cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
minisarcomeres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minisarcomere
pseudoligand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoligands
Etymology: From pseudo- + ligand.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A charged ligand associated with a solvent
pseudoligands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoligand
Murphy's triad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after John Benjamin Murphy, American surgeon and physician.
Senses: glosses: A combination of three signs associated with acute appendicitis: pain, vomiting, and fever.
wikipedia: John Benjamin Murphy
gut punch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gut punches
Senses: glosses: A hard hit to the stomach.
examples: text: Now their powder would be cannon powder and gun powder, would be made into canister shot, and would propel balls into flesh, and would blow living men to shreds. The whole idea was a gut punch.
ref: 1991, D. L. Carey, Distant Drums - Volume 1, page 523:
text: Mizuho denied it, but the report was a gut punch for the stock market, where the Nikkei average sank 189 points or 1.5% Wednesday, and retreated another 22 points today to close at 12,607.
ref: 2001, The Weekly Japan Digest, Volume 12, Issues 16-28, p. 7
text: So when he died—on June 19, 1986, from a cocaine overdose, two days after being selected No. 2 overall in the NBA Draft—it was a gut punch for the whole region.
ref: 2019, Marcus Thompson, KD: Kevin Durant's Relentless Pursuit to Be the Greatest, page 2:
text: The president’s visit to Ukraine was a gut punch to the Russian leader.
ref: 2023 February 20, Eliot A. Cohen, “Biden Just Destroyed Putin’s Last Hope”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Something that shocks and upsets someone to the degree that it causes the recipient to feel physically affected.
gut punches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gut punch
Murphy's test
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of Murphy's punch.
synonyms: word: Murphy's punch
Murphy's punch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: First described by the American surgeon John Benjamin Murphy in 1884.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: Murphy's test
glosses: A diagnostic test for kidney tenderness, involving percussion of the costal vertebral angle.
wikipedia: John Benjamin Murphy
Murphy's button
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after the American surgeon John Benjamin Murphy.
Senses: glosses: A mechanical device used for intestinal anastomosis.
wikipedia: John Benjamin Murphy
Murphy-Lane bone skid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Murphy-Lane bone skids
Etymology: Named after the American surgeon John Benjamin Murphy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A steel instrument used for femoral head procedures.
wikipedia: John Benjamin Murphy
pianomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From piano + -mania.
Senses: examples: text: Pianomania had struck the nation - all classes, both sexes.
ref: 1976, The Herald - Volumes 5-8, page 19:
text: The popularity of the drawing room ballad was due, in part, to a "pianomania" resulting from the introduction of the upright piano around 1827.
ref: 1990, Frank Milo Scheide, The History of Low Comedy and Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century English Music Hall as Basis for Examining the 1914-1917 Films of Charles Spencer Chaplin, page 28:
text: The high point of pianomania fell in the period when the choirboys' style set the pace for Jewish-American music and when Jewish sheet music began to proliferate.
ref: 1996, Mark Slobin, Tenement Songs: The Popular Music of the Jewish Immigrants, page 45:
text: The London branch was closed down, and the firm's output failed to expand, despite the pianomania which had by then spread to every region of the globe.
ref: 1998, Jeremy Siepmann, The Piano:
glosses: A great popularity of piano music in a population.
examples: text: Students of that curious disease, pianomania, which fills St James's Hall with young ladies every afternoon during the season, and puts countless sums into the pockets of teaching virtuosos, will find such a treat in Bettina Walker's My Musical Experiences, just published by Bentley, as they have not enjoyed since Miss Fay's Music Study in Germany.
ref: 1931, George Bernard Shaw, The Works of Bernard Shaw - Volume 26, page 83:
text: A living legend among musicians, "a genius with pianomania," one of the great viruosi of the Soviet Union swept into the capital of Finland last week on the Moscow-Helsinki Express and took the city by storm.
ref: 1960, “The Virtuoso Emerges”, in Newsweek, volume 55, page 108:
text: For the IMF's support of musical amateurism fed into an existing channel of casual music-making in the Jewish immigrant home: "pianomania."
ref: 1997, James Benjamin Loeffler, A Gilgul Fun a Nigun: Jewish Musicians in New York, 1881-1945, page 37:
glosses: A strong interest in pianos and piano music (in an individual)
webnovela
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: webnovelas
Etymology: From Spanish webnovela.
Senses: examples: text: Starting in 2009, univision.com users will get the opportunity to watch a free interactive webnovela called ‘Vidas Cruzadas’ (Crossed Lives) featuring Kate del Castillo and Guy Ecker. This 15-episode webnovela will consist of three- to five-minute episodes.
ref: 2008 December 10, “Shakira heads to the White House”, in Vida en el Valle, volume 18, number 50, page B-1:
text: The adolescents related that they had become involved with webnovelas as a result of recommendations from friends or cousins, or simply by chance when searching for information about their idols or favorite characters on the Internet.
ref: 2014, Ilana Eleá, “Fanfiction and Webnovelas: The Digital Reading and Writing of Brazilian Adolescent Girls”, in Karen Ross, editor, The Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Media, Wiley Blackwell, →ISBN, pages 74–75:
text: The runs of webnovelas are much shorter (just fifteen episodes to the telenovelas’ 150) as is the duration of each episode (five minutes compared to forty-five) (311).
ref: 2017, Paul Julian Smith, “Festivals, Webseries, Porn”, in Queer Mexico: Cinema and Television since 2000, Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, →ISBN, page 22:
glosses: A Latin American or European dramatized series, inspired by fan fiction, that is presented as a set of video chapters on the internet.
quincolor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quin- + color.
Senses: examples: text: QUINCOLOR FLAG OF CHINA RAISED / It Flies Only Two or Three Minutes Over the Legation in Washington. / The red, white, blue, green and yellow flag of the new Chinese republic was raised over the legation in this city for the first time yesterday, the Chinese new year, according to the old calendar, but owing to the omission of some formality it remained aloft only two or three minutes.
ref: 1912 February 20, The Detroit Free Press, volume 77, number 148, Detroit, Mich., page 3, column 6:
text: There are about three hundred of these distributed by color as follows: 136 violet, 71 red, 33 incarnats, 2 rose, 6 white, 36 piquettes (picoties), 9 tricolor, a quadricolor and a quincolor.
ref: 1927, Papers Presented at the International Conference on Flower and Fruit Sterility, page 42:
text: In this way, the new state had birth, and the new quincolor national flag was hoisted at Changchun, now renamed Hsinching (New Capital) where the central government was removed from Mukden, long the capital of Chang Hsueh-liang’s administration.
ref: 1933, The Japan Magazine, page 44, column 1:
text: At that time, no constitution had yet been drawn up for Togo, but the Times had a picture of a Ghanaian minister, Ako Adjei, holding up a pamphlet embossed with a strange quincolor flag.
ref: 2000, Russell Warren Howe, Lovers in Lomé, and Other Stories, Washington, D.C.: The Novella Club, →ISBN, page 35:
glosses: Having five colors.
Synonyms: pentacolor
pentacolored
Moses Gate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From mosses (bogs), rather than Moses, + Old English or Old Norse gata (“street, road, way”), rather than gate.
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Farnworth, Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD7306).
pentacolor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From penta- + color.
Senses: examples: text: FEMINIST ASTROLOGERS—pentacolor, hand-cast, interpreted horoscopes, $17.50.
ref: 1976, Sportswoman, page 50, column 1:
text: Feminist Astrologers—attractive pentacolor, hand-cast birth chart, in-depth interpretation, $35.
ref: 1978, Ms., page 101, column 1:
text: Here’s a simple color-cued key to healthful eating that I call the pentacolor principle: At mealtime, try and include at least five differently colored foods.
ref: 1982 January 13, Trisha Yeager, “Count the food colors”, in Standard-Speaker, volume 115, number 32,771, Hazleton, Pa., page 33, column 1:
text: With the money the committee raises, they will light the field with 80-foot pentacolor poles holding 1500 watt quartz lights.
ref: 1987 February 16, Ann Patterson-Rabon, “Blacksburg seeking lighted ball field”, in The Gaffney Ledger, volume 94, number 1, Gaffney, S.C., page 1, column 1:
text: As for those whose annular screens were big, they (measured) three to four feet in diameter; they were all made up of pentacolor glass tiles, (painted with) landscapes and genre scenes, flowers and bamboo, feathered and pelted creatures— each and every single one was marvellous and unusual and imposing like a colored folding fan.[…]In the middle pentacolor jade staves formed the four large characters "Myriad Years (to the) August Thearch".[…]There were also secluded wards and quiet backstreets where the houses of those who loved to busy themselves set up pentacolor bubble lanterns made of glass.
ref: 1988, Patricia Angela Sieber, Highlighting Competing Discourses: The Lantern Festival in the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties, pages 31, 36, and 42:
text: In that year, the same year as the Addaura bomb against Giovanni Falcone, of Corvo, and of the anonymous letters, Alberto Di Pisa, Palermo deputy procurator, started the investigations of the contracts that smelled of irregularities managed by the city council, first pentaparty and then pentacolor council, led by then-Christian Democrat Leoluca Orlando.
ref: 1993, Daily Report, West Europe, page 32, column 2:
text: […]bicolor, tricolor, tetracolor, pentacolor, and multicolor formations, plus patterns in which all diagonals seem to have a different color configuration.
ref: 1998, Techniques & Culture, page 122:
text: Color patterns with pentacolor diagonals (Figure 5.3) include variations that employ wild card color blocks.
ref: 2004, Anne Paul, “Symmetry Schemes on Paracas Necrópolis Textiles”, in Dorothy K. Washburn, editor, Embedded Symmetries, Natural and Cultural, The University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, section “Color”, page 75, column 2:
glosses: Having five colors.
Synonyms: pentacolored
quincolor
facticide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: facticides
Etymology: From fact + -cide.
Senses: glosses: The distortion or concealment of facts.
facticidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more facticidal
form: most facticidal
Senses: glosses: Relating to facticide.
facticides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of facticide
factitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The property of being factual.
fableist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fableists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fablist.
fablist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fablists
form: fableist
Etymology: From fable + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A teller of fables.
fableists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fableist
fablists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fablist
facadal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: façadal
Etymology: From facade + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a facade.
facewise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From face + -wise.
Senses: glosses: By means of or in terms of the face.
factish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more factish
form: most factish
Etymology: From fact + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: This factish, leftish derivation of the old dictum, “Art is art precisely in that it is not Nature,” by wrongly interpreting the word Nature, utterly betrayed the master's poetic sense.
ref: 1971, Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Henry Sullivan, Genius and the Mobocracy, page 158:
text: And as Miller writes of Holy Blood, Holy Grail, its real bits are 'factish' rather than 'factual.'
ref: 2006, Michael Haag, Veronica Haag, James McConnachie, The Rough Guide to the Da Vinci Code, page 224:
text: all very abstract and not too consistent in view of Hardy's own stories, which were even at that time so seriously attacked, on one side by the realists because they were said to be too unreal, and on the other by the idealists because they were too nakedly factish.
ref: 2007, Martin Ray, Thomas Hardy Remembered, page 119:
glosses: Similar to facts, but not necessarily factual; fact-like.
examples: text: There is no doubt a strong tendency to revolt against abstract reasoning. Human nature has a strong “factish” element in it.
ref: 1876, The Fortnightly - Volume 19; Volume 25, page 223:
text: To this advice may be added the reminder, contained in a word of Walter Bagehot's , that excepting in times of great excitement an audience begins to listen in a decidedly “factish” frame of mind.
ref: 1910, Lindsay Todd Damon, Washington Webster and Lincoln, page 23:
text: She wanted to know where my youth had gone, how long at current address, what I had to go by, which people I held my life against, reasons for leaving whatever I might have left. But when I started to give her a factish rundown of some sort, keeping my palms up, hair-enshadowed sides down, her eyes went right out.
ref: 2002, Gary Lutz, Stories in the Worst Way, page 108:
glosses: Focused on fact rather than reason or speculation.
factish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: factishes
Etymology: Blend of fact + fetish, coined by Bruno Latour.
Senses: examples: text: Factishes fit well the emergent and networked vision of the world, because they stress the historical quality with which every acting entity is endowed with.
ref: 2005, Monika A. Szumilak, Reconfiguring Spanish Subjects, page 93:
text: If what we have are not fetishes to be critiqued, but factishes that are hybrids that have complex effects, then we must exercise caution and care both in relation to critiquing and creating factishes.
ref: 2012, Mike Michael, Reconnecting Culture, Technology and Nature, page 35:
text: The factish obliterates the binary between fact and fetish and, more importantly, between Africa and Europe.
ref: 2013, Lucia Thesen, Linda Cooper, Risk in Academic Writing, page 249:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: A scientific "fact" whose power is believed in, but which is ultimately a construction, just as fetishes are constructions believed to hold spiritual powers.
Related terms: matter-of-factish
factishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of factish
facultied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From faculty + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: […] the fully facultied, the partially handicapped.
ref: 1984, School Management in Practice, page 142:
text: The evidence is clear, as well, that early Buddhists also consider plants to be one-facultied living beings.
ref: 2008, Ellison Banks Findly, Plant Lives: Borderline Beings in Indian Traditions, page 124:
glosses: Having a faculty or faculties of a specified kind.
Faeroe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Faroe Islands.
faeryland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faerylands
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fairyland.
faerylands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faeryland
fairgoing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fair + going.
Senses: examples: the fairgoing public
glosses: Attending a fair.
fairyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fairyish
form: most fairyish
Etymology: From fairy + -ish.
Senses: glosses: fairylike
fairyologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fairyologists
Senses: glosses: One who studies fairyology.
fairyologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fairyologist
faithwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From faith + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: Neither Abraham nor Moses compared with Daniel, faithwise.
ref: 1911, John Granville Woolley, Civic Sermons, volume 3, page 152:
glosses: In terms of religious faith.
Bowditch Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Former name of Fakaofo.
Fakofo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Fakaofo.
Fakaofo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fakofo
Etymology: Borrowed from Tokelauan Fakaofo.
Senses: synonyms: word: Bowditch Island
english: former name
translation: former name
glosses: A South Pacific Ocean atoll in the Tokelau Group.
famelessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more famelessly
form: most famelessly
Etymology: From fameless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without fame.
fascisticize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fascisticizes
form: fascisticizing
form: fascisticized
form: fascisticized
Etymology: From fascistic + -ize.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fascistize.
synonyms: word: fascistize
fascisticized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fascisticize
fascisticizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fascisticize
fascisticizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fascisticize
spellsmith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spellsmiths
Etymology: From spell + smith.
Senses: topics: fantasy
glosses: A creator of magic spells.
spellsmiths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spellsmith
e-troduce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: e-troduces
form: e-troducing
form: e-troduced
form: e-troduced
Etymology: Blend of e- + introduce
Senses: examples: text: Online learning communities should include opportunities for students to “e-troduce” themselves to each other.
ref: 2014, Management Association, Information Resources, Adult and Continuing Education, page 118:
text: I would like to “e-troduce” you as a group of friends and colleagues who all share a common interest in writing […]
ref: 2017, Troy Hicks, Anne Elrod Whitney, James Fredricksen, Coaching Teacher-Writers, page 125:
glosses: To introduce (people to each other) by means of computer communication.
Related terms: e-introduction
e-troduces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of e-troduce
e-troduced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of e-troduce
e-troducing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of e-troduce
fascisticization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fascistization.
synonyms: word: fascistization
eucolites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eucolite
lujavritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lujavritic
form: most lujavritic
Etymology: From lujavrite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Containing or relating to the mineral lujavrite.
lujavrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lujavrites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A dark agpaitic nepheline syenite, a peralkaline igneous rock.
Derived terms: lujavritic
lujavrites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lujavrite
e-turbos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-turbo
fastuously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fastuously
form: most fastuously
Etymology: From fastuous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a fastuous manner.
fathercraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From father + -craft.
Senses: coordinate_terms: mothercraft
glosses: The knowledge and skills associated with fatherhood.
fatiguesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: fətēg'səm
ipa: /fəˈtiːɡsəm/
rhymes: -iːɡsəm
Forms: form: more fatiguesome
form: most fatiguesome
Etymology: From fatigue + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Antiochus was overcome the second time; and after a fatiguesome flight of several days, came at last to his father-in-law Artamenes king of Cappadocia; […]
ref: 1742, Justin's History of the World:
text: In Nandy's Chharpoka, for instance, the protagonist felt a fatiguesome burden of the continued drudgery of life.
ref: 1985, Biplab Chakraborti, Pessimism and Contemporary Bengali Literature, page 72:
text: So deal with ME in others, not that blind shield dodging spreading further blindly irresponsible mechanical trauma of fatiguesome gossip of non-prudence.
ref: 2000, Yang-Un Moon, Multi-Mega-Trans-Metamorphosis: III Arrival, page 90:
synonyms: fatiguing
laborious
glosses: Characterised or marked by fatigue; tiring.
fatuism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: fatuity
faunological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to faunology.
faunology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fauna + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: The scope of the study and the recent achievements of the Institute of Zoology in the field of faunology and ecology of urban areas have been presented in the article.
ref: 1986, Wojciech Czechowski, Bohdan Pisaarski, Structure of the Fauna of Warsaw, page 3:
glosses: The study of fauna.
Satiesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Satiesque
form: most Satiesque
Etymology: From Satie + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Reminiscent of the works of Erik Satie (Éric Alfred Leslie Satie; 1866–1925), French composer and pianist.
cross wires
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crosses wires
form: crossing wires
form: crossed wires
form: crossed wires
Etymology: From the way two electrical wires that cross can create a short circuit.
Senses: examples: text: After Diodorus, Josephus († ca. A.D. 95) is our chief source of information about the Nabataeans, but Josephus was interested in them only as they crossed wires with the Hebrews.
ref: 1949, Philip Khuri Hitti, History of the Arabs, page 68:
text: While AFSA demands justice, we cannot tolerate or sit quietly back and watch colleagues being targeted, secretly investigated, discredited and financially abused because they crossed wires with IG staff.
ref: 1993, United States, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs, The Integrity and Effectiveness of the Offices of Inspector General, page 16:
text: For many poets such a compulsion might remain unfocused, a theme that inadvertently crosses wires and brings forth occasional sparks.
ref: 1996, Kevin Stein, Private Poets, Worldly Acts, page 73:
text: Bea's sparky and tough, but crosses wires.
ref: 2007, The New Quarterly - Issues 104-107, page 55:
glosses: To cause difficulty; to interact in a way that generates conflict.
cross wires
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crosses wires
form: crossing wires
form: crossed wires
form: crossed wires
Etymology: Possibly a back formation from get one's wires crossed.
Senses: examples: text: The natural sturdy democracy of childhood brings the four together as friends, and though each pair of cousins was naturally destined to complete each other's lives, Nature crosses wires for a while and tangles the four young hearts in a web of conflicting emotions.
ref: 1913, The Publishers Weekly - Volume 83, page 564:
text: Your sentiment crosses wires with your common sense, and you pay the penalty when the power goes off and your lights go out
ref: 1915, The Silent Partner - Volume 11, page 161:
text: Ott often crosses wires, confusing events that occur at quite distinct levels, taking such crossings and confusions as telling evidence:
ref: 1992, David Farrell Krell, Daimon Life: Heidegger and Life-philosophy, page 158:
text: The lettering is small and imperfect, and the language at times difficult; reading it requires an effort that crosses wires between the communion created by shared speech, and the isolation that best suits reading comfortably and with full concentration.
ref: 1994, Siah Armajani, Contributions Anarchistes 1962-1994, page 15:
text: There seems to be a contamination here in which the much debated opposition between productive and unproductive work crosses wires with the whole questions of the reserve army of labor (that is, workers currently unemployed).
ref: 2009, Fredric Jameson, Valences of the Dialectic, page 140:
glosses: To interact in a way that causes confusion or interference.
cross wires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the use of fine wires placed perpendicular to each other in the optical pieces of telescopes.
Senses: examples: text: The instrumental adjustment of these parts is confined to the fixing of the intersection of the cross wires in the axis of the equal cylindrical rings bearing on the Ys, or, in other words, in the line of collimation.
ref: 1869, John A. Smith, A Treatise on Land Surveying in theory and practice:
text: After levelling the instrument, bisect some very remote object with the cross wires of this second telescope, and clamp it firm; if the instrument is steady, the bisection will remain permanent whilst any number of angles are measured, and by examining the bisection from time to time during the operation at the place where the instrument is set up, any error arising from this cause may be detected and rectified.
ref: 1875, A Manual of Surveying for India, page 68:
text: For example, in using the telescope to determine the position of a star or some distant mark, it would be adjusted until the image of the star, formed by the object, coincided with the intersection of the cross wires.
ref: 1883, Richard Glazebrook, Physical Optics, page 93:
glosses: Synonym of reticle.
synonyms: word: reticle
cross-wires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The collimator consists of a convex lens at the end of a tube, with a vertical slit, or a pair of cross-wires, in the focus; the telescope is a common telescope with a positive eye-piece, and a pair of cross-wires in the focus of the eyepiece.
ref: 1896, Harry Forbes Witherby, Light from the Land of the Sphinx, page 157:
text: This is so adjusted that the image of the cross-wires C formed by reflection at the surface of the glass plate coincides with the cross-wires themselves without parallax.
ref: 1936, Ganesh Bhaskar Deodhar, Introduction to Optics, page 152:
text: As the telescope is swung round, the slit image for each wavelength is brought into coincidence with the cross-wires.
ref: 1957, Richard Samuel Longhurst, Geometrical and Physical Optics, page 78:
text: A small telescope, having a magnifying power of about seventy diameters, with cross-wires fixed in its eyepiece, is firmly fixed with adjusting screws to the back of the cell, and pointed through the hole in the cell and mirror towards the focus of the mirror, where the photo-plate is fixed.
ref: 2010, Isaac Roberts, Photographs of Stars, Star-Clusters and Nebulae, page 27:
glosses: Alternative form of cross wires.
crosses wires
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cross wires
crossing wires
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cross wires
crossed wires
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cross wires
crossed wires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Another common pattern you might see in yourself as you use the cycle is “crossed wires.” If you were raised by parents who weren't aware of their own feelings, they probably weren't accurate in recognizing yours. As a consequence, you may not have received all the direct and indirect messages you needed in order to know the difference between, for instance, feeling hungry and tired, or feeling lonely and sad.
ref: 1997, Laurel Mellin, The Solution: 6 Winning Ways to Permanent Weight Loss, page 165:
text: There are bound to be crossed wires and unforeseen problems, so prepare for them.
ref: 2001, Joan Peters, Not Your Mother's Life, page 238:
text: The trouble for those who are still young when parents die is that it makes this process much more difficult. Young children are especially at risk from these kind of 'crossed wires'.
ref: 2013, Rebecca Abrams, When Parents Die: Learning to Live with the Loss of a Parent, page 112:
glosses: A mixup or confusion that results from getting one's wires crossed.
gets one's wires crossed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get one's wires crossed
getting one's wires crossed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of get one's wires crossed
got one's wires crossed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of get one's wires crossed
gotten one's wires crossed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of get one's wires crossed
faultfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more faultfully
form: most faultfully
Etymology: From faultful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a faultful manner.
faunish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more faunish
form: most faunish
Etymology: From faun + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a faun.
faussebraie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faussebraies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of faussebraye.
faussebraies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faussebraie
fautorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fautor + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The role or status of fautor.
favosely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more favosely
form: most favosely
Etymology: From favose + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a favose manner.
Kimbit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kimbits
Etymology: Blend of Kim (“Kim's Convenience”) + Timbit (“Tim Hortons snack”).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fan of Kim's Convenience (2016–2021 on CBC), a Canadian sitcom about a Korean-owned convenience store and the Korean-Canadian family which runs it.
Coordinate terms: sense: fan self-identification
word: Conehead
sense: fan self-identification
word: Cumberbitch
sense: fan self-identification
word: Deadhead
sense: fan self-identification
word: furry
sense: fan self-identification
word: Genie Army
sense: fan self-identification
word: Jedi
sense: fan self-identification
word: Kiss Army
sense: fan self-identification
word: planespotter
sense: fan self-identification
word: railfan
sense: fan self-identification
word: Sith
sense: fan self-identification
word: Team Edward
sense: fan self-identification
word: Team Jacob
sense: fan self-identification
word: trainspotter
sense: fan self-identification
word: Trekker
sense: fan self-identification
word: Trekkie
sense: fan self-identification
word: Twihard
sense: fan self-identification
word: Twiheart
sense: fan self-identification
word: X-Phile
Fayettist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fayettists
Senses: glosses: A supporter of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette during the French Revolution.
Fayettism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Support for Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette during the French Revolution.
Fayettists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fayettist
Lafayettes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lafayette
Fechnerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Fechnerian
form: most Fechnerian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Gustav Fechner (1801–1887), German experimental psychologist, philosopher, and physicist.
fecundize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fecundizes
form: fecundizing
form: fecundized
form: fecundized
Etymology: From fecund + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make fecund.
fecundized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fecundize
fecundizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fecundize
fecundizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fecundize
fecundative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fecundative
form: most fecundative
Senses: glosses: That fecundates.
feelinglessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more feelinglessly
form: most feelinglessly
Etymology: From feelingless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a feelingless manner.
felinophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: felinophobes
Etymology: From feline + -o- + -phobe.
Senses: synonyms: ailurophobe
glosses: A person who dislikes cats.
felinophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: felinophiles
Etymology: From feline + -o- + -phile.
Senses: synonyms: ailurophile
glosses: A person who likes cats.
felinophobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of felinophobe
felinophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of felinophile
femalely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more femalely
form: most femalely
Etymology: From female + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a female manner.
fencelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fencelets
Etymology: From fence + -let.
Senses: glosses: A little fence (barrier).
fencelets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fencelet
fenlander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fenlanders
Etymology: From fenland + -er.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of the fenlands.
fenlanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fenlander
feridgi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feridgis
Senses: glosses: A voluminous, armless mantle, generally of black silk, worn by Turkish women.
feridgis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feridgi
ferrivorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ferrivorous
form: most ferrivorous
Senses: glosses: That eats or consumes iron.
make a dollar out of fifteen cents
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes a dollar out of fifteen cents
form: making a dollar out of fifteen cents
form: made a dollar out of fifteen cents
form: made a dollar out of fifteen cents
Senses: glosses: To spend one's money carefully and sparingly, so that it lasts; to be thrifty.
fidejussory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to fidejussion.
fidejussionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to fidejussion.
filamentar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: filamentary
Derived terms: interfilamentar
filamentule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filamentules
Etymology: From filament + -ule.
Senses: glosses: A little filament.
filamentules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filamentule
filiformed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From filiform + -ed.
Senses: glosses: filiform
fingerlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fingerlets
Etymology: From finger + -let.
Senses: glosses: A small finger-shaped object.
fingerlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fingerlet
findjans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of findjan
fingerable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From finger + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be touched or manipulated with the fingers.
finickingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more finickingly
form: most finickingly
Etymology: From finicking + -ly.
Senses: glosses: finically
Firbolg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Firbholg
form: Fir Bholg
form: Fir Bolg
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The fourth group of people to settle in Ireland, descended from the Muintir Nemid, an earlier group who abandoned Ireland and went to different parts of Europe.
Firbholg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Firbolg.
fireworkless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From firework + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without fireworks.
fishlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fishlets
Etymology: From fish + -let.
Senses: glosses: A little fish.
fishlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fishlet
va fangool
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: /ˌvɑ fɑŋɡuːl/
Etymology: Adapted from Sicilian vâ fa' 'n culu. Akin to Italian vaffanculo.
Senses: qualifier: Italian American
glosses: Fuck you!
kholodets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Russian холоде́ц (xolodéc) or Ukrainian холоде́ць (xolodécʹ), ultimately from Proto-Slavic *xolditi.
Senses: synonyms: studen
glosses: A pork jelly or aspic traditionally eaten in Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine.
fisticuffery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: fisticuffs; fighting with the fists
fistulatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a fistula.
flaggily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more flaggily
form: most flaggily
Etymology: From flaggy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a flaggy manner.
flajolotite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ? + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An iron antimonate mineral.
flintless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From flint + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without flint.
flirtationless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From flirtation + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without flirtation.
floccosely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From floccose + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a floccose manner.
flocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flockers
Etymology: From flock + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Segregation of Active and Passive Flockers
ref: 2017, Paul Charbonneau, Natural Complexity: A Modeling Handbook, page 240:
glosses: One who or that which flocks; a bird species that forms flocks.
flockers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flocker
floodometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floodometers
Etymology: From flood + -o- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for measuring the height of floodwater.
floodometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of floodometer
floreted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having the specified kind or number of florets.
flowerlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flowerlets
Etymology: From flower + -let.
Senses: glosses: A little flower.
flowerlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flowerlet
flourishable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flourishable
form: most flourishable
Etymology: From flourish + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able or fit to be flourished.
flubdubbery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From flubdub + -ery.
Senses: glosses: Trivial matters; nonsense.
flouncey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flouncey
form: most flouncey
Senses: examples: text: They sat about in black and shiny and flouncey clothing adorned with gimp and beads, eating great quantities of cake, drinking much tea in a stately manner and reverberating remarks.
ref: 1908, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Of Bladesover House, and My Mother; and the Constitution of Society”, in Tono-Bungay […], Toronto, Ont.: The Macmillan Company of Canada, Ltd., →OCLC, 1st book (The Days before Tono-Bungay was Invented), section IV, page 17:
glosses: Dated spelling of flouncy.
flukeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fluke + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a fluke.
flunkyhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flunkeyhood.
flunkeyhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flunkyhood
Etymology: From flunkey + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The role or status of a flunkey.
CHO cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CHO cells
Etymology: From Chinese+hamster+ovary+cell. From being epithelial cells derived from the ovaries of Chinese striped-back hamsters.
Senses: topics: biotechnology
engineering
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A common ovary epithelial cell type used in biotechnology applications.
kurals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kural
Timewell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Mound Station
glosses: A village in Brown County, Illinois, United States.
glosses: A surname.
biodemographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + demographical.
Senses: glosses: biodemographic
Splinter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Splinters
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch and North German Splinter.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Stejskal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stejskals
Etymology: Borrowed from Czech Stejskal.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Czech.
Stejskals
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Stejskal
Splinters
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Splinter
Sneath
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sneaths
Etymology: Habitational surname from Snaith in East Yorkshire, so called from Old Norse sneið (“cut off piece of land”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old Norse.
Sneaths
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sneath
Taneja
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tanejas
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi तनेजा (tanejā).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Hindi.
Tenny
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tennys
Etymology: Probably a variant of Tennenbaum.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Tennys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tenny
Tanejas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Taneja
Shoaff
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shoaffs
Etymology: Variant of Shoaf.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Shadowens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shadowenses
Etymology: Unidentified.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Shadowenses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Shadowens
Shoaffs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Shoaff
Ricklefs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ricklefses
Etymology: Borrowed from North German Ricklefs.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Ricklefses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ricklefs
Rolans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Rolan
Bartok
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bartoks
Etymology: Borrowed from Hungarian Bartók.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Hungarian.
Bartoks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bartok
McRee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McRees
Etymology: Variant of McRae.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Meszaros
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Meszaroses
Etymology: Borrowed from Hungarian Mészáros.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Hungarian.
Meszaroses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Meszaros
Celentanos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Celentano
McRees
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McRee
McRaes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McRae
Sherden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Egyptian šrdn, šꜣrdꜣnꜣ. Possibly cognate to Latin sardus from a pre-Roman substrate language [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A Sea Peoples tribe of the late Bronze Age.
vriesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vriesias
Senses: glosses: An epiphytic bromeliad of the genus Vriesia
vriesias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vriesia
vuilgoed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: filth, trash
vulcanologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: vulcanological
vulpanser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vulpansers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sheldrake (the shelduck).
synonyms: word: sheldrake
extra: the shelduck
vulpansers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vulpanser
vulpicidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to vulpicide; killing foxes.
vulpicidism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vulpicidisms
Senses: glosses: vulpicide (the killing of a fox)
balance of terror
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Probably coined by Lester Pearson in June 1955 at the 10th anniversary of the signing of the UN Charter: “The balance of terror has succeeded the balance of power.”
Senses: glosses: The tenuous peace that existed during the nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
Related terms: mutual assured destruction
nuclear deterrence
if you want peace, prepare for war
unfinished business
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He gives the impression that it took time for him to come to terms with his feelings towards her, admitting that, “I'm sure we had some unfinished business”, […]
ref: 2001 May 12, Robert Potts, quoting Paul Muldoon, “The poet at play”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: The measures for rail that were genuinely new were welcomed, although some had hoped for more. Many of these tied up loose ends around the network - unfinished business left hanging by the last government.
ref: 2024 November 13, Dickon Ross, “Opinion”, in RAIL, number 1022, page 3:
glosses: A matter that still has to be completed or dealt with, sometimes with an ominous or threatening implication.
glosses: A matter that still has to be completed or dealt with, sometimes with an ominous or threatening implication.
One or more things that a person intended or was destined to do in life, and cannot escape the earthly realm even after death until completed.
Palatka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From earlier Pilatka, from Pilo-taikita.
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Putnam County, Florida.
Palatka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Russian Палатка (Palatka).
Senses: glosses: An urban-type settlement in Magadan Oblast, Russia.
glosses: A village in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia.
wakeaday
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: wake-a-day
Senses: glosses: mundane (as one wakes up to each day)
Related terms: workaday
crime wave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crime waves
Senses: examples: text: “A small minority has tried to weaponize this tragedy to advance a narrative about a crime wave that just isn’t borne out by the data in San Francisco,” Kevin Benedicto, a police commissioner and lawyer, said on Thursday.
ref: 2023 April 7, Kate Conger, Shawn Hubler, quoting Kevin Benedicto, “Stabbing of Cash App Creator Raises Alarm, and Claims of ‘Lawless’ San Francisco”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative form of crimewave.
ISCI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
head_nr: 1
glosses: Initialism of intracytoplasmic sperm injection.
walia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: walias
form: walia ibex
form: Walia ibex
form: Walia goat
Etymology: Borrowed from Amharic ዋሊያ (waliya).
Senses: glosses: The ibex Capra walie