
oleovitamins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oleovitamin
statistically significant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more statistically significant
form: most statistically significant
Etymology: (regarding p-values): Coined by Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher
Senses: examples: text: Data were tested for equiproportionality and Chi-square test associated p-value is reported when the difference is statistically significant.
ref: 2016 January 13, “USP2-45 Is a Circadian Clock Output Effector Regulating Calcium Absorption at the Post-Translational Level”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Having a p-value of 0.05 or less (having a probability of 5% or less of occurring by random chance)
glosses: Pertaining to statistical significance
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see statistically, significant.
Related terms: word: statistical significance
word: statistical
word: significant
word: two sigma
word: 2 sigma
word: 2σ (1-in-20)
word: three sigma
word: 3 sigma
word: 3σ (99.7% good or 0.003 bad)
english: gold standard
translation: gold standard
word: five sigma
english: gold standard
translation: gold standard
word: 5 sigma
english: gold standard
translation: gold standard
word: 5σ (1-in-a-million; the )
word: six sigma
word: 6 sigma
word: 6σ (1-in-a-half-billion)
pupilographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pupillographic.
pupilography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pupillography.
pupilograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pupilographs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pupillograph.
pupilogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pupilograms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pupillogram.
pupilographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pupilograph
pupilograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pupilogram
pupillometrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pupilometric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of, or in terms of, pupillometry.
depin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: depins
form: depinning
form: depinned
form: depinned
Etymology: From de- + pin.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To undergo depinning.
depinned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of depin
depins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of depin
intrasecular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + secular.
Senses: glosses: Within a single century; not exceeding a period of 100 years.
intersecular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + secular.
Senses: glosses: Spanning more than one century.
Carmont
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A small settlement near Carmont Hill, Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO8084).
glosses: A former railway station at Newmill, Aberdeenshire council area (OS grid ref NO7883).
PLWH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: PLWHA
glosses: Initialism of people living with HIV.
Newmill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From new + mill.
Senses: glosses: A village near Keith, Moray council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ4352).
glosses: A hamlet in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO7883).
glosses: A hamlet in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, on the River Teviot south-west of Hawick (OS grid ref NT4510).
Related terms: New Mill
New Mills
Newmills
micro-pulling-down
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + pulling down.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A crystal growth technique based on continuous transport of the melted substance through one or more microchannels made in a crucible bottom.
Synonyms: word: μ-PD
μ-PD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of micro-pulling-down.
Koedijk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Alkmaar municipality and Dijk en Waard municipality, North Holland province, Netherlands.
unevocatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unevocatively
form: most unevocatively
Etymology: From unevocative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unevocative manner.
agraphesthesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agraphesthesias
Etymology: From a- + graphesthesia.
Senses: topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: The inability or difficulty recognizing a written number or letter traced on the skin (e.g. of the hand), usually as a consequence of parietal damage.
Uitgeest
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Uitgeest.
Senses: glosses: A village and municipality of North Holland, Netherlands.
sefirah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛfɪɹɑː/
ipa: /səˈfiɹə/
Forms: form: sefiroth
form: sefirot
form: sephirah
form: sephira
form: sefira
Etymology: From Hebrew סְפִירָה (s'firá, “sefirah”, literally “counting, enumeration”), plural סְפִירוֹת (s'firót).
Senses: examples: text: Other nights, depending on how swanky the function and fashionable the gown, there might also be observed, tattooed in exquisite symmetry below Madame Eskimoff's bared nape, the Kabbalist Tree of Life, with the names of the Sephiroth spelled out in Hebrew, which had brought her more than enough of that uniquely snot-nosed British anti-Semitism
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 256:
text: The kabbalists also called the first sefirah, the dark flame that started the revelatory/creative process, "Nothing", because it did not correspond to any reality that we could conceive.
ref: 2007, Karen Armstrong, The Bible: The Biography, Atlantic, published 2008, page 249:
glosses: Each of the ten attributes that God created, through which he can project himself to the universe and man.
glosses: The counting of the Omer, that is, the period of 49 days between Passover and Shavuot.
Heemskerk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Heemskerk.
Senses: glosses: A village and municipality of North Holland, Netherlands.
Bloemendaal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Bloemendaal.
Senses: glosses: A village and municipality of North Holland, Netherlands.
Velsen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Velsen.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of North Holland, Netherlands.
Beverwijk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Beverwijk.
Senses: glosses: A city and municipality of North Holland, Netherlands.
glosses: The former name of Albany, New York.
Castlecary
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in North Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS7877).
Related terms: Castle Cary
openband
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
antonyms: crossband
glosses: Right-handed or "Z shaped", with individual fibers pointing up and to the right when the thread, yarn, or rope is vertical.
raw_tags: of a twist
unpalatables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unpalatable
masotla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Tswana [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A field cultivated as tribute for the chief.
motswere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Tswana [Term?].
Senses: glosses: The tree Combretum imberbe or its wood; leadwood.
Ngamiland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the first-level administrative subdivisions of Botswana.
cattlepost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cattleposts
form: cattle-post
form: cattle post
Etymology: From cattle + post.
Senses: glosses: An outpost where cattle are looked after by herders in parts of Africa.
cattleposts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cattlepost
ethnoaesthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ethno- + aesthetic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to ethnoaesthetics, i.e. the aesthetics of a particular culture.
ethnoarchaeologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From ethnoarchaeological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of ethnoarchaeology.
silalo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silalos
Senses: glosses: A territorial division in parts of southern Africa.
silalos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silalo
matimela
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Tswana [Term?].
Senses: glosses: The management of stray cattle.
phallapodeme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phallapodemes
Etymology: phallus + apodeme
Senses: examples: text: Internally, the male genitalia are made up of a long rod-like phallapodeme (fused to the hypandrium anteriorly), a broad hypandrium (attached to sternite 10) and pregonite (possibly the postgonite), a small ejaculatory apodeme, and a flat basiphallus (forming a ring with the base of the phallapodeme through which the ejaculatory duct passes) that is fused to the distiphallus.
ref: 2009, “Acartophthalmidae”, in Tree of Life web project:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A sclerite articulating with the phallus.
phallapodemes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phallapodeme
minuten pin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minuten pins
Senses: examples: text: The holotype is double mounted (minuten pin in a block of plastic), is in excellent condition, and is deposited in the USNM.
ref: 2012 December 5, Wayne N. Mathis, Tadeusz Zatwarnicki, “A revision of the New World species of Gymnoclasiopa Hendel (Diptera: Ephydridae)”, in ZooKeys, volume 248, →DOI, pages 1–69:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A small, headless insect pin.
minuten pins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minuten pin
sherm-head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sherm-heads
form: sherm head
form: shermhead
Etymology: From sherm + -head.
Senses: glosses: A person addicted to or mentally affected by smoking sherms (cigarettes dipped in phencyclidine).
cock-pit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cock-pits
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cockpit.
cock-pits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cock-pit
currey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: To Make a Currey the India Way
ref: 1774, Hannah Glasse, The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy:
glosses: Obsolete form of curry.
FSR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FSRs
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of First Strike Ration.
FSRs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of FSR
molois
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moloi
crackships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crackship
saving by the bell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of save by the bell
saves by the bell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of save by the bell
chinlocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chinlock
underhooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underhook
underhooks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underhook
Stink Faces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Stink Face
aileron roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aileron rolls
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hyponyms: victory roll
glosses: An aerobatic maneuver in which the aircraft performs a full 360° revolution about its longitudinal axis.
Coordinate terms: barrel roll
rudder roll
snap roll
aileron rolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aileron roll
discoördination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discoördinations
Senses: examples: text: This last activity was studied in the second paper of this series and it was suggested tentatively that the peculiarly adaptive discoördination in this and other reactions might be due to the pull of part upon part, acting through the substrate.
ref: 1922, Hamilton, “Coördination in the Starfish”, in Knight Dunlap, Robert M. Yerkes, editors, The Journal of Comparative Psychology, volume II, Baltimore, page 90:
glosses: Dated spelling of discoordination.
reëligible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: A decision was first reached against an election by Congress, because it was thought that if the chief magistrate should prove himself thoroughly competent he ought to be reëligible ; but if reëligible he would be exposed to the temptation of truckling to the most powerful party or cabal in Congress, in order to secure his reëlection.
ref: 1888, John Fiske, chapter VI, in The Critical Period of American History: 1783–1789, Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, published 1895, pages 279–280:
glosses: Rare spelling of reeligible.
reëmploy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reëmploys
form: reëmploying
form: reëmployed
form: reëmployed
Senses: examples: text: This committee had several interviews with Mr. Turner, and they finally requested him to reëmploy the men who had struck, pending a settlement of the difficulty by arbitration.
ref: 1889 August 29, Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, volume 2, numbers 8–11, New York: James B. Lyon, published 1890, page 284:
text: He claimed the right to discharge such of his employees as he chose at the end of the season and to reëmploy such of them as he should think proper, or to fail to reëmploy such as he might not wish to reëmploy.
ref: 1916, Julius Cohen, chapter XII, in Law and Order in Industry: Five Years’ Experience, New York: MacMillan Company, page 143:
text: A compromise was accordingly proposed under which a premium was to be placed upon reëmployment, the sinistré being left free to reëmploy or not as he chose.
ref: 1922, William MacDonald, chapter IV, in Reconstruction in France, New York: MacMillan Company, page 68:
glosses: Rare spelling of reemploy.
ATs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of AT
appropriate technology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒlədʒi
Senses: synonyms: AT
glosses: The use of technology that is small-scale, affordable by locals, decentralized, labor-intensive, energy-efficient, environmentally sound, and locally autonomous.
isochronality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The property of being isochronal.
appearance money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌni
Senses: glosses: A fee paid by the organizer to a popular competitor in a sporting event, ensuring that they will attend and thus draw crowds.
gyrating angel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyrating angels
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A rescue helicopter.
raw_tags: in the Korean War
gyrating angels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyrating angel
glasseries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glassery
anticipatory retaliation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The carrying out of a preemptive strike.
attention getter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attention getters
Senses: examples: text: The results indicated significant performance degradation when a master visual attention-getter was not used. Mean detection times were substantially slower in the absence of an attention-getter in the pilot's primary field of vision.
ref: 1980, Aircraft Alerting Systems Standardization Study, Phase I, page 9:
text: Master caution and warning systems were developed to ease pilot workload, particularly on aircraft designed for operation without a flight engineer. In addition to the attention getter, it also directs the pilot towards the problem area concerned.
ref: 2009, David Wyatt, Mike Tooley, Aircraft Electrical and Electronic Systems, page 228:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A warning light within an aircraft, indicating malfunction.
attention getters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attention getter
Cardan shaft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cardan shafts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cardan shaft.
Cardan shafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cardan shaft
quasistochastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quasi- + stochastic.
Senses: glosses: Having certain stochastic or stochastic-like aspects.
ripomatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ripomatics
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ripamatic.
ripomatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ripomatic
grammarise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: grammarises
form: grammarising
form: grammarised
form: grammarised
Senses: examples: text: Is it possible to grammarise these words, vivisect them, to understand their Oriental allusion, and to escape their immediate and mortal application to ourselves?
ref: 1889, Joseph Parker, The People's Bible: Discourses Upon Holy Scripture:
text: This he did with no little grief, and so all attempt to lexiconise and grammarise the Hausa language was thrown back for many years, during which a knowledge of it would have been of material use in various British operations on the West Coast of Africa
ref: 1909, Sir Francis Galton, Memories of My Life, page 173:
text: Aspirations to 'grammarise' the comprehensives were again evident from the remarks of Education Committee members.
ref: 2017, David Crook, Ken Fogelman, Alan C. Kerckhoff, Going Comprehensive in England and Wales:
glosses: Alternative form of grammarize.
grammarises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of grammarise
grammarising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of grammarise
grammarised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of grammarise
grammarizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of grammarize
grammarizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of grammarize
grammarized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of grammarize
sea smoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: frost smoke
steam fog
glosses: A fog formed when very cold air moves over warmer water.
Derived terms: Arctic sea smoke
grammarisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grammarism
Euroyen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Euroyen
Etymology: From Euro- + yen.
Senses: topics: business
finance
hypernyms: Eurocurrency
glosses: A deposit, in Japanese yen, held in a bank outside of Japan.
Eurosterling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Euro- + sterling.
Senses: topics: business
finance
hypernyms: Eurocurrency
glosses: A deposit, in pounds sterling, held in a bank outside of the United Kingdom.
Euroeuro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Euroeuros
Etymology: From Euro- + euro.
Senses: topics: business
finance
hypernyms: Eurocurrency
glosses: A deposit, in the euro currency, held in a bank outside of the Eurozone.
Euroeuros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Euroeuro
Eurofranc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eurofrancs
Etymology: From Euro- + franc.
Senses: topics: business
finance
hypernyms: Eurocurrency
glosses: A deposit, in French francs, held in a bank outside of France.
Euromark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Euromarks
Etymology: From Euro- + mark.
Senses: topics: business
finance
hypernyms: Eurocurrency
glosses: A deposit, in Deutsche Marks, held in a bank outside of Germany.
Eurofrancs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eurofranc
Euromarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Euromark
at liberty
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I made a few notes about some incidents that had happened to me, some others I'd been told about by friends. Some of the things in the book really happened, I'm not at liberty to say which ones. But they've all been changed around, and the Cahulawassee River is a composite of about three rivers I've gone down.
ref: 1970 March 22, Walter Clemons, “James Dickey, Novelist”, in New York Times:
glosses: Free; not confined or restricted.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: Unemployed; out of work.
fenestrid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fenestrids
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
synonyms: fenestrate
glosses: Any extinct bryozoan in the order Fenestrida.
fenestrids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fenestrid
attritioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of attrition
attritioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of attrition
plough iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plough irons
form: plow iron
Senses: glosses: The colter of a plough.
plough irons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plough iron
plow iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plow irons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of plough iron.
plow irons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plow iron
attritable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more attritable
form: most attritable
Etymology: From attrit + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to undergo attrition.
attritability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From attrit + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The ability to undergo attrition.
Philippine cobra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Philippine cobras
Senses: glosses: Naja philippinensis, is a stocky, highly venomous species of spitting cobra native to the northern regions of the Philippines.
Synonyms: northern Philippine cobra
Philippine cobras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Philippine cobra
Medcroft
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
perch stay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perch stays
Senses: glosses: One of the side rods bracing the perch of a carriage to the rear axle.
perch stays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perch stay
corkscrewings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corkscrewing
motor cruiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motor cruisers
Senses: examples: text: Graceful old houses stand by the edge of the Great Ouse and gaze down at the houseboats, skiffs and motor-cruisers that moor there.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications, page 223, about Hemingford Grey:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A small pleasure craft that is fitted with an engine.
crepitance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard spelling of crepitus.
aegyo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛɡ.joʊ/
ipa: /ˈeɪɡ.joʊ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 애교(愛嬌) (aegyo).
Senses: examples: text: A few years ago, the trend for girl groups was to show innocence and aegyo, a Korean term meaning acting cute.
ref: 2014, Nagyon Kim, "Broadcasting companies impose stricter rules on K-pop choreography", Tiger Times (Seoul International School), March 2014, page 8
text: The members performed 'Touch' and 'Good Thing' with copious amounts of aegyo which made it impossible not to grin.
ref: 2019 August, Helen Rodgers, “NCT 127: Live In London”, in UKP Magazine, page 12:
text: The chemistry and friendship between the members was obvious as they joked and teased with one another, embarrassing each other with aegyo.
ref: 2020 May, Brianna Reason, “SuperM: Live In London”, in UKP Magazine, page 17:
qualifier: South Korean idol fandom
glosses: Cuteness, adorableness, charm.
Related terms: kawaii
moe
one-camel town
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aʊn
Forms: form: one-camel towns
Etymology: By analogy with one-horse town.
Senses: glosses: A very small town in the desert, especially one of a rural nature and/or offering very few or no attractions.
selca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selcas
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 셀카 (selka), from English self + camera.
Senses: examples: text: My daughter and her friends take the best selcas and that's even before they use filters.
ref: 2017, Dinna Chan Vasquez, "Let me take a selfie", BusinessMirror, 19 August 2016, page A10
text: Jimin's selca (selfie) obsession provides ARMY with a wealth of glorious photos.
ref: 2018, Adrian Besley, BTS: Icons of K-Pop, unnumbered page:
text: Fans take selcas with cutouts of BTS wearing traditional Korean garb—hanbok—at an exhibit of the 2018 Gangnam Festival.
ref: 2019, Katy Sprinkel, The Big Book of BTS: The Deluxe Unofficial Bangtan Book, unnumbered page (image caption)
qualifier: South Korean idol fandom
glosses: A photographic portrait taken by the subject; a selfie.
door phone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: door phones
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of doorphone.
Ribagorza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish Ribagorza.
Senses: glosses: A historical region in Aragon and Catalonia
glosses: A county (comarca) of Aragon
lithiatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lithiasis + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Observations of suppurating pancreatic angeitis with abscess of the pancreas of lithiatic origin are rather rare.
ref: 1897, M. J. Nicholas, The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly Journal Containing a Retrospective View of Every Discovery and Practical Improvement in the Medical Sciences, volume 115, page 266:
text: G3 was reserved as lithiatic control and G4 was further treated orally with divided doses of extract of 60 mg/kg of body weight daily by gavages.
ref: 2006, Pravin Chandra Trivedi, Medicinal Plants: Traditional Knowledge, I. K. International Pvt Ltd, →ISBN, page 58:
text: Primary aetiology can be further subdivided into the more common lithiatic biliary obstruction or the less common non-lithiatic biliary obstruction.
ref: 2018, Massimo Sartelli, Matteo Bassetti, Ignacio Martin-Loeches, Abdominal Sepsis: A Multidisciplinary Approach, Springer, →ISBN, page 69:
glosses: of or pertaining to lithiasis.
Derived terms: antilithiatic
ijam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ijam
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of i'jam.
zennana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zennanas
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of zenana.
zennanas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zennana
hippopotamoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hippopotamos
brattery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bratteries
Etymology: From brat + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: I should esteem myself in luck, were the nuisances of this seaport confined only to two senses; but, alas! the apartment above my head proves a squalling brattery, and the sounds which proceed from it are so loud and frequent, that a person might think himself in limbo, without any extravagance.
ref: 1834, William Beckford (novelist), (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: Whole bratteries of little Aarons and Abrahams, who invariably after two years old, but sometimes earlier, develop the noses and the expressions of their elders, are also airing at the doors.
ref: 1899, Blackwood's Magazine, volume 165, page 676:
glosses: A collection of brats; a children's nursery, etc.
glosses: Brattish behaviour.
bratteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brattery
muscarinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: mycetism by mushrooms of the species Amanita muscaria
Dambly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
reqmt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reqmts
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of requirement.
arkhalig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arkhaligs
form: arkhaluk
form: arkhalukh
form: arkaluk
form: arkalick
Etymology: From Turkic: compare Azerbaijani arxalıq, Turkish arkalık.
Senses: glosses: A long tight-waist jacket worn by the peoples of the Caucasus and Iran, made of various kinds of fabric, such as silk, satin, cloth, cashmere and velvet, traditionally depending on the social status of its owner.
mutationistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to mutationism
underprotect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underprotects
form: underprotecting
form: underprotected
form: underprotected
Etymology: From under- + protect.
Senses: synonyms: underdefend
glosses: To give insufficient protection to.
underdefend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underdefends
form: underdefending
form: underdefended
form: underdefended
Etymology: From under- + defend.
Senses: synonyms: underprotect
glosses: To defend inadequately.
underprotection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From under- + protection.
Senses: glosses: inadequate protection
underprotects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underprotect
underprotecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underprotect
underdefending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underdefend
underdefends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underdefend
spiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spiters
Etymology: From spite + -er.
Senses: examples: text: “[…] Old Mordred and Ursil hate me, and I hate them; they spite me now, and when I can, I shall spite them.” / “Ah!” said Morgan, remembering his own expressions the evening before, when overheard by Father Aidan, “so I suppose we all are by nature.” / “All are what?” asked his companion. / “All haters and spiters of our enemies.” / “To be sure we are,” replied the girl; “it comes to us, as you say, naturally.[…]”
ref: 1841, [Anna Austen Lefroy], “The Captive”, in The Winter’s Tale: To Which Is Added Little Bertram’s Dream, London: James Burns, […], pages 60–61:
text: They considered that the sanctity of the mount had been ‹ brutally trampled on by the spiters of the Lord › when ‹ Ammonites, Moabites, Ishmaelites, Edomites, and Hagarites came bringing coffins and all kinds of unclean things to it. ›
ref: 1966, Mordechai Nurock, Misha Louvish, transl., edited by David Ben-Gurion, The Jews in their Land, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, page 205:
text: For sheer blasphemous defiance, his moonlit scene rivals for me the great God-spiters of myth and literature: Dante’s Vanni Fucci, looking solemnly up to Heaven from Inferno XXV and flipping the Almighty the thirteenth-century equivalent of the Italian salute; Prometheus himself, writhing on his rock, forever unrepentant.
ref: 2001, The American Scholar, volume 70, Washington, D.C.: Phi Beta Kappa, →ISSN, page 20:
text: From the hand of the Lord, however, a spirit atween the king and his sleep; till the king reasoned that for reward to Mordecai, he should be set up on high; and with this, the crown set upon his head: as it was revealed that Mordecai had spoiled a plan spun together by the venomous spiters of the king.
ref: 2013, “Delivery 4”, in Ravens Station Steward, →ISBN:
glosses: One who spites (someone).
Philpstoun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in West Lothian council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT0477).
Capcom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Capcoms
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of CAPCOM.
Gogar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A rural area of Edinburgh council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT1672).
glosses: A town in Dakahlia governorate, Egypt.
Cockburnspath
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Berwickshire, Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT7771).
payis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of peot.
Grantshouse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Berwickshire, Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT8065).
reprovisionings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reprovisioning
bandpassed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Equipped with, or processed by a bandpass filter
East Fortune
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in East Lothian council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT5479).
Related terms: english: a hamlet to the west
translation: a hamlet to the west
word: West Fortune
alubukhara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alubukharas
form: alu-bukhara
form: alu bukhara
form: albukhara
form: aloo bukhara
form: aloo bokhara
form: aloobukhara
Etymology: Ultimately from Persian آلوی بخارا (âlu-ye boxârâ).
Senses: glosses: A cultivar of plum found in Turkestan, Iran and the South Caucasus, commonly eaten as a prune (dried plum).
triphenyltetrazolium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A triphenyl derivative of a tetrazolium cation
Burnmouth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɜː(ɹ)nməθ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nməθ
Etymology: From burn (“stream”) + mouth. Doublet of Bournemouth.
Senses: glosses: A coastal village in Berwickshire, Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT9560).
Akesu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: äʹku̇so͞oʹ
äʹkōʹso͞oʹ
Forms: form: A-k'o-su
form: Akosu
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 阿克蘇 /阿克苏 (Ākèsū).
Senses: examples: text: In the past 1 year or so, a unit of the PLA capital construction engineer corps located some underground water sources and sank 30 earthen wells for local people in Akesu Prefecture, Xinjiang.
ref: 1979 September 5 [1979 July 29], “Armymen Sink Wells”, in China Report: Agriculture, number 52, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Urumqi Xinjiang Regional Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, page 45:
text: A fourth prefecture, Akesu, has been designated as a specialist semi-coarse wool growing area. Pure-bred sheep have been imported from Kazakhstan and elsewhere to upgrade the semi-coarse wool sheep in Akesu Prefecture.
ref: 1993, John W. Longworth, Gregory J. Williamson, “Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region”, in China's Pastoral Region: Sheep and Wool, Minority Nationalities, Rangeland Degradation and Sustainable Development, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 156:
text: Some oil continued to gurgle to the surface. In 1987, the government for Akesu district, which includes Kuche, complained to Xinjiang provincial authorities that oil from the wells threatened local drinking supplies. Akesu sought and gained the power to allow villagers to collect whatever oil sprung from the wells. With local government encouragement, peasants with donkey carts began hauling away oil in buckets.
ref: 2005 November 1, Peter S. Goodman, “Oil Investors Tapped Out Of Wells”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Mar 2023:
text: The distance between Hetian of southern Xinjiang and Tacheng of northern Xinjiang or Hami of eastern Xinjiang is about 2,700 km, and people had to travel 100 days to reach the destination. Though for the short straight-line distance between Yining and Akesu, Kuche, it was still quite difficult to go through because of the Bingdaban which is more than 4,000 meters high.
ref: 2014, Xinping Li, “Transportation, Plentiful Money and Treasures”, in Modern Xinjiang [活力新疆], Beijing: China Intercontinental Press [五洲传播出版社], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 3:
english: 活力新疆
translation: 活力新疆
text: Mehmut Memet, 23, and his mother, Ayturem Hudesh, went missing from their home township of Aqyar, in Aksu (in Chinese, Akesu) prefecture’s Uchturpan (Wushi) county, in 2017, Mehmut’s Turkey-based sister Zeytune Memet recently told RFA’s Uyghur Service.
ref: 2020 March 18, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Missing Uyghur Brothers Confirmed Detained in Xinjiang Internment Camp”, in Elise Anderson, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 19 Mar 2020:
glosses: Synonym of Aksu: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
synonyms: word: Aksu
extra: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name
Christon Bank
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Christon (originally Cryston) family.
Senses: glosses: A small village in Embleton parish, Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NU2123).
unulcerated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + ulcerated.
Senses: glosses: Not ulcerated.