cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
contactomorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Additionally, we provide an explicit proof that (#92;Sigma,#92;xi#95;0) and the Lens space (L(n#43;1,n),#92;xi#95;#123;std#125;) are contactomorphic and show that their associated contact invariants agree..
ref: 2015, Leonardo Enrique Abbrescia, Irit Huq-Kuruvilla, Jo Nelson, Nawaz John Sultani, “Reeb Dynamics of the Link of the A_n Singularity”, in arXiv:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Describing a pair of contact manifolds that have a diffeomorphism
pervention
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perventions
Etymology: From Latin perventio, from pervenio.
Senses: examples: text: yet in respect of inchoation, intention and purpose, though not in respect of pervention and full obtaining that purpose, we are called perfect.
ref: 1658, Thomas Hall, A Practical and Polemical Commentary:
text: So pondering, and from his armed peers / Forth stepping opposite, half way he met / His daring foe, at this pervention more / Incens'd, and thus securely him defy'd.
ref: 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
glosses: A coming or arrival; advent
lesser black-backed gull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lesser black-backed gulls
Senses: glosses: A seabird and member of the gull family, Larus fuscus.
Related terms: greater black-backed gull
lesser black-backed gulls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lesser black-backed gull
dougong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /doʊˈɡʊŋ/
Forms: form: tou-kung
Etymology: From Mandarin 斗拱 (dǒugǒng).
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A structural element consisting of interlocking wooden brackets as used in traditional Chinese architecture.
webbed foot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: webbed feet
Senses: glosses: Synonym of webfoot.
synonyms: word: webfoot
raw_tags: used in plural form
webbed feet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of webbed foot
graphiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From graph + -i- + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The study of handwriting; graphology.
Derived terms: graphiologist
graphiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to graphiology.
black cow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black cows
Senses: examples: text: Just when it seems so clear / That it's over now / Drink your big black cow / And get out of here
ref: 1977, Donald Fagen, Walter Becker, “Black Cow”, in Aja, performed by Steely Dan:
glosses: A root beer float.
glosses: A drink made from birch beer and chocolate ice cream.
black cows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black cow
border ballad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: border ballads
Senses: glosses: A traditional ballad from the border region connecting England and Scotland.
border ballads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of border ballad
foreglow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foreglows
form: fore-glow
form: fore glow
Etymology: From fore- + glow.
Senses: examples: text: He promised fair things and, when another morning came, set forth in the first rosy foreglow of dawn through a dew-soaked world to his new work.
ref: 1850, History, Harper's Magazine, Harper & Row, page 702:
text: But glorious, and educating, and inspiring as is the sunrise in itself in many cases, there is occasionally something very remarkable that is connected with it. Rare is it, but how charming when, witnessed, though till very' recently it was all but unexplained. This is the foreglow. It is in no respects so splendid as the afterglows succeeding sunset; but because of its rarity, its beauty is enhanced.
ref: 1894, The Gentleman's Magazine:
text: Little attention has been paid to foreglows compared with afterglows, either with regard to their natural beauty or their weather forecasting.
ref: 1905, John Gordon M'Pherson, Meteorology or Weather Explained, T.C. and E.C. Jack, page 65:
glosses: The glow of light appearing in the sky preceding sunrise.
Related terms: alpenglow
forelight
foreglows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foreglow
tabletop game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tabletop games
Senses: synonyms: word: tabletop
word: table game
coordinate_terms: video game
sport
glosses: Any game suitable for playing on a table or other flat surface.
overglow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˌəʊvəˈɡləʊ/
Forms: form: overglows
form: overglowing
form: overglowed
form: overglowed
Etymology: From over- + glow.
Senses: glosses: To beam or radiate; glow exceedingly or excessively
overglow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌəʊvəˈɡləʊ/
Forms: form: overglows
Etymology: From over- + glow.
Senses: glosses: The glow of light appearing above or surrounding an object; halation
examples: text: The very color itself would make appeal to special kinds of inherited feelings, simply because of its relation to awful spectacles, —the glare of the volcano-summit, the furious vermilion of lava, the raging of forest-fires, the overglow of cities kindling in the track of war, the smouldering of ruin, the blazing of funeral-pyres. And in this lurid race-memory of fire as destroyer, —as the " ravening ghost" of Northern fancy,—there would mingle a vague distress evolved through ancestral experience of crimson heat in rdation to pain, — an organic horror. And the like tremendous color in celestial phenomena would revive also inherited terror related of old to ideas of the portentous and of the wrath of gods.
ref: 1917, Lafcadio Hearn, Exotics and Retrospectives, Little, Brown, and Company, page 256:
text: Studies have shown that because of overglow, or irradiation, at night, the lettering of signs fabricated with encaspulated lens sheeting appears to be narrower; consequently, it lose some of its legibility.
ref: 1987, Frank D. Shepard, Sign Legibility for Modified Messages, Virginia Transportation Research Council, page 3:
text: That was unusual for Atlanta. Normally, it was hard to see all the stars through the overglow of the lights, even on a dark night like tonight. Must be a new moon.
ref: 1988, Jim King, Hope Can't Come, Castle Press, page 142:
glosses: The state of excessive glowing.
tabletop games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tabletop game
monocytoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monocytosis
hoop earring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoop earrings
Senses: glosses: An earring that is circular or semi-circular in design, generally in the form of a hoop of metal that can be opened to pass through an ear-piercing.
Hyponyms: slave earring
hoop earrings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoop earring
pukes up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of puke up
puking up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of puke up
puked up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of puke up
fooforaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fooforaws
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of foofaraw.
fooforaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fooforaw
left atria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of left atrium
Kochtopus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Kochtopus
Etymology: Blend of Koch + octopus
Senses: examples: text: One thing was for sure: the Kochtopus's ability to tap into donors emboldened by Citizens United and infuriated by Obama left it with plenty of money and eager for effective ways to spend it.
ref: 2014, Kenneth Vogel, Big Money, →ISBN:
glosses: A network of nonprofit organizations funded by Charles Koch and David Koch to promote free-market economic policies.
pencil leads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pencil lead
forthwaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forthwax
forthwaxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forthwax
forthwaxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forthwax
nosh-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nosh-ups
Senses: glosses: A feast; a hearty meal.
nosh-ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nosh-up
Animals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Animal
seismic retrofits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seismic retrofit
electronic musics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electronic music
clinking stuff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: money
nondescriptional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + descriptional.
Senses: glosses: Not descriptional.
villainism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From villain + -ism.
Senses: glosses: villainy
tarof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of taarof.
liquid paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: liquid papers
Etymology: Genericized trademark from the brand name Liquid Paper.
Senses: examples: text: "Next completed survey gets your name in a hat for a chance to win this beautiful bottle of liquid paper," I shouted.
ref: 2001, Dan Coen, Building Call Center Culture: Strategies for Designing a World Class Performance-Based Environment Within Your Customer Contact Center, page 119:
glosses: Correction fluid.
wikipedia: Liquid Paper
gochutgaru
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gochugaru.
kochukaru
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gochugaru.
liquid papers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liquid paper
unlooked-at
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unlooked-at
form: most unlooked-at
Senses: glosses: Not looked at; unregarded.
linkfarm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linkfarms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of link farm.
linkfarms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of linkfarm
laurel oak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laurel oaks
Senses: glosses: Either of two trees native to the southeastern United States: Quercus hemisphaerica and Quercus laurifolia.
laurel oaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laurel oak
toffee penny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toffee pennies
Etymology: From the resemblance to the coin.
Senses: glosses: A sweet consisting of a large flat circle of toffee.
toffee pennies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toffee penny
lesser goldfinch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lesser goldfinches
Senses: glosses: Spinus psaltria, a very small songbird of the Americas.
lesser goldfinches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lesser goldfinch
Lihou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈliːuː/
Forms: form: Lihous
Senses: glosses: A small tidal island just west of Guernsey in the English Channel.
glosses: A surname.
lesser crested tern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lesser crested terns
Senses: glosses: Thalasseus bengalensis, syn. Sterna bengalensis, a seabird of the tern family.
lesser crested terns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lesser crested tern
inch by inch
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inch by inch
form: most inch by inch
Senses: glosses: Gradually or incrementally.
little tern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: little terns
Senses: glosses: The seabird Sternula albifrons.
little terns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of little tern
elbow to elbow
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In close proximity, side by side.
Related terms: shoulder-to-shoulder
superviral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superviral
form: most superviral
Etymology: From super- + viral.
Senses: examples: text: With virtually every place on the planet less than forty-eight hours by plane from every other place, a superviral form of the bird flu could spread worldwide in a matter of days.
ref: 2018, Ted Bernard, Late-K Lunacy, page 97:
glosses: Of or relating to a supervirus.
examples: a superviral catchphrase
topics: business
marketing
glosses: Very successfully viral.
Related terms: supervirus
Shirazes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Shiraz
prayer bead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prayer beads
Senses: glosses: singular of prayer beads
glosses: Abrus precatorius, a viny legume.
Tweants
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Twents.
soda celluloses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soda cellulose
vew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vews
Senses: examples: text: Now leading him into a secret shade / From his Beauperes, and from bright heavens vew […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of view.
vews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vew
Bideford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: bĭˈd(ĭ)fəɹd
ipa: /ˈbɪdɪfəɹd/
Etymology: From Old English personal name, Bȳda + ford.
Senses: glosses: A historic port town and civil parish with a town council on the estuary of the River Torridge in Torridge district, Devon, south-west England (OS grid ref SS4526).
khinkalis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of khinkali
misfuck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈfʌk/
ipa: /ˈmɪsfʌk/
Forms: form: misfucks
form: misfucking
form: misfucked
form: misfucked
Etymology: From mis- + fuck.
Senses: examples: text: And sometimes we should do a little transhygienic history before we misfuck life forms.
ref: 2007, Gary Kirby, Bridge Out: Full Speed Ahead:
glosses: To fuck or fuck up wrongly or amiss; ruin
misfuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈfʌk/
ipa: /ˈmɪsfʌk/
Forms: form: misfucks
Etymology: From mis- + fuck.
Senses: examples: text: I could hope all I want, that some cosmic eclipse would erase every mishap, every misword, every misfuck, but I just don't think it matters anymore.
ref: 2009, Arty Nelson, Technicolor Pulp:
glosses: A bad, wrong, or regrettable fuck
misfuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈfʌk/
ipa: /ˈmɪsfʌk/
Forms: form: misfucks
Etymology: Perhaps from Etymology_1 above, or a blend of mistake + fuck; or from both.
Senses: examples: text: "You fucking idiot, I should have dropped you when I had the chance," he yelled. "Ask your players. They'd love to drop you too, you misfuck."
ref: 1999, Brad Janes, Overtime:
glosses: A term of abuse: a fuck-up, who is also a mistake
olivo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: olivary body
motherfouler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motherfoulers
Etymology: From mother + fouler.
Senses: examples: text: “He ainʼt got a damn thing. Let the motherfouler alone.”
ref: 1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 542:
glosses: motherfucker.
motherfoulers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motherfouler
frigerators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frigerator
Turing reduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Turing reductions
Etymology: After Alan Turing.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A reduction that solves a problem if the solution to another problem is already known, i.e. an algorithm that could be used to solve A if it had available to it a subroutine for solving B.
wikipedia: Alan Turing
Related terms: Cook reduction
oracle machine
Turing reductions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Turing reduction
Cook reduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cook reductions
Etymology: After Stephen Cook.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A Turing reduction that runs in polynomial time.
wikipedia: Stephen Cook
Cook reductions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cook reduction
message fiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Goldstein has fallen victim to the trap inherent in message fiction: when a novelist makes the message too prominent, or warps the story to serve the message, the story suffers.
ref: 1988, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, page 178:
text: […] I have already found that I can't write 'message' fiction of any kind. I can only write the kind I like best to read, which is the bang-up adventure type […]
ref: Charles L. Fontenay, quoted in 2009, Robert Reginald, Contemporary Science Fiction Authors (page 99)
glosses: Fiction that attempts to convey a sociopolitical message, as opposed to mere escapism.
overseeress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overseeresses
Etymology: From overseer + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female overseer.
supervisoress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supervisoresses
Etymology: From supervisor + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female supervisor.
overseeresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overseeress
supervisoresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supervisoress
pouffed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pouffe
glosses: simple past and past participle of pouff
pouffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pouffe
glosses: present participle and gerund of pouff
poufing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pouf
Teucer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈtjuːsəɹ/
Forms: form: Teucris
form: Teucros
form: Teucrus
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Τεῦκρος (Teûkros).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The son of King Telamon and Hesione, who fought in the Trojan War and was renowned for his skill in archery.
Cowdry body
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cowdry bodies
Etymology: Named after Edmund Cowdry.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An eosinophilic nuclear inclusion composed of nucleic acid and protein, seen in cells infected with Herpes simplex virus, Varicella-zoster virus, and Cytomegalovirus.
Cowdry bodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cowdry body
Purkinje effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Purkinje effect
hoorooshes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hooroosh
wait a minute
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: waitaminute
Senses: examples: text: BEN: (Suddenly remembers.) Wait a minute, Huckleberry Finn don't have no family.
ref: 2005, Susan Pargman, Huck Finn's High-Tailin' Adventures, page 4:
text: Reader E questioned the plausibility of laundry hanging on a clothesline at night, and Reader C's forward momentum was stalled as he commented, “Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute! She has a different basket..."
ref: 2007, Kathleen A. Froriep, The Conscious Thought Processes of College English Faculty when Reading Wordless Books: A Verbal Protocol Study, →ISBN:
text: Wait a minute. Was it in the cemetery?
ref: 2009, Nancy Bishop, Secrets from the Casting Couch: On Camera Strategies for Actors from a Casting Director, →ISBN:
text: West ruffs the third diamond and the defenders cash their two clubs for down one. "Wait a minute," you exclaim confidently. "I know what to do. I have to draw trumps earlier!"
ref: 2010, David Stevens, Wait-A-Minute Bridge, →ISBN, page 96:
glosses: Used to indicate a new insight or dawning understanding.
examples: text: “Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait ... a ... minute,” said Fred. “I don't mind a little cologne, but I am not going to put on eye shadow.
ref: 2004, Jon Scieszka, Tut, Tut #6, →ISBN:
text: “Wait a minute. I'm not picking her apart. I'm just trying to be helpful. She needs a little guidance, that's all.”
ref: 2012, Marilyn King, Sisters: And Other Fast Fiction, →ISBN:
text: “Wait a minute, I don't know if I want to do this or not. You're talking about losing ten dollars; I could lose my life.”
ref: 2013, Robert Vaughan, When Hell Came to Texas, →ISBN:
glosses: Used to indicate disagreement or doubt.
wait a minute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: waits a minute
form: waiting a minute
form: waited a minute
form: waited a minute
form: waitaminute
Senses: examples: text: They would not think twice about asking you to wait a minute while they take another picture, or ask another question of the guide.
ref: 2005, Lawrence A. Hoffman, Israel--a Spiritual Travel Guide, →ISBN:
text: I wait a minute—then I get an idea.
ref: 2012, Peter Cheyney, Never a Dull Moment, →ISBN:
text: You just wait a minute. Let them talk before you say anything.
ref: 2012, Sheila L. Ramsey, Quest for a Gentleman: Sands of the First Freedom, →ISBN, page A-129:
text: He asked my mom, “Ellen are you ready yet?” She said, “Wait a minute and I will be.”
ref: 2012, Myrna Temte, Wyoming Wildcat, →ISBN:
text: Laughing, he said, “That dress is in the closet too, she should show it to you. Wait a minute, son, I'll be right back.”
ref: 2015, Jeanette Lasserre, Once Upon a Time...wait a minute, →ISBN:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wait, minute.
Related terms: wait-a-minute tree
acetabular labrums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acetabular labrum
acetabular labra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acetabular labrum
palm syrups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palm syrup
bluesify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bluesifies
form: bluesifying
form: bluesified
form: bluesified
Etymology: From blues + -ify.
Senses: examples: 2000, Tracy Johnson, ncounters with Bob Dylan: If You See Him, Say Hello
Most harpists back then played cross harp, sucking in on the notes to bend and bluesify them.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To adapt to sound like blues.
Derived terms: bluesification
bluesifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bluesify
bluesifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bluesify
bluesified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bluesify
bluesification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bluesifications
Etymology: From bluesify.
Senses: glosses: The process or result of bluesifying the music.
lunatic fringes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lunatic fringe
phosphoacylases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphoacylase
upscatters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upscatter
Deaflympic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of deaf + Olympic
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Deaflympics.
suits of armor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suit of armor
suits of armour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suit of armour
refashionable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From refashion + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be refashioned.
walking catfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of walking catfish
endocrinoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endocrinosis
accelero-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Latin accelerō.
Senses: glosses: acceleration
asshatness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From asshat + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being an asshat.
promised ones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of promised one
holepunch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holepunches
Etymology: From hole + punch.
Senses: examples: text: She looked at her notes; took another bite of cake; moved the holepunch.
ref: 2014, Samantha Tonge, Mistletoe Mansion:
glosses: Alternative form of hole punch, a tool that is used to make holes.
holepunch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: holepunches
form: holepunching
form: holepunched
form: holepunched
Etymology: From hole + punch.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hole punch, to punch holes using a hole punch.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of hole punch, to create a port forwarding on the router.
holepunches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holepunch
holepunches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of holepunch
holepunching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of holepunch
holepunched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of holepunch
as the case may be
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: The Inspector shall convene a special meeting of the district panchayat or panchayat union council or village panchayat, as the case may be, and place the resignation notice for information within fifteen days from the date of receipt of resignation notice before the district panchayat or panchayat union council or village panchayat as the case may be.
ref: 2007, Ganapathy Palanithurai, A Handbook for Panchayati Raj Administration (Tamil Nadu), page 100:
glosses: As is appropriate to the circumstances; particularly where a choice must be made between two options.
Related terms: so be it
whatever the case may be
whatever the case may be
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: whichever the case may be
Senses: glosses: As is appropriate to the circumstances; particularly where a choice must be made between two options.
Related terms: as the case may be
bloatsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bloatsome
form: most bloatsome
Etymology: From bloat + -some.
Senses: examples: text: What can I wear under these bloatsome circumstances that will be festive and fun, sexy and sharp but won't push down on Pearl's gift to my system? A nightshirt.
ref: 2011, Fran Lebowitz, Tales From A Broad: An Unreliable Memoir:
text: Would that I had never inherited that bloatsome and lugubrious legacy.
ref: 2013, Mark McLaughlin, Best Little Witch-House in Arkham:
glosses: Characterised or marked by bloating
greatsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more greatsome
form: most greatsome
Etymology: From great + -some.
Senses: examples: text: A greatsome reward is on offer in exchange for a name.
ref: 2002, Sophocles, The Oedipus plays:
text: But you Prescients got more greatsome'n'mighty Smart'n this Hole World, yay?
ref: 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
glosses: Characterised or by size or greatness; huge
greatsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more greatsome
form: most greatsome
Etymology: From great + -some.
Senses: examples: text: I did mourn sad and greatsome.
ref: 2015, John Boom, The Watch of the Golden Dragon Turtle:
glosses: In a great or mighty manner; greatly
jackassy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jackassy
form: most jackassy
Etymology: From jackass + -y.
Senses: examples: text: They'd spent so much of their trip surrounded by wolves who looked at her and saw other that she'd forgotten that the smallminded bastards in the human world had their own jackassy prejudices.
ref: 2015, Moira Rogers, Impulse: Southern Arcana, Book 5:
glosses: Of, or characteristic of a jackass, an inappropriately rude or obnoxious person.
drawlsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more drawlsome
form: most drawlsome
Etymology: From drawl + -some.
Senses: examples: text: If you didn't know Bill Nye well you might think to watch his easeful ways, and hear his slow, drawlsome speech, that he was lazy. Make you no such error.
ref: 1926, Bill Nye: His Own Life Story
text: How can I tell you how much I owe you
I was so lonely in desolation
You gave me warmth in consolation
I was drawlsome, drag and dreadful
You were brawlsome, brag and breadful [...]
ref: 1987, Frank Luger, Herzenblut:
glosses: Characterised or marked by drawling; characteristic of a drawl
B battery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: B batteries
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A battery used to provide the plate voltage for a vacuum tube.
Related terms: A battery
C battery
yeorling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yeorlings
Senses: examples: text: I asked Thady a minute later what nests he knew of. "Galore," he answered, grinning. And then proceeded to enumerate them : " A lintie (a linnet), a green grosbeak (greenfinch), a Harry redcap (goldfinch), a yellow yeorling by the roadside, a scobby (chaffinch), a lavrock (skylark), a cushie-doo (a wood pigeon), a cutty wren (common wren), a nanny washtail (pied wagtail) in the rocks, and two tom-titers of sorts.
ref: 1905, Lady Catherine Henrietta Milnes Gaskell, Spring in a Shropshire Abbey, page 179:
text: The brock, the toad, and the yellow yeorling Get a drap o' the de'il's bluid ilka May morning.
ref: 1907, Country Life - Volume 21, page 376:
text: Then they listened to a yeorling and Will taught the child its song, "A little bit of bread and no che-e-ese.
ref: 1962, Henrietta Buckmaster, All the Living: A Novel of One Year in the Life of William Shakespeare, page 360:
glosses: The yellowhammer.
yeorlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yeorling
open-door policy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: open-door policies
form: open door policy
Senses: examples: text: Take Continental Airlines's Robert F. Six's view of much touted open-door policies: “‘My door is always open—bring me your problems.’ This is guaranteed to turn on every whiner, lackey and neurotic on the property.”
ref: 1986 August 24, Edwin McDowell, “What's New on the Corporate Bookshelf”, in New York Times, retrieved 15 Jan 2016:
text: She's a warm but no-nonsense administrator who has an open-door policy for all students.
ref: 2001 June 13, Rebekah Denn, “Seahawks Academy gives students a sporting chance”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, retrieved 15 Jan 2016:
text: Ashley: Commander. You have a minute to talk?
Shepard: I keep an open-door policy. If you have any concerns, lay them on me.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-1:
text: "[M]anagers are trained to be culturally sensitive and have an open door policy to staff for issues like this.
ref: 2008 September 29, “Muslim man sues Tesco for being told to handle alcohol”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 15 Jan 2016:
topics: government
management
politics
glosses: A policy or usual practice, by a person in authority, of permitting subordinates or constituents to visit his or her office unannounced and at any reasonable time for the purpose of discussing matters of concern.
examples: text: They also have tried to enlist support from the National Cattlemen's Association, on grounds this open-door policy could lead to easier entry for foreign beef.
ref: 1984 June 18, Bill Keller, “Llama Owners' Lobby is Set to Fight Imports”, in New York Times, retrieved 15 Jan 2016:
text: Philosopher John Ralston Saul calls Canada "on the cutting edge, the most experimental country in the world on immigration and citizenship" for its open-door policy on immigration.
ref: 2006 February 6, Doug Struck, “Canada Thriving as New Leader Steps In”, in Washington Post, retrieved 15 Jan 2016:
text: Britain's open-door policy on foreign takeovers is a net gain for the economy.
ref: 2012 October 29, “Editorial: Protectionism is not the answer, Lord Heseltine”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 15 Jan 2016:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A governmental policy of encouraging immigration or of permitting increased access by foreigners for purposes of tourism, trade, investment, etc.
open door policy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: open door policies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of open-door policy.
cultural identity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cultural identities
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: An identity or feeling of belonging to a group.
cultural identities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cultural identity
crosscalibration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crosscalibrations
Etymology: From cross- + calibration.
Senses: examples: text: The crosscalibration between LASCO C2 and the STEREO coronagraphs allows, for the first time, the potential use of multi-spacecraft coronagraph data for tomography and for CME analysis..
ref: 2015, Huw Morgan, “An atlas of coronal electron density at 5Rs I: Data processing and calibration”, in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, volume 219:
glosses: The use of two instruments to calibrate each other
decategorified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From de- + categorified.
Senses: examples: text: We show that the decategorified representation is naturally isomorphic to a direct sum of level 2 Fock spaces.
ref: 2015, Olivier Dudas, Michela Varagnolo, Eric Vasserot, “Categorical actions on unipotent representations I. Finite unitary groups”, in arXiv:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Not represented in terms of category theory
duoverse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duoverses
Etymology: From duo- + -verse.
Senses: examples: text: In the latter duoverse the two topologically hypercubic sub-lattices are causally disjoint but the local curvature depends on the lattice configuration on both.
ref: 2015, Martin Schaden, “Causal Space-Times on a Null Lattice”, in arXiv:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A dual universe
etale
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: We discuss also on a more natural realization of the Galois representations in the etale cohomology of Artin-Schreier varieties..
ref: 2015, Naoki Imai, Takahiro Tsushima, “Simple epipelagic local Galois representations”, in arXiv:
glosses: Misspelling of étale.
fiboquadratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Also, fiboquadratic sequences provide extensions of Cassini's Identity..
ref: 2015, Tomás Guardia, Douglas Jiménez, “Fiboquadratic Sequences and Extensions of the Cassini Identity Raised From the Study of Rithmomachia”, in arXiv:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Describing an extension of Fibonacci sequences involving quadratic numbers
eight-balling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of eight-ball
eight-balled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of eight-ball
Jordan matrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jordan matrixes
form: Jordan matrices
Etymology: Named after Camille Jordan.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any block diagonal matrix whose blocks are Jordan blocks.
wikipedia: Camille Jordan
Jordan matrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jordan matrix
Jordan matrixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jordan matrix
biproduct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: by-product
Forms: form: biproducts
Etymology: From bi- + product.
Senses: topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An object which is simultaneously the product and the coproduct of some collection of objects.
biproducts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biproduct
pit pony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pit ponies
Senses: glosses: A pony that works underground in a coal mine.
pit ponies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pit pony
Jordan block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jordan blocks
Etymology: Named after Camille Jordan.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A Jordan block over a ring R (whose identities are the zero 0 and one 1) is a matrix composed of 0 elements everywhere except for the diagonal, which is filled with a fixed element λ ∈ R, and the superdiagonal, which is composed of ones.
wikipedia: Camille Jordan
Related terms: Jordan matrix
Jordan blocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jordan block
logophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: logophobes
Etymology: From logo- + -phobia.
Senses: antonyms: logophile
word lover
wordie
;
linguaphile
glosses: One who has logophobia.
Related terms: logophobia
logophobic
logophobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of logophobe
Spanish coat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Spanish coats
Senses: glosses: The schandmantel
schandmantel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schandmantels
Etymology: Borrowed from German Schandmantel.
Senses: glosses: An instrument of punishment resembling a barrel that is worn as a coat to humiliate the wearer.
Synonyms: Spanish coat
Chipzilla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɪlə
Etymology: From chip + -zilla, attributed to Terry Shannon.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Intel.
wikipedia: Terry Shannon (IT)
co-director
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-directors
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of codirector.
co-directors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of co-director
generatability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From generate + -ability.
Senses: glosses: Capability of being generated.
Synonyms: generability
Eoghan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Irish.
Related terms: Tyrone
Owen
soarest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: soar + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of soar
soareth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: soar + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of soar
yetling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yetlings
form: yetlin
Etymology: From Middle English yetling, yetlyng, ȝetlynge, equivalent to yet (“to pour”) + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: Scots ploughs, very neatly made, and covered with yetling, are the only kind used in this parish.
ref: 1794, John Sinclair, The Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn Up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes, page 178:
text: Rollers are of different kinds, stone, yetling, wood. Each of these has its advantages.
ref: 1815, Henry Home (Lord Kames), The Gentleman Farmer: Being an Attempt to Improve Agriculture by Subjecting it to the Test of Rational Principles, page 54:
text: Having afterwards resolved upon renewing the armament, they instructed the Dean of Guild " to sell the auld pieces callit heidsticks being in the steeple to the gritest avail, and wair and bestow the money gotten therefor upon sufficient yetling ordinance to the common use of the burgh."
ref: 1884, The History of Old Dundee, Narrated Out of the Town Council Register, pages 212–213:
text: A caller burn runs wimpling clear, Out o'er its rocky bed ; Where sits the rural yetling chair, For youth and hoary head, To rest themselves beside the stream And hear its murmuring.
ref: 1896, John Geddie, The Water of Leith from Source to Sea, page 32:
glosses: Cast iron.
examples: text: Still, it occurs to me that Yetlington is more probably indebted to its name from being the spot where " yetlings" were made. To this day the metal pot used by the muggers is known by that appellation in its immediate neighhourhood, and bears a striking resemblance to a sacred utensil used during the sacrifices of the Romans.
ref: 1842, Local Collections; Or, Records of Remarkable Events, Connected with the Borough of Gateshead, page 50:
text: Mother had lifted the yetling off the fire, and left it there," pointing to the middle of the room ; " and she comes running along and tumbles in.
ref: 1859, Jane Anne Winscom, Onward: or, The mountain Clamberers : a Tale of Progress, page 43:
text: A bronze yetling, or tripod caldron, with an angular handle at each side.
ref: 1880, John Collingwood Bruce, A Descriptive Catalogue of Antiquities, Chiefly British, at Alnwick Castle:
text: Baking in the turf-burning areas of the North Yorkshire Moors was also undertaken in a yetling, a cylindrical cast-iron vessel perhaps a foot in diameter and five inches in height which hung over the fire from a reckon-hook.
ref: 1987, Peter C. D. Brears, Traditional Food in Yorkshire, page 79:
synonyms: yet
glosses: A small cauldron, or rounded pot, typically, but not always, made of cast iron.
examples: text: A more recent conjecture traces a connection between it and the game still, or not long ago, played at New Year with yetlings or balls of cast iron on the sands near the Skilleys of Wemyss, in which, as in the North German Klotschiessen, the player who drives the ball to the goal in the fewest number of strokes wins.
ref: 1896, The County Histories of Scotland - Volume 4, page 231:
glosses: A small cast iron ball.
RFQs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RFQ
yetlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yetling
earth pig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɜːθpɪɡ/
ipa: /ˈɝθpɪɡ/
Forms: form: earth pigs
form: earth-pig
form: earthpig
Etymology: Calque of Afrikaans aardvark (literally “earth-pig”), equivalent to earth + pig.
Senses: examples: text: In the high grassy plateaus, with their isolated groups of bushy shrubs, we find, together with the earth pigs and armadilloes mentioned above, two kinds of gazelles (Cephalophus mergens and Calotragus campestris).
ref: 1881, Land, sea and sky; or, Wonders of life and nature:
text: The curious ant-eaters (earth pigs and pangolins) are probably relics of an earlier fauna, which have survived owing to their nocturnal habits.
ref: 1893, Frederick Courteney Selous, Travel and Adventure in South-East Africa:
text: It may be in only an earth pig, or it may be in a leopard, and, quite providentially for the medical profession no layman can see his own soul — it is not as if it were connected with all earth pigs, or all leopards, as the case may be, but it is in one particular earth pig or leopard or other animal — so recourse must be had to medical aid when anything goes wrong with it.
ref: 1949, Harold Evans, Men in the Tropics: A Colonial Anthology, page 64:
text: Aardvarks also eat ants. African natives kill aardvarks to eat. But these “earth pigs” are not easy to catch. Although they look clumsy, they can run fast. They can bury themselves in the ground fast, too.
ref: 1959, Bertha Morris Parker, THE GOLDEN BOOK ENCYCLOPEDIA:
text: Bahuchet (1985), who researched the Aka living in Central Africa, cites the earth pig, flying squirrel, and leopard as examples of avoided food animals.
ref: 2012, Bonnie L. Hewlett, Adolescent Identity: Evolutionary, Cultural and Developmental Perspectives:
glosses: The aardvark.
Synonyms: earthhog
earth pigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earth pig
boron deficiencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boron deficiency
Ramanujan's constant
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887–1920).
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The transcendental number e^(π√), an almost integer, discovered in 1859 by mathematician Charles Hermite.
wikipedia: Srinivasa Ramanujan
Atkins diets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Atkins diet
earth-pig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earth-pigs
Senses: examples: text: Here we met with the large and deep lairs of the porcupine (Hystrix cristata) and also of the earth-pig, a devourer of ants and termites. The burrows of the earth-pig are several yards deep, and hidden in the grass they constitute a dangerous impediment to the traveller and hunter.
ref: 1928, Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Slaves of the sun, page 149:
text: Two more porcupines, a jumping-hare, and a South African skunk, all had a similar fate, and then the dogs took a circuitous route back again to the hills, and started an earth-pig (Orycteropus capensis).
ref: 1881, Seven Years in South Africa:
text: Altogether a different animal from those above named is the so-called earth-pig (Orycteropus capensis,) which some call also the ant-eater, or the ant-bear, the Isambane of the natives. His hog-like head, with a long upper jaw, which projects far over the lower, and terminates in a snout; his erect, large, pointed ears; the shape, size, and position of the eyes; and some other things, make him look, at first sight, not a little piggish; and hence, with his habit of burrowing and spending his days mostly in the earth, he comes, properly enough, by the name of earth-pig.
ref: 1864, Lewis Grout, Zulu-land: Or, Life Among the Zulu-Kafirs of Natal and Zulu-land:
text: The Belgian naturalist R. Verheyen has pointed out that in fact the range of distribution of the two animals overlaps so closely that it is probable that warthogs will not populate a new region unless they can be certain that the hard-working earth-pigs are already there to make life bearable.
ref: 1972, John Gilbert, Africa, struggle for survival in the bush, page 218:
glosses: Alternative form of earth pig.
earth-pigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earth-pig
doúla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doúlas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of doula.
prescriptivisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prescriptivism
thioguanines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thioguanine
Nixon in China
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: A reference to U.S. President Richard Nixon's 1972 establishment of direct diplomatic relations with, and personal visit to, the People's Republic of China. Nixon's unyielding opposition to Communism had been well-known.
Senses: examples: text: “People have tried to duplicate Nixon in China over and over again, including Iran,” Mann said. He cites the ill-fated 1986 journey by President Ronald Reagan’s national security adviser Robert “Bud” McFarlane, who traveled to Tehran carrying a Bible with a handwritten verse from Reagan and a key-shaped cake as a goodwill gesture for Iranian leaders.
ref: 2015 March 14, Steven Mufson, “Is Obama’s Iran overture like Nixon’s opening to China?”, in The Washington Post:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Suggesting the ability of a politician with an unassailable reputation among his or her supporters for representing and defending their values to take actions that would draw their criticism and even opposition if taken by someone without those credentials.
wikipedia: People's Republic of China
Richard Nixon
Related terms: Nixon to China
Nixon goes to China
only Nixon could go to China
it took Nixon to go to China
Nixon to China
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Nixon in China.