cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
midknee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + knee.
Senses: examples: text: Rather than introduce new silhouettes, couturiers spotlight the complete costume with accessorized hats, shoes, even hair and makeup. Skirts rise to midknee, but drop again by the end of the year.
ref: 1993, Rita Lang Kleinfelder, When we were young: a baby boomer yearbook, page 297:
text: White-stockinged legs visible from midknee down slowly materialize and fill the shoes. The legs launch into a frenetic dance, their kicking feet turning to face the mirror.
ref: 2007, Jill Fields, An Intimate Affair: Women, Lingerie, and Sexuality, page 18:
glosses: A height (for skirts etc.) around the middle of the knee.
unaccessorized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + accessorized.
Senses: glosses: Not accessorized.
rondinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rondino
demofreak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demofreaks
Etymology: From demo + freak.
Senses: topics: computing
demoscene
engineering
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A demoscene enthusiast.
demofreaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demofreak
tylostrongyles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tylostrongyle
wonut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wonuts
Etymology: Blend of waffle + donut. First popularized in 2014 at Waffles Cafe in Chicago by owner Alex Hernandez.
Senses: examples: text: Wonuts are made with a two-step cooking process, and in that way they're similar to bagels.
ref: 2015, Ellen Brown, Donut Nation: A Cross-Country Guide to America's Best Artisan Donut Shops:
glosses: A type of waffle that uses a mix of waffle and doughnut dough, and is deep fried and decorated like a doughnut.
comedolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In comedolysis, stimulation of epithelial turnover leads to an increased production of loose horny cells which no longer stick tightly together.
ref: 1973, Harry Beckman, The Year Book of Drug Therapy:
text: As a result, comedogenesis, comedolysis and bacterial load can be accurately quantified.
ref: 1999, Alternatives to Laboratory Animals: ATLA.:
text: The medication also has some keratolytic effect, which produces comedolysis as well as drying and desquamative actions that contribute to its efficacy.
ref: 2006, United States Pharmacopeial Convention, USP DI: United States Pharmacopeia Dispensing Information:
text: All of the above factors demonstrate that comedolysis is retinoid-specific, not simply secondary to desquamation.
ref: 2007, Guy F. Webster, Anthony V. Rawlings, Acne and Its Therapy, CRC Press, →ISBN:
text: Salicylic acid peels are therefore preferred for patients wishing comedolysis as part of acne treatment or for patients wishing to remove retained hairs and other debris from within the pore.
ref: 2011, Bahman Guyuron, Brian M. Kinney, Aesthetic Plastic Surgery Video Atlas E Book, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 14:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The disintegration of comedones.
Related terms: comedolytic
die plate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: die plates
Senses: glosses: A die in the form of a metal plate.
topics: arts
crafts
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
metallurgy
metalworking
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A die in the form of a metal plate.
A type of die for cutting screw threads on male fasteners; it is arranged in the form of a plate of tool steel with a graduated series of holes, each being the die opening for a certain size of screw. A predecessor of today's tap and die sets, it is now considered an antique type of tool, no longer in common use but still sometimes desirable as a collectible among tool collectors.
glosses: A metal plate that is part of a die.
tree nut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tree nuts
Senses: coordinate_terms: earthnut
groundnut
glosses: Any of the nuts that grow on trees.
Related terms: food tree
fruit tree
die plates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of die plate
tree nuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tree nut
track meet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: track meets
Etymology: From track + meet.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An athletic contest for track and field sports.
Related terms: field meet
acquital
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acquitals
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of acquittal.
donkey show
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: donkey shows
Senses: examples: text: Every time I went there all I looked for were strippers, street tacos, and the donkey show.
ref: 2012, Adam Carolla, Not Taco Bell Material:
glosses: A type of sexual performance most often associated with Tijuana, Mexico, in which a woman engages in bestiality with a donkey.
donkey shows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of donkey show
periictal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: peri-ictal
Senses: examples: text: It does not require any of the elaborate video-EEG monitor unit facilities required for periictal studies, but the concurrent performance of an EEG recording during the injection to ensure that it is truly interictal is desirable.
ref: 2000, Thomas R. Henry, John S. Duncan, Samuel F. Berkovic, Functional Imaging in the Epilepsies:
text: The relationship between PGES and periictal autonomic changes was evaluated, as well as its association with several clinical variables.
ref: 2013, Central Nervous System Diseases—Advances in Research and Treatment: 2013 Edition, Scholarly Editions, →ISBN, page 8:
text: Periictal bradycardia (heart rate less than the 2nd percentile for age) has been documented in 2% to 4% of monitored seizures.
ref: 2015, Elaine Wyllie, Wyllie's Treatment of Epilepsy: Principles and Practice, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN, page 153:
text: The continued inclusion of consciousness in the definition of seizures and epilepsy is related to the concerning clinical morbidity associated with global encephalopathy and altered perception during the ictal and periictal states.
ref: 2015, Erik K. St Louis, David M. Ficker, Terence J. O'Brien, Epilepsy and the Interictal State: Co-morbidities and Quality of Life, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 31:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the time around a seizure episode.
kettle bottom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kettle bottoms
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A smooth cylindrical piece of petrified wood in the ceiling of a mine which may drop down and injure or kill miners
juvenarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌd͡ʒuːvəˈnɛəɹi.əm/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒuvəˈnɛɹi.əm/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm
Forms: form: juvenaria
form: juvenariums
Senses: examples: text: The earlier figure may be considered to represent this form, for the latter figure is an atypical specimen with multiple juvenaria.
ref: 1959, Walter Leroy Moore, Pennsylvanian foraminifera from the Big Saline formation of the Llano uplift of Texas:
text: Later on, the above three genera evolved until various levels of the Eocene in America with unchanged equatorial chamber build-up, but with the microspheric juvenariums becoming more and more simple.
ref: 1987, Geologica Hungarica: Series palaeontologica - Volume 51, page 74:
text: Test large, subspherical, biumbilicate, inflated, early whorls closely coiled, forming a fusiform juvenarium, later whorls rapidly enlarging in height but coiling axis enlarging more slowly so that adult test becomes globular and strongly umbilicate, final whorl of reduced height as in Pseudoschwagerinal wall of tectum and keriotheca, chomata prominent in the fusiform juvenarium, very faint in later wholrls.
ref: 2015, Alfred R. Loeblich Jr., Helen Tappan, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification, →ISBN, page 284:
glosses: A shell or portion thereof of a foraminifer in the youngest stage of shell-building.
juvenaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of juvenarium
juvenariums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of juvenarium
Andean potato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Andean potatoes
Senses: glosses: Solanum tuberosum andigena
Derived terms: Andean potato latent virus
Andean potato mild mosaic virus
attap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈatəp/
ipa: /ˈaˌtap/
Forms: form: attaps
form: adap
form: atap
Etymology: Borrowed from Malay atap (“roof”).
Senses: glosses: Nipa; a palm tree of the species Nypa fruticans.
glosses: Thatch made from leaves of the nipa palm.
Derived terms: attap hut
attap palm
attap roof
switch codes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: switches codes
form: switching codes
form: switched codes
form: switched codes
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: To change from playing rugby league to rugby union or vice versa
intrapenile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: For male patients in whom no other immediate venous channel is available, the intrapenile route may represent a life-saving alternative. Acute injection of fluid into corpora cavernosa was used to produce penile erection.
ref: 1982, Godec CJ, Cass AS, “The penis-a possible alternative emergency venous access for males?”, in Ann. Emerg. Med., volume 11, number 5, pages 266–268:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Within the penis.
navigation bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: navigation bars
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: navbar
glosses: A bar at the top of a graphical user interface containing links that allow users to move around the page and/or program
Rapunzelesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Rapunzelesque
form: most Rapunzelesque
Etymology: From Rapunzel + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of Rapunzel, especially in having very long hair.
Indian rummy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌmi
Senses: topics: card-games
games
glosses: A certain Indian variant of rummy, with 13 cards dealt to each player.
Indian Rummy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Indian rummy.
sequence point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sequence points
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Any point during a computer program's execution at which it is guaranteed that all side effects of previous evaluations will have been performed, and no side effects from subsequent evaluations have yet been performed.
sequence points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sequence point
weighten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: weightens
form: weightening
form: weightened
form: weightened
Etymology: From weight + -en.
Senses: examples: text: The idea of all this shifting was simply to weighten the bows, thereby lightening the stern, and so obtain the utmost hydrodynamic benefit.
ref: 2001, Bernard Moitessier, Sailing to the Reefs, page 214:
qualifier: literal
glosses: To add or give weight to; make heavy
examples: text: In the case of a conflict it either prompts the user for more specific observations, weightens the reliability of the results in order to prefer the most likely one, or tums over the diagnosis task to the particular diagnoses expert agents again.
ref: 1998, Sahin Albayrak, Intelligent Agents for Telecommunications Applications:
glosses: To give support or importance to; make weighty
examples: text: Efforts were made to cheer the King, and rouse him from the depression with which his sorrows began to weighten him.
ref: 1880, Charles Octavius S. Morgan, Historical traditions and facts relating to Newport and Caerleon:
text: That saturating hopelessness of the wholly corrupt state, the invisible but dense fog which weightens the movements of all within it, on this night, just before an election, with everyone turning out in a beautiful venue on a sunny evening, that hopelessness seemed imperceptibly to be lifting.
ref: 2017, Dominic Dromgoole, Hamlet: Globe to Globe: Two Years, 190,000 Miles, 197 Countries, One Play:
glosses: To weigh down
examples: text: Her lids weightened, slightly hooding violet eyes that mesmerically followed the teardrop trailings.
ref: 1987, Mary Brendan, Beloved avenger, page 29:
glosses: To become heavy
weightened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of weighten
weightening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From weighten + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of weighten
weightening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weightenings
Etymology: From weighten + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of adding weight to
weightens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of weighten
hand rubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hand rub
hand lotions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hand lotion
hand cream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hand creams
Senses: glosses: A cosmetic cream used to moisturize the hands.
Related terms: face cream
weightenings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weightening
hand creams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hand cream
grocería
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grocerías
Senses: examples: text: She walked toward Avenue C. The black tar with a hideous spectre and the dim grocerías tucked into the walls.
ref: 1970, Paul Spike, “The Conference Man”, in Bad News, New York, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, published 1971, →ISBN, page 90:
text: It’s a street like hundreds of others in New York, it’s got a subway stop on it, it’s mostly Spanish up there now I think, and it’s probably got cigar stores and grocerías and Spanish graffiti, which looks the same as English graffiti, since you can’t read any of it anyway.
ref: 1990, Robert Chibka, chapter 6, in A Slight Lapse, New York, N.Y.; London: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 182:
text: What little I eat comes from a grocería about ten miles down Highway 31, a place where the migrants buy their food.
ref: 2013, Will Ludwigsen, “The Ghost Factory”, in In Search Of and Others, Maple Shade, N.J.: Lethe Press, →ISBN, page 124:
glosses: Alternative form of groceria.
Accettola
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Gayla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
common polypody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Polypodium vulgare, native to western Europe and northern Africa.
glosses: Polypodium virginianum, native to North America.
unsparrowlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsparrowlike
form: most unsparrowlike
Senses: glosses: Not like a sparrow in form or behaviour.
Bartella
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: See Assyrian Neo-Aramaic ܒܲܪܛܸܠܵܐ (barṭillā).
Senses: glosses: A town in northern Iraq; capital of Nineveh province.
glosses: A surname from Italian.
high speed, low drag
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aviation, where wings and other exterior aircraft parts are designed to minimize drag and thus maximize the craft's potential speed.
Senses: glosses: Highly efficient.
examples: text: "It was an ad hoc, special sanction tactical team, made up of what we call in the business 'high-speed, low-drag' operators. The very best of the very best."
ref: 2009, Mark Greaney, The Gray Man, Penguin, →ISBN, page 40:
text: "Captain O'Malley tells me you're all high speed, low drag people," Kinkaid began. "Capable and dependable, unlike most claymores."
ref: 2003, Derek Hart, Shadows in Replay, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 109:
glosses: Competent or reliable.
high speed, low drag
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From aviation, where wings and other exterior aircraft parts are designed to minimize drag and thus maximize the craft's potential speed.
Senses: glosses: Highly efficiently or competently.
Related terms: CDI factor
mall ninja
white goosefoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Chenopodium album, probably native to Europe, now widely cultivated.
Synonyms: sense: Chenopodium album
word: lamb's quarters
sense: Chenopodium album
word: melde
sense: Chenopodium album
word: goosefoot
sense: Chenopodium album
word: manure weed
sense: Chenopodium album
word: fat hen
Shelru
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Shelta language.
Sheldru
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Shelta language.
bog Latin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dog Latin.
synonyms: word: dog Latin
anesthesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From an- + -esthesis.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anaesthesis.
anaesthesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From an- + -aesthesis.
Senses: glosses: loss of feeling; insensibility
speech tags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speech tag
speech paths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speech path
patonces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patonce
regested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of regest
regesting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of regest
apogaeic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more apogaeic
form: most apogaeic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of apogeic.
reprovably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more reprovably
form: most reprovably
Etymology: From reprovable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a reprovable manner.
percussant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The central problem for this study was the imbalanced provision of already published evidence. He has resolved it in a striking and percussant manner. He closes in first on the problem of continental government, which the patriots inherited, supplying the essential material on state-making, from the Albany Plan of 1754,[…]
ref: 1970 August 20, J. R. Pole, The Revolution in America 1754–1788: Documents and Commentaries, Springer, →ISBN:
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:percussant.
glosses: Percussive; striking (also figuratively).
synomosy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synomosies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek συνωμοσία (sunōmosía, “conspiracy”).
Senses: glosses: A group of political or other conspirators bound together by oath; a secret society.
synomosies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synomosy
podial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a podium.
Derived terms: peripodial
dogmatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dogmatory
form: most dogmatory
Senses: glosses: dogmatic; opinionated
headworker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headworkers
Etymology: From head + worker.
Senses: glosses: One who performs mental or intellectual labour.
headworkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of headworker
Talpa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A number of places, including:
A settlement in Taos County, New Mexico, United States.
glosses: A number of places, including:
An unincorporated community in Coleman County, Texas, United States.
Related terms: San Juan Talpa
San Luis Talpa
Tyrrhenian mole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tyrrhenian moles
Senses: glosses: Any of species †Talpa tyrrhenica of extinct moles.
Tyrrhenian moles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tyrrhenian mole
carrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carrats
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of carat.
carrats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carrat
common sorrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Rumex acetosa, a taxonomic species within the family Polygonaceae, garden sorrel, native in much of Europe.
Synonyms: sense: Rumex acetosa
word: spinach dock
sense: Rumex acetosa
word: narrow-leaved dock
aborization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of arborization.
acrothoracican
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acrothoracicans
Senses: glosses: Any barnacle of the superorder Acrothoracica
acrothoracicans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acrothoracican
adambulacrals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adambulacral
field poppy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red poppies
Senses: glosses: the common poppy (Papaver rhoeas), native to western Eurasia and north Africa.
Synonyms: sense: Papaver rhoeas
word: corn poppy
sense: Papaver rhoeas
word: Flanders poppy
sense: Papaver rhoeas
word: red poppy
adiponection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of adiponectin.
aeropalynological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aero- + palynological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to aeropalynology
allocentrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From allo- + centrically.
Senses: glosses: In an allocentric manner
Shaksperian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Shaksperian
form: most Shaksperian
Etymology: From Shakspere + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of Shakespearean.
Shakesperian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Shakesperian
form: most Shakesperian
Etymology: From Shakespere + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: I could have spoken in blank verse of Shakesperian beauty, all sorts of great ideas flashed through my mind; it was as though the bonds of my flesh had been loosened and left the spirit free to soar to the empyrean of its native power.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: Archaic spelling of Shakespearean.
Danteism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Dante + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The literary style of Dante Alighieri.
people's palace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: people's palaces
Senses: glosses: An institution for the amusement, recreation, and association of working-class people.
people's palaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of people's palace
phelonion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /fəˈləʊniən/
Forms: form: phelonions
form: phelonia
form: phaelonion
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φαιλόνιον (phailónion).
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A liturgical vestment worn by a priest of the Eastern Christian tradition, equivalent to the chasuble of the Western tradition.
scelidosaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /sɪˈlɪdəsɔː(ɹ)/
Forms: form: scelidosaurs
Senses: glosses: A dinosaur of the genus Scelidosaurus.
Related terms: scelidosaurian
scelidosaurid
scelidosauroid
scelidosaurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scelidosaur
cottonocrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cottonocrats
Senses: glosses: A ruler of a cottonocracy.
cottonocrats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cottonocrat
debituminizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of debituminize
Torricellian chamber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Torricellian chambers
Senses: topics: diving
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
underwater-diving
glosses: A cave chamber with an airspace above the water at less than atmospheric pressure.
Torricellian chambers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Torricellian chamber
e-date
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-dates
Etymology: From e- + date.
Senses: examples: text: Hardly a moment passed when one of two men I'd seen together at the bar approached me and introduced himself as my e-date.
ref: 2004, Rochelle Turoff Mucha, Men and Me: Entertainment to Insight, page 132:
text: If you neglect to mention your shyness, when you finally meet your e-dates, your online image may not match your real one.
ref: 2004, Bonnie Jacobson, The Shy Single: A Bold Guide to Dating for the Less-than-Bold Dater:
synonyms: cyberdate
glosses: A person who takes part in e-dating.
e-dates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-date
enneatype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enneatypes
Senses: glosses: A person's personality type according to the Enneagram of Personality.
enneatypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enneatype
low-sulphur
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: low-sulfur
Senses: glosses: having a low sulphur content, fuel in particular.
package tour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: package tours
Senses: glosses: A package holiday involving a tour from place to place.
package tours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of package tour
clyfaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clyfakers
Etymology: From cly + faker.
Senses: glosses: A pickpocket.
clying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cly
clies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cly
clyfakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clyfaker
clied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cly
clyfaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cly + faking.
Senses: glosses: Pickpocketing.
surface analysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surface analyses
Etymology: From surface (“outward appearance”) + analysis.
Senses: examples: text: Class guessers for the Xerox tagger assign potential POS [part-of-speech] tags to unknown words according to a surface analysis of the word form. In addition to the common practice of mapping POS tags according to the words’ suffixes, this implementation makes use of the case of the initial letter of a word, which is highly significant for POS assignment in German.
ref: 2013, S. Armstrong, Kenneth W. Church, Pierre Isabelle, Sandra Manzi, Evelyne Tzoukermann, David Yarowsky, Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora, →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Any synchronically valid analysis of a word’s morphology regardless of whether it represents its diachronic etymology, that is, its historical origin.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see surface, analysis.
Synonyms: surface etymology
Related terms: folk etymology
reanalysis
rebracketing
typology
surface analyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surface analysis
incudomalleolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: incudal and malleolar; applied to a small synovial joint that transfers vibrations between the ossicles in the middle ear, facilitating sound perception
sesquiduple
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of two and a half times.
Related terms: sesquiduplicate
needs must
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: needs must
form: needs must
Senses: examples: text: Then I walked about, till I found on the further side, a great river of sweet water, running with a strong current; whereupon I called to mind the boat-raft I had made aforetime and said to myself, "Needs must I make another; haply I may free me from this strait. If I escape, I have my desire and I vow to Allah Almighty to forswear travel; and if I perish I shall be at peace and shall rest from toil and moil."
ref: 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 564:
glosses: Alternative form of must needs.
needs must
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: “Needs must,” and the haughty summons of Britain rings even in the impregnable heart of Thibet. This is the mission of Empire, the will of a dominant people bent on advancing the interests of trade.
ref: 1905, The Chronicle of the London Missionary Society, page 199:
text: "Needs must and all that – and the devil so often does, doesn't he?" “Excuse me?" "Drives – the devil. Such a relentless old bugger."
ref: 1999, Jill Laurimore, Going to Pot, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 155:
glosses: Ellipsis of needs must when the devil drives.
anti-consumer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anti-consumer
form: most anti-consumer
Etymology: From anti- + consumer.
Senses: examples: text: ...the Commission was aware of the anticonsumer effects of market segmentation...
ref: 2000, Roland Francis Stephen, Vehicle of influence: building a European car market:
glosses: Opposing the consumer.
anti-consumer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-consumers
Etymology: From anti- + consumer.
Senses: glosses: A person of anticonsumerist beliefs.
beard-stroking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: deep thought or contemplation, especially when pretentious
Related terms: head-scratching
Muping
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mu-p'ing
Etymology: From Mandarin 牟平 (Mùpíng).
Senses: examples: text: He was telling Keng about the tactical agreement he had made with the guerillas^([sic]) in Muping and of his interviews with Shen Hung-lieh, chairman of the Shantung provincial government, when they suddenly heard a commotion outside.
ref: 1947, Yang Shuo, “Purge by Fire”, in Chi-chen Wang, editor, Stories of China at War, London: Oxford University Press, →OCLC, page 71:
text: A worker installs polycrystalline silicon solar panels as terrestrial photovoltaic power project starts in Guanshui Town of Muping District on November 17, 2015 in Yantai, Shandong Province of China.
ref: 2017 May 25, Jeff Desjardins, “Experts are hilariously bad at forecasting solar installations”, in Business Insider, archived from the original on 08 May 2022:
text: The village of Liushengyuan was in the Muping district of Yantai (the former colonial-era treaty port of Chefoo, briefly controlled by the Germans before World War I).
ref: 2019, Weijian Shan, Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 69:
glosses: A district of Yantai, Shandong, China.
Synonyms: Mou-p'ing
Mowping
Qiaokou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌt͡ʃjaʊˈkoʊ/
Forms: form: Ch'iao-k'ou
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 礄口 /硚口 (Qiáokǒu).
Senses: examples: text: When the Northern Expedition reached Wuhan in 1927 Li Ts'ai-lien, although only a girl of fifteen, plunged headlong into revolutionary work and was active as a trade union organizer in the workers' district of Ch'iao-k'ou.
ref: [1980 [1957], Fan-hsi Wang, “The Pacific War and a New Split in the Organization”, in Gregor Benton, transl., Memoirs of a Chinese Revolutionary, New York: Columbia University Press, published 1991, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 243:
text: Hankou’s industries were concentrated either on the outskirts of Jiang’an District or in Qiaokou District.
ref: 1995, Shaoguang Wang, Failure of Charisma: the Cultural Revolution in Wuhan, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 24:
text: In Wuhan’s Qiaokou district, at the Zirun Mingyuan apartment community where about 10,000 people live, men, women and children stood under umbrellas while elderly residents perched on stools as they waited to get tested at four sites set up in the middle of the compound.
ref: 2020 May 14, Brenda Goh, “RPT-Wuhan residents brave rain, queues for COVID-19 mass-testing campaign”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 29 Apr 2022, Healthcare Sector:
glosses: A district of Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Jianghan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chiang-han
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 江漢 /江汉 (Jiānghàn).
Senses: examples: text: The 44 primary schools in Chianghan District of Wuhan Municipality educate students to cherish the countryside, the poor and lower-middle peasants, and farmwork, thus exposing the Confucian fallacy that "one who excels in learning should serve as an official."
ref: [1974 December 13 [1974 December 12], “Wuhan Primary Schools Familiarize Students With Rural Life”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 241, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic Service, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Central-South Region, page H 1:
text: Jianghan Model
Having studied the Shanghai Model and Shenyang Model, the community development model in Jianghan District in Wuhan city identified further rights and responsibilities of government and community.
ref: 2006, Yuan Ren, “Globalization and grassroots practices: community development in contemporary urban China”, in Fulong Wu, editor, Globalization and the Chinese City (Routledge Contemporary China Series), Routledge, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 302:
text: This Conference is hosted by 8BTC, and has received great support from such organs of government as Wuhan Municipal Government, Jianghan District Government, Wuhan Municipal Bureau of Economics and Information Technology, and the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology.
ref: 2021 January 5, “OXBTC: Challenges and Opportunities on the Long Journey of Ethereum 2.0”, in AP News, archived from the original on 09 Jan 2021:
glosses: A district of Wuhan, Hubei, China, part of Hankou.
glosses: Jianghan Plain
Jiangxia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chiang-hsia
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 江夏 (Jiāngxià).
Senses: examples: text: Map 17 for 1646-1775 reveals a concentration of chin-shih, centred on Chiang-hsia (modern Wu-ch'ang, part of Wu-han), the important commercial crossroad where the Han River enters the Yangtze from the northwest.
ref: [1992, Hans Bielenstein, “The Regional Provenance of Chin-shih during Ch'ing”, in Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, number 64, Stockholm, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 25:
text: After three days in session, the first provincial conference on suburb-based agricultural economic work ended in the Jiangxia District of Wuhan City on 24 August.
ref: 1995 September 20 [1995 August 26], “Yang Yongliang, Deputy Secretary of the Hubei Provincial CPC Committee, Stresses the Need To Bring Suburban Areas' Advantages Into Play and To Build Modern Agriculture Models at the Provincial Conference on Suburb- Based Agricultural Economic Work Held in Wuhan 22-24 August”, in Daily Report: China, number 95-182, sourced from Wuhan HUBEI RIBAO pp 1, 2, translation of original by E Xuesheng (6759 1331 0524) [鄂学胜] (in Chinese), →ISSN, →OCLC, Economic Affairs, page 34, column 2:
english: 鄂学胜
translation: 鄂学胜
text: Customs officials and police officers then raided Mr. Zhang’s lab in the Jiangxia district of Wuhan, a provincial capital on the Yangtze River.
ref: 2015 July 7, Edward Wong, “China Finds Another Real-Life Spinoff of ‘Breaking Bad’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Sep 2022, Sinosphere:
text: A comparison of the three maps in Figure 1 shows that the ecological security of Wuhan from 1996 to 2006 deteriorated. However, the trend strengthened from 2006 to 2010. Jiangxia District underwent the most significant changes, transitioning from high-risk to medium-, low- and relatively low-risk.
ref: 2016, Liandong Zhu, Ahmed Ouadha, editors, Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Sustainable Development, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 335:
glosses: A district of Wuhan, Hubei, China.
elementary algebra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: After 1820 we find elementary algebra commencing to be a required subject for admission. Columbia required it in 1821, Yale in 1847, and Princeton in 1848.
ref: 1920, Inez Dale Powelson, The History of the Teaching of Elementary Algebra, University of California, Berkeley, page 28:
text: 1939, Regina Grosswege, Learning Activities in Elementary Algebra, College Entrance Book Company, unnumbered page,
A perusal of the following outstanding features of this workbook will show how this book has been designed to enable the student to master elementary algebra in a thoroughly efficient and interesting manner.
ref: 2006, Richard N. Aufmann, Vernon C. Barker, Joanne S. Lockwood, Essentials of Elementary Algebra, Houghton Mifflin:
topics: education
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An informally defined area of algebra considered suitable to be taught to secondary school students.
Synonyms: sense: algebra deemed suitable for secondary students
word: beginning algebra
Related terms: abstract algebra
intermediate algebra
prealgebra
Luhe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: lo͞oʹhǔʹ
Forms: form: Lu-ho
form: Liuho
Etymology: From Mandarin 六合 (Lùhé).
Senses: examples: text: Tourists visit a sunflower garden in Qiancang Village of Luhe District, Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province, Oct. 3, 2018.
ref: 2018 October 5, “People across China join in various leisure activities during National Day holiday”, in Liangyu, editor, Xinhua News Agency, archived from the original on 12 Aug 2020:
text: In a keynote speech, Zhihong Zhu, secretary of the Luhe district party committee of Nanjing, said Luxembourg is a "reliable, innovative partner" that has shown "openness and vitality in economic development".
ref: 2019 May 22, Kate Oglesby, “Luxembourg signs tech tie-up with Nanjing”, in Luxembourg Times, archived from the original on 31 Oct 2021:
text: The broiler house for the experiment is located in the Jinniuhu Subdistrict, Luhe District, Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province.
ref: 2020, Shikai Zhang et al., “Simulation Analysis of a Ventilation System in a Smart Broiler Chamber Based on Computational Fluid Dynamics”, in Indoor Thermal Comfort, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 119:
glosses: A district of Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
Luhe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: lo͞oʹhǔʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 陸河／陆河 (Lùhé).
Senses: examples: text: A New York Times review of Ping An’s public filings indicates that the company never publicly disclosed that Mr. Cheng or Mr. Zheng controlled the stakes — or that the various companies they were linked to were closely related. And a search of Hong Kong records and a visit to Luhe County, in Guangdong Province — the county listed as Mr. Zheng’s hometown on his identity card — suggests that Mr. Zheng was in fact a Hong Kong resident.
After searching the local government database, police in Luhe County said no such person existed in the county, and that the ID number was not in their records. And Zheng Chengyu, who compiles family histories in Luhe County, said: “I’ve never heard of this name.”
ref: 2012 November 24, David Barboza, “Another Big Stake in Ping An, Hidden in a Hong Kong Investment”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Nov 2012, Global Business:
glosses: A county of Shanwei, Guangdong, China.
amatadine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of amantadine.
aminothiazoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aminothiazole
amphidiscophoran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amphidiscophorans
Senses: glosses: Any glass sponge of the subclass Amphidiscophora
amphidiscophorans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amphidiscophoran
rhipidion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhipidions
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ῥιπίς (rhipís, “fan”).
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: In the Greek Church, the eucharistic fan or flabellum.
transgressible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more transgressible
form: most transgressible
Etymology: From transgress + -ible.
Senses: glosses: Able to be transgressed.
transgressable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more transgressable
form: most transgressable
Etymology: From transgress + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be transgressed.
anabaenopeptin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anabaenopeptins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of biologically-active peptides present in cyanobacteria, principally of the genus Anabaena.
anabaenopeptins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anabaenopeptin
anatabine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The alkaloid [2R,(+)]-1,2,3,6-tetrahydro-2,3'-bipyridine present in the nightshades
droguets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of droguet
aneurystic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of an aneurysm
angiostomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angiostomies
Etymology: From angio- + -stomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The formation of an opening into a blood vessel, typically by means of a cannula
angiostomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angiostomy
anhedonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anhedonic
anilinophthalazine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anilinophthalazines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any heterocycle composed of an aniline linked to a phthalazine via its nitrogen atom
anilinophthalazines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anilinophthalazine
anilinoquinazoline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anilinoquinazolines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any heterocycle composed of an aniline linked to a quinazoline through its nitrogen atom
anilinoquinazolines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anilinoquinazoline
anteriorally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anteriorly.
antiaromatase
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + aromatase.
Senses: glosses: That inhibits the action of aromatase (as in the treatment of breast cancer)
antihelicase
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + helicase.
Senses: glosses: That inhibits the action of helicase (as in a group of anticancer drugs)
antileukotriene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antileukotrienes
Etymology: From anti- + leukotriene.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any drug that inhibits the action of a leukotriene
antileukotrienes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antileukotriene
antirickettsial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + rickettsial.
Senses: glosses: That counters the effects of rickettsia bacteria
antirickettsial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antirickettsials
Etymology: From anti- + rickettsial.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Such a drug
antirickettsials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antirickettsial
antitumorigenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + tumorigenesis.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antitumorigenic.
chefly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɛfli/
Etymology: From chef + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The best urban-rustic chefs, including Chez Panisse's Alice Waters, Zuni Cafe's Judy Rodgers and Campanile's Mark Peel, reinterpret the cuisine by using really good ingredients, putting them together with chefly skill and maintaining the spirit of each dish.
ref: 1997 August 24, Jonathan Gold, “The Food that is Los Angeles”, in Los Angeles Magazine, volume 42, number 8, page 87:
text: He roared, and a female souschef dashed over to scoop up the hat and pins and return him to his previous chefly glory.
ref: 2007 August 7, Nancy Fairbanks, Bon Bon Voyage, page 54:
text: I was the newest executive chef in Toscorp, Pino's umbrella company, looking as chefly as possible in my brand-new Bragard jacket with my name stitched in appropriate Tuscan blue, standing in the front cocktail area of Pino's newest: Coco Pazzo Teatro on the ground floor of the swank and stylish Paramount Hotel on West 46th Street.
ref: 2010 December 20, Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential, page 163:
glosses: Pertaining to, similar to, or about chefs or cooks.
apoditrysian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apoditrysians
Senses: glosses: Any micromoth of the clade Apoditrysia
apoditrysians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apoditrysian
arrythymogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of arrhythmogenic.
arthrofactin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A cyclic lipopeptide, that functions as a surfactant, produced by Arthrobacter bacteria
ascorbylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Reaction with ascorbic acid to introduce an ascorbyl group into a molecule
asperfuranone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The polyketide (5S,6R)-1-[(2E,4E,6S)-4,6-dimethylocta-2,4-dienoyl]-5,6-dihydroxy-5-methyl-6,7-dihydro-2-benzofuran-4-one present in the Aspergillus fungus
astrotypic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌæstɹəʊˈtɪpɪk/
Senses: glosses: Having the form of am astrocyte
atriocentricular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of atrioventricular.
hectorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hector + -ship.
Senses: glosses: bullying behaviour; hectoring
autocalibrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From auto- + calibrated.
Senses: glosses: calibrated by means of autocalibration
give them an inch and they'll take an ell
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: I will yet thrive, (I say), as good is an ynch / As an ell. Yee can, (quoth shee), make it so well, / For when I gave you an inch, you tooke an ell, / Till both ell and inch be gone, and we in det.
ref: 1546, John Heywood, chapter IX, in Julian Sharman, editor, The Proverbs of John Heywood. […], London: George Bell and Sons, […], published 1874, →OCLC, part II, page 161:
glosses: Archaic form of give them an inch and they'll take a mile.
bean king
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bean kings
Senses: glosses: The elected king of the festivities on Twelfth Night, chosen by his finding a bean hidden in the Twelfth cake.
bean kings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bean king
stratocratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stratocratic
form: most stratocratic
Senses: glosses: Relating to stratocracy.
pastry chefs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pastry chef