cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
endcourt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endcourts
Etymology: From end + court.
Senses: examples: text: Tickets for seats in the endcourt are a lot more expensive than they were last time.
glosses: In basketball (and, less commonly, in other sports whose playing area is called a court as well), the portion of the court at either end; and, by extension, certain seating sections alongside these playing areas.
inside salesman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inside salesmen
Senses: examples: text: I used to be an inside salesman. My job was to sell via phone and online, and to support several outside salespeople as well.
ref: 2010, Mark Anderson, “Great Job Security”, in Small Business Trends, retrieved 21 Jun 2015:
topics: business
qualifier: sales
glosses: A sales representative employed by a retail or wholesale vendor who works on the premises of his or her employer, transacting with customers directly on a sales floor or by telephone, online messaging, etc.
examples: text: ASSISTANT COMPLEX . . . . doesn't have enough authority to buy. . . . Show him that your proposition will make him a star in the eyes of his superiors. Keep him as your "inside" salesman.
ref: 1951, Sales Management, volume 66, page 173:
text: Speak with friends who work at the firms you are interested in to try to get the skinny on the corporate culture. With any luck they may volunteer to become your "inside salesman," talking up your strength to those in a position to hire new employees.
ref: 2002 October 29, Nancy Lloyd, “Bouncing Back From A Pink Slip”, in Washington Post, retrieved 21 Jun 2015:
text: Service providers would typically look for an inside salesman (or advocate) and would be looking to understand the personal as well as the business drivers.
ref: 2008, David Miller, Business-focused IT and Service Excellence, →ISBN, page 69:
text: The Marketing Representative (salesman) would talk to his “inside salesman” at the customer and come back and tell me what the customer really wanted to see so that I could change and add it to the presentation. . . . This is where I think I first learned about the concept of “inside salesman” or the person who is inside the customer organization and really wants you to win.
ref: 2009, Bill Selmeier, Spreading the Barcode, →ISBN, page 7:
text: The intrepid DIY builder may be the wrong person to convince, as several posters suggested.
"I'd compliment his ambition, all the time pushing for what the family wants/needs (more house now)," says PeterJ. "I'd be looking Mom in the eye when I paint the picture of Dad with no time. . . . Plant the seed, let her do the 'convincing.'"
JoeH has the same idea. "Build what he wants," he says. "After wife notices you did the shell in a (pick a day), she'll be your inside salesman."
ref: 2010 November 8, Scott Gibson, “How to Convince Customers Not to Go the DIY Route?”, in finehomebuilding.com, retrieved 21 Jun 2015:
topics: business
qualifier: sales
glosses: Someone employed within the organization of a prospective buyer who serves (whether for good motives or not) as an advocate for a seller's product or service.
Related terms: inside sales
inside salesperson
inside saleswoman
hardwares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: That it is one and two thirds per cent. upon all ſorts of leather, ſkins, and wax from the Levant, looſe cotton from Malta, Alquitran, cochinille, campeche, wood, copperas, lead, gunpowder, pitch, and tin oar; and upon all goods made of ſilk, hair and wool, eleven and two thirds per cent. and the ſame upon all fiſh, ſalt beef, thread, dyed ſilk, ribbons of all ſorts, ſtockings, hats, hardwares, iron, ſteel and copper unwrought, pipe ſtaves, dried fruits, all ſorts of apothecary’s drugs, and other ſmall articles, ſheep, hogs, mules, &c. and though there be charged about 52 per cent. in the ſaid cuſtom houſes out of Barcelona, upon all ſorts of goods made up, or worked with the needle for wearing apparel, tin manufactured, and other materials wrought up in any ſhape, as alſo cotton ſpun or in the ſkeyn brought from the Levant, ſo few are the ſaid commodities, that are brought in and entred upon account of the high duty, that they can very little reduce thoſe of the fifteen per cent. that ſhall be charged, nay the product will be rather augmented by a reduction of the duty, as we ſhall prevent the frauds, that are uſually committed in this merchandiſe for the reaſons abovementioned.
ref: 1751, Geronymo de Uztariz [i.e., Luis Jerónimo of Uztáriz and Hemiaga], translated by John Kippax, The Theory and Practice of Commerce and Maritime Affairs, volume II, London: […] John and James Rivington, […]; and John Crofts, […], pages 324–325:
text: Hardwares are also manufactured with success in the Prussian states. Nuremberg is celebrated for toys, and Augsburg, Wurzburg, Munich, and other places in Bavaria produce common hardwares and tools. Würtemberg manufactures jewellery, cutlery, and common hardwares. Saxony has several manufactures of hardwares, &c.
ref: 1842, John MacGregor, Commercial Tariffs and Regulations of the Several States of Europe and America, Together with the Commercial Treaties Between England and Foreign Countries, part the fifth (States of the Germanic Union of Customs; Also, the Hanse Towns, Holstein, Hanover, Oldenburg, and Mecklenburg), London: […] Charles Whiting, […], page 127:
text: Exporters of hardwares, earthenwares, glasswares, rubber goods, piece goods, braids, brushes, buttons, corns, dyes, celluloid goods, electrics, […]
ref: 1919, North Pacific Ports: A Compilation of Useful Marine, Exporting and Importing Information for Alaska and the Western Coasts of Canada and the United States, page 428:
text: It is worth noting that, in this section, we try to be as general as possible and not to focus on specific hardwares, softwares, mechanisms or technologies.
ref: 2014, Guérin Lassous, T. Razafindralambo, “Substitution Network: Controlled Mobility for Network Rescue”, in Nathalie Mitton, David Simplot-Ryl, editors, Wireless Sensor and Robot Networks: From Topology Control to Communication Aspects, World Scientific, →ISBN, page 95:
glosses: plural of hardware
Related terms: softwares
konjaku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of konjac.
margas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marga
pediatrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pediatric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: With regard to pediatrics
Pindarically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more Pindarically
form: most Pindarically
Etymology: From Pindaric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a manner characteristic of Pindar
loan car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loan cars
Senses: glosses: a car lent by an insurance company to a customer when their own vehicle is off the road for repair.
Synonyms: word: courtesy car
Related terms: hire car
rental car
Gabi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Sipocot, Camarines Sur, Philippines.
Related terms: Gabi-Gabi
anteroventrally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From anteroventral + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an anteroventral direction
aparasitemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: aparasitaemic
Etymology: From a- + parasitemic.
Senses: topics: medicine
parasitology
sciences
glosses: Having no parasites in the blood
aparasitaemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + parasitaemic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aparasitemic.
bathymodioline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bathymodiolines
Etymology: Bathymodiolus + -ine
Senses: glosses: Any mussel of the genus Bathymodiolus
biomicritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + micritic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or containing biomicrite
biomicrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biomicrites
Etymology: From bio- + micrite.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A form of limestone consisting of bioclasts in a micrite matrix
Derived terms: biomicritic
Muggle quidditch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Muggle Quidditch
Senses: synonyms: quadball
quidditch
glosses: An intercollegiate sport based on Quidditch, with the rules adapted for playing on the ground.
chelonioid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chelonioids
Senses: glosses: Any sea turtle of the superfamily Chelonioidea
chelonioids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chelonioid
corallimorpharian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corallimorpharians
Etymology: From translingual Corallimorpharia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Any marine cnidarian of the order Corallimorpharia.
corallimorpharians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corallimorpharian
datalogger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dataloggers
form: data logger
Etymology: From data + logger.
Senses: glosses: Any instrument that records data as a function of time.
Synonyms: data recorder
dataloggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of datalogger
stercoral pocket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stercoral pockets
Senses: glosses: a pouched diverticulum of the hind intestine of a spider that serves as a reservoir for fecal material.
dentofacial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪʃəl
Etymology: From dento- + facial.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the branch of dentistry that is also concerned with the development of the face
distomesial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From disto- + mesial.
Senses: glosses: Concerning the distal and mesial parts, and their interactions and relationships
ecomorphologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecomorphology
entopallium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ento- + pallium.
Senses: glosses: The telencephalic terminal of the collothalamic pathway in birds
Synonyms: ectostriatum
collothalamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From collothalamus + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the collothalamus.
collothalamus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Ann B. Butler in 1994, based on the fact that it receives its primary input from the midbrain roof (cf. colliculi).
Senses: coordinate_terms: lemnothalamus
glosses: The caudal division of the dorsal thalamus in anamniotes
Derived terms: collothalamic
anamniote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anamniotes
Etymology: From an- + amniote.
Senses: glosses: Any vertebrate that is not an amniote; an amphibian or a fish.
pseudographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudographers
Senses: glosses: One who creates pseudographs; a forger or counterfeiter.
pseudographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudographer
eucryptodiran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eucryptodirans
Etymology: Eucryptodira + -an
Senses: examples: text: Basal eucryptodiran xinjiangchelyids or macrobaenids―sinemydids are represented in the Phu Kradung Formation by a few fragmentary remains.
ref: 2009, Eric Buffetaut, Late Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Ecosystems in SE Asia:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any turtle of the suborder Eucryptodira.
eucryptodire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eucryptodires
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eucryptodiran.
eucryptodires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eucryptodire
eurysternid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eurysternids
Senses: glosses: Any of the family Eurysternidae of extinct turtles.
eurysternids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eurysternid
eustachian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Eustachian.
Derived terms: eustachian tube
psalmless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From psalm + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a psalm.
exoccipitals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exoccipital
school refusal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: school refusals
Senses: glosses: The refusal of children or teens to go to school because of some sort of emotional distress. This can be caused by separation or social anxiety disorders, depression, or a phobia.
Synonyms: school phobia
gonopore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gonopores
Etymology: From gono- + pore.
Senses: glosses: A small genital opening in the female of some insects etc.
temerariously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From temerarious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a temerarious manner; boldly.
tempestively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From tempestive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a tempestive manner; timely.
hyolaryngeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪndʒiəl
-ɪnʒiəl
-ɪndʒəl
-iːəl
Etymology: From hyo- + laryngeal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the hyolarynx (the hyoid bone and the larynx)
hyperpallium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperpallia
Etymology: From hyper- + pallium.
Senses: glosses: The part of the avian pallium (cerebral cortex) that is involved in vision
Hypernyms: pallium
Derived terms: hyperpallial
Related terms: mesopallium
nidopallium
pallium
subpallium
hyperstriatum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperstriata
Etymology: From hyper- + striatum.
Senses: glosses: The part of the avian forebrain associated with intelligence.
intersaccadic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + saccadic.
Senses: glosses: Between successive saccades
Related terms: intersaccade
laterodorsally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From laterodorsal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a laterodorsal direction
lecithotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lecithotrophy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: That feeds on egg yolks
Derived terms: lecithotrophically
mesophotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meso- + photic.
Senses: examples: text: This is largely because the beds occur mostly in mesophotic habitats (~30–120 m depth) that are difficult to adequately access with standard scuba. As pointed out by Bridge et al. (2010), information on biotic and abiotic aspects of mesophotic habitats remains extremely scarce due to logistical and technological restrictions, particularly when compared with shallow-water habitats.
ref: 2013, Michael A. Lang, Research and Discoveries: The Revolution of Science Through Scuba:
glosses: Describing seawater at a depth such that some light is present, but not enough to sustain photosynthesis.
Derived terms: submesophotic
neuroethological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + ethological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to neuroethology
nidopallial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the nidopallium
nonpasserines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonpasserine
optocollic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the eye and the neck, but especially to the avian reflex that holds the head steady during flight
Tyapic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Tyap + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the subdivision of plateau languages consisting of Tyap and its dialects.
glosses: Relating to the Tyap language.
indoors voice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indoors voices
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of indoor voice.
inside voice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inside voices
Senses: glosses: Synonym of indoor voice.
synonyms: word: indoor voice
outdoors voice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outdoors voices
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of outdoor voice.
outside voice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outside voices
Senses: glosses: Synonym of outdoor voice.
synonyms: word: outdoor voice
Tyaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tyap
legaliser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: legalisers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of legalizer.
bristlemouth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bristlemouths
Etymology: From bristle + mouth.
Senses: examples: text: Predators of the bristlemouth turn out to include dragon fish and fangtooths, denizens of the abyss with daggerlike teeth.
ref: 2015 June 29, William J. Broad, “An Ocean Mystery in the Trillions”, in New York Times:
glosses: A member of Gonostomatidae, a family of deep-water marine fish.
glosses: A member of one of several of the species of oceanic ray-finned fish in genera Argyripnus or Maurolicus in the family Sternoptychidae.
Synonyms: sense: member of Gonostomatidae
word: lightfish
sense: member of Gonostomatidae
word: anglemouth
Derived terms: taxonomic: Cyclothone acclinidens
word: benttooth bristlemouth
taxonomic: Cyclothone pallida
word: bicolored bristlemouth
taxonomic: Cyclothone atraria
word: black bristlemouth
taxonomic: Cyclothone braueri
word: Brauer's bristlemouth
alt: Argyripnus brocki
word: Brock's bristlemouth
taxonomic: Cyclothone atraria
word: deep-water bristlemouth
taxonomic: Gonostoma elongatum
word: elongated bristlemouth
alt: Argyripnus ephippiatus
word: Gilbert & Cramer's bristlemouth
taxonomic: Cyclothone obscura
word: hidden bristlemouth
taxonomic: Cyclothone kobayashii
word: Kobayashi's bristlemouth
word: Mueller's bristlemouth (Maurolicus muelleri
taxonomic: Cyclothone alba
word: pale bristlemouth
alt: Vinciguerria poweriae
word: Power's deep-water bristle-mouth fish
alt: Argyripnus hulleyi
word: Reunion bristlemouth
taxonomic: Cyclothone parapallida
word: shadow bristlemouth
taxonomic: Cyclothone signata
word: showy bristlemouth
taxonomic: Cyclothone pseudopallida
word: slender bristlemouth
taxonomic: Cyclothone atraria
word: smalltooth bristlemouth
taxonomic: Cyclothone microdon
word: smalltooth bristlemouth
taxonomic: Cyclothone pallida
word: tan bristlemouth
taxonomic: Cyclothone pallida
word: tanned bristlemouth
taxonomic: Cyclothone microdon
word: veiled bristlemouth
taxonomic: Cyclothone atraria
word: yellow bristlemouth
bristlemouths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bristlemouth
squirty cream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It's my birthday. I have been egged. I have also covered Miss Durnley in squirty cream.
ref: 2003, Suzi Rose, Accidental Heroine: Diary of an Attention Seeker:
text: Anna Thomas is said to have got high on nitrous oxide - aka laughing gas - from more than a dozen canisters of squirty cream before she got behind the wheel
ref: 2015, Christopher Bucktin, Daily Mirror, Woman 'crashed into postbox while driving under the influence - of squirty cream':
glosses: Whipped cream from an aerosol can.
eat someone for breakfast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eats someone for breakfast
form: eating someone for breakfast
form: ate someone for breakfast
form: eaten someone for breakfast
Senses: examples: text: Worried? Nah, I eat punks like you for breakfast.
text: If you slip up, they're going to eat you for breakfast.
text: A low-quality, fuel-thirsty small car that improved a bit during its last three years on the market. 1999 and earlier models eat engine head gaskets for breakfast and wallets for lunch.
ref: 2009, Phil Edmonston, Lemon-Aid Used Cars and Trucks 2009-2010, Dundurn, →ISBN, page 115:
text: This guy's a lunatic, a psycho. He will eat you for breakfast. He won't even notice it probably, cause you're very, very, small.
ref: 2023 April 5, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, spoken by Princess Peach (Anya Taylor-Joy):
synonyms: word: eat someone's lunch
word: beat
word: bring down
word: chew up
word: eat someone for breakfast
word: eat someone's lunch
word: flog
word: humble
word: kick ass
word: murdelize
word: outfox
word: outguess
word: outrun
word: outsmart
word: outwit
word: overcome
word: overpower
word: overwin
word: own
word: pulverise
word: pwn
word: spank
word: steal the show
word: subdue
word: subvert
word: surmount
word: thrash
word: trounce
word: vanquish
glosses: To beat easily; to trounce.
doggitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dogitude.
gas and dash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gas and dashes
form: gas-and-dash
Senses: examples: text: Everyone in Ontario who owns a 2002 to 2006 Nissan Altima will be contacted under an intense police investigation now under way to find the driver responsible for a deadly gas-and-dash theft.
ref: 2011 June 8, Bob Mitchell, “‘We will find you,’ police warn driver in gas-and-dash death”, in Toronto Star, Canada:
text: [A] private member’s bill . . . would compel drivers to prepay for all gas purchases. . . . [S]ince British Columbia put a similar law in place, gas-and-dashes have ceased.
ref: 2012 October 16, Timothy Appleby, “Crime Stoppers launches ‘gas and dash’ awareness campaign”, in Globe and Mail, Canada:
text: In the late evening of March 27, 2014 RCMP Innisfail received a complaint of theft of fuel (gas and dash) from the Penhold Fas Gas.
ref: 2014 March 28, “Innisfail RCMP Investigate Gas and Dash”, in www.albertapolicereport.ca, Canada, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2016:
glosses: The criminal act of driving away from a gasoline station without paying after filling one's gas tank.
Synonyms: drive-off
fill and flee
fill and fly
gas and go
pump and jump
Related terms: dine and dash
gas and dash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gases and dashes
form: gasses and dashes
form: gassing and dashing
form: gassed and dashed
form: gassed and dashed
form: gas-and-dash
Senses: examples: text: Starting July 1, Kansas motorists who repeatedly gas and dash could lose their driver's licenses.
ref: 2000 June 23, “Gas-and-dash thefts rise with high fuel prices”, in Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, US: Associated Press:
text: With the price of gas up 26% over the past year . . . too many Americans are filling up without paying up.
ref: 2005 August 16, Logan Orlando, “Don't Try to Gas and Dash”, in Time, US:
glosses: To commit such an act.
gas-and-dash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gas-and-dashes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gas and dash.
fill and flee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fills and flees
form: filling and fleeing
form: filled and fled
form: filled and fled
Senses: glosses: Synonym of gas and dash.
synonyms: word: gas and dash
fill and fly
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fills and flies
form: filling and flying
form: filled and flew
form: filled and flown
Senses: glosses: Synonym of gas and dash.
synonyms: word: gas and dash
gas and go
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gas and gos
form: gas and goes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of gas and dash.
synonyms: word: gas and dash
gas and go
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gases and goes
form: gasses and goes
form: gassing and going
form: gassed and went
form: gassed and gone
Senses: glosses: Synonym of gas and dash.
synonyms: word: gas and dash
pump and jump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pump and jumps
Senses: glosses: Synonym of gas and dash.
synonyms: word: gas and dash
pump and jump
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pumps and jumps
form: pumping and jumping
form: pumped and jumped
form: pumped and jumped
Senses: glosses: Synonym of gas and dash.
synonyms: word: gas and dash
interacial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of interracial.
walkalong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: walkalongs
Etymology: From walk + along.
Senses: examples: text: The method of walkalongs, first described by Margarethe Kusenbach (2003), combines interview and observation.
ref: 2014, Garth Lean, Russell Staff, editors, Stories of Cosmopolitan Belonging: Emotion and Location, →ISBN:
text: This chapter draws on our ethnographic analysis of the diaries, walkalongs and followup conversations with Janet, who had recently resigned from a managerial position to look after her first child.
ref: 2016, Garth Lean, Emma Watson, “Travel and Imagination: An Invitation”, in Garth Lean, Russell Staff, editors, Travel and Imagination, →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: A type of interview in which the interviewer and subject walk together while talking.
examples: text: In the period before, when Martin Luther King was here walking through the different neighborhoods, I was in the walkalongs, the police protection, on the north side and on the south side.
ref: 1988 August 26, Steve Bogira, Hank De Zutter, Ron Dorfman, Robert McClory, David Moberg, Grant Pick, Gary Rivlin, “They Were There”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 06 Sep 2015:
glosses: A police detail or other group that walks with someone.
examples: text: All fork lift trucks, platform trucks, walkalongs, cranes, and four-wheeled trucks should be checked for capacities.
ref: 1961, Modern Castings, volume 40, page 44:
glosses: A small forklift used for pallets.
examples: text: They were called walkalongs, dandy horses, hobby-horses, or Draisines.
ref: 1972, George S. Fichter, Bicycling, →ISBN, page 17:
glosses: A dandy-horse, a 19th-century precursor of the bicycle.
walkalongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of walkalong
toom-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From toom + handed.
Senses: examples: text: Tis maybe better, I'll take fat ye gee, Ye're nae toom-handed gin your heart be free
ref: 1812, Alexander Ross, Alexander Thomson, Helenore: Or, The Fortunate Shepherdess. A Pastoral Tale, page 8:
glosses: Emptyhanded.
toom-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From toom + handed.
Senses: examples: text: I wis he had na been so headstrong ; but it's a' his ain fault : howsever, it would na be canny to gang toom-handed, and I hae got a bit bill for five score pounds that I'm mindit to gie him.
ref: 1823, John Galt, The Entail: Or, The Lairds of Grippy - Volume 1, page 156:
text: It's but sma' propine ; but I wad na come a'- thegither toom-handed, were it but for luck's sake
ref: 1827, Christian Isobel Johnstone, Elizabeth de Bruce - Volume 2, page 241:
text: What's come o' our supper, goodman, that you are coming toom-handed? Do you no think it is time your guests had something to eat, or hae ye naething either to eat or drink in this great gousty castle?
ref: 2010, James Hogg, The Three Perils Of Man, →ISBN, page 177:
glosses: Emptyhanded.
twohanded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Kelly next upgrades her withdrawal by first drawing the figure (which is hidden in a twohanded grasp) to her side.
ref: 2003, Jennifer Mandelbaum, Phillip J. Glenn, Curtis D. LeBaron, Studies in Language and Social Interaction, →ISBN, page 105:
text: I shall play on him my wicked trick, that twohanded chop to spatter the teeth of his jaw about the ground as a boar in the crops rattles down grains of corn.
ref: 2014, Homer, The Odyssey, →ISBN, page 205:
glosses: Alternative form of two-handed.
twohanded
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: He trained the revolver twohanded and fired slow-fire.
ref: 2002, Chris Holmes, The Medusa Strain, →ISBN, page 222:
glosses: Alternative form of two-handed.
lounge diner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lounge diners
form: lounge-diner
Senses: glosses: A room in a private house, a joint sitting-room/dining-room.
lounge-diner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lounge-diners
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lounge diner.
lounge-diners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lounge-diner
lounge diners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lounge diner
two-handedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From two-handed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being two-handed.
two-handedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: two-handed
Etymology: From two-handed + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a two-handed manner; With both hands or using two people.
liturgical language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liturgical languages
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A language of religious texts and ceremonies, such as Church Slavonic.
Synonyms: holy language
sacred language
Hikari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese ひかり (Hikari).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A type of Japanese high-speed passenger train; bullet train.
paediatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of paediatric.
parabasisphenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parabasisphenoids
Etymology: From para- + basisphenoid.
Senses: glosses: A conjoined basisphenoid and parasphenoid
pereopod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pereopods
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pereiopod.
Related terms: pereopodal
pereopods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pereopod
pereiopods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pereiopod
photoadaptation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photoadaptations
Etymology: From photo- + adaptation.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: adaptation of an organism to the changing amount of light in its environment
Related terms: photoadaptational
photoadaptive
plesiochelyid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plesiochelyids
Senses: glosses: Any extinct turtle of the family Plesiochelyidae
plesiochelyids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plesiochelyid
posteromedian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From postero- + median.
Senses: glosses: Both central and posterior
primiparity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From primiparous + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being primiparous
scalpelliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From scalpel + -iform.
Senses: glosses: having the form of the blade of a scalpel or penknife
squamosals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squamosal
sublocation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sublocations
Etymology: From sub- + location.
Senses: glosses: A smaller part of a larger location.
glosses: An administrative region making up part of a location.
sublocations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sublocation
supracentral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supra- + central.
Senses: glosses: Situated above the centre
supralaminar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supra- + laminar.
Senses: glosses: Situated above a layer (or layers)
tectofugal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tecto- + fugal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to an optic system in avian brains associated with the optic tectum.
tetraradiate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tetra- + radiate.
Senses: glosses: Having four rays
blue hook star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue hook stars
Etymology: From their location on the blue horizontal branch portion of the extreme horizontal branch part of the horizontal branch of stellar evolution, hooking upwards when plotted on an H-R diagram.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: a type of helium-burning blue giant star that is hotter than the average star in this stage of their life, due to having a more massive helium core
Hypernyms: word: blue giant star
word: blue giant
english: BHB star
translation: BHB star
word: blue horizontal branch star
english: EHB star
translation: EHB star
word: extreme horizontal branch star
english: HB star
translation: HB star
word: horizontal branch star
blue hook stars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue hook star
hawkery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hawkeries
Etymology: From hawk (“bird”) + -ery.
Senses: glosses: A place where hawks used for hunting are kept.
glosses: The practice of hunting using hawks.
hawkery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hawk (“sell”) + -ery or hawker (“peddler”) + -y.
Senses: glosses: Aggressive salesmanship.
hawkery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See Hawkery
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hawkery.
Hawkery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hawk (“advocate of war or warlike behavior”) + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: A principle of fiscal Hawkery was to never allow a planned deficit.
glosses: The advocacy of war or analogous activity.
glosses: Advocates of war or analogous activity.
tracheosyringeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tracheo- + syringeal.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Relating to, or connecting, the trachea and the syrinx
trionychian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trionychians
Senses: glosses: Any turtle of the family Trionychidae.
trophodynamics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tropho- + dynamics.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The dynamics of nutrition or of metabolism
Related terms: trophodynamic
paleotrophodynamics
trophodynamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tropho- + dynamic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to trophodynamics
to let
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Of a property: being advertised for rent.
Derived terms: apartments to let
Indian subcontinent
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Indian subcontinent
form: Indian Subcontinent
Senses: glosses: The landmass south of the Himalayas projecting into the Indian Ocean, sometimes also including nearby islands; the land on the Indian plate.
Synonyms: word: subcontinent
word: South Asia
word: India
Hyponyms: sense: mainland countries
word: Bangladesh
sense: mainland countries
word: Burma
sense: mainland countries
word: Myanmar
sense: mainland countries
word: India
sense: mainland countries
word: Nepal
sense: mainland countries
word: Pakistan
sense: islands
word: Maldives
sense: islands
word: Sri Lanka
tough crowds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tough crowd
folk religions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of folk religion
goes to shit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go to shit
going to shit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go to shit
went to shit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go to shit
goes to the polls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go to the polls
going to the polls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go to the polls
went to the polls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go to the polls
prime suspects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prime suspect
personal lubricants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of personal lubricant
patellofemoral pain syndromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patellofemoral pain syndrome
clutz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌts
Forms: form: clutzes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of klutz.
xinjiangchelyid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xinjiangchelyids
Senses: examples: text: Fragments of plastron with a peg-like process on the lateral plastral margin indicate a ligamentous attachment between the carapace and plastron, as in xinjiangchelyids and macrobaenids.
ref: 2009, Eric Buffetaut, Late Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Ecosystems in SE Asia, page 142:
text: […] a mass accumulation of exceptionally well preserved xinjiangchelyid turtles […]
ref: 2013, Joachim Reitner, Qun Yang, Yongdong Wang, Palaeobiology and Geobiology of Fossil Lagerstätten through Earth History:
glosses: Any member of the family †Xinjiangchelyidae of extinct turtles.
xinjiangchelyids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xinjiangchelyid
zooxantellate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of zooxanthellate.
tear jerker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tear jerkers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tearjerker.
tear jerkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tear jerker
Shima
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shimas
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 島 (Shima).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
Purbeck
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A peninsula in Dorset, England; in full, Isle of Purbeck.
glosses: A former local government district in Dorset, abolished on 1 April 2019 and merged into the Dorset unitary authority.
Derived terms: purbeckensis
Purbeck stone
bunkerish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bunkerish
form: most bunkerish
Etymology: From bunker + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Hole number one is a rather ordinary dogleg right; a high, bunkerish ridge on the right-hand side of the fairway is the sole unusual feature, but once over this the fairway rolls directly up into the green.
ref: 1988 October 7, Ted Cox, “The Sports Section”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Nor did the Last Days of Trudeau and his bunkerish behaviour help.
ref: 1999, Larry Zolf, Zolf, →ISBN, page 112:
text: With the dim lights and the basement walls, it had a faintly bunkerish feel.
ref: 2009, Una McCormack, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Never Ending Sacrifice, →ISBN, page 80:
glosses: Resembling or reminiscent of a bunker.
nonpatronage
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + patronage.
Senses: examples: text: And, it may be granted, the membership, as often in Europe, is recruited on a nonpatronage basis and on a large enough scale so as to go well beyond the limited ranks of potential candidates for elective office.
ref: 1967, Political Parties in Western Democracies, →ISBN, page 123:
text: "A lot of people in the black community don't have a feel for progressive versus nonprogressive government or patronage versus nonpatronage or fiscal conservatism versus free spending.
ref: 1988 November 25, David Moberg, “One Year Without Washington”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Not patronage, or not related to patronage.
nonpatronage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + patronage.
Senses: examples: text: A third practice outlawed is discrimination against shippers as punishment for nonpatronage.
ref: 1983, An Assessment of maritime trade and technology., →ISBN, page 157:
glosses: Failure to patronize a business.
streetscaping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of street + landscaping.
Senses: examples: text: And his Planning Department increasingly pressured new office builders to provide better streetscaping, pedestrian ways, and other amenities.
ref: 1988 November 25, David Moberg, “One Year Without Washington”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Human scale can also be improved along landscaping and streetscaping interventions.
ref: 2014, Avi Friedman, Planning Small and Mid-Sized Towns, →ISBN, page 6-24:
glosses: Landscaping along a street.
carnivallike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more carnivallike
form: most carnivallike
Etymology: From carnival + -like.
Senses: examples: text: A carnivallike atmosphere, depending on the weather, prevails throughout the day.
ref: 1986, Benjamin C. Duke, The Japanese school: lessons for industrial America, page 196:
text: Then, its celebratory, carnivallike flavor was especially pertinent.
ref: 1986, Symbolizing America, →ISBN, page 128:
text: Everyone wins with this carnivallike discussion starter.
ref: 1988, Group Publishing, Group growers, →ISBN, page 31:
glosses: Like a carnival; festive.
scholarshiped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scholarship
scholarshiping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scholarship
counterimpulse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterimpulses
Etymology: From counter- + impulse.
Senses: examples: text: If the presence of a counterimpulse were sufficient to determine a mistake all of us should and would be constantly making mistakes.
ref: 1921, Psyche and Eros:
text: In the conflict theory, there is an impulse or a motive, and an opposing counterimpulse or countermotive.
ref: 1982, Introducing Psychoanalytic Theory, page 119:
text: This counterimpulse tends to embrace everything difficult and European with juvenile zeal.
ref: 1988 November 11, Andrew Goodwin, “Reading: The Cultural Crash of '89”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: An impulse that runs counter to another impulse.
counterimpulses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterimpulse
docksider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: docksiders
Etymology: From dockside + -er (relational noun suffix) or + -er (habitational suffix).
Senses: examples: text: He was dressed in docksiders, khaki shorts and a pink polo shirt.
text: Snapper has a pair of black socks with his docksiders.
ref: 2005, James Frey, My Friend Leonard, →ISBN:
text: But there was something a little off about the clothes. No socks and tan docksiders.
ref: 2015, Kasey Michaels, This Can't Be Love::
glosses: A boat shoe often used as casual footwear.
examples: text: Because of this, relationships between docksiders often lack trust.
ref: 2008, Henry Trotter, Sugar Girls & Seamen, →ISBN:
text: Sheila was working the counter when I got there, and Pop was over at the tables with a couple of the docksiders, playing dominoes.
ref: 2015, The Shores of Moses Lake Collection: Four Novels in One, →ISBN:
glosses: A person who lives in or frequents a dockside area.
docksiders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of docksider
postconstruction
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + construction.
Senses: examples: text: The commercial lending cycle begins with the commitment for and ends with the closing of the postconstruction loan.
ref: 1991, Michael Madison, Modern real estate financing: a transactional approach, page 361:
text: The postconstruction auditing and environmental evaluation phase extends beyond the end of the construction of a highway.
ref: 2005, The Handbook of Highway Engineering, →ISBN, page 3-8:
text: These are the design, construction, and postconstruction phases (Hostetler 2012a).
ref: 2014, Urban Wildlife: Theory and Practice, →ISBN, page 285:
glosses: Occurring after construction.
superpolitics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From super- + politics.
Senses: examples: text: And on 1986's Life Young made similar pronouncements set against a background of surrealistic global superpolitics on songs like "Long Walk Home."
ref: 1988 August 26, Bill Wyman, “Young the restless”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2016:
text: One major dimension of this is the shaping and reshaping of social and political landscapes, such that climate change politics become part of a superpolitics on a global scale.
ref: 2014, John Hannigan, Environmental Sociology, →ISBN, page 16:
glosses: A transcendent or unusually large-scale politics.
gospely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gospely
form: most gospely
Senses: examples: text: He turns R & B ribaldry into a polymorphously perverse 80s salaciousness; whatever gospely religiosity remains imbedded in his soul he has recreated into a sometimes sincere ("The Cross") but nonetheless suspicious amalgam of sex, love, death, masturbation, incest, wishful transsexuality, and voyeurism.
ref: 1988 September 23, Bill Wyman, “The world's most advanced rock star”, in Chicago Reader:
text: But too many of them are vague ballads, and too many are gospely, horn-section, jump-blues kitsch.
ref: 1994, SPIN - Jul 1994, page 74:
glosses: Alternative form of gospelly.
kapota
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kapotas
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew קָפּוֹטָה, derived from French capote (“greatcoat”).
Senses: examples: text: They also wear large-brimmed black felt fedoras, and for all religious occasions a kapota, a knee-length double-breasted silk coat.)
ref: 1988 September 2, Florence Hamlish Levinsohn, “A Special Connection With God”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 19 May 2011:
glosses: A long black coat worn on certain occasions by members of the Chabad movement.
kapotas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kapota
pseudosociology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudosociologies
Etymology: From pseudo- + sociology.
Senses: examples: text: As a result, concern for the salvation of souls has been replaced by pseudosociology, pop psychology, and humanist theology.
ref: 1988 May 6, Robert McClory, “The Divine Right”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 25 Oct 2020:
text: Real theological thinking was thinking with the mind of Christ, not engaging in what he termed pseudopsychology, pseudosociology, and pseudo-social work.
ref: 2009, Michael Ford, Wounded Prophet: A Portrait of Henri J.M. Nouwen, →ISBN, page 8:
text: In this way, the sociological view appropriate to the Marxist theory of law became a pseudosociology […]
ref: 2012, R. Treves, Norms and Actions: National Reports on Sociology of Law, →ISBN:
glosses: A false or superficial version of sociology.
Related terms: pseudophilosophy
pseudopsychology
pseudoscience
nonangel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonangels
Etymology: From non- + angel.
Senses: examples: text: In this first section, the nonangel is left comically in the dust, but in the second section a different dancer (Jeffery) is excluded.
ref: 1988 June 3, Laura Molzahn, “Into the Mystic”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Is this what normally happens if a nonangel touches it?
ref: 2010, Kelley Armstrong, Haunted, →ISBN, page 213:
text: My own guardian nonangel.
ref: 2014, Peta Crake, Sacrifice: An Ophelia Lind Novel: Destiny Romance, →ISBN:
glosses: Someone who is not an angel.
nonangels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonangel
pretelevision
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + television.
Senses: examples: text: Almost all of the memorable pretelevision radio programming was provided by one of the major radio networks.
ref: 1989, Bob Schulberg, Radio Advertising: The Authoritative Handbook, page 57:
text: Few of these owners had been around in the pretelevision days.
ref: 2012, David Halberstam, The Breaks of the Game, →ISBN:
synonyms: pretelevisual
glosses: Before the introduction of television.
preconstructed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + construct + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The preconstructed melodies often caught more than such melodies usually catch, their fake textures were full of small surprises, and most of all their lyrics actually justified their postmodern settings by deconstructing instead of just ridiculing the pop form in which they were set.
ref: 1988 October 28, Franklin Soults, “They Might Be Giants”, in Chicago Reader:
text: There is, then, a psycholinguistic explanation for the prevalence of preconstructed and semi-preconstructed phrases in language.
ref: 1998, Alan Partington, Patterns and Meanings, →ISBN:
text: There is growing interest in the use of preconstructed files (see Gawlick, 2002 for further discussion), and there are increasingly sophisticated files available.
ref: 2004, Teaching Secondary Mathematics with ICT, →ISBN, page 90:
glosses: Constructed in advance.