cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bisweptual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪˈswɛp.t͡ʃu.əl/
Forms: form: bisweptuals
Etymology: From bi- + sweep (“rowing style in which each rower has only one oar and rows on one side”) + -ual, in analogy to bisexual.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports
glosses: A person who is bisweptual.
Related terms: ambidextrous
way enough
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /weɪ əˈnʌf/
ipa: [weɪˈnʌf]
ipa: [weɪˈnʌp̚]
ipa: [weɪˈnɑf]
Forms: form: weigh enough
form: way 'nuff
Etymology: way (“headway, speed”) + enough.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports
glosses: A coxswain's order for rowers to cease rowing immediately.
way enough
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /weɪ əˈnʌf/
ipa: [weɪˈnʌf]
ipa: [weɪˈnʌp̚]
ipa: [weɪˈnɑf]
Forms: form: way enoughs
form: way enoughing
form: way enoughed
form: way enoughed
form: weigh enough
form: way 'nuff
Etymology: way (“headway, speed”) + enough.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports
glosses: To stop rowing after a "way enough" command.
lovin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈlʌvɪn/
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of loving.
Indian mahogany
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Indian mahoganies
Senses: glosses: Any tree or the wood from two species of trees in the family Meliaceae:
Toona ciliata, native from southern Asia to Australia; also known as toon, Australian redcedar, or Indian cedar
glosses: Any tree or the wood from two species of trees in the family Meliaceae:
Chukrasia velutina, native to southern Asia and Indochina; also known as bastard cedar, Chittagong wood, Burmese almondwood, Jamaica cedar
Related terms: Swietenia mahagoni
native to Florida to the Caribbean
a true mahogany
also known as West Indian mahogany
West Indies mahogany
Pterocarpus dalbergioides
endemic to India
also known as East Indian mahogany
Andaman padauk
or Andaman redwood
thinks of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of think of
thinking of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of think of
thought of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of think of
Salamancan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Salamancan
form: most Salamancan
Etymology: From Salamanca + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to the city of Salamanca or surrounding province, Castile and León, Spain.
Salamancan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Salamancans
Etymology: From Salamanca + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Salamanca or surrounding province, Castile and León, Spain.
Salamancans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Salamancan
Sal Rei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unknown The "king of salt", of its nearby saltpans and was the area which had the largest salt production in the island during the 19th century and the early 20th century
Senses: glosses: A city being the largest populated area in the island of Boa Vista, Cape Verde
Related terms: salreiense
Bubaque
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the islands of the Bijagós Archipelago, Guinea-Bissau
glosses: The second most populated place in the Bijagós Archipelago, Guinea-Bissau
fake it till one makes it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fakes it till one makes it
form: faking it till one makes it
form: faked it till one made it
form: faked it till one made it
form: fake it until one makes it
Senses: examples: text: It gave me a chance to be able to see certain things that I like, and I was like, I just had to find my way, what I was good at in life so I could get those things. I just had to um… fake it till I make it.
ref: 2015, 9:32 from the start, in Lauren Greenfield, director, Magic City (documentary):
text: He framed her crimes as “chutzpah” and “moxie”, arguing that the accepted rule of New York’s elite social scene was “fake it until you make it”. He also blamed the influence of social media-obsessed culture.
ref: 2019 May 31, Edward Helmore, “'Fake it until you make it': the strange case of New York's socialite scammer”, in The Guardian:
text: So many other people fake it till they make it, but that never justifies not bringing charges when someone has committed fraud.
ref: 2021 August 30, Erin Griffith, Erin Woo, quoting Alex Gibney, “Schemer or Naïf? Elizabeth Holmes Is Going to Trial.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: To pretend to be a certain way until one becomes that way.
Related terms: go along to get along
placebo effect
self-fulfilling prophecy
fake it until one makes it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fakes it until one makes it
form: faking it until one makes it
form: faked it until one made it
form: faked it until one made it
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fake it till one makes it.
Trumbullian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Trumbullian
form: most Trumbullian
Etymology: From Trumbull + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to someone surnamed, or a place named, Trumbull.
PEFC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PEFCs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of proton-exchange fuel cell.
PEFC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification.
PEFCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PEFC
comshaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comshaws
Etymology: From Hokkien 感謝 /感谢 (kám-siā, “thanks”).
Senses: examples: text: I have understood that the parents frequently receive handsome comshaws for their daughter, but never give anything with them ; they cannot therefore be charged with the meanness of marrying for money: at least the men are free from the charge and the women don't appear to have so much as a negative in the business.
ref: 1888, Papers of the New Haven Colony Historical Society:
text: It is a case of cash down; you have to part there and then, and on the strength of this “comshaw,” or squeeze.
ref: 1899, Textile World - Volume 16, page 40:
text: They were busy at it when we came up from tiffin; and I took the opportunity of snapshotting one fat old lady with a baby on her back while the sun was out for a moment. She saw me in the act, and immediately demanded a comshaw.
ref: 1947, James Johnston Abraham, The Surgeon's Log: Impressions of the Far East, page 128:
text: He posed himself delightedly, pulling his sword well round to the front, and then demanded ' comshaw.' A cigarette completely satisfied him.
ref: 1968, Francis Fisher Browne, Scofield Thayer, Waldo Ralph Browne, The Dial - Volumes 52-53, page 429:
text: I'm sure he just wanted some money - some comshaw - the little kids are beggars - money mister, money mister, no momma, no papa, no comshaw.
ref: 2010, James Shuler, James -Vol. I, →ISBN, page 24:
glosses: A bribe or gratuity for a service or for arranging a deal; squeeze.
examples: text: The practice was so common it was no longer considered stealing. It was comshaw. That kind of thinking made the Iran/Contra arms scandal and Watergate okay at the time. It's comshaw when you do it, but it's stealing when you get caught; it's politics when you do it, but it's illegal when you're found out.
ref: 1990, Jay Carty, Something's Fishy: Getting Rid of the Carp in Your Life, →ISBN, page 145:
text: Mostly by way of "comshaw," a sailor's term for bartering, but it was usually a coffee grounds deal at LBNS.
ref: 2002, Ed Goodrich, Riggers that dive, page 53:
text: I was able to accomplish these comshaw and midnight small stories because my crew and I knew what we needed! If there were items, which our ship required, left abandoned anywhere, those items were ours. Perhaps the thing that made our activities to recover beached small boats or the comshaw of items from the navy supply depot so easy was the fact that my entire salvage crew was with me on this LST.
ref: 2013, James Carl Duncan, Adventures of a Tennessean, →ISBN, page 125:
text: What a day! Started off with early comshaw run to 2/5—got 2 jackets, 1 boots. Gave 1 jacket to SSgt. Lelansky.
ref: 2017, Jean Shellenbarger, The 9th Engineer Battalion, First Marine Division, in Vietnam, →ISBN, page 35:
topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: The practice of pilfering or bartering for surplus items.
Related terms: cumshaw
comshaw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comshaws
form: comshawing
form: comshawed
form: comshawed
Etymology: From Hokkien 感謝 /感谢 (kám-siā, “thanks”).
Senses: examples: text: Chips in Las Vegas are as negotiable as green money. You can take them into any club and cash them in for money, for $5 or $10 or whatever it is. So all you've got to do is put a chip in the end of your fingers, turn your hand down like you're trying to touch your wrist, and you can comshaw — or steal — comshaw is a much better word — a $25 chip from a table.
ref: 1972, Bruce Jackson, In the life: versions of the criminal experience, page 124:
text: As soon as she was recommissioned Com7thFleet had comshawed her for his flagship.
ref: 2000, Richard Winston, The Gundeckers: A Description of the Michigamme Mutiny, →ISBN, page 99:
text: He was able to "comshaw" (as they say in the US Navy) the cable from the German engineers at a nearby dam.
ref: 2008, Janice Minott, Letters from Kabul 1966-1968: A Memoir, →ISBN, page 119:
text: Oh, yes, did I mention I comshawed (somewhere between “borrowed” and “stole”) a large map of the US. and plotted my way home?
ref: 2013, Dorien Grey, A World Ago: A Navy Man's Letters Home (1954-1956), →ISBN, page 206:
text: His anger is somewhat satiated by the presence of an amazing arsenal of Special Operations weapons he has managed to beg, borrow and otherwise comshaw.
ref: 2014, C. Edward Samuels, Blood & Roses, →ISBN, page 350:
topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: To acquire without officially requisitioning; to pilfer or barter for surplus items.
comshaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comshaw
comshaws
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of comshaw
comshawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of comshaw
comshawed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of comshaw
retroplacentally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Behind the placenta.
apoplexic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, or showing the features of apoplexy.
pneumohemopericardium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pneumo- + hemo- + pericardium.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The presence of both air and blood in the pericardial cavity.
diestrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: dioestrous
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the diestrus, a period of sexual quiescence between two estrus periods.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having two periods of estrus in a year.
anxiogenicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anxiogenic + -ity.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The quality or level of being anxiogenic; the ability to induce anxiety.
fluclox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Clipping of flucloxacillin.
diclox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Clipping of dicloxacillin.
vanco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Clipping of vancomycin.
pip/taz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Piperacillin/tazobactam.
clinda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Clipping of clindamycin.
norflox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Clipping of norfloxacin.
temporolimbic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From temporo- + limbic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the temporal lobe and the limbic system.
monoskied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past of monoski
alpine snowboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alpine snowboards
Senses: glosses: A snowboard variant used in alpine snowboarding. A narrow snowboard, with one upturned front tip and a tail, appearing similar to an extremely wide ski. Unlike a normal snowboard, both bindings on alpine boards are angled to mount boots angling forward, and have bindings similar to ski bindings, to mount snowboard boots similar to ski boots; although the binding mounting locations are similar to regular snowboards.
Related terms: alpine snowboarding
alpine snowboarder
alpine snowboarder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alpine snowboarders
Senses: glosses: A participant in alpine snowboarding; one who uses an alpine snowboard.
Related terms: alpine snowboarding
alpine snowboard
uncensoriously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uncensoriously
form: most uncensoriously
Etymology: From uncensorious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It was Martin's job to help solve them and, patiently and uncensoriously, that is what he did.
ref: 1963, PD James, A Mind to Murder:
glosses: In an uncensorious way; without censure.
alpine snowboarding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The winter recreational activity of using an alpine snowboard.
glosses: A snowsport, a variant of snowboarding, involving events and disciplines similar to alpine skiing, such as slalom, giant slalom, parallel slalom, parallel giant slalom; which uses alpine snowboards.
Hyponyms: slalom
giant slalom
parallel slalom
parallel giant slalom
Related terms: alpine snowboard
alpine snowboarder
snurfer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snurfers
Etymology: Blend of snow + surfer
Senses: glosses: A bindingless snowboard/ski variant, with a rope leash at the front tip, that the snurfer (rider/surfer) can hold on to.
Related terms: snurfing
snurf
snurfer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snurfers
Etymology: From snurf + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who participates in snurfing, who uses a snurfer, one who snurfs.
Synonyms: boarder
surfer
rider
snurf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: snûrf
ipa: /snɜːf/
enpr: snûrf
ipa: /snɝf/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)f
Forms: form: snurfs
form: snurfing
form: snurfed
form: snurfed
Etymology: Blend of snow + surf
Senses: glosses: To use a snurfer, to participate in snurfing.
Related terms: snurfer
snurfing
snurfing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of snow + surfing
Senses: glosses: The activity of using a snurfer, the action of the verb snurf.
examples: ref: 2022 February 7, Emily Martin, “Snowboarding was once called 'snurfing'—and other winter sport histories”, in National Geographic, retrieved 07 Feb 2022:
glosses: The sport snowboarding
Related terms: snurfer
snurf
snurfing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From snurf + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of snurf
mono-ski
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mono-skis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of monoski.
sitski
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sitskis
Etymology: From sit + ski.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sit-ski.
sitski
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sitskis
form: sitskiing
form: sitskied
form: sitskied
Etymology: From sit + ski.
Senses: glosses: To use a sit-ski.
sit-ski
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sit-skis
Etymology: From sit + ski.
Senses: glosses: A ski or sled variant adapted for wheelchair-bound skiers, with a seat, and ski or skies mounted underneath.
sit-ski
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sit-skis
form: sit-skiing
form: sit-skied
form: sit-skied
Etymology: From sit + ski.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sitski.
ground hog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ground hogs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of groundhog.
ground-hog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ground-hogs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of groundhog.
Greenland seal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Greenland seals
Senses: glosses: Synonym of harp seal.
synonyms: word: harp seal
Greenland spar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Greenland spars
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cryolite.
synonyms: word: cryolite
compensatorily lengthens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of compensatorily lengthen
compensatorily lengthening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of compensatorily lengthen
have a lot of time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has a lot of time
form: having a lot of time
form: had a lot of time
form: had a lot of time
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see have, a, lot, of, time.
info_templates: extra_data: words: for
expansion: [with for]
glosses: To hold in high esteem; to respect.
Related terms: have no time for
compensatorily lengthened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of compensatorily lengthen
have time on one's side
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has time on one's side
form: having time on one's side
form: had time on one's side
form: had time on one's side
Senses: glosses: To not be rushed; to have plenty of time to do something.
glosses: To be in a situation which becomes more favorable as time progresses.
have no time for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has no time for
form: having no time for
form: had no time for
form: had no time for
Senses: glosses: To dislike.
synonyms: have little time for
glosses: To not allow; to forbid.
home planet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: home planets
form: homeplanet
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Homeworld.
keep time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps time
form: keeping time
form: kept time
form: kept time
Etymology: From Middle English time kepen, kepen time, etc.
Senses: glosses: To measure time.
examples: text: How well does this old watch keep time?
antonyms: lose time
glosses: To indicate the time correctly (of a timepiece).
examples: text: He couldn't carry a tune in a wheelbarrow, but he keeps time like a damn machine.
glosses: To make any regular rhythmical movements at the same time with others.
examples: text: Isn't one of the conductor's main jobs to keep time?
glosses: To control the beat or rhythm of a song played by a music group.
examples: text: We never had a chance even to attempt to keep time. An empty stock train from Stewarts Lane was given the road just ahead of us, and from Grosvenor Bridge to Herne Hill we had the signals against us all the way.
ref: 1959 April, P. Ransome-Wallis, “The Southern in Trouble on the Kent Coast”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 220:
antonyms: lose time
glosses: To maintain a schedule set out in a timetable. (e.g. of a train)
Derived terms: keep good time
Related terms: timekeeper
timekeeping
take form
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes form
form: taking form
form: took form
form: taken form
Senses: glosses: To take shape
MHCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MHC
winter tyre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winter tyres
Senses: glosses: winter tire
cactinomycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cactinomycins
Etymology: From C + actinomycin.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A particular actinomycin or a mixture of such materials.
caecopexy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caecopexies
form: cecopexy
Etymology: From caeco- + -pexy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The surgical anchoring of an excessively mobile caecum.
caerulin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ceruletide.
synonyms: word: ceruletide
B lymphocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: B lymphocytes
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A B cell.
B lymphocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of B lymphocyte
calcaneoastragaloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From calcaneo- + astragaloid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the calcaneus and the astragalus
calcaneodynia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calcaneodynias
Etymology: From calcaneo- + -odynia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: pain in the heel
calcaneonavicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From calcaneo- + navicular.
Senses: examples: text: plantar calcaneonavicular ligament
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: calcaneoscaphoid
glosses: Relating to the calcaneus and the navicular bone.
calcaneoscaphoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From calcaneo- + scaphoid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of calcaneonavicular.
synonyms: word: calcaneonavicular
Pagatpat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Calubian, Leyte, Philippines.
calcaneotibial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From calcaneo- + tibial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the calcaneus and the tibia
yanacona
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yanaconas
form: yanacona
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yanakuna.
calcaneovalgus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From calcaneo- + valgus.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of clubfoot.
synonyms: word: clubfoot
calcaneovarus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From calcaneo- + varus.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of clubfoot.
synonyms: word: clubfoot
Anib
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Sipocot, Camarines Sur, Philippines.
zebra turkeyfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zebra turkeyfish
form: zebra turkeyfishes
Etymology: From zebra + turkeyfish.
Senses: glosses: A venomous fish in the family Scorpaenidae (Dendrochirus zebra).
Synonyms: sense: venomous fish
word: zebra lionfish
key to the city
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keys to the city
Senses: glosses: An ornamental key sometimes given as a symbol of a freedom of the city.
Related terms: keys to the kingdom
laugh riot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laugh riots
Senses: glosses: A very amusing person or thing; that which causes great hilarity.
turkeyfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːffɪʃ
Forms: form: turkeyfish
form: turkeyfishes
Etymology: From turkey + fish.
Senses: glosses: Another name for a lionfish
Derived terms: zebra turkeyfish
hypothymergasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypothymergasias
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: psychosis or severe depression
zebra lionfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zebra lionfish
form: zebra lionfishes
Etymology: From zebra + lionfish.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of zebra turkeyfish (Dendrochirus zebra)
synonyms: word: zebra turkeyfish
extra: Dendrochirus zebra
true mahogany
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: true mahoganies
Senses: glosses: Any of the trees originally called mahogany.
Swietenia mahagoni (West Indies mahogany)
glosses: Any of the trees originally called mahogany.
Swietenia spp.
glosses: Any tree of the family Meliaceae that produces similar wood.
zebra turkeyfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zebra turkeyfish
turkeyfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turkeyfish
Atariesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Atari-esque
Etymology: From Atari + -esque.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: Reminiscent or characteristic of Atari games or products, typified by pixellated graphics and blocky consoles.
dry haze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dry hazes
Senses: glosses: A haze occurring in low humidity, resulting from particles too fine to be felt or seen by the naked eye.
Coordinate terms: damp haze
wet haze
Related terms: dry fog and smog and various related phenomena listed in those entries
damp haze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: damp hazes
Senses: glosses: A haze resulting from fine droplets of water, potentially coalesced around fine hygroscopic particles, which slightly restricts visibility, but not as much as a fog.
Coordinate terms: wet haze
dry haze
wet haze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪz
Forms: form: wet hazes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of damp haze.
synonyms: word: damp haze
Coordinate terms: damp haze
dry haze
wet hazes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wet haze
damp hazes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of damp haze
dry hazes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dry haze
swing for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: swings for
form: swinging for
form: swung for
form: swung for
Etymology: From the sense of "swing" meaning to be hung by the neck as capital punishment.
Senses: glosses: To be punished severely.
glosses: To be hanged for a crime.
examples: I'll swing for him, when I get out. Katherine Lynch reported in “Minor Matters: Willing to "Swing for Him."”, in Weekly Mail, Cardiff, 20 June 1908, page 10
glosses: Swing for someone: To be hanged for murdering someone.
monocytopoiesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monocytopoieses
Etymology: From monocyte + -o- + -poiesis.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The process which leads to the production of monocytes and, subsequently, macrophages.
Hindang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Leyte, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Iligan, Lanao del Norte, Philippines.
GCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of GC
dry fog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dry fogs
Senses: glosses: A fog or haze made up of dust or smoke particles, which consequently does not moisten exposed surfaces.
examples: text: This simple though important technical application suggested to me a condition of things under which the existence of so-called 'dry fog' would be possible. From our manufactories and domestic fires vast aggregate quantities of coal-tar and paraffin oil are daily distilled into the atmosphere, and, condensing upon, or attaching themselves to, the watery spherules of fog or cloud, must of necessity coat these latter with an oily film, which would in all probability, retard the evaporation of the water, [...]
ref: 1879, E. Frankland, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, volume 28, page 240:
text: (187) DRY FOG — Dense fogs have been noticed around London when the humidity was only 50 to 80 per cent. Frankland believes [...]. While this explanation is probably true, we do not know under what conditions a fog of oil and water gives drops of water coated with oil or drops of oil coated with water. [...] In view of the fact that lampblack enables us to emulsify water in oil, a smoky atmosphere might well be conducive to the production of dry fogs.
ref: 1919, Reprint and circular series of the National Research Council, page 50:
text: A thermal fogger is, in effect, a modern, updated version of the old Flit gun. You pull the trigger and a dry fog of vaporized insecticide billows out as you move around the outdoor area to be debugged. Key to the fogging phenomenon is the use of an oil-base liquid, such as deodorized kerosene; ...
ref: 1967 August, Popular Science, volume 1919, number 2, page 138:
glosses: A fog of liquid droplets, occurring when the humidity or dew point would not normally allow fog, due to the droplets consisting of or being coated in an oil that prevents them from evaporating.
Hyponyms: english: a dry fog, chiefly of the Upper Nile
translation: a dry fog, chiefly of the Upper Nile
word: qobar
Related terms: dry haze
smog and various related phenomena listed there
German Höhenrauch
dry fogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dry fog
germinal center
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: germinal centers
form: germinal centre
Senses: topics: anatomy
immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A site in lymph nodes and the spleen where mature B cells proliferate, differentiate, and mutate their antibody genes.
Synonyms: word: GC
germinal centers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of germinal center
B-cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: B-cells
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of B cell (especially when used in attributive position)
B-cells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of B-cell
geo-fence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geo-fences
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of geofence.
geo-fence
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: geo-fences
form: geo-fencing
form: geo-fenced
form: geo-fenced
Senses: examples: text: In this adventure you have built the hardware and software for a fully functional passenger lift, just like the lifts inside real buildings. By doing this, you have used many of the skills you learnt by working through all of the adventures in this book, including sensing the players' position, geo-fencing the lift shaft, moving the player, building blocks automatically, sensing when a block has been hit, interfacing with electronic circuits, using Python lists, developing and testing a program one step at a time, and many more amazing things!
ref: 2015, Martin O'Hanlon, David Whale, “Adventure 10: The Minecraft Lift”, in Adventures in Minecraft, Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page BC20:
text: In this case, you could use the GPS to "geo-fence" the area, and implement access control measures that track where devices are located within the facility, alerting you when mobile devices enter unapproved areas.
ref: 2018, Dawn Dunkerley, CompTIA Security+ Exam SY0-501 (Mike Meyers’ Certification Passport), 5th edition, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill Education, →ISBN, page 414:
glosses: Alternative form of geofence.
geo-fences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geo-fence (alternative form of geofences).
geo-fences
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of geo-fence (alternative form of geofences)
geo-fencing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of geofencing.
geo-fencing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of geo-fence (alternative form of geofencing).
NHLs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of NHL
geo-fenced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of geo-fence (alternative form of geofenced).
intolerancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intolerancy
Cagot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈɡəʊ/
ipa: /kəˈɡoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: Cagots
form: cagot
Etymology: Borrowed from French cagot, from Occitan cagot, of uncertain origin, traditionally speculated to be connected to the Visigoths; according to modern postulation, possibly equivalent to cagar (“to defecate”) + -ot (diminutive suffix).
Senses: glosses: A member of a persecuted minority in south-western France.
wikipedia: Visigoths
Boyles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
cocada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cocadas
Etymology: Either borrowed from Portuguese cocada or borrowed from Spanish cocada depending on where exactly the food was invented.
Senses: glosses: A type of coconut confectionery originating from the coasts of Latin America.
Bas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bases
Etymology: Various origins:
* Borrowed from Cebuano Bas, from bas (“sand”).
* Borrowed from Catalan Bas, a habitational surname from a place in Catalonia.
* Borrowed from French Bas, from bas (“low”).
* Borrowed from Basque Bas, a topographic surname from baso (“wood”).
* Borrowed from Slovene Baš, a short form of the personal name Sebastjan.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Trannies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: The Dow Jones Transportation Average.
super combined
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: super combineds
Etymology: From super + combined.
Senses: glosses: An event in alpine skiing, a variant of alpine combined, where super-G may substitute for downhill, and only one run of slalom is raced, all on a single day.
unobsessed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + obsessed.
Senses: glosses: Not obsessed.
decorporate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: decorporates
form: decorporating
form: decorporated
form: decorporated
Senses: examples: text: The company was decorporated in 2000.
topics: law
glosses: To legally revoke the registration or charter of a corporate entity.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: To remove from a (human or animal) body
raw_tags: of a chemical
Derived terms: decorporation
fairmaid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fairmaids
Etymology: From fair + maid.
Senses: examples: text: I go down to the punt-trench and I beg the water people. Help me, I say. I throw eggs — fresh eggs — in the black water. It was to feed the fairmaids.
ref: 1978, Angus Richmond, A Kind of Living, page 13:
text: The only trouble was that he had to pass a koker, and people said that at night when everyone was asleep and the moon had gone in, the fairmaids came out to sit on the koker to comb their long hair.
ref: 1980, Andrew Salkey, Caribbean Folk Tales and Legends, page 34:
text: Traditionally, fairmaids transform mediocrity into genius. Goodison's female persona presents a facade of hesitancy; she appears to negate her powers: "It is difficult at first, learning to breathe below water / to convert the lungs meant only for inhalation on earth"
ref: 2001, Sargasso, page 35:
glosses: A mermaid from a blackwater creek or river.
examples: text: Fairmaid is a soft pink flower, very pleasing.
ref: 1903, William Robinson, The Garden:
text: ...fairmaids of February, white ladies and Candlemas bells, which surely deserved a hearing.
ref: 2009, Country Life - Volume 203, page 54:
text: These February fairmaids, closely linked with ancient church traditions, still grow naturally in profusion at many monastic sites.
ref: 2012, Ruth Binney, The Gardener's Wise Words and Country Ways, →ISBN, page 170:
text: Many, many welcomes, February fairmaid!
ref: 2016, Felicity Trotman, Winter: A Book for the Season, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of snowdrop.
synonyms: word: snowdrop
raw_tags: with "February"
fairmaid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fairmaids
Etymology: Corruption of Spanish fumado.
Senses: examples: text: The low prices which fish have been bringing of late years is a serious matter for those who prosecute the fisheries to look in the face. Has the taste for fairmaids died out with the Italians, or are they being supplied from other countries ?
ref: 1887, The Journal of the National Fish Culture Association:
text: At present the only method applicable to large quantities of fish taken at one time, is that which translates the silvery, savoury little fishes into intensely salt ' fairmaids.' So saturated do these ' fairmaids ' become by the salt or brine in which they have been placed, that English eaters incontinently 'take to drink,' generously suggest their shipment to a Mediterranean port, and endeavor to restore the freshness to their mouths by a meal of red herrings.
ref: 1902, Charles James Longman, Longman's Magazine - Volume 40, page 345:
text: Now the salted pilchards, known as fairmaids, were washed in a kieve, or huge wooden tray having a grating in the bottom through which the fish scales could drop.
ref: 1988, John Corin, Fishermen's Conflict: The Story of a Cornish Fishing Port, page 49:
text: Life is good for Mowzer. Tom feeds her morgy-broth, kedgeree, grilled fairmaids, and star-gazy pie.
ref: 2001, Nancy Allen Jurenka, Hobbies Through Children's Books and Activities, →ISBN, page 13:
glosses: A smoked or salted pilchard.
fairmaids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fairmaid
Bindslev
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Danish Bindslev.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A small town in Vendsyssel, Northern Jutland, Denmark.
extra-large
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extra-larges
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of extra large.
extra-large
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of extra large.
extra-small
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extra-smalls
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of extra small.
extra-small
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of extra small.
WMATA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.
run short
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs short
form: running short
form: ran short
form: run short
Senses: examples: text: How much ice cream is left? Are we running short?
text: We're running short of wine. Could you fetch some more, please?
glosses: To have used up or consumed the majority (of something), so that little remains.
raw_tags: with 'of'
examples: text: Patience is running short.
glosses: To be nearly used up or consumed.
Related terms: run low
run out
empathy map
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: empathy maps
Senses: topics: business
marketing
glosses: A diagram summarising a consumer's feelings about a product or service.
empathy maps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of empathy map
saxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sax
saxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sax
Tuyuca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An indigenous people of Colombia and Brazil.
glosses: The Tucanoan language of this people, being a postpositional agglutinative SOV language with five mandatory evidentiality paradigms (visual, nonvisual, apparent, secondhand, and assumed), and from 50 to 140 noun classes.
Synonyms: Dochkafuara
Dojkapuara
Doka-Poara
Doxká-Poárá
Tejuca
Tuiuca
Tuyuka
do one's duty
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does one's duty
form: doing one's duty
form: did one's duty
form: done one's duty
Etymology: From doo-doo, doody, etc. used as euphemisms for shit.
Senses: examples: text: And when I was being toilet-trained as a very little boy, she'd always ask, "Have you done your duty?" That was the word for it.
ref: 1996, Derrick Humphreys, John A. Munro, The making of a grey panther: the Derrick Humphreys story, page 8:
text: If a society is incapable of that kind of trust, it is also incapable of freedom. But if one really believes that only productivity can create strength — that a human being, in other words, has to justify himself or herself by producing something — then maybe the psychoanalysts are right, and everything does go back to toilet training and mother's saying, "Have you produced today, have you done your duty?"
ref: 2012, Alan Watts, Zen and the Beat Way:
glosses: Synonym of use the toilet: to urinate or defecate.
synonyms: word: use the toilet
extra: to urinate or defecate
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see do, duty.
Synonyms: use the toilet
urinate and Thesaurus:defecate
vamptastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vamptastic
form: most vamptastic
Etymology: From vamp + -tastic.
Senses: examples: text: It's official: Dakota Fanning will star in "New Moon," the sequel to the vamptastic “Twilght,” according to people.com.
ref: 2009 March 9, “Red Hot”, in RedEye Chicago, page 40:
text: Good news for fans of the vamptastic Underworld franchise - original star Kate Beckinsale has confirmed that shell be making a cameo in the upcoming 3D addition to the series.
ref: 2010 May 24, “Premier”, in Home Cinema Choice, number 180, page 11:
text: Even her vamptastic bat-patterned black leather footwear wasn’t enough to cheer her up, though . . . not when the adult vamps were acting more freaked out than ever.
ref: 2015, Sienna Mercer, Spooktacular!, page 95:
hypernyms: fangalicious
fangtastic
glosses: Fantastic, in the context of vampires.
examples: text: Sarandon, left, and Deneuve: vamptastic
ref: 1998 February 17, Don Romesburg, “15 Years ago: Hungry for Deneuve”, in Advocate, number 753, page 10:
text: It’s also packed with noteworthy actors hamming it up: Johansson, Mendes and Vega are vamptastic noir creations but Jackson just flails about as The Octopus.
ref: 2010, Dennis Willis, Flick Nation: 2010 Movie Yearbook, page 223:
text: Such has always been the case: from the vamptastic and scantily clad Theda Bara as Cleopatra (1917) to the milk bath, gold chains, and lesbian dancing of Cecil B. DeMille's The Sign of the Cross (1932) to the homoerotic bath of Crassus in Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus (1960), antiquity has provided an ambiguously liberated outlet for exploring contemporary fascinations – regardless of their historicity.
ref: 2015, Alex McAuley, “16 Gateways to Vice: Drugs and Sex in Rome”, in Monica Cyrino, editor, Rome Season Two: Trial and Triumph, unnumbered page:
glosses: Fantastic, in the context of vamps.
autoparodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autoparody
chokka
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chokka
form: most chokka
form: chocka
form: chocker
Etymology: Clipping of chock-a-block
Senses: examples: text: 7 Stars decent and you can guess the band playing next door in the fleece by the clientele. and the bridge is now chokka since the college opened opposite, although if you get there early, you can have fun watching youngens trying to make rollies on the benches outside.
ref: 2016 April 16, MrsGibsonsJam [username], “Pubs in the centre for a quiet drink on a Friday evening?”, in Reddit, r/Bristol:
glosses: Crowded or full; at or near capacity.
Tightly packed, especially with people.
examples: text: 'I would if I could,' I said, I hoped convincingly, 'but you know what Mondays are like here. I'm absolutely chokka, but I've got an idea. Bill Hamer sees outpatients this afternoon, so I'll book him in there.'
ref: 2012, Ken Clezy, Now in Remission, →ISBN, page 69:
glosses: Crowded or full; at or near capacity.
Very busy; having a full workload.
selectpeople
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of selectperson
Luss
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village on the west shore of Loch Lomond, Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS3593).
peppermint oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: oil derived from the leaves of the peppermint plant Mentha × piperita, which is used for a number of purposes.
how to
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of how-to.
crapitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crappitude
Etymology: From crap + -itude.
Senses: examples: text: It was total crap. Rarely have I seen such crapitude.
glosses: The state or condition of being crappy (in the sense of poor quality); crappiness.
call roll
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: calls roll
form: calling roll
form: called roll
form: called roll
Senses: examples: text: As the 20–25 freshmen stood at attention in formation on the first day of orientation, I began to call roll.
ref: 2008, Danny Brown, Shooting The Pistol: Courtside Photos of Pete Maravich at LSU, page 1:
text: Instead of always beginning with the first name in the alphabet, some groups rotate how they call roll.
ref: 2010, Nancy Sylvester, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Robert's Rules, →ISBN:
text: Make sure to have a roster handy to call roll to make sure all of your students are safely out of the building or in their assigned positions for a lockdown drill. Teach them that you will call roll to provide for their safety and that you expect them to answer quickly.
ref: 2010, Julia G. Thompson, Discipline Survival Guide for the Secondary Teacher, →ISBN, page 147:
glosses: To make a roll call; to take attendance.
calls roll
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of call roll
calling roll
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of call roll
called roll
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of call roll
mahogany acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mahogany acids
Etymology: From their dark brown colour.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of sulfonic acids obtained by the action of sulfuric acid on petroleum fractions
Related terms: mahogany soap
mahogany soap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mahogany soaps
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt of a mahogany acid, typically used as a surfactant
wiring harness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wiring harnesses
Senses: examples: text: Meronyms: wiring loom, wires, cables, insulation, terminals
text: Remove and discard cable straps (45) securing front wiring harness (11) to main wiring harness (10) and to fuel cutoff control.
ref: 1974, Department of the Army, Direct Support and General Support Maintenance Manual for Carrier, Guided Missile Equipment, Self-propelled, page 4-24:
text: Today, an automobile assembled in the United States could have a Japanese-built engine, a French transmission, a wiring-harness assembly from Mexico, electrical parts from Brazil, and a radio from Taiwan.
ref: 1985, International Trade Commission, The Internationalization of the Automobile Industry and Its Effects on the U.S. Automobile Industry, page vii:
topics: automotive
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
transport
vehicles
synonyms: cable harness
wiring loom
hypernyms: harness#Noun[Appendix:Glossary#elliptically|elliptically]] synonymous>
glosses: A bundle of insulated wires, often held together with straps or other connectors, that transmit signals or electrical current within a vehicle, electronic device, etc., or between them.
Related terms: wiring
wiring diagram
wiring loom
electrical tape
heat shrink
splice
splicing
calcergy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: dystrophic calcification following injection of certain heavy metal salts
neoprogressive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: neo-progressive
Etymology: From neo- + progressive.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Being or relating to a form of progressive rock that was briefly popular in the 1980s, characterized by deeply emotional content, often delivered via dramatic lyrics and on-stage theatricality.
calciostat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From calcio- + -stat.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The mechanism whereby parathyroid hormone production keeps the level of calcium in the blood stable.